Zaccai Curtis

Zaccai Curtis regularly performs with artists such as: Lakecia Benjamin, Donald Harrison, Cindy Blackman Santana, Eddie Palmieri, the Mambo Legends, and Avery Sharpe among others.

Currently Zaccai is a professor of music at the University of Hartford, Westfield State and URI. Besides being an educator Zaccai authored two books “Art of the Guajeo” and “Theory of the Common Voicing” which are meant to aid students in their Jazz and Latin Jazz education. Zaccai composes and arranges for his own quartet and trio as well as for other artists. In 2017 Curtis became a Chamber Music America: “New Jazz Works” grant recipient. In 2020 Zaccai was voted as the Rising Star in the Critics Poll for Downbeat Magazine.