Artist Management & Performing Arts Programming
CLIENTS
JUMAANE SMITH
Trumpeter/Vocalist/Composer
Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s "West Side Story," and more. He has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter and vocalist, and has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Vail Jazz Festival, Birdland Jazz Club, Java Jazz Festival, Loew’s Regency, North Star Festival, Joe's Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.
For more information visit JumaaneSmith.com
NICOLE ZURAITIS
Jazz Singer-Songwriter
Nicole Zuraitis is a GRAMMY ® Award-winning jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. Besides leading her quartet, Nicole is the premier vocalist for the Birdland Big Band and frequently headlines iconic NYC jazz clubs like Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center, Birdland, the Blue Note, the Carlyle, and 54 Below. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Savannah Philharmonic, Asheville Symphony and Macon Pops and has supported iconic singers like Melanie, Morgan James, Darren Criss and Livingston Taylor on piano and vocals. Her most recent album, the 2024 GRAMMY Award-winning How Love Begins, co-produced with eight-time GRAMMY-winner Christian McBride, features all original music.
For more information, visit NicoleZMusic.com
MARK G. MEADOWS
Pianist/Vocalist/Composer
Mark G. Meadows is an award-winning pianist, vocalist and composer. With jazz as his foundation, Meadows seamlessly blends R&B, Pop, Soul, and Folk to create a distinctly unique and uplifting sound and a sense of freedom among his collaborators.
Listen to his latest album HERE
Meadows has performed alongside world-renowned artists such as Cynthia Erivo, Renee Fleming, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bobby McFerrin, Terence Blanchard, Kurt Elling, and Warren Wolf. He has headlined at premier venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blues Alley, and The Kennedy Center. Mark is currently the Associate Music Director and Keyboardist for "The Outsiders," on Broadway beginning March 2024. For more information, visit MarkGMeadows.com.
DAN PUGACH
Drummer/Composer
Dan Pugach is a GRAMMY® Award nominated drummer and composer, a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award, a winner of the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission as part of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, and a Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program participant at the Kennedy Center (where he worked with Curtis Fuller, Nathan Davis and George Cables). He was the featured drummer on the 2024 GRAMMY® Award winning album “How Love Begins,” co-produced by Nicole Zuraitis and Christian McBride.
Dan is the leader of The Dan Pugach Nonet and the Dan Pugach Big Band, playing his original music and arrangements. The Nonet and Big Band tour regularly, and have played at Bird’s Eye Basel, The Zone in Tel Aviv, Blue Note Jazz, Birdland Jazz Club, The 55bar, Smalls Jazz Club, The Jazz Loft, The Jazz Estate, Stowe Jazz Festival, and esteemed Performing Arts Centers across the country. For more information, visit DanPugach.com.