Dan Pugach
Dan Pugach is a GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer and composer, with three nominations and multiple awards, including the ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award, the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize and the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program at the Kennedy Center.
His latest album, Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence (2024), featuring Nicole Zuraitis, won the 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Additionally, he was the featured drummer on the 2024 GRAMMY® Award-winning album How Love Begins, co-produced by Nicole Zuraitis and Christian McBride. His debut album, Dan Pugach Nonet - Plus One (2018), reached the top 20 in Jazz radio and earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocal for “Jolene” alongside Zuraitis.
Jolene - Nicole Zuraitis, Dan Pugach and his Big Band feat. Nitzan Gavrieli, Alex Norris
The Bridge - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis, Jonathan Saraga
As Long As I Know Where You Are - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis
Little Fears - Dan Pugach Big Band Feat. Nicole Zuraitis
Travel - Dan Pugach Big Band Live at Birdland feat Nicole Zuraitis
Dreams - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis, Pete McCann
Tolerance - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Mike Fahie, Patrick Cornelius
Travel - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis, Jeremy Powell, Stuart Mack
Discourse This! - Dan Pugach Big Band feat. David Smith, Andrew Gould
Recording drums at Power Station
Miss you Most (At Christmas Time) - Dan Pugach Nonet feat. Nicole Zuraitis
Our Blues - Dan Pugach Nonet + Nicole Zuraitis
Say What?! - Oz Noy + Dan Pugach Nonet
Dan Pugach Nonet - My Favorite Things (Rogers & Hammerstein)
Fire On the Bayou/Fly Like an Eagle live at Jazz-Schmiede
Brooklyn Blues - Dan Pugach Nonet @Smalls Jazz Club
Jolene - Dan Pugach Nonet at Blue Note Jazz NYC
"Jolene"/Dolly Parton - Dan Pugach Nonet
"Coming Here"/Dan Pugach Nonet feat. Ingrid Jensen
Belo's Bellow - Dan Pugach Nonet
Sleigh Ride - Dan Pugach Nonet feat. Nicole Zuraitis
Koran Agan Trio at Radegast Hall, Brooklyn NY