Dan White offers a unique music experience featuring solo saxophone and keys with original digital beats. Set lists include reimagined jazz standards, Motown, RnB, and contemporary jazz. Perfect for smaller budgets or more intimate venues, Dan's solo act is an ideal choice for dinner music, happy hour, receptions, cocktail parties, or a complete, full-on show. Prefer a solo pianist, more musicians, or a complete jazz band? Dan also plays solo "cocktail" piano and offers duo, trio, and quartet performances featuring some of the Detroit area's finest jazz musicians. Contact today for more info!
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Write a reviewPrice range: $200 – $2,000 per event
Dan White offers an elevated musical experience to almost any venue or event. From the booking to post-event pack up, he strives to ensure a stress free experience. Above all, Dan provides a fun, high quality, highly professional performance that may result in toe tapping, head bobbing, possibly some shimmying, and lots of smiles!
Dan White has been performing music professionally since the age of 17, and holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He has appeared on-stage and in-studio with Motor City music royalty and has performed with dozens of artists, bands, and ensembles of all genres. He spent over a decade on tenor saxophone with perennial favorite R&B band Regular Boys and also played with the Sun Messengers, Blues Insurgents, Millionaires, Motown legends Martha Reeves and Mary Wells, jazz great J.C. Heard, rock icon Mitch Ryder, and award-winning singer/songwriter Stewart Franke. After stepping away from performing in 2000 to focus on directing the Grosse Pointe South High School Bands, Dan returned to the stage in 2016 as founder and leader of Eastside Jazz Quartet. Retirement from teaching and a position at the renowned Interlochen Arts Academy led Dan to Traverse City three years later. He enjoyed playing with some of northern Michigan's most acclaimed musicians and ensembles including Ron Getz, Greg Vadnais, Owen James, Harvey Wallbangers, Cool Porter, Stonefolk, and others. In 2021, Dan created chillsonic - a solo act featuring lo-fi beats with sax and ewi (electronic wind instrument). Now residing in Detroit's historic West Village neighborhood, Dan is bringing his unique musical artistry back to southeastern Michigan with music for almost any occasion or venue. Whether it's a solo performance or the Dan White Quartet, he'll provide the perfect compliment for your event with professionalism, versatility, and a chill vibe. Contact today for booking info!
Basic requirements: suitable space for musician(s) and equipment, electricity, shelter from elements (if outdoors).
Provided: all instruments and equipment including light and sound systems. Recorded music can be provided before event and between sets if desired. Microphone for announcements also available by request.
Saxophone Player
