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Introducing Pianist Tyler Bullock

Tyler is a natural born leader. I'm very thankful for being a part of his earlier career at NYO.
Sean Jones
Tyler Bullock
pianoLori Mechem, Founder and Director of Education at NJW, remembered that Bullock "was so curious and eager to learn. No matter what song I would give him, he would come back with it memorized and playing it very well! He became our "house pianist"meaning that he went through all of the ensemble classes. Tyler was awarded with the

Billy Strayhorn
piano1915 - 1967

Sean Jones
trumpetb.1978
On Sunday, February 4, Jones led an NYO All-Star Quartet at a Carnegie Hall "Well Being" concert featuring Bullock on piano,

Ryoma Takenaga
bass
An important mentor to Bullock in his freshman year at Juilliard was alto saxophonist

Bruce Williams
saxophone
Roy Hargrove
trumpet1969 - 2018

Willie Jones III
drumsb.1968

Alvester Garnett
drumsb.1970

Joe Farnsworth
drumsb.1968

Saul ZebulonRubin
guitarb.1958

Stanley Cowell
piano1941 - 2020
Currently, the 20-year-old Bullock is in his third year at Juilliard. "When I was in my junior year of high school," he recalled, "we came up to New York to look at some schools. I took a lesson with the late

Frank Kimbrough
piano1956 - 2020
Bullock plans to stay in New York after he graduates from Juilliard in 2025 and has already played four times at Mezzrow in Greenwich Village. When he first started playing piano the artists who inspired him were

Oscar Peterson
piano1925 - 2007

Bill Evans
piano1929 - 1980

Herbie Hancock
pianob.1940

Bud Powell
piano1924 - 1966

Art Tatum
piano1909 - 1956

Phineas Newborn, Jr.
piano1931 - 1989
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