Bio
“A lovely jazz performance that soothes the soul”
— NBA icon & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"The Los Angeles saxophonist uses a jazz framework to explore expansive multi-genre, multicultural sonic pathways".
— Bandcamp
“Mike Casey: Jazz For The Millennial Set”
— Huffington Post
“Casey is a name to look out for.”
— All About Jazz
“The music is pushing against unseen boundaries”
— JazzTimes
Selected for the GRAMMYs® “NEXT” Class of 2023, and featured nine times 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 adventurous creative spirit with poetic melodic sensibilities and a focus on cinematic storytelling, resulting in a distinguished creative voice inspired by his mixed heritage upbringing, ADHD, and a love of cognitive dissonance.
With 100 million+ streams on his highly 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”, marking it as one of the year’s standout releases
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. Throughout his career he has had the pleasure of performing live with notable GRAMMY® award winning/nominated musicians such as Benito Gonzalez, Marc Cary, Justin Faulkner, Julius Rodriguez, Arturo Stable, Nat Reeves, Zaccai Curtis and Brandee Younger. 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?