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April 4-6, 2025

Word of South

David Detweiler

A superior post-bop soloist, tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator David Detweiler is influenced a bit by early John Coltrane but has a sound and style of his own within the mainstream of modern jazz. He has earned his BM from William Paterson University, MM from Florida State University (2010), and DMA from the Eastman School of Music (2015). In 2016, David joined the Florida State University faculty as Assistant Professor of Jazz Saxophone after serving as Director of Jazz Studies at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. He has performed at many of New York City’s premier live-music venues such as The Blue Note, Birdland, The Knitting Factory and The Iridium. David has also released New York Stories, The David Detweiler Trio, The Astoria Suite, and There Used To Be Rain which was released in 2023 on Centaur records. The album Celebrating Bird, co-led with bassist Fumi Tomita, was released on the Outside in Music record label.