Get ready for an awesome night with Imateya and Cubeye as they drop their new CD Agua Con Gas live! Come hang out in person and enjoy fresh vibes, great tunes, and a fun crowd. Don’t miss this epic release event brought to you by Rutgers IJS!

Rutgers IJS Presents Dave Schumacher and Cubeye CD Pre-release – Agua Con Gas

A night of deep groove, global rhythm, and fearless improvisation arrives at Rutgers University–Newark as the Institute of Jazz Studies proudly presents Cubeye in celebration of their electrifying new release, Agua Con Gas.

Veteran baritone saxophonist Dave Schumacher brings his all star ensemble, Cubeye, to Clement’s for his new CD release -“Smokin’ in the Sky”

ABOUT DAVE SCHUMACHER

As a freelance Baritone Saxophonist, Chicago native Dave Schumacher has been active on the New York scene for more than 40 years. He has performed for audiences in more than 465 cities in 41 countries on 5 continents. As a member of Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra from 1983 to 1987 he toured the Americas and Europe. He again toured with Hamp in 1988 and 1989. A highlight in Dave’s career was traveling with the Art Blakey Big Band to Japan in 1987 to perform at the Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival.

Dave was an original member of Harry Connick, Jr.’s Orchestra from its beginnings in 1990 until 2009. He has thrilled audiences touring with Harry in North America, Europe, Asia (Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and South Korea) and Australia. His baritone sax can be heard on each of these Harry Connick, Jr., Columbia recordings: Oh My NOLA, Chanson du Vieux Carré, Only You, When My Heart Finds Christmas, Come By Me, Blue Light Red Light, Songs I Heard, Thou Shalt Not, What A Night and others.

As a freelance artist Dave was a touring member of the T.S. Monk on Monk Ensemble from 1999 to 2000 touring the U.S. and Europe, as well as touring Europe with the Tom Harrell Octet in 2000. Dave has also done freelance work with Dizzy Gillespie, Howard Johnson’s Beartones, Nicholas Payton’s Louis Armstrong Tribute Big Band, Joe Lovano’s 52nd Street Themes Nonet, the groups of Jack McDuff, Eddie Gladden, Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Joey DeFrancesco, Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Big Band, Tom Harrell Big Band, Lin Halliday and many others.

As a leader and composer/arranger, Dave has recorded 3 CD’s – Every Corner and from Another Life on the Amosaya Music label and Endangered Species on Summit Records. Dave has recorded as a sideman with Lionel Hampton, Harry Connick, Jr., Tom Harrell, Scott Whitfield, Jason Lindner, Mel Torme, Ben Wolfe and vocalist Billy Carrion among others.

Schumacher has received two performance grants from The National Endowment for the Arts.

As an educator Dave is currently the Director of Jazz Workshops for the New Jersey Youth Symphony. Dave was the inaugural Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony Jazz program in 2013. He also maintains an active studio of private students of saxophone, clarinet, flute and improvisation at the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts in New Jersey. Dave has been teaching private students for close to forty years.