Heckel/Newsam/Therrien Trio
The Heckel/Newsam/Therrien Trio features the cool, clean sounds of vibraphone, guitar and bass. The trio draws on a wide-ranging repertoire of jazz standards, originals and other tunes that include compositions by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Keith Jarrett, Gary Burton, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Radiohead and many others.
Paul Heckel - Vibraphone
Paul has been an active freelance vibraphonist in the New England jazz scene for over 30 years. He has had the opportunity to play with many world-renowned jazz artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Joe Williams and Buddy DeFranco. He also plays with many well-known regional players such as John Hunter, Charlie Jennison, David Newsam, Nate Therrien, Danny Harrington and Tim Webb.
He has a wide-ranging repertoire of jazz standards and other tunes that includes compositions by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson, Keith Jarrett, Gary Burton, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Radiohead and many others.
Paul can draw on a network of musical collaborators to put together groups of different instrumentations (adding bass, drums, saxes and/or brass) and sizes (solo, duo, trio, quartet) to match the needs to many different types of performance venues.
David Newsam - Guitar
David is an exceptional jazz guitarist who has taught at Berklee and UNH for decades. He's a creative, swinging player who comes out of the Wes Montgomery tradition. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with Jim Kelly, Larry Baione and William Leavitt.
David performs solo and group engagements throughout New England. He has performed in concerts and clinics with many noted musicians, among them guitarists Jim Hall, Bucky Pizzarelli and Howard Alden, pianists Dave McKenna and James Williams, drummers Ed Shaugnessy, Louis Bellson, Bob Moses and Alan Dawson, and jazz legends Clark Terry, Phil Wilson, Joe Williams and Milt Jackson. He has extensive theater experience including performances with Jack Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Dianne Carroll, The Fifth Dimension, The Shirrelles, and Carol Channing. Recent concert appearances include performances at Berklee College of Music, Longy School of Music, Dartmouth and St. Anselm Colleges, The House of Blues and the Boston Hatch Shell. David is the author of the book, Making Money Teaching Music, published by Writer's Digest Books.
Nate Therrien - Bass
Acoustic and Electric Bassist, Nathan Therrien is a New Hampshire native and active freelance musician in and around New England. Nathan has had the privilege to share the stage with jazz greats Lee Konitz, Jovino Santos Neto, Delfeayo Marsalis, Sam Rivers and Rufus Reid. He has performed in concerts and made radio appearances domestically and abroad, playing at such venues as Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress.