An underground contemporary jazz artist.
Mike Sailors has performed around the world in Japan and Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Canada. He has appeared at venues such as the Blue Note (Tokyo, Sapporo, and New York locations), Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, The Jazz Standard, Yoshi’s, The Jazz Kitchen, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, the Bowery Ballroom, Smalls Jazz Club, Mezzow, Smoke Jazz Club, as well as the Tokyo Blue Note Jazz Festival, the EFG London Jazz Festival, the Detroit Jazz Festival, The Ravinia Music Festival, The Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Sailors has worked as a sideman for bands and artists including the Birdland Big Band, Bobby Sanabria and The Multiverse Orchestra, the Fat Cat Big Band, the Baby Soda Jazz Band, the Hot Sardines, the Captain Black Big Band led by Orrin Evans, The Jason Marshall Big Band, The Steven Feikfe Big Band, Charlie Rosen and The 8-Bit Big Band, The Mingus Jazz Orchestra and Adrian Cunningham and His Old School. His past experience also includes performances with The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Jon Hendricks, Rodney Whitaker, Dick Oatts, Wycliffe Gordon, Peter Bernstein and others. He’s also appeared as a featured soloist with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.
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Mike Sailors plays contemporary jazz, swing, and improvised music featuring intricate trumpet arrangements and classic big band instrumentation.
Mike Sailors is based in New York City.
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