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Mike Holober

Mike Holober is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Holober leads a big band called the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, a collection of leading New York-based studio jazz musicians. Holober frequently works with bassist John Patitucci. He has recorded two albums on the Sons of Sound label; the first a quintet date entitled Canyons and the second a big band session called Thought Trains. He has been the musical director of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra since 2007. International credits include a recent tour as guest composer, conductor and soloist with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra. In Europe, the R.I.A.S. Big Band in Berlin regularly programs Holober's compositions and he has recently been invited to Helsinki as a guest composer and pianist with UMO, the… more »