Dave Staples

Dave Staples is a veteran East Coast performer and music educator and
maintains a busy freelance career as a pianist, trombonist, composer and
recording artist.
Dave has performed and recorded with such artists and groups as Mike Murley, Renee Rosnes, Kenny Wheeler, Kurt Elling, Omar Hakim, the Maritime Jazz Orchestra and Bicoastal Collective as well as numerous East Coast musicians and ensembles, including John Chiasson, Ian Janes, Scott and the Rocks, Mike Cowie, Latin Groove, the Blakey Project, the Mingus Project, the Horace Silver Tribute Band, the Halifax Trombone Summit, Derrick Le Lacheur’s Swing Kings, the Back Alley Big Band and his own Dave Staples Septet.
In 1995, he received the East Coast Music Award (ECMA) with Jeff Goodspeed as Jazz Artists of the Year for their album release of “Eastern Passage” (CBC
Productions) and is featured on the 2006 ECMA Jazz Album of the Year “Tom
Roach: Piano Trios“ (CBC Productions).