David Janeway Quintet feat Billy Hart & Craig Handy

David Janeway Quintet feat. Craig Handy, Billy Hart, Freddie Hendrix & Cameron Brown

Jazz pianist and composer, David Janeway, grew up in Detroit in the early sixties and was heavily influenced by Motown and local jazz musicians such as Marcus Belgrave and Harold McKinney before moving to New York City in 1978.  Janeway studied with the late Albert Dailey and performed with many Latin-Jazz and mainstream jazz artists during this period including The Supremes, Art Farmer, Angel Canales and Sabor, Michal Urbaniak, Jr. Cook, Sonny Fortune, Tom Harrell, Valery Ponomarev, Roseanna Vitro, Pete Yellin, Dakota Staton, Eliot Zigmund and many others.

Janeway has performed extensively in the NYC club scene from the late 70s to the present both as a leader and sideman at Smalls, Mezzrow, Zinc Bar, Sweet Basil, Birdland, Visiones, Zanzibar, Jazz Forum, Deer Head Inn and Maureen’s Jazz Cellar as well as the Detroit Jazz Festival, Madison Square Garden for the 1980 Salsa Festival, the Village Gate for the Salsa Meets Jazz series and other clubs and venues throughout the US and Europe.