Mike Casey
jazz / jazz fusion / modern jazz / los angeles / world jazz
"The Los Angeles saxophonist uses a jazz framework to explore expansive multi-genre, multicultural sonic pathways".
— Bandcamp
“A lovely jazz performance that soothes the soul”
— NBA icon & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“The music is pushing against unseen boundaries”
— JazzTimes
Selected for the GRAMMYs® “NEXT” Class of 2023, and featured 9X in Amazon Music, Pandora and Spotify's annual "Best Jazz Of", Los Angeles-based Mike Casey is an internationally recognized artist & composer who balances an avant-garde creative spirit with relatable, poetic melodic sensibilities and a focus on cinematic ideation, resulting in a distinguished creative voice inspired by his mixed heritage upbringing, ADHD, childhood in settings of both nature and architecture, and an endless curiosity about the dynamic nature of the saxophone.
With 100 million+ streams on his stylistically diverse catalog and features from The Huffington Post, BBC, CBC, Triple J, NPR Jazz Night in America + Morning Edition, Mike has emerged as a notable original voice in the millennial jazz generation. His latest 9th release "Valencia" (2024) hit #1 on Bandcamp's jazz/fusion page and was featured on NBA icon Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s newsletter, Jazz FM’s “Track of the Week”, Virgin Atlantic airlines and both Pandora & Spotify’s “Best Jazz of 2024”, cementing itself as one of the standout releases in the genre that year.
His award-winning original music has graced significant stages at home and abroad such as (The Original) Kennedy Center, BRIC Jazz Fest NYC, Auditori Nacional Madrid, Yale, Catalina’s in Hollywood, Warsaw's Jassmine, Istanbul's Borusan Sanat, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Beyond jazz, 2023 marked his scoring debut in the top 10 Netflix TV show "Spy Ops".
Mike would like nothing more than to tell you a story through his saxophone. Are you listening?
