Bob McHugh

Bob McHugh has been playing jazz clubs,festivals,halls,private parties, and restaurants in the NY metro area for over fifty years. Be it solo,duo,trio or big band Bob has done it. His styles include, but are not limited to jazz,, blues, pop and fusion. Bob has recorded three albums for Outstanding Records,and has also recorded on Alliance, Perception and Lunge Music. Some of the people he has recorded with are Ray Mantilla, Rich Austin, Raul Paonessa, Ron Naspo, Earl Sauls, Kevin McCarthy, Vinnie Cutro, Tony Signa, Tommy La Bella, Jackie Jones, MNB, Medoosa, David Humm Trio, and Jon Kline, Johnny Guitar & The Pick Ups, The World Concave and has worked with Joe Morello, Bill Crow,Muzzy Napodano, Andrew Cyrille, , Norman Edge, Eliot Zigmond, Lou Grassi, Bob DeVos, Cornucopia Big Band, Max Weinberg and many more.

Bob has been a commissioned composer for the NJMTA, The National Federation of Music Clubs, The New York State School Music Association and has piano pieces published by Manduca Music Publications and The Voice of the Rockies. He has played at The Count Basie Theater,Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, The New York Public Library, Birdland, Shanghai Jazz and Trumpets to name a few, and was the house pianist at Peretti's in East Rutherford,N.J from 1985 till 1992 and the Stony Hill Inn in Hackensack, N.J.from 1993 till 2006 from 1996 to the present has been the pianist for Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods in Westchester County, NY performing at events in prestigious homes and venues.

On Track by Budd Kopman
Another Sunrise by Javier AQ Ortiz
After Midnight by Dave Nathan
Soaring on Wings of Ivory and Black by Dave Nathan
Manhattan Sunrise by Stephen Koch

Feeling like you missed something? You did if you missed Bob McHughs' MANHATTAN SUNRISE. This '94 recording is an excellent choice for your jazz collection. —Stephen Koch, All About Jazz

Bob McHugh is one of the finest contempary jazz pianists and composers recording today and gives us an exceptional collection of songs in his AMERICAN CLASSICS. It is a CD collection that will find its way to the hearts of the jazz listening aduience quickly. Unique, fresh, inventive, and enjoyable are words that best describe the solo piano of Bob McHugh in this collection. These jazz performances are among the best found anywhere. —Lee Prosser, jazzreview.com

Primary Instrument

Piano

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Bob McHugh ia a highly qualified/certified music teacher who has worked as a musician for over 40 years. He has taught music in the public school systym in New Jersey for 22 years and as a private teacher as well. Bob is a published composer with Manduca Music Publications [Piano Teachers Press], and Voice of the Rockies and has been a commissioned composer for the New Jersey Music Teachers Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs and NYSSMA