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With his highly regarded discography, unique compositions, and acclaimed performances in a variety of configurations, multiple GRAMMY?-nominated pianist Geoffrey Keezer commands the attention typically reserved for the living legends of jazz. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, holding down the piano chair for Art Blakey at age 18, and touring in the company of Ray Brown, Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Art Farmer, Benny Golson and Barbara Hendricks in his 20s. More recently he has toured with Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Sting, Joe Locke and Christian McBride; produced and arranged three GRAMMY?-nominated recordings with vocalist Denise Donatelli, and released a series of albums drawing influences from Hawaiian, Okinawan and Afro-Peruvian folk traditions
The Parts You Keep
By Mike Pope
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Misgivings; Steeplechase; Giant Steps; Dashan’s Flying Ubercar; That Old Feeling; Barolo Blue; Past is Prologue;
The Parts You Keep; Winterreigen, Op. 13: V. Sph?renmusik.
Flow
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: ST in The House; New Girl; Grand Seiko; Cardboard; Financier; The Rodfather; Recife's Blues; Not the Norm; Love's
Lament;
Entitlement; Haru No Kaze.
City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Disc 1 (Trio): Willow Walks In; City Life; Danger Zone; Movie Theme; Sweet Georgia
Gillespie; Double Bill;
Claxilever; Catalyst; Say Whaaat!?; Movie Theme (Reprise).
Disc 2 (Quintet): Tea Time; The Classic II; Grave Concerns; Mr. Hurt; Rainy Afternoon;
Enigma; Skittles;
Blues for Herb; Lafayette Square.
Barolo Blue
Album: The Parts You Keep
By Mike Pope
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:33
Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep
by Jack Bowers
You have to admire a bandleader who enhances an album by dedicating one of his compositions to an Uber driver and inviting his 85-year-old mother to play piano on the last two numbers. That is exactly what bassist Mike Pope does on The Parts You Keep, and they are two of the recording's more pleasing episodes. ...
Movie Theme
Album: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
By Michael Dease
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:53
Benny Benack III, Sumi Tonooka, Tessa Souter, Jane Ira Bloom, The Hot Toddies Jazz Band, Victoria Cardona, The Beveled Edges & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from The Beveled Edges, Benny Benack III, Sumi Tonooka, Tessa Souter, Jane Ira Bloom, The Hot Toddies Jazz Band and Victoria Cardona, with birthday shoutouts to Joan Whitney (Candy, Far Away Places), Gillian Margot, Sasha Berliner, Lauren Kinhan and Lisa Rich, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you ...
Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Rauch
Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill is on a remarkable roll, authoring an impressive run of compositions represented on eight albums released on the Origin Records label. Each has featured a bandleader associated with the top shelf staff at Rodney Whitaker's jazz program at Michigan State University. City Life (2025) is the third under the leadership of trombone ...
Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
by Dan McClenaghan
Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone--see Sonny Rollins' blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West--the music flows freely. The players do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of ...
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