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, Lisle Atkinson, Norman Edge, Eliot Zigmond, Lou Grassi, Bob DeVos, Cornucopia Big Band, Max Weinberg and many more.

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, Lisle Atkinson, 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. He has been voted favorite artist on SkyJazz.com, Anima Jazz in Italy and has been a guest on Around New York on WNYC, Mozart To Motorhead, Anything Goes with Lise Avery on WFDU, Afternoon Jazz with Dr. Ken Rabac on WUCF,The Modern Jazz Lounge with Warren Knight in England and a showcase artist on allaboutjazz.com and can be heard on internet and PBS stations such as jazz excursion.com, jazzradio.com, Sky FM and Music Choice. His bio is published in Marquis Who's Who in America, and he has received an ASCAP award every year since 1989. In 2007 Bob was featured in ASCAP jazz podcast #4, and been working with The Music Kitchen in Calf. and had one of his compositions used in a Sprint radio spot in Asia and others used in TV shows world wide. As a teacher he has worked with and inspired young students to pursue a life of music such as jazz saxophonist/composer Dan Blake, singer/songwriter Amanda Holley and the members of the pop band “Cash,Cash”

Awards

Commisioned composer NJMTA in 1998 and 1999, ASCAP popular award, winner of jazz poll on Sky Jazz,inclued in Marqus Who's Who in Entertainment and Who's Who in America and role model of the year in 2012 from the Roseland Boosters. 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

Gear

Steinway Piano, Yamaha P255