The MIKE OLMOS GROUP

Seating times: 7:00pm & 8:30pm. Doors open 30 minutes early.

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Black Cat JAZZ@theEDGE Summer Festival!! Presents: The MIKE OLMOS GROUP

Mike Olmos – trumpet
Omree Gal-Oz- piano
Julian Esparza-bass
Evan Hughes- drums

THE Mike Olmos has become one the most in demand jazz musicians since his arrival to the San Francisco Bay Area.  A versatile trumpet player, Mike has been performing with numerous Bay Area groups such as the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Pete Escovedo, Aadam Shulman, Jesus Diaz y Su QBA, Atta Kid, Collectivity, The Jazz Mafia, Wil Blades, Eddie Roberts, Lilan Kane, John Calloway and Josh Jones. 

Mr. Olmos can be seen performing at such Bay Area venues as:  Club Deluxe, Mr. Tipples, The Black Cat, The Madrone Art Bar, Brick and Mortar Music Hall, The Independent, The Boom Boom Room, Yoshi’s Oakland, The Great American Music Hall, The Warfield, The Fillmore, The Regency Ballroom, Sweetwater Music Hall as well as many others.

Festivals Performed:

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Monterey Jazz Festival

Fuji Rock Festival

Playboy Jazz Festival

Oakland Art and Soul Festival

Montreal Jazz Festival

Stern Grove Festival

Summerstage NYC

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Playboy Jazz Festival

San Jose Jazz Festival

San Francisco Blues Festival

Monterey Blues Festival

Downtown Berkeley Festival

Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Blues and Brews Festival (Telluride, Co)

Carnival SF

Día de San Juan

North Beach Jazz Festival

Fillmore Jazz Festival

April Jazz (Espoo Finland)

Stuttgart Jazz Open

His other performing/recording credits include:

Etta James, Rosemary Clooney, Beck, Roy Ayers, Seal, The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Willie Jones III,The Adam Shulman Quintet and Sextet, Eric Reed, Ralph Moore, Bernard Purdie, Chris Potter, Soweto Kinch, People of Earth, The Glide Ensemble, Carla Bley/Steve Swallow Big Big Band, Mary Stallings, Lavay Smith, Eddie Roberts, The New Mastersounds, Marcus Shelby, Lennie Williams, Taj Mahal, Paul Hanson, Joe Bagale, Cachao, John Calloway, Jesús Diaz y Su QBA, Zion I, Chali 2na, Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli, Meshelle Ndegeocello, Bilal, J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Orestes Vilato, Tito Nieves, Pete Escovedo, Albita, Josh Jones, Thomas Dolby, Lyrics Born, Leo Nocentelli, Michael Feinstein, Realistic Orchestra, Cannonball, Brass Mafia, Akira Tana, Zigaboo Modeliste, Will Bernard, Peter Apfelbaum, Stanton Moore, Adam Shulman, Kirk Joseph, Kotoja, Andrew Speight, Brad Leali, Charles McNeal, Jeff Chambers, Dave Eshelman’s Jazz Garden Big Band, The Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Travis Sullivan’s Björkestra, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, Evan Francis, Robert Stewart, David Berger’s Big Band, Howard Wiley, Dayna Stephens, Noel Jewkes, Mel Martin, Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, Michael Brecker, Brian Andres’ Afro-Cuban Cartel, Mingus Amungus, Madeline Eastman, Howard Tate, the list goes on and on.