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Local drummer Chance Reynolds headlines Hooch and Hive’s Jazz Night on Thursday

He leads a St. Pete-based jazz trio alongside Cooper Madden and Eric Zabala.

by Ray Roa May 23, 2024July 26, 2025

If Piebald was a jazz band, it might sound a little like Chance Reynolds.

The young Bay area songwriter and drummer has a deadpan delivery and songs that knock listeners out with their irony and humor. Look for Reynolds & co. to play an anxiety-calming new single, “Weeki Wachee Blues,” plus obscure ‘70s jazz covers like “Mermaid” by British composer Alan Hawkshaw and drummer Brian Bennett alongside vibraphonist Eric Zabala and bassist Cooper Madden.

Ticket’s for Hooch and Hive’s jazz night featuring the Chance Reynolds trio on Thursday, May 30 are still available for $15. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

This article appears in May 23-29, 2024.

Ray RoaEditor-in-chief

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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief... More by Ray Roa