Jamie Breiwick Quartet

Jamie Breiwick Trumpet Mark Davis Piano John Price Bass Devin Drobka Drums

Jamie Breiwick: A life-long native of South-Eastern Wisconsin, Jamie is an active trumpet player, composer, and educator. He has performed with such notable jazz artists as Arturo O’ Farrill, Adonis Rose, Ralph Bowen, Matt Wilson, Dan Nimmer, Joe Sanders, Matt Ulery, Francios Moutin, Pete Zimmer, Adam Larson, Rick Germanson, David Hazeltine, and David Bixler. Jamie has performed with Grammy nominated R & B artist Eric Benet, and was featured live in his recent music videos, “The Hunger” & “You’re the Only One”. He has also performed with the Barcelona-based band Brazzaville led by David Brown (Beck), and comedian Bob Newhart. In 2005, Jamie was the featured artist on the nationally-syndicated NPR show “Says You!”. Jamie’s current projects include Dreamland (The Music of Thelonious Monk), and the Lesser Lakes Trio (with John Christensen and Devin Drobka).

In 2003, Jamie recorded his first album as a leader “Song to a Rose”, featuring then 19-year-old bass phenom Joe Sanders. The recording featured several original compositions, as well as Freddie Hubbard’s classic “Gittin’ Down”, Sam Rivers’ “Beatrice, and the beautiful Jule Styne ballad, “I Fall in Love Too Easily”. Finally released in 2006, the recording was chosen by jazzreview.com’s Paul J. Youngman as a top-ten release of 2007.

In late 2011, Jamie recorded and released his second studio recording, “Serenity”, a duo with the Boston-based pianist Barry Velleman. The 13-track “standards” release was recorded in one three-hour session. Serenity was released on January 1st, 2012 as a digital-download-only.

2013 found Jamie recording and releasing a new project, “Spirits” on Chicago’s Blujazz Record Label. “Spirits” features the talents of Tony Barba on tenor saxophone, Tim Ipsen on bass, and Andrew Green on drums. “Spirits” was recorded live at The Jazz Estate, Milwaukee’s epicenter of jazz and creative music. Since its release in early May of 2013, “Spirits” has been receiving air play nation-wide.

As an educator, Jamie was the Director of Bands at Maple Dale School in Fox Point, WI from 2002 until 2015 when he took a position as Instrumental Music Instructor at The Prairie School in Racine, WI. In 2013, he was nominated for the first ever Grammy Music Educator Award and was selected as one of 200 semi-finalists out of over 30,000 nominees. In addition to being a full-time band director, he has served on the music faculties of Cardinal Stritch University, Alverno College, and has most recently been added as an adjunct instructor of Jazz Trumpet at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. In 2010 he became one of the co-founders of the Milwaukee Jazz Vision, an organization guided by the purpose of advancing jazz and creative music in the greater Milwaukee area.

In 2013 Jamie became an endorsing artist for Ravel Paris trumpets.

Mark Davis: Pianist Mark Davis has been a mainstay on the Milwaukee jazz scene for over twenty-five years. His performances display a strong sense of tradition, incorporating the innovations of the bebop masters while still keeping an ear to more modern sensibilities. Whether playing solo or backed by a hard-swinging rhythm section, he features unique arrangements of jazz standards as well as originals that bear the influence of jazz icons such as Bill Evans and Bud Powell.

He began classical piano studies at age eight and soon took to improvising and composing. His teachers at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music included Adelaide Banaszynski and David Hazeltine. He later studied with jazz legend Barry Harris who remains one of Mark's primary inspirations as a player and educator. Mark began performing in Milwaukee jazz clubs while still a teenager. He gained early experience playing in groups led by local stars such as Berkeley Fudge, Manty Ellis, and Hattush Alexander. After completing high school, his interest in visual art led him to pursue an art degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He graduated in 1990 with highest honors. In 1992, after returning to Milwaukee, Mark began teaching at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and soon became Chair of Jazz Studies, overseeing one of the longest running jazz programs in the United States. Mark has taught many musicians of the local jazz scene and also mentors many young, up-and-coming musicians. Many have gone on to successful careers outside of Milwaukee, most notably Dan Nimmer who has been the pianist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 2005. Mark is also on the music faculty of Alverno College and Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Mark performs frequently as a soloist and as a member of various groups in and around Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago. In 2002, he formed the group We Six. The group has served as a showcase for his compositions and arrangements as represented on the 2005 We Six CD, Bird Say. Mark has shared the stage with many internationally known performers such as Phil Woods, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Charles McPherson, Peter Bernstein, Vincent Herring, Slide Hampton, Frank Morgan, Brian Lynch, Greg Tardy, Ted Nash, Eric Alexander, Carl Allen, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Stefon Harris, Kurt Elling, Richie Cole, Jim Rotundi, Steve Davis, Joe Farnsworth, One For All, Richard Davis, Mark Vinci, Lynn Seaton, Elliot Zigmund, Joe Magnarelli, John Webber, Billy Peterson, Skip Bey, Bob Rockwell, Phil Wilson, Jackie Allen, Doc Severinsen, Greg Abate, Gerald Cannon, Jeff Chambers, Steve Rodby, George Fludas, Dave Pietro, Yoron Israel, Tiger Okoshi, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Mark has done work for the Hal Leonard Corporation including transcriptions for Miles Davis: Kind of Blue for their Transcribed Score Series. He has also made numerous recordings for their Real Book Play-Along series. His book, the Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method, was released in September of 2015.