Dan Pugach

Dan Pugach is a GRAMMY® nominated drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Raanana, Israel and moved to the United States in 2006.

He served as the drummer for The Air Force Band in the IDF while attending the Rimon School of Jazz at the same time.

He received a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music, where he studied with Terri Lynn Carrington, Hal Crook, and Joe Lovano, and an M.A in music from the City College of New York, where he studied with Mike Holober and Scott Reeves.

In 2011 Dan was a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award for his Nonet piece “Discourse This!”. In the same year he participated in the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center, where he worked with Curtis Fuller, Nathan Davis and George Cables. In 2013 he received another ASCAP Jazz Composer Award for his Nonet piece “Brooklyn Blues”.

Jazz Dispatch Series / Simons Summer Concert Series: Tom Manuel, Champian Fulton, Dean Johnson and Dan Pugach

by Dan Bilawsky
August 12, 2025

A 5 p.m. performance on a Tuesday in a math and physics building on a college campus isn't exactly your garden variety jazz hit. But then again, what is?! In programming for The Jazz Loft's Dispatch Series stop at Stony Brook's Simons Center for Geometry and Physics--part of that institution's summer concert slate within its broader ...

Lakecia Benjamin, Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, Sinne Eeg & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 14, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, and Sinne Eeg, plus a single from Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Brandee Younger, Madeline Eastman, Susan Krebs, Caroline Davis, Nancy Erickson Lamont, Rhoda Scott, Natalie Cressman, Monika Ryan and Lezlie Harrison, among others. Happy listening and ...

Nicole Zuraitis: The Up and Down and Up Journey to Newport

by Mark Robbins
April 29, 2025

Nicole Zuraitis should receive a Grammy Award just for her laugh! It's deep, loud, energetic and a treat to hear. Not taking herself too seriously, her conversation is peppered with laughter while she talks about the high and lows of her travels from a struggling young jazz vocalist/composer to her surprising (to her) Grammy win. Her ...

Arturo O'Farrill's Homage To Carla Bley, Julia H?lsmann, Vocalists Holly Cole, Aubrey Logan, Lili Anel, Liz Cole & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 10, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases including Arturo O'Farrill's Carla Bley tribute, the Julia H?lsmann Quartet, plus vocalists Aubrey Logan, Holly Cole, Liz Cole and Lili Anel, with birthday shoutouts to jazz foremother Lil Hardin Armstrong, Caili O'Doherty, vocalists CeCe Gable, Rosemary Loar, Eugenie Jones, Aubrey Logan, and Melody Gardot. Happy listening and please support the artists ...

Dan Bilawsky's Best Jazz Albums of 2024

by Dan Bilawsky
January 5, 2025

Music that resonates with a listener is a rare gift for that receiver. And the artists who create it are to be admired for all that they produce and bestow. It's important to never lose sight of those truths and the power of aural art. I can't truly say that I believe that ...

Vibrations

By Stuart Mack

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Vibrations Intro; Vibrations; Beets; Stu's Blues; Pure Intentions; 2019; When Breath Becomes Air; Bass Solo; Beginning And End; Different Realities; Summertime

Bianca

By Dan Pugach

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tolerance; Bianca; Bella the Bear; Masa; Schleppin��; Travel; Dreams; Discourse This!

Holiday Music By Amanda McBroom, Joy Lapps, Margaret Slovak, Plus New Releases Diane Robin and Marina Albero

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 16, 2024

This broadcast includes holiday music from Amanda McBroom, Joy Lapps, Margaret Slovak & Chris Maresh, new releases from Diane Robin & Life Force and Marina Albero, with birthday shoutouts to Julieta Eugenio, Etta Jones, Amina Figarova, Cory Weeds, Melissa Aldana, Ragan Whiteside, Dave Brubeck, Aline Homzy and Cassandra Wilson. Happy listening and please support the artists ...

Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 2, 2024

This broadcast includes Grammy nominations, new releases from the Dan Pugach Big Band, George Cables, Arooj Aftab, Jason Keiser plus a single from säje, with birthday shoutouts to Michelle Ann May and Jazz Master Sheila Jordan. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to ...