Danny Weiss, M.M.

Danny Weiss is an active performer, band leader and music educator. He specializes in clarinet and saxophone performance leading the popular Danny Weiss Trio and has lectured in Music History, Jazz Improvisation, and Music Theory. Recordings of his original compositions with small combos can be heard on Spotify and on CD. Notable albums include For Ornette, Here & Now (both on CoHEARence Records) and Into the Ooze (Pow! Records).

Over decades of live performance experience, Weiss has worked with the avant-rock band DaDaDah, the brass jazz band NoNoNonet, Latin jazz bands, the klezmer band Yid Vicious, Broadway show bands, and with New York dance choreographers. He has also performed with such jazz notables as Rashied Ali, Tom Varner, Joe Williams, Chris Washburne, Michael Sarin, Lynn Arriel, Clyde Stubblefield, and Don Braden at venues including the Jazz Showcase, Birdland, CBGBs, the West End Gate, PS 122, Jay's, the Knitting Factory, and the Bitter End.