Twin Cities native pianist/composer Dan Cavanagh leads an all-star band featuring six-time Grammy nominee Remy Le Boeuf on alto sax, the great JT Bates on drums, and Twin Cities stalwart Graydon Peterson on bass. The quartet will perform original compositions off Cavanagh's upcoming album, which was recorded in Tokyo in 2025 with Le Boeuf. Contemporary jazz featuring some of the best in the world.

Band Members:
Dan Cavanagh - Piano/Compositions
Remy Le Boeuf - Alto Saxophone
JT Bates - Drums
Graydon Peterson - Bass

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St. Paul native Dan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist whose music spans jazz and contemporary classical music. He has been commissioned by a wide range of organizations throughout North America and Europe, and his music continues to be performed across the globe. Cavanagh has released five jazz CDs as a leader, his most recent with pianist James Miley and drummer John Hollenbeck on S/N Alliance Records. Cavanagh has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Central America as a pianist. He has appeared with Grammy winners Irma Thomas, Adonis Rose, and Joe McCarthy and a wide number of jazz artists across the world. He is a professor of composition and jazz studies and the Pamela O. Hamel/Board of Advisors director of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Remy Le Boeuf is a six-time Grammy-nominated composer and saxophonist whose music is rooted in the jazz tradition and overlaps into contemporary classical and indie rock realms. Le Boeuf is also the founder of the jazz orchestra Assembly of Shadows and the chief conductor of the Nordkraft Big Band. He has worked with a range of collaborators, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis; Linda May Han Oh; Dayna Stephens; Haim; Knower; JACK Quartet; and his twin brother Pascal, with whom he co-leads the experimental quintet Le Boeuf Brothers.

Growing up in a musical family gave JT Bates an early start into sound and rhythmic exploration. He set on the path to becoming a working musician while playing in his father’s big band as a teen. Over the years, he remained steeped in the improvised music scene, both as a performer and presenter. In 2015, he produced and released his first solo album, Open Relationships (Totally Gross National Product), and in 2021, he released an album called Not Other Stuff. As a session drummer, Bates has appeared on Grammy record of the year Folklore (Taylor Swift) and Swift’s follow-up album, Evermore. He has also performed on the Grammy-nominated album s/t (Bonny Light Horseman) and critically acclaimed records by Bon Iver, Big Red Machine, Cassandra Jenkins, The National, Maya Hawke, and Ed Sheeran.

Graydon Peterson is a bassist and composer living in Minneapolis. He regularly performs with a variety of vocalists and small ensembles, including Arne Fogel, Wayne Anthony, Firebell, Snowblind, Charanga Tropical, Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Tropical Zone Orchestra, D’Lakes, Babatunde Leah’s “Rhythm’s Mama,” and ThoughtCast. Peterson has accompanied world-renowned jazz drummer Francisco Mela for a series of concerts in Havana, Cuba. He has also performed with Delfeayo Marsalis, Gary Bartz, Randy Brecker, Ben Wendel, Jorge Pacheco, and Mayito Rivera. Peterson is also the founder of a successful jam session held every week at Whitey’s Old Town Saloon in northeast Minneapolis. A consummate accompanist, writer, and arranger, he has become one of the backbones of the jazz scene in the Twin Cities.