Steve Schneck Quartet

Wed Dec 04 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm UTC-06:00

Jazz Showcase | Chicago

Jazz Showcase
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Steve Schneck Quartet
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Featuring Peter Saxe, Scott Mason, and Phil Gratteau
About this Event

Steve Schneck - flugelhorn
Neal Alger - guitar
Scott Mason - bass
Greg Artry - drums

Steve Schneck grew up in New York with jazz and classical music in the background and a photo of Louis Armstrong in his bedroom. From the beginning, his mother wanted Steve to be a trumpet player. After learning to play the ukulele and piano, Steve began studying trumpet at age 9 and he’s been playing the trumpet and flugelhorn for more than 50 years. Steve’s mother taught classical piano and his father played folk guitar. His extended family, including 4 generations of mandolin players, regularly played music whenever they got together and still do.

While in high school, Steve studied at the Juilliard, Manhattan and Eastman schools of music, and was a member of the New York State Music Association All-State Jazz Ensemble, McDonald’s Long Island Jazz Ensemble, and Nassau County Jazz Ensemble. He also taught trumpet for two summers at Camp Encore/Coda in Maine.  Throughout college, Steve played in the Cornell University Jazz Ensemble, which he also directed during his junior and senior years. While in law school, Steve played in the New York University Jazz Ensemble and in a jazz quintet directed by Joe Lovano.

Soon after moving to Chicago, Steve regularly joined jam sessions and gigs with local musicians, and in 1990, Steve started his own group.  The Steve Schneck Quartet (www.steveschneckmusic.com) has been playing throughout Chicago for the past 33 years and released 2 CDs: “Together Again” in 1994, and “Dedicated to You,” in 2012. The Steve Schneck Quartet performed at the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2016.

Steve was also a member of Marshall Vente’s Project Nine for several years and he has performed throughout Chicago as a side man with other musicians including Pat Mallinger, Jeff Newell, Jim Massoff, Richie Fidoli, Bob Centano, Bob Ojeda, Stuart Rosenberg, John Mose, Frank D’Rone, Don Stiernberg, Dave Baney, Curt Morrison, Neil Soroka, Jimmy Ryan, Don Stilley, Frank Caruso, John Baney, Eric Hochberg, Nick Tountas, Alejo Poveda, Izzy Perez, Mo Jennings, Tim Davis and Barrett Deems. In September 2022, Steve joined New Orleans clarinetist Doreen Ketchens and her quartet at the Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon. (

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Since 2009, Steve has volunteered as the Director of the Hawthorne Scholastic Academy (a Chicago public elementary school) Jazz Ensemble, for musicians in grades 5 through 8. Steve created the ensemble and arranged all of its music. In 2016 and 2018, the Hawthorne Jazz Ensemble performed at the Chicago Public Schools Jazz Festival.

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Jazz Showcase, 806 South Plymouth Ct, Chicago, United States

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