Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy is a Canadian jazz vibraphone player currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He studied with Don Thompson at Toronto's Humber College before moving to New York City in 2009 to continue performing and teaching. He has performed or recorded with Steve Swallow, Ben Monder, Mark Feldman, Don Thompson, Pat LaBarbera, Ingrid Jensen, Myron Walden, Robin Eubanks, Jeremy Steig, Terry Clarke, among others. He is an official Bluehaus Mallets artist. McCarthy "gives new visions of the mallet instrument... The trio plays every selection as if it were the last opportunity—with deep feeling, expectancy and freedom—the very things that makes jazz so appealing." (All About Jazz, June 18, 2006)