Mike DiRubbo

Mike DiRubbo is a New York alto saxophonist known for a big, bold tone and a hard-swinging style rooted in the bebop tradition. A protege of Jackie McLean, he studied at McLean's jazz program at the Hartt School in Hartford, earning a bachelor's degree in 1992, and moved to New York in 1997. He has worked as a leader and sideman alongside Al Foster, Steve Davis, Cecil Payne, Harold Mabern, Jimmy Cobb, and Joe Farnsworth, and has recorded for the Posi-Tone label. Born in 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut, he has long taught at the Litchfield Jazz Camp, passing on the tradition he absorbed from McLean.