Michael O’Neill began studying music at an early age and now leads several jazz groups in the Bay Area. He was hired to provide a weekly jazz evening at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay starting at their opening and continuing for several years. He also managed a seven-year-plus engagement with his quartet at Cetrella on the coast. He plays frequently at all the leading jazz venues in the Bay Area including Yoshi’s San Francisco and Oakland, the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, and The Jazz School.