Dan Block has a dual reputation in the jazz world. He is a mainstream player, yet  is known as a specialist in traditional jazz. He is also very diverse, fitting like a  chameleon in a host of musical genres on a host of instruments. He has worked as a  sideman with Toshiko Akioshi, Frank Wess, Richard Wyands, Wynton Marsalis (Lincoln  Center Jazz Orchestra) Harry Allen, Jerry Dodgion and Howard Alden. In the more  traditional jazz vein he has worked frequently with Vince Giordano, Marty Grosz and  Judy Carmichael. Quite a bit of his work has been with singers, working and recording  with Michael Feinstein, Natalie Cole, Anne Hampton Calloway, Bobby Short, Linda  Ronstadt and Rosemary Clooney. Dan is a regular on the Jazz Party circuit playing every  year at Chautauqua, the past three years at Norwich, as well as the Atlanta, Willmington,  Elkhart and San Diego festivals. 

 Block’s clarinet and saxophone has been heard in a number of motion pictures  including the Aviator, the Good Shepherd, Revolutionary Road and most recently a new  HBO series called Boardwalk Empire directed by Martin Scorsese. He has also played  on countless radio and television commercials. He has recorded numerous CDs for  Arbors Records, Concord and Music Minus One. His latest Album “Almost Modern”  and a subsequent record “Nostalgia” both on Sackville Recording received excellent  reviews internationally. 

 Dan Block has the kind of musical focus that comes with real experience. Classically  trained (Juilliard 1980), he has played every style and genre of music including Salsa,  Caribbean music, Klezmer, which has come together in him to form a unique sound; his  own.