Dave Bennett's Quartet - Onstage Experience

An evening that offers intimate cabaret-style seating onstage, reminiscent of the classic jazz rooms of yesteryear.

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Date
April 6, 2024
Event Starts
7:00 PM
Ticket Prices
$260 / $80 / $185 / $55
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Event Details

“Bennett is a player superbly well balanced between purity and power. Bennett injects three heady shots of adrenalin that bring the music sharply to life.”

—Downbeat Magazine

We're transforming Center Stage into an intimate jazz club for an evening with the legendary Dave Bennett's Quartet. Step into the artist's space with intimate cabaret-style seating onstage, reminiscent of the classic jazz rooms of yesteryear.

Experience Dave Bennett's Quartet on stage as you enjoy beer, wine, and a curated cocktail menu for purchase. This event is general admission with premium tables and seats available. Upon arrival, ushers will assist you in finding an available spot, ensuring you have an excellent view of the performance. Bring your friends or share a table with other guests. Ignite your senses and appreciation for the genre with this unique event that guarantees an intimate musical experience.

Dave Bennett's Quartet will present an intense and emotional musical experience. Bennett and his band perform hard-driving swing, rockabilly, jazz, pop, gospel, and original songs. Listeners will recognize the influences of Benny Goodman, Pete Fountain, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beatles, Chris Isaak, Peter Gabriel, and Phil Collins.

About Dave Bennett

Dave Bennett doesn’t fit the mold.

For starters, you don’t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences. You won’t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the “King of Swing”) and Roy Orbison (“The Soul of Rock and Roll”). In fact, you may not find even one other clarinet virtuoso who breaks from his Swing Era repertoire to sing rockabilly hits while accompanying himself at the piano or electric guitar.

Dave began his national touring career at the age of 14. He has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops (2013) and has been featured with 35 other US and Canadian orchestras including Nashville, Houston, Detroit, Rochester, Omaha, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Orlando, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Portland, OR and Portland, ME. Some of his annual appearances include The Elkhart Jazz Festival, The Suncoast Classic Jazz Festival, The Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, The Sacramento Hot Jazz Jubilee, The Clambake Music Festival, and The Redwood Coast Music Festival.

Dave has been featured on NPR Radio’s “Jazz at Riverwalk.” He made his European debut in 2008 at The Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in a combo with jazz legends and Benny Goodman band alumni guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and vibraphonist, the late Peter Appleyard.

In March 2022, Dave and his band performed to a sold-out audience at New York City’s Birdland Theater.

Dave is a recording artist on jazz label Mack Avenue Records. His second release, Blood Moon reached No. 24 on the Billboard Jazz charts in 2018.

During the isolation of the pandemic, fate steered Dave’s time off the road into a bold new direction. He put his guitar pedal to the metal and stepped away from his beloved clarinet. A songwriter stepped forward. Road songs, reverb-laded guitar solos that could power a surf documentary, and memories of loves and lives lost are the mile markers that makeup his latest release “Nowhere Fast”. His first full-length rock album is a deep, soul-searching joyride through the back streets of his mind.

Leave it to Dave Bennett to prove that sometimes the best way to move forward is to go back to the beginnings of what drives you. 