A five, six, seven, eight…
Come on down and swing along to the best ragtime, stride, and jazz the Big Apple has to offer. With special performances on select Thursdays and sprinkled spontaneously throughout the season.
Find Piano in Bryant Park on the Upper Terrace at the base of the William Cullen Bryant Statue behind the New York Public Library.
Danny Mixon
Pianist, Organist, Dancer
“Straight ahead!” - Billy Taylor
Danny Mixon is an internationally acclaimed artist who began his career at 17, playing piano with Sam Brown and Patti LaBelle at Bluebelles in Atlantic City. He has since performed at the White House, the Olympics, Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival at Sea. He studied and performed as a tap dancer at the Ruth Williams Dance Studio in Harlem, where he was known as "The Show Stopper". He is one of the first musicians to be honored by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem in their "Harlem Speaks" series, and has received several other accolades, including the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation Jazz Appreciation award and the Harlem Unsung Heroes of Afrikan Amerikan Classical Music award. He is currently an instructor and performance artist with the Jazzmobile and the New School's School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. He recently completed his latest CD, The Danny Mixon Trio Live at the Rubin Museum.
Thank you for the music!
Many thanks to Sam Ash Music Stores for their support through the years.
