Nick Mancini Vibraphonist

A working vibraphonist, composer and producer, Mancini draws consistent capacity crowds at Downtown LA's Cafe Metropol, the site of an ongoing monthly residency for over two years now. Around LA, you can also catch him at The Jazz Bakery, Catalina Bar and Grill, Steamers, Pasadena Jazz Institute, David Andersen's Atelier, LACMA, Jazz at the A Frame, and dozens of other jazz clubs and haunts. He's performed and recorded with such luminaries as Kenny Werner, Bob Hurst, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Members of Kneebody, Jesca Hoop, Leon Fleisher and Julian Fleisher, Molly Ringwald, Martha Plimpton, Jennifer Holliday..."In from New York City is the Nick Mancini Collective, led by an exploratory young vibraphonist with two toes dipped in tradition who splashes gentle swing, understatedly bent shoogabooga and exotic undersea layerings of filtered light. Original and good."– Greg Burk, LA Weekly"From New York, vibist Mancini leads his ensemble to the Promised Land."– James E. Fowler, LA Times