Career
Daniel Weidlein is a versatile musician originally hailing from Boulder, Colorado. A recent graduate from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, Weidlein now resides in Los Angeles and works professionally as a saxophonist, composer, producer, singer, and educator. One such jazz recording entitled “Fourteen Channels” on the Tapestry Records label cracked the top 50 on the United States Billboard jazz charts and featured Weidlein’s improvisational work as well as his composition “An Ounce of Hope.”
Weidlein’s own band, The Vintage Modernists, released its debut album “Cityscape” to very positive reviews and can be heard on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else the mouse can click.
His other pursuits include work as a composer where he has written everything from large group jazz pieces to film scores to a recently completed full length musical called “The Grifters.”
Daniel is also a highly regarded music educator in both the Los Angeles and Colorado communities.
Along with teaching privately, he has taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as a Jazz Mentor Fellow, has formerly directed the middle school jazz bands at the Foshay Learning Center in South Central Los Angeles and taught group improvisation classes at the C"s in the Summer jazz camp in Lafayette, Colorado.
