Description: Sam Burckhardt, saxophonist, singer, and composer, has played and recorded with some of the Blues and Jazz greats, such as Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, and Othella Dallas, and was an original member of The Mighty Blue Kings. He is still touring, and is recording for Airway Records.
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Sam Burckhardt, Dan Nimmer, and Jake Vinsel; we finally got together after 19 years, Dan had just played an amazing concert with the Lincoln Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, February 25, 2022
Live in Europe 1975 “Burckhardt won me over and caused me to seek out his “A Walk in Time” recording, I was not disappointed” – Brad Walseth, Jazz Chicago
“Sam’s nonet also gets superb support from alto sax Doug Angelaccio and Pianist Pete Benson as the group plays beautifully on Billy Strayhorn’s “A Flower Is A Lonesome Thing,” and Burckhardt’s own title composition” – G.E. Murray, Jazz Institute of Chicago