One more Jersey Jazz Rising Star, trumpeter Danny Jonokuchi (March 2021), will be playing back to back nights this month at The Django, the downtown NYC club that has become home to the Charles Mingus Big Band. On December 22nd, he’ll be conducting the 17-piece New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra, performing new arrangements of seasonal standards with influences of funk, soul, and R&B.  Then on Thursday, December 23rd, he’ll be back at The Django playing with his quintet, doing a night of holiday classics.

— Jersey Jazz