Dillon Vado Vibes Trio ft. Jeff Denson & Isaac Schwartz

Dillon Vado is a multi-instrumentalist/producer who makes music that is  honest and inspired. Dillon’s vibraphone trio plays a spacious alchemy of music inspired by Brazilian composers like Guinga and Milton Nascimento, and funk-infused music like Lonnie Smith and John Scofield, all while being informed by the spiritual and liberation seeking stances of Ornette and Charlie Haden. This group’s feet are firmly on the ground with eyes set on the stars, playing groovy music with a spiritual quality uniquely suited to the percussive yet otherworldly nature of the vibraphone. The trio features Jeff Denson on bass and Isaac Schwartz on drums.

Dillon performs all over the Bay Area and West Coast, including a once a month residency at Keys Jazz Bistro in San Francisco’s historic North Beach. He can be found playing vibes with many of his own projects including Heart Matter with Amy D,  vibes trio with many esteemed colleagues including Dave King and Kanoa Mendenhall, and drumming/composing for Swerve Control, The Michael Echaniz Trio, Sandy Cressman’s Homenagem Brasileira and Never Weather, who released their debut album, Blissonance, on Ridgeway Records in 2020.