Join us for our fourth concert of the Spring Jazz Concert Series, featuring three generations of jazz -- Bill Crow (bass), Leonieke Scheuble (keyboards) and Nick Scheuble (drums).  

Bill Crow (bass): Bill has enjoyed a long jazz career—there’s not enough space here to truly do it justice, so here are some of the   highlights.  Bill has played as a member of bands led by Teddy Charles, Stan Getz, Claude Thornhill, Terry Gibbs, Jerry Wald, Marian McPartland, Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Goodman, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer and Clark Terry, Eddie Condon, Kai Winding, J. J. Johnson, Walter Norris, Ryo Sasaki, and has made individual appearances with Dave Lambert, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Art Baron and the Duke’s Men, Tomoko Ohno, Houston Person, the Lincoln Center Jazz Project, and many more.  He has recorded extensively with most of these bands, and with many others.  He has also played for several hit Broadway shows, including The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, and 42ND Street. 

Bill has also written two books about jazz, “Jazz Anecdotes” and “From Birdland to Broadway,” both published by Oxford University Press. 

Leonieke Scheuble (keyboards):  Leonieke started to play piano at age 5 or 6 after being inspired by “Ray,” a movie based on the life of Ray Charles. Without any prior musical training, she created pieces that were rhythmically interesting and compositionally balanced.

At age 7, Leonieke recorded a handful of pieces including two of her own compositions. This was brought to the attention of Steve Ash, a highly respected Jazz pianist, who then agreed to take her on as a student. Three of the world’s most respected jazz organists have also played  pivotal roles in Leonieke’s development. The first is Joey DeFrancesco who introduced her to his Hammond B-3 at Dizzys Club Coca-Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center) in February of 2011. The second is Dr. Lonnie Smith, who after meeting and hearing a clip of Leonieke, arranged for a Hammond organ to be delivered to her as a gift. The third is Mike LeDonne who has been her teacher at William Paterson University since 2020. Other important influences and mentors include first and foremost, Antoinette Montague, Rome Neal & Bob Belden, (former A&R Blue Note records).

In October of 2013, Leonieke was one of two musicians featured for an hour long special called “The Future of Jazz” over radio station WBGO (America’s premier jazz radio station). She then  entered the studio of engineer Rudy Van Gelder and recorded her first professional album, “Debut”. NEA Jazz Master, Jimmy Cobb, contributed to this album among many others.. Her 2nd release, “Live in the Studio” was released in 2016.

In September 2015, Leonieke was named “Best Up and Coming Young Artist”-Hothouse NYC Fans Decision Awards. In 2016, Leonieke was honored and featured in film for an audience of over 1,000 at the TEDx TALK Easton, PA event. Later that year, she  performed and spoke for another TED x Event which was filmed for PBS.

Leonieke has developed into a Jazz lecturer and featured artist at several high profile Jazz Festivals. In 2022, she signed an agreement with the Hammond organ company becoming a Hammond Artist!, a relationship that is bestowed upon very few.     In February 2024, she performed as the pianist with the Russell Malone Quartet for a special 2 day celebration at Shanghai Jazz. Leonieke is a frequent artist for the New Jersey Jazz Society and maintains an extensive performance schedule.

Nick Scheuble (drums):  Since his emergence on to the New York Jazz scene in the early 1990’s, Nick Scheuble has established an international reputation as both a first rate Jazz drummer and Latin percussionist, and boasts a virtual who’s who list of artists he     has performed and/or recorded with in each genre.  Additionally, his expertise in early New Orleans jazz has enabled him to work with some of the most respected exponents of these styles as well.

By the age of thirteen, he began to take a serious interest in music. Subsequent studies followed in drums and piano under Carl Wolf and Dr. John Gorman, respectively. He enrolled in the prestigious Jazz Studies and Performance program at the William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey studying under the tutelage of renowned drummer/educator, John Riley.

Upon graduation in 1991, Nick began a distinguished career as both a sideman and a bandleader. He has performed and/or recorded with, among others, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Barretto, Dave Valentin, Chico Mendoza, David Berger, Peter Bernstein, Jim  Rotondi, Bill Crow, Vince Giordano, Eric Lewis, Mike LeDonne, Hilton Ruiz, Jeanie Bryson, Tim Ries, Jimmy Bosch, Wycliffe Gordon, Don Braden and Eric Alexander. He has performed at Lincoln Center, Birdland, The Village Gate, Café de Muze (Belgium), Aaron Davis Hall, John Harms Center, Mechanics Hall, and other noted venues throughout America, Western & Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

As a percussionist, he has toured much of the United States with The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra – a premiere American orchestra formed at The Juilliard School that has served as Ambassador of Good Will for the United States Government.

As a leader, Nick leads several very successful bands that have earned considerable praise from several noted Jazz critics including George Kanzler and David Orthmann. He has been the subject for feature articles in such prestigious publications as the New York Times, and has received critical acclaim for his debut CD as a leader, “In the Pocket,” which features his Quintet performing many of his compositions.