Mike Casey (Trio)
"A Lovely jazz performance"
— NBA icon & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“This group takes the saxophone trio format to a new level.”
— Jazz in Europe
Selected for the GRAMMYs® “NEXT” Class of 2023, and honored 9 times in Amazon Music, Pandora and Spotify's "Best Jazz Of The Year", Los Angeles-based Mike Casey & his trio incorporate ingredients of global rhythms, funk, soul, & hip hop into their own definition of cinematic jazz fusion with just sax, bass, & drums, delivering a unique live show that is at once mysterious, suspenseful, funky & eclectic.
With over 100 million+ streams + notching a #1 position on Bandcamp’s fusion chart in 2024, Mike's music has enjoyed features from Huffington Post, BBC 3+6, Triple J, NPR’s Morning Edition & Jazz Night in America, cover of Spotify’s “State of Jazz”, KCRW, Apple Music, Radio France, Sirius XM, Jazz FM, icon Sonny Rollins’s social media (pioneer of the sax/bass/drums format) - proving he's a key voice in the millennial jazz generation to watch out for.
Notable shows include appearances at some of the jazz world's top stages like (The Original) Kennedy Center, World Cafe Live, Catalina’s, BRIC Jazz Fest, Yale, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Madrid's Auditori Nacional, Istanbul's Borusan Sanat, Warsaw's Jassmine, Barcelona's Jamboree, Marseille's Le Jam and Valencia's Jimmy Glass.
Beyond jazz, 2023 marked his scoring debut in the top 10 Netflix TV show "Spy Ops".
Mike would like nothing more than to tell you a story through his saxophone. Are you listening?