SAXOPHONE & FLUTE
Claire Daly’s first CD as a leader, “Swing Low” (1999) is in the William Jefferson Clinton Library as a CD significant to him while in office. She has won Downbeat Magazine “Rising Star” 8 times in 10 years. She was also named 2017 Jazz Journalist Baritone Saxophonist of the Year. Her CD, “Baritone Monk” hit number one on the CMJ Jazz Charts, and rose to number nine on the Jazz Week Charts. She was the Jazz Journalist Association’s Baritonist of the Year in 2017 & 2018, and has placed in both DownBeat and Jazz Times critics and reader’s polls for over 15 years..
A veteran Litchfield Jazz Camp teaching artist (20 years), Claire was head of the Litchfield in NY combos, as well as a teacher at Jazz at Lincoln Center MSJA and privately in New York City. In 2011, she premiered her “Nothing to Lose” CD in Juneau, Alaska. The CD features her on both sax and flute in a work she wrote with Steve Hudson to honor her second cousin, Mary Joyce, who made a 1,000 mile solo dogsled trip from Juneau to Fairbanks in 1935-1936. She has 8 Cds to her credit and tours with her own quartet, as well as performing as a side person. Claire has performed as a leader at Litchfield Jazz Festival, Monterey JF, Kansas City, JF, Perth Int’l JF, Sydney Int’l JF, San Miguel de Allende JF, Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams JF, Healdsburg JF, Berkshire JF, Kingston JF and more.