About the Band

The Doug White Quintet offers a program that ranges from bop to ballads, catchy original material as well as great standards, blues & modern-style improvising.  

Doug White, tenor saxophonist and vocalist

pianist, Chris Casey, an instructor at the Hartt School and arranger and conductor of the Jackie McLean Orchestra

trumpeter, Pat Casey

drummer, Tido Holtkamp

bassist Steve “King” Porter, also an instructor at Hartt who is well known for his work with the Winard Harper Quintet

Marc Wager, guitar

Doug White has performed with many jazz greats including Joe Puma, Annie Ross, Tommy Flanagan, and Milt Hinton. Mentored early on by Warne Marsh, Sam Coslow and Miles Davis, Doug White has entertained at clubs in New York, London and Paris. Featured throughout Europe and the East Coast with legendary singer, Annie Ross, (of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross fame), Doug has enjoyed international acclaim at the helm of his own groups since the early 1970’s. Doug learned jazz the old fashioned way (no jazz camp, no jazz degree) by listening, living and playing it.