On Thursday, January 16 at 8:30pm, The Daniel Glass Trio will bring a mesmerizing show back to the Birdland Theater with a new set of material that will feature special guest singer/songwriter Nicole Zuraitis, winner of the 2024 Grammy Award for best jazz vocal album.   Daniel has enjoyed a three-decade career as an award-winning drummer, author, and educator. As a first-call sideman, he performs more than 200 concerts annually. For two years running, Daniel was voted one of the top five drummers in the world by readers of Modern Drummer and DRUM magazines. Since 2011, he has been the Monday night house drummer for Jim Caruso’s Cast Party at Birdland.   Daniel's trio includes guitarist Sean Harkness and bassist Michael O’Brien, both mainstays on the New York jazz and cabaret scenes. Collectively, the band members have performed and recorded with an incredible array of top tier artists, including Bette Midler, Brian Setzer, Harry Connick Jr., Brian Setzer, Royal Crown Revue, Jose Feliciano, Freddie Cole, Marilyn Maye, Ruben Blades, Jason Marsalis, Kathleen Turner, Lucie Arnaz, Gunhild Carling, Melissa Manchester, KISS front man Gene Simmons, Air Supply’s Graham Russell, and Luann De Lesseps from the Real Housewives of New York.    Having worked together since 2016, the members share an eclectic orientation that covers a wide variety of styles and genres. Marilyn Lester from New York Jazz Record calls the Daniel Glass Trio, “… a well-curated, smartly-paced unit. Glass himself is not only personable and delightfully charming, but he knows his way around a drum set backwards and forwards, as one might expect of an A-list player whose resume includes a who’s who of jazz. Glass not only has an impeccable sense of timing and phrasing in his technical tool kit, but plenty of soul to go along with it.”