The Peter Erskine Quartet

The three gentlemen who will be joining me onstage at Dazzle Denver are musical maestros as well as longtime friends. Bob Mintzer and I first met in 1969 at the Interlochen Arts Academy, while Alan Pasqua and I met two years later on the campus of Indiana University. Darek and I became acquainted at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1990s, and we have been playing in trio with Alan for many years. We go back a long ways. We are four fellows well met. I don’t think I’ve played with a more swinging band than this one. -Peter Erskine The ability to project a defining sound is a powerful instinct built into the DNA of jazz artists. Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles - award-winning artists, all – evince this truth with the quartet making its appearance at D…