


We’re excited to announce that we’ll be having a live music performance at CreativeMornings Houston next Friday morning! Trio Henry Darragh, Glen Ackerman, and Richard Cholakian will be performing a jazz set.
About the trio:
Composer/pianist/vocalist/trombonist Henry Darragh has been working with composer/bassist Glen Ackerman for eleven years and drummer Richard Cholakian for three years. The trio has played many parties, weddings, restaurants, listening rooms, radio programs, and other events together, playing mostly swing, funk, bossa nova, and other genres. This jazz group is the rhythm section for Darragh’s larger sextet which adds trumpet, trombone, and tenor saxophone. That sextet recently released Darragh’s second cd, Too Much Monday,which is comprised of five originals, four Standards, and two covers. Ackerman arranged three of the selections and Darragh arranged the others.Cholakian and Ackerman are full-time, freelance musicians, working with other groups, not only playing jazz, but other genres such as rock, blues, and R&B. Ackerman is a bandleader himself, having also recently released his second cd The Glenious Alien Landscape.Darragh freelances mostly as a jazz pianists, vocalist, and trombonist.