The Napoli/Shaut sextet returns to Kingston for Christmas. The group, featuring Tristen Napoli on trumpet, Bob Shaut and Dan Shaut on saxophones, Matt Finck on guitar, Adam Cote on bass, and Chris Earley on drums, will present new arrangements of well known holiday favorites. 

Friday, December 15 at 7:00 PM 

St. James United Methodist Church 

35 Pearl St, Kingston, NY 

$10 General. $5 Students and Senior Citizens.

Tickets at the door. 

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Juvenille Diabetes Research Foundation. 

6th annual HVSO Christmas Concert.  Saxophone Orchestra?  Those of you who may not of heard of this before may think of this as an odd idea.  Rest assure, it is really quite remarkable.  We are using the tiny soprano through the mighty Contrabass (There are around 20 in the world)  The concert is conducted by Bob Shaut and Dr. Paul Cohen.  It should last about an hour and should include holiday favorites.  Here is a video sample from years past.

Sunday, December 17 at 2 pm

Arlington High School

$5 Suggested Donation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRHv_yUzCE 

Wednesday Dec. 27 @ 8:30 PM

Bearsville Theatre

Friday Dec. 29 @ 8:30 PM

Towne Crier, Beacon

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix at the Bearsville Theatre

The group came into existence preparing songs for Professor Louie’s studio productions for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group The Band and also solo projects for Rick Danko and Garth Hudson. When The Band dissolved in 2000, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix started touring and recording their own music.

They celebrate Rick Danko's birthday with special guests The Woodstock Horns, led by Dan Shaut. 

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix at the Bearsville Theatre

The group came into existence preparing songs for Professor Louie’s studio productions for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group The Band and also solo projects for Rick Danko and Garth Hudson. When The Band dissolved in 2000, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix started touring and recording their own music.

They celebrate Rick Danko's birthday with special guests The Woodstock Horns, led by Dan Shaut. 

Bob Shaut and Sax Life will be kicking off the new Midtown Jazz Series at the ArtBar on Friday, November 24, 2017. The theme of the program will be "The Music of 1957" and Sax Life will perform all of the music from John Coltrane's "Blue Train" and Sonny Rollins' "Saxophone Colossus," two recordings that established Coltrane and Rollins as giants in jazz. The program will also have music from "Miles Ahead" by Miles Davis and Gil Evans, and the Carnegie Hall recording of Thelonius Monk.

Performing in Sax Life are Ed Xiques, Jim Perry, Dan Shaut and Bob Shaut on saxophones, Charlie Kniceley on bass and Jeff Siegel on drums. The ArtBar is located at 674 Broadway, Kingston and the music begins at 7:30. Admissions is $15, $5 for studetns and senior citizedns. 

Future SaxLife performances at the Art Bar are in February (the music of Brazil, and the Great American Songbook), May (Bird and the B's), September (Ellingtonia) and November (Miles Smiles).

Wednesday, September 13

7:30 PM

7:30-9:00 PM

$15 at the door

Bob Shaut

Charlie Kniceley

Chris Bowman

Bob plays with the Big Bang Jazz Gang at the Falcon

Thursday 9/21. 

Saturday, August 19, 7-10 pm

Lydia's Cafe in Stone Ridge

7 Old US 205, Stone Ridge, NY

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

7 PM - 8:30 PM

The ArtBar

674 Broadway, Kingston, NY

Admission: $15 general/$5 student

featuring: Bob Shaut, Jim Perry, Dan Shaut, Ed Xiques, Charlie Kniceley and Jeff "Siege" Siegel

Napoli/Shaut Sextet perform with student musicians of Kingston City Schools and Ulster County

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

6:30 PM Concert

4:oo PM Workshops

Bailey Middle School

Free Admission

Thanks to the Ulster County Music Educators (UCMEA) classroom grant

Featuring: Tristen Napoli, Bob Shaut, Matt Finck, Rich Syracuse  and Jeff "Siege Siegel

GRAMMY Nominated Band playing the music of "The Band" 

Featuring the Woodstock Horns led by Dan and Bob Shaut

Bearsville Theatre

Saturday, May 27

SHOW: 9 PM

Free admission for veterans

Thursday June 22, 2017 @ 7:30 PM

St. John's in Ellenville. 

The Ellenville Chamber Players and saxophonist Dan Shaut will recapture one of jazz’s most groundbreaking and influential albums on June 22 at 7:30 pm at St. John’s in Ellenville NY. Recorded during the golden era of jazz, Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter’s “Focus” was an innovative collaboration that has truly stood the test of time. The music from the recording will be performed in its entirety in concert.

more details to follow. 

Wednesday, April 5 @ 7 PM

Bob Shaut, Reeds

Charlie Kniceley, Bass

Chris Bowman, Drums

hosted by Andrea Shaut

presents

Search for Peace: A Jazz Concert

featuring

Bob Shaut & Sax Life with Brass

Friday, April 14, 2017 @ 7:30 PM

$15  at door; $12 advanced ticket

Arts Society of Kingston

Performers: 

Bob Shaut, Jim Perry, Dan Shaut, Ed Xiques - reeds

Jon Leonard, Tristen Napoli, Dave Pratt - trumpets

Eric Iannucci, Sam Newsome - trombones

Andrea Shaut, Charley Kniceley, Jeff "Siege" Siegel - Rhythm 

Saturday, December 17 @ 6:30 PM

World permiere of Bob Shaut's "Valley View and Bridges" featuring Sax Life, Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra and more! 

5th Annual Christmas Concert @ 6:30 PM

$5 for the concert only

Arlington High School

snow date: Sunday, December 18 

Sunday, December 18 @ 3pm

St James Church, Kingston NY

Wednesday, Deember 21 @ 9:30 PM

Catskill Mountain Pizza, Woodstock, NY

Napoli/Shaut Sextet play new arrangments of classic Christmas tunes. 

Featuring: Tristen Napoli, Bob Shaut, Dan Shaut, Matt Finck, Rich Syracuse, Jeff "Siege"
 Siegel

Thursday Dec. 29 @ 8:30 PM

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix at the Bearsville Theatre

The group came into existence preparing songs for Professor Louie’s studio productions for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group The Band and also solo projects for Rick Danko and Garth Hudson. When The Band dissolved in 2000, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix started touring and recording their own music.

They celebrate Rick Danko's birthday with special guests The Woodstock Horns, led by Dan Shaut. 

Friday, Dec. 30 @ 7:30 PM

HVRP is back at ASK in Downtown Kingston. Dress in your best Prohibition-era fashion, sip some moonshine, and surrond yourself from the sounds of the 1920's.

Saturday, Jan 7, 2017 @ 8:30 PM

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix with The Rock Of Ages Horns from Kingston NY led by Dan Shaut will host a concert honoring the late great Rick Danko to celebrate his music and birthday

Friday, December 2

Enjoy a great Italian dinner at the area's finest Italian restaurant with Bob (saxophones) and Andrea (piano) Music from 6-9. Call for reserations 845-336-6968

Saturday, Dec. 3 @ 8 PM

The Rosendale Cafe

Bob Shaut , reeds

Charlie Kniceley, bass

Chris Bowman, drums

We are excited to bring our cabaret style event to a beautiful new venue - BSP Kingston. Come enjoy the 12 piece band and our guest singer and dancers from NYC. Grab a drink (cash bar) and take in our new Cabaret Piano Bar with Andrea and some of the area's most talented singers. Have a great time while supporting a great cause.

READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

Friday, October 28

Enjoy a great Italian dinner at the area's finest Italian restaurant with Bob (saxophones) and Andrea (piano) Music from 6-9. Call for reserations 845-336-6968

HVRP Presents: A Night in Argentina. Friday October 14, 7:30pm.

The evening will feature music of Argentina with local Hudson Valley musicians Andrea Shaut (piano), Bob Shaut (saxophone), Greg Dinger (guitar), Erin Bradley (voice), and Joey Kazz (sax). We will also feature two top-notch student performers Faith Kuliszewski (cello) and Nicole Levine (clarinet).

Come out to the Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) for a great night of music, followed by our community reception with the musicians with food & drink that fits the evening's theme!

Saturday, November 26 @ 8 PM

Bob Shaut began the band in 1986 as a vehicle to compose and arrange for saxophone quartet and rhythm section, and soon began performing concerts at schools, jazz festivals, clubs, weddings and swing dance parties. It became a sax quartet in the late nineties for a few years, then took a few years off after the loss of key players Ron Finck and Ed Summerlin. The band is back and better than ever, having released its first CD, "The Saxophone and the Drum" with music composed by Bob Shaut. Performances will also feature music by Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, and others; as well as selections from the great American songbook. Current members include Bob on alto and soprano, Dan on alto and tenor, Jim Perry on tenor, Ed Xiques on bari, Charlie Kniceley on bass, and Jeff "Siege" Siegel on drums.
 

Sunday October 9 @ 5 PM

The Napoli-Shaut Sextet is a jazz group you won’t want to miss! This band – made up of only six players – will surprise you with the fortitude of their sound. Their repertoire is made up of familiar jazz standards arranged in ways you’ve never heard them before – ballads become up-tempo jazz waltzes, melodies are morphed and transformed through the addition of new harmonies. While these arrangements provide the framework for Napoli-Shaut Sextet performances, perhaps the most impressive aspect of their performances are the musical conversations created through seemingly effortless improvisation.

The Napoli-Shaut Sextet features:

Tristen Napoli | Trumpet
Bob Shaut | Alto & Soprano Saxophones
Dan Shaut | Tenor Saxophone
Matt Finck | Guitar
Rich Syracuse | Bass
Jeff Siegel | Drums

Tristen Napoli, a native of Kingston, now makes his home in New York City where he is known as a versatile jazz trumpeter. He regularly performs in and around NYC in such venues as Birdland, Minton’s and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Tristen has toured and recorded with many notable Jazz artists including the Artie Shaw Orchestra and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.

Saturday, July 9 @ 7 PM

Air Studio Gallery

71 o'Neil St.

Kingston, NY 12401

Opening Band: Dan Davis' Dialouge 

Saturday, April 30, 2016

11 am - 12 pm

$5/$3 for kids

Rosendale Theatre

408 Main St.

Rosendale, NY 12472

A musical tale of the story of Jazz. From its birthplace in New Orleans to its adolescence in New York. From the swing feel of the great Duke Ellington and Count Basie to the Latin feel of Tito Puente.

Co-directed by Dan Shaut and Bob Shaut featuring clinicians and students of the Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra

Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 9 pm-11:30 pm

Catskill Mountain Pizza

51 Mill Hill Rd.

Woodstock, NY 12498

No cover. Tips welcome.

The Sax Life saxes featuring Bob Shaut (soprano and alto), Dan Shaut (alto and tenor), Jim Perry (tenor) and Ed Xiques (bari) join CMP jazz curators Rich Syracuse (bass) and Jeff "Siege" Siegel (drums).

The Phoenicia Jazz Series has been canceled. 

Thursday June 16, 2016 – 8 pm-10 pm

$15 suggested donation/ $10 minimum

Tickets at the door

The Arts Upstairs Gallery

60 Main St.

Phoenicia, NY 12464

Sax Life – "This sax quartet delights with their beautiful arrangements" – featuring Bob Shaut (alto & soprano), Dan Shaut (alto &tenor), Jim Perry (tenor) & Ed Xiques (baritone) – backed by Charley Kniceley (bass) and Chris Earley (drums).

Saturday, April 23

8:00 PM

$10 cover at the door

Sax Life will perform suites arranged by Bob, including "Ellingtonia," "The Prez Suite," and Sonny Rollins' "Saxophone Colossus." Special for this evening will be a premiere performance of "Valley Views and Bridges, Chapter 2," a series of impressions of the Hudson Valley. "Chapter 1" was premiered in January at Shenandoah University by the Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra.

Bob Shaut began the band in 1986 as a vehicle to compose and arrange for saxophone quartet and rhythm section, and soon began performing concerts at schools, jazz festivals, clubs, weddings and swing dance parties. It became a sax quartet in the late nineties for a few years, then took a few years off after the loss of key players Ron Finck and Ed Summerlin. The band is back and better than ever, having released its first CD, "The Saxophone and the Drum" with music composed by Bob Shaut. Performances will also feature music by Duke Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, and others; as well as selections from the great American songbook. Current members include Bob on alto and soprano, Dan on alto and tenor, Jim Perry on tenor, Ed Xiques on bari, Charlie Kniceley on bass, and Jeff "Siege" Siegel on drums.

Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 PM

Quimby Theater

Suny ULSTER

Free admission

Dan Shaut (alto sax), Chris Early (marimba) and Andrea Shaut (piano) will premier Bob Shaut's Storm King Ride at Sunrise. This is a part of the  Valley Views and Bridges suite that will be presented in its entirety later this year featuring Sax Life, the Hudson Valley Saxophone Orchestra and this trio.

CBC 3 has been together for over 4 years, performing on both coasts (NY & CA). They only perform original compositions crafted by Bob Shaut, saxes; and Charlie Kniceley, bass; with much collaboration from Chris Bowman, drums. 

Saturday Feb. 6 , 2016

8:00 PM

$10 cover

Bob Shaut is a Hudson Valley native who was a music educator for 39 years in Poughkeepsie and Kingston. Never relenting on his ambition to play saxophone and compose , he has been an active performer and band leader for that entire time. Now retired from teaching, he began collaborating with Charlie Kniceley, a 30 year member of Bob's flagship group Sax Life. Their partnership was originally a duet, simply bass and sax, but it soon became evident that another voice was needed. That's when they approached Chris Bowman to play drums. Charlie had worked with Chris since 2004, recording and performing with Mr. Rusty, a fusion group lead by Danish guitaritst Nat Russell. After Chris joined with Bob and Charlie, the new trio proved to be the right thing to do. Chris is from North Carolina and Charlie is from Ohio, so although they have lived in the Hudson Valley for many decades, the different parts of the country come together in the music.

The Napoli/Shaut Sextet will premiere music from the debut album Jazz for Christmas Time. Featuring Tristen Napoli (Trumpet & valve trombone), Dan Shaut (tenor sax), Bob Shaut (soprano and tenor saxes), Matt Finck (guitar), Rich Syracuse (bass) and Jeff "Siege" Siegel (drums)

Saturday, December 19, 2015

7 PM

St James United Methodist Church

35 Pearl St.

Kingston, NY 12401

$10 at the door.

Our new CD will be available!

Chrimstmas Concert

Sunday December 20, 2015

1PM and 3PM

($5 suggested donation at the door)

The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center

9 Vassar St. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club

135 S. Hamilton St. Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Friday, December 18

8:30PM - 11:30PM

Hosted by the Hudson Valley Community Dances

Beginner's Dance Lesson at 8:00 PM

Celebrate the Music of Rick Danko

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix

w/ The Rock of Ages Horns led by Dan Shaut

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

8PM

Bearsville Theatre

291 Tinker St.

Woodstock, NY 12498

845-679-4406

Messengers of Peace

A Free Concert

New Year's Eve at 6 PM

Old Dutch Church, 272

Wall Street, Kingston

Donations will benefit Caring Hands Soup Kitchen

 Join Bob Shaut and Sax Life as we celebrate 30 years of music making at one of our favorite venues - The Rosendale Cafe!

Original Sax life members Bob Shaut, Charlie Kniceley and Ed Xiques along with newer members Dan Shaut, Jim Perry and Jeff "Siege" Siegel as we celebrate 30 great years!

Rosendale Cafe

Saturday, October 10, 2015

8 PM

$10 cover at the door

Dinner and beverages available!

 Saturday, November 14,2015

6:30 PM Doors Open

7:00 PM Curtains Open

BSP Kingston 323 wall Street, Uptown Kingston, NY 12401

We are excited to announce we will move into a new professional venue this year; BSP Kingston! Located on Wall Street in Uptown Kingston this venue started as a vaudeville theater.  We are excited to bring the cabaret back! to Kingston!

The evening will feature a larger band (The Dan Shaut Swing Orchestra) professional dancers  and a singer from NYC, our new piano bar featuring some serious Hudson Valley talent and oh yeah... a cash bar!

Advanced Tickets $15/$10

At Door $20/$15

Click here to reserve a table

Click here to volunteer

Dine with live music provided by Bob and Andrea Shaut. Call Reginato's for reservations.

October 23 from 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm

Reservations required. Call Stephanie at 845-336-6968

Bob will be performing to raise funds to find a  cure for breast cancer with Carrie Wycoff.

Rosendale Theatre

October 7

Jazz Night at Christina's is Tuesday, July 21, seating starts at 6PM! Come and enjoy the smooth sounds of the "Dan Shaut Class Jazz Trio" as they play songs from Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Diana Krall and more. Enjoy a delicious four course meal for $30. Sangria Specials! Call 339-7400, reservations are required as limited seating is available!

Jazz great Chris Vadala  is the guest soloist with the Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra in the culminating performance of a week of classes and rehearsals!

Friday, July 24 @ 5:15 PM

$10 Admission

Children under 12 free

Rosendale Theatre

408 Main St

Rosendale, NY 12472

Bob performs with the Big Bang Jazz Gang at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY. The big band is playing Mostly Mingus!

Wednesday, May, 27 at 7 pm.

Shaut Jazz Project presents

The Kingston Jazz Collective as part of

The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival

3 Great Bands. One Concert.

"Perry Beekman Trio" with Peter Tomlinson and Lew Scott

"Sax Life" with Bob Shaut, Dan Shaut, Jim Perry, Ed Xiques, Rich Syracuse and Jeff "Siege" Siegel

"Pete Levin Trio featuring Chris Paisin" with Rich Syracuse and Jeff "Siege" Siegel

Arts Society of Kingston's (ASK) Building's beautiful new theater.

97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401

Saturday, August 29 at 7 pm.

$15 general or $10 students. Tickets available at the door.

Sax Life with Bob Shaut, Dan Shaut, Jim Perry and Ed Xiques on saxophones, Charlie Kniceley on bass and Jeff Siegel will perform music from their CD "The Saxophone and the Drum" as well as unique arrangemments of some of the great jazz composers.

Thursday, May, 28 from 7:30-10:00 at "The Arts Upstairs" located at 60 Main St. Phoenicia, NY.

Bob performs with the Big Bang Jazz Gang at their monthly hang. Come out for good music, food and drinks. The Gang plays the 1st Sunday of every month!

Sunday June 7 at 6 pm to 8 pm.

Annual fundraiser for the Kingston City School's Jazz program. Groups directed by Dan Shaut, Bob Shaut and Vicki Youlio.

June 10, 2015 at 7 pm. The Falcon, 1348 9W Marlboro, NY. Reservations highly recommended

Hudson Valley Recital Project presents "A Journey Through the 20th Century"

Come hear the Shaut Trio featuring Bob, Andrea and Dan playing some jazz arrangements by Bob.

June 12 at 8pm at the ASK building, Kingston NY.

The Shaut family and Swingin' Jive Patrol present Swinging Moments Cabaret, the eighth annual fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association. The event honors the memory of our family’s beloved grandmother Marie Wojcio, who lived with Alzheimer's Disease for over a decade.

We are excited to bring back last year's format; a cabaret-style event that promises to be much more than the big band jazz sound of yesteryear.
 

Tickets at the door are $20 for General Admission, and only $15 for students and seniors. Get your tickets in advance, and pay just $15 General Admission, and $10 for students and seniors. Reserve a full table for 10 people for $150 or reserve a VIP table (including a dessert tray, sparkling cider, onstage acknowledgement and free raffle tickets for each guest) for $250.
 

Friday, November 7, 2014

6-8 pm

Steel House

100 Rondout Landing

Kingston, NY 12401

$10 adult

$5 Student

(free under 10)

Reservations required - 338-7847

Free Admission in exchange for an instrument donation to the Bailey Band Booster Club's "Play it Forward" campaign.

Dinner menu available.

Playing selections from the CD and more!

It is the sound, the versatility, the range of the voices; it is the drive, the cymbal textures, the tribalism of the toms; tied together with the bass strings, it is the saxophone and the drum.

"For many years musicians and audiences have encouraged me to record Sax Life. Retirement and a grown-up family finally gave me the opportunity to record. Old compositions were tweaked and a few new ones were written. The effort and musicianship of Jim, Dan, Ed, Charlie, Jeff and Scott was a pleasure to be a part of."

-Bob

We are pleased to announce that the debut of Bob Shaut's Sax Life CD is now available.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

7 pm

Rosendale Cafe

434 Main St.

Rosendale, NY 12472

845.658.9048

$10 admission

CDs will be for sale.

Great food, full menu.

Playing selections from the CD and more!