Friday, July 16, 2010
The Dazzle Showroom
7 & 9pm :: Pete Olstad Quartet - Tribute to Swing and Bebop Trumpeters :: $10
Featuring ::
Todd Reid - Drums
Doug Roche - Piano
Mark Simon - Bass
Pete and his quartet will present music from the swing, bebop and post bop school of trumpet playing. The music of players ranging from Roy Eldridge, CLifford Brown, Blue Mitchell and up through the post bob school of modern day.
Born in Burbank, California and later moving to Evergreen, Colorado ... Pete Olstad attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. While in college, Pete received the Downbeat Magazine's "Best Jazz Soloist Award" (college division) three years in a row, and later went on to become one of five finalists in the Thelonious Monk Institute's Louis Armstrong Jazz Trumpet Competition in Washington D.C.
Settling back in the Los Angles area after college, Pete spent the next 15 years as a freelance trumpet player and later relocated to New York for another 10 years before settling back in Denver, Colorado where he now resides.
www.peteolstad.com