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All members are seasoned musicians who have been performing professionally in bands for many years. The High Society Rhythm Orchestra members exude energy and showmanship and know how to excite a crowd. They take pride in their performance and it shows. You can be confident in the talent of these musicians and will find their enthusiasm absolutely contagious. For more information on what we can do for your next event, just click here!
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Joan Crowe: vocalist/bandleader
 New York Newsday called her "act as polished as a diamond." Joan Crowe is a versatile singer with an extensive repertoire of jazz, standards, pop, rock, blues and folk. Joan’s comic ability earned her the 2002 MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Female Musical Comedy.
Her jazz trio, High Society Rhythm has performed at the Rainbow Room, Town Hall, The Carnegie Club, The Oak Room in Grand Prospect Hall, The Plaza Hotel, The Four Seasons, The Manor, Brunelli’s and Trumpet’s. They have also played Westchester clubs, Star Canyon, Orchard Street, The Globe, Harry’s of Hartsdale, Zuppa, Tara, and Coyote Flaco just to name a few. Her larger band, High Society Rhythm Orchestra has added sophistication and pizzazz to and countless benefits, private parties, and weddings.
Her corporate clients include Dunn and Bradstreet, Pfizer, Meetings in Medicine, and WAWBO (Westchester Assoc of Women’s Business Owners). “She is able to liven up even our most boring quarterly sales conference, with some of her comic songs and her clever parodies that she tailors to fit our company”--Jerry Reisburg, Vice President, Dunn and Bradstreet.
Joan is very proud of the countless benefits she has performed for helping to raise money for Breast Cancer, The Wellness Center, Florida State University’s Student Scholarship Fund and the New Rochelle Public Library.
Looking for something different? More intimate? Funny? Cabaret? Visit Joan’s personal web site at www.joancrowe.com where you can find out about Joan’s Cabaret shows and buy her jazz CD, BIRD ON THE WIRE. |
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Monty Arnold: Vocalist
 Monty Arnold has been a professional baritone/tenor II singer for the past eleven years. He obtained his Music degree from Western Michigan University in 1998. He has won numerous prestigious awards including Downbeat Magazine Male Vocalist Of The Year and four International Association Of Jazz Educators awards for Outstanding solo and group performances. He has performed for a number of different venues including Lincoln Jazz Center for the ASCAP Awards Foundation honoring Billy Joel. He currently performs shows on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, casinos, wedding receptions and corporate functions across the country. Monty has shared the stage with the likes of Della Reese, Rosemary Clooney, Michael Bolton, Mel Torme, NY Voices, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton and Diane Schuur. He has an extensive background in jingle production. His credits include Chevrolet, Herman Miller, The Louisville Journal and Superclubs Jamaica. He is also an artist manager for Bowzer Inc. and artist/business partner for Check The Chamber Productions. |
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Trisha Zola: Vocalist
 Trisha Zola possesses the soul and power of Aretha, the range of Whitney, along with the discipline of Celine that blends into a brand new breed of power performer. Emerging out of Northeast PA, Trisha exemplifies versatility. While not the trendy “in your face” personality, she captivates with her confident presence, appearance and voice.
Trisha Zola began studying all phases of dance at the age of three and singing at the age of six. She also became active in numerous talent competitions, where she was an award winning vocalist and dancer. In school, she was recognized as one of the top vocalists in the Pennsylvania Music Educators’ Association District, Regional, and State Chorus Competitions. Trisha also landed leading roles in several school and community theatrical presentations.
As a Musical Theater Arts Major at Penn State University, Trisha continued with acting, as well as singing in the PSU Women’s Chorale. |
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Rob Taube: Piano, Guitar, Vocals
 Rob Taube has been creating and playing music ever since his childhood in Central Illinois. In the 1980s, he played piano and sang with the house band at the Michigan Opry, warming up for such greats as Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, and Hank Williams, Jr.
His own tunes received local airplay and attention, but a desire for new challenges eventually led him to New York City. There he held the competitive lead guitar/vocal position at Café Wha and pursued a music career as a guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist with several area bands while continuing to craft words and music into appealing, memorable songs. His song "My Little Love" recently won the grand prize in the 2005 michigan songwriters contest.
He now performs regularly in the tri-state area with High Society Rhythm.
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Doug Largent: Bass
 Brooklyn-based Doug Largent plays acoustic and electric bass guitar. He has over fifty recordings to his credit in styles spanning jazz, rock, zydeco, funk, and more. He currently plays and tours with Hulabilly, an acoustic Hawaiian/Jazz trio; White Widow, a hard-edge rock power trio; The Trio of J. Walter Hawks, and the Art Lillard Big Band and Small Group. He is the regular bassist for a long-standing engagement with the Chris Gillespie piano trio at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. |
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Quinton Gallemore: Drums
 They say still waters run deep. And so it goes with drummer Quintin Gallemore. A quiet, friendly personality, Gallemore is a powerhouse of sound. A New Jersey native, Gallemore began playing at the age of nine. He obtained his B.F.A. in Musical Performance from CUNY’s City College while studying with drum masters Andrew Cyrille, Freddie Waits and Michael Carvin.
Gallemore has performed with such diverse musical artists as Rudy Ray Moore, Kenny Baron, Johnny Copeland, Jimmy “Preacher” Robinson, including tours with Olu Dara, and “soulsters,” Sam & Dave. Over the years, Gallemore has also ventured into the world of big band, Off-Broadway musical theater, special events and studio work. A veteran of the club scene Gallemore has backed up a host of vocalists including Lil Phillips, Sarah Dash, Dave Coss, Ghanniyya Green, Emilie Long, Tom Mitchell, Barbara Mood and Clarice Turnbull.
Ever learning and refining, Gallemore is currently studying with Master Percussionist, Michael Hinton. |
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Marc Daine: Guitar
 Guitarist Marc Daine has recorded for Columbia records as a meember of the band "Steel Angel", and performed as guitarist, mandolinist, and banjoist with the national tour of the Broadway musical "Big River". His guitar, banjo and mandolin playing has been heard on numerous national commercial jingles including: Dodge Trucks, Post Cereals, and Countrytime Lemonade. He has performed backing up a diverse array of talent including: Cindy Lauper, Shawn Colvin, Allen Tousaint, Curtis Steigers, Eddie Fisher and Suzanne Summers. He has released two CDs of his own orignal music: "Marc Daine and the Jazz Cowboys" and "The Gypsy Jazz Caravan." |
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Nate Birkey - Trumpet / Vocals
 Though a California resident from 1985 to 2004, Nate currently resides in New York City Nate was born in South Bend, Indiana where he spent his early childhood before moving to Colorado with his family at the age of 10. He began studying piano at age six, but then fell in love with the trumpet in the fifth grade after discovering his father's old cornet in the closet ".... it just felt more natural to me. ?After graduating from Evergreen High School he was accepted to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied Jazz performance and composition, and later went on to study classical trumpet and composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nate has recently received awards from the Santa Barbara Arts Fund and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. As a studio musician he has appeared on over sixty different recordings, Nate has made television appearances on ABC's Good Morning America and KTLA's Morning Show, was a featured guest artist with the UCSB Jazz Ensemble in 2002, and has performed at such notable venues as Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood, Yoshi's in Oakland, Dazzle Jazz Club in Denver, Co., and Adagio Jazz Club in Savannah. ?Critics have compared Birkey's subtle vocal and trumpet approach to that of Chet Baker and Miles Davis respectively - a sound poised and assured, powerfully stark and spare, creating an atmosphere at once solitary and electric. |
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Lawrence Cohen: saxophonist, woodwinds
 Lawrence has performed with K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Gary “U.S.” Bonds, and the hit musical, “The Love Janis Show" as well as Princess and Crystal Cruise Lines. A young veteran of New York’s top society and R&B bands, Lawrence is a familiar face at elite parties and night clubs around the globe. He specializes in making parties exciting and joyous events with his soulful, energetic saxophone and woodwind artistry. Lawrence is versed in all musical styles including jazz, pop, Latin, klezmer and simcha styles. He holds degrees in economics and music from Binghamton University and Lehman College respectively. |
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Sean Mahony - Tenor / Trombonist
 Sean has been playing in auditoriums, concert halls, band shells, dance halls, Broadway pits, and Broadway stages since the age of five. From his composing debut at Brooklyn’s PS 8 in kindergarten to playing trombone with the New York Philharmonic and conducting the Rainbow Room Orchestra, Sean has been singing and playing for New Yorkers for over four decades. Sean's performances range from opera and Broadway to swing, contemporary and traditional. He had been heard as Don Ottavio and Ferrando in two Mozart operas with New York Opera Productions. At Rockefeller Center's famed Rainbow Room, he appeared regularly as the bandleader, singing, playing and conducting from 1995 until December 1998 when the Room closed for renovations. He's played at the U.S. Open, Caché, Jack Rose, the Red Blazer Too, the Red Parrot, the Supper Club, and the Hideaway. Sean's demonstrates a broad range of vocal styles: from Irish ballads to the crooning and rhythmically swinging songs of the swing era, a la Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Nat King Cole; from Tony Pastor-like comic vocals, to legit-voice renditions of the songs of such great Broadway composers as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser and Andrew Lloyd Webber; and he flawlessly delivers classical songs, from Andrea Bocelli's "Con Te Partiro," to Mozart arias. In 1986 he was a cast member (a Klezmer musician) in the Broadway musical "Rags," which starred opera diva Teresa Stratas. He has been the featured tenor soloist at several Irish venues, including the annual Irish-American Labor Coalition dinner, for the past ten years. Sean is a product of New York's famed High School of Music and Art. He studied trombone with the great Emory Remington at the Eastman School of Music. In 1987 Sean received a Master's degree from Juilliard School of Music. |
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Lisa Parrott: Saxophones, Clarinet
 Lisa has been leading her own groups since 1989 with Influences ranging from jazz and western classical music, as well as Eastern European folk music, African and Indian music. Lisa first came to New York in 1993, and received two Australia Council for the Arts grants to study in New York with saxophonists/composers Steve Coleman and Lee Konitz. Her career has taken off in NY as a sideperson as well as a leader. Lisa performed at the prestigious Tribute to Mary Lou Williams Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in 2002, which was recorded for broadcast on NPR. She has performed with such great musicians as - Dave Brubeck, Nancy Wilson, Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, Diane Schuur, Gregory Hines, Rachel Z, Cindy Blackman, Gunther Schuller, Clifford Barbaro, Denis Charles, Lea Delaria, Jason Linder’s Big Band, DIVA, Rob Reddy’s Horn Choir, Kit McClure Big Band, the Jimmy Heath Big Band and the Jimmy Dorsey Big Band. She has toured with the best of Australia’s ensembles, including John Pochee’s Ten Part Invention, Paul Grabowsky’s Australia Art Orchestra, Lloyd Swanton’s The Catholics, James Morrison’s Big Band, Mara Kiek Quartet and Jackie Orszacksky. She also has appeared numerous times on television and in magazines including Downbeat, CMJ Music magazine, Billboard, Vogue (Australia), Dolly and Australian Jazz and Blues. |
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