Dana Landry is always pursuing the next artistic challenge. He is as at-home playing Parker with a jazz quartet as he is playing Prokofiev with an orchestra, as comfortable playing duo in a smoky dive as he is accompanying a Diva in a concert hall.

 

Dana is featured on recordings released by record labels including Summit, Origin, and Artist Alliance, several of which made it to the top of the Jazz Week U.S. Radio Chart. His first CD as a leader Journey Home, featuring virtuoso vibist Gary Burton, was nominated for a Grammy Award. His most recent, Memphis Skyline, finds him in a trio setting celebrating the jazz musicians of that great American musical city, some of whom are among his teachers and main influences.

 

Landry has performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Australia, and China, and has played with jazz greats including Milt Jackson, Bob Brookmeyer, Bela Fleck, Dick Oatts, Ingrid Jensen, Jeff Coffin, Eddie Daniels, Don Aliquo, Rufus Reid, Clay Jenkins, Bob Mintzer, Slide Hampton, and others. In addition to his touring schedule, he performs regularly with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, playing everything from Disney pops concerts to Stravinsky and Copland.

 

Projects in the near future include appearances with his trio, a new quartet recording of standard tunes from the Great American Songbook, and a Jazz Orchestra suite based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, to be debuted during the 400th year tributes in 2016.