Mike Holober

[citation needed] After working with baritone saxophonist Nick Brignola in the late 1990s, he formed The Mike Holober Quintet,[1] featuring original compositions and arrangements performed by Tim Ries (saxophone), Wolfgang Muthspiel (guitar), Brian Blade (drums), and Scott Colley and John Patitucci (bass).

Other featured artists on Hiding Out include Billy Drewes, Jason Rigby, Scott Wendholt, Adam Kolker, Jon Gordon, Steve Cardenas, and Jesse Lewis.

Holober is a 2017-18 recipient of a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant for Don't Let Go, a song-cycle in the tradition of Robert Schumann, Samuel Barber, and Ralph Vaughn-Williams, and premiered at Symphony Space (The Leonard Nimoy Thalia) in June 2018.

Holober also served as conductor, artistic director, and lead arranger for WJO's 2011 release, Maiden Voyage Suite, a reworking of Herbie Hancock's 1965 Blue Note recording.

With the WDR Big Band (WestDeutsche Rundfunk - Cologne, Germany) he has written and conducted projects for Avishai Cohen and Eli Degibri,[17] and for drummer Al Foster.