" data-original-title="" title="">Jeremy Steigs' Flute Fever (Columbia Records). He was in his third year at Johns Hopkins Medical School at the time, on a path to dual careers in psychiatry and eventually the teaching of that profession—vocations he continues with to this day.

Add a third career, jazz pianist. And Denny Zeitlin doesn't dabble. His music is a third career, equal in personal importance to his more conventional occupations. He recorded four more albums under his own name for Columbia between 1964 and 1966. From there Zeitlin moved to smaller labels, maintaining a consistent album release schedule, including an early foray into electronic music—when the means for operating in the genre were relatively rudimentary—and recording a marvelous electro-orchestral soundtrack to the 1978 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Zeitlin's relationship with Sunnyside Records, beginning in 2009, was and continues to be a fortuitous and fruitful one. The first album in the pianist's Sunnyside relationship documenting the Denny Zeitlin/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson trio was Denny Zeitlin In Concert, Featuring Buster Williams and Matt Wilson (2009)—the first having been Slickrock (MAXJAZZ, 2004). He then moved into an album a year schedule at the label that continues to this day, with solo, trio and electro-acoustic offerings of the highest caliber.

Which brings us to Live At Mezzrow, featuring, once again, bassist