SPACE COAST JAZZ SOCIETY -
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF LIVE JAZZ!
Sunday, October 11, 2026 | 2-4p
RICHARD DREXLER TRIO
All concerts held at 2:00 PM at:
Brevard Veterans Memorial Center
Grey Hall
400 S Sykes Creek Parkway
Merritt Island, FL 32952
General Admission Tickets Sold At Door.
Bring your own food and drink. Tables, chairs, live jazz,
and a beautiful river view are provided for all shows!
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer Richard Drexler brings a career spanning decades of jazz performance, recording and education. A native of Illinois and based in Florida since 1985, Drexler is equally at home on piano and bass and has worked across a wide range of musical settings. He toured regularly with the Jeff Berlin Trio and has also performed with the Woody Herman Orchestra and trombonist John Allred, while accompanying vocalists including Mel Tormé, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Frankie Laine, Bob Dorough and Mose Allison.
His recording career has been similarly broad. Drexler has performed on or produced more than 100 albums covering styles ranging from jazz and Latin music to avant-garde, country and rock. His long association with bassist Jeff Berlin included appearances on recordings such as Lumpy Jazz and High Standards, alongside drummer Danny Gottlieb. As a leader, Drexler has also explored the meeting point between jazz and classical music, including Señor Juan Brahms, which featured jazz interpretations drawing on the music of Johannes Brahms.
Drexler is also an established jazz educator. He serves as Instructor of Jazz Piano and Jazz Bass at the University of Central Florida, where he works with developing musicians in performance, improvisation, theory and professional preparation. He is also a member of UCF’s Jazz Professors ensemble and has remained active as both a performer and educator in Central Florida.
His musical background draws together jazz, classical and Latin traditions, along with the practical experience of decades spent performing, touring, recording and teaching. In the trio setting, those influences provide Drexler with plenty of room to move between established jazz repertoire, original ideas and arrangements shaped by his experience on both piano and bass.
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JON OXFORD TRIO
Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 2-4p
Guitarist Jon Oxford combines more than two decades of performing and teaching experience with a strong background in jazz composition and education. He currently serves as Director of Instrumental Activity at Eastern Florida State College, overseeing its Concert Band, Jazz Band, Chamber Orchestra and Community Orchestra, and previously taught jazz at Stetson University.
As a freelance guitarist, Oxford has performed with a wide range of ensembles and artists, including Sam Rivers’ Rejuvenation. He is also the author of “The Organized Guitarist” and “Rhythmic Elements of the Jazz Language,” reflecting a career devoted to jazz performance, scholarship and education.
VOCALIST MADDY WINER
Sunday, December 13, 2026 | 2-4p
The Space Coast Jazz Society celebrates the holiday season with vocalist Maddy Winer, whose career has been shaped by the Great American Songbook, jazz standards and classic popular music. Winer performed extensively with pianist and composer Loonis McGlohon, including a sold-out concert at Lincoln Center, and appeared in the touring production “North Carolina Is My Home” with McGlohon and Charles Kuralt.
Her career has included performances at Lincoln Center, the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, the Saint Louis Symphony and Toronto’s Saint Lawrence Centre for the Arts. She has also opened concerts for artists including Dave Brubeck, Lou Rawls, David Sanborn, George Shearing, Al Jarreau, Ellis Marsalis, John Pizzarelli and Diane Schuur.
The holiday concert includes decorations and a complimentary glass of wine.
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