#geoffrey keezer

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Watch "Sister Moon - Sting feat. David Sanborn | REMOTE SESSIONS" on YouTube

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / My hunger for her explains everything I've done / To howl at the moon the whole night through / And they really don't care if I do / I'd go out of my mind, but for you / Sister Moon

Good night y'all 🌜😴

#Youtube #sting #david sanborn #geoffrey keezer #billy kilson #ben williams #nothing like the sun #music i love #inspired by shakespeare

[jeremyesteban]

Snowfall in Central Park · Storms / Nocturnes.

Geoffrey Keezer, Joe Locke, Tim Garland.

#geoffrey keezer #joe locke #tim garland

[theloniousbach]

FROM THE SMALL’S ARCHIVE: GEOFFREY KEEZER with Gillian Margot and Nicole Glover, MEZZROW’S, 14 JANUARY 2020, 7:30 pm (partial)

I found this gig as a happy detour en route to a duo gig with GEOFFREY KEEZER and Nicole Glover as part of my deeper dive into her work after seeing her with a trio again in November. I am discovering depths and subtleties to go with her being a “tenor bad ass” as Nate Chinen called her. But I still like her power.

I don’t have a full sense of Keezer though he has a fine reputation and I’ve enjoyed his playing. So here he was with a singer too. Gillian Margot has a fine voice and a good jazz sense without the all too typical mannerisms. The stream started in the middle of the set, so the first tune was a jazz setting of Black Is The Color of My True Love’s Hair that was respectful in both directions and all three of them said their piece and talked to one another. Margot spun a second chorus from Glover’s solo. Then was a song with a pop/R&B feel followed by Nat King Cole’s Nature Boy. She sat out for an instrumental that resolved into All Blues before returning for I Want To Be With You for which Glover, Keezer said, “could go to the bar early.” But she didn’t and sat at the first table.

I am giving Margot short shrift as I just don’t have a framework for appreciating what she did. What I do appreciate is the different context she contributed to for Glover who listens intently and does, in her own way, sing. She has always had delicacy, but it was to the fore in this smaller room and quieter ensemble. The All Blues roared but quietly as Keezer’s accompaniment was a parallel and complementary solo. There was a toughness from both of them.

But I’m not much closer to figuring him out. I will get that earlier duo date and keep trying. It’s a pleasant puzzle.

January 2020, nearly four calendar years ago but a lifetime ago. I didn’t know Small’s Live then nor Nicole Glover. It was just another Mezzrow’s gig and yet it felt quaint and innocent.

#concert review #jazz #small’s live #mezzrow’s #from the small’s live archives #2023 #2020

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"Nocturnal Flight" [Brian Landrus: Red List (Palmetto Records, 2022)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5#474 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“Nocturnal Flight” [Brian Landrus: Red List (Palmetto Records, 2022)] Por Pachi Tapiz. JazzX5#474 [Minipodcast de jazz]

“Nocturnal Flight” Brian Landrus Red List: Music Dedicated to the Preservation of Our Endangered Species (Palmetto Records, 2022) Brian Landrus, Ryan Keberle, Geoffrey Keezer, Nir Felder, Rudy Royston, Lonnie Plaxico, John Hadfield, Steve Roach. El tema es una composición de Brian Landrus. ¿Sabías que? “Nocturnal Flight” es el primer single de la nueva grabación de Brian Landrus, que se…

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#Brian Landrus #Geoffrey Keezer #JazzX5 #John Hadfield #Lonnie Plaxico #Minipodcast #Nir Felder #Pachi Tapiz #Palmetto Records #podcast de jazz #Rudy Royston #Ryan Keberle #Steve Roach

[jonjaz]

SNJO ~ Where Rivers Meet

SNJO ~ Where Rivers Meet

‘Where Rivers Meet’ is a celebration of adventurous improvised music and it offers us a fresh window into the works of four departed titans. The composers examined are Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton, and while the spirit of these extraordinary musicians is evoked, this should not be regarded as a retrospective. What the SNJO have achieved is an in-the-moment…

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#Albert Ayler #Anthony Braxton #Dewey Redman #Geoffrey Keezer #Konrad Wiszniewski #Martin Kershaw #Ornette Coleman #Paul Harrison #Paul Towndrow #Scottish National Jazz Orchestra #SNJO #Tommy Smith

[onett199x]

Ingrid Jensen | At Sea

Ingrid Jensen is a jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player probably best-known for her place in some major big bands (including the Maria Schneider Orchestra, DIVA, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society), but she’s also a bandleader as well.  This is one of her most recent albums (albeit not THE most recent), and it features pianist Geoffrey Keezer, drummer/percussionist Jon Wikan, bassist Matt Clohesy, and a couple of solos from guitarist Lage Lund (another Maria Schneider alum).  This album, to me, has the feeling of a lot of albums from the 80s and 90s of being straight-ahead but not really swinging.  It’s not a bad thing, by any means, but albums in this vein do sometimes have a harder time holding my attention.  Jensen, Keezer, and Lund all put some great solos on here.  There are a couple of tracks that feel inspired by some of Miles’s tamer electric experiments, and some of the ‘modern creative’ sound I think could also be attributed to Maria Schneider.  It’s a decent album - I’ll probably check out more of her at some point.

#ingrid jensen #geoffrey keezer #lage lund #jazz #trumpet #music #now playing

[pasionlatinamtl]

He is from Peru. He has been nominated in 2010 for the Grammy for his amazing participation in productions such as: From the Afro-Peruvian-Argentine jazz musical project “AUREA” by Geoffrey Keezer. He performed the rhythmic cajon and percussion part of the composition "Aires de Landó" from the album Sky Blue, winner of the 2008 Grammy Awards. In 2008 he was considered "The Best Latin Jazz Drum Kit Player" by Latin Jazz Corner (USA) and is currently one of the most recognized percussionists in his country, his talent has conquered the international scene. Don't miss this June 12 at 19H to meet a @hugoalcazardrums who has an awesome talents with the drums and percussions! (spanish interview by PasionLatina Montreal (facebook or Youtube channel) · · #interview #music #percussion #jazz #montreal #interviews #musicians #drums #mtl #musician #jazzmusic #mtlmoments #interviewready #musiciansofinstagram #percussionist #jazzmusician #mtlblog #interviewing #talentedmusicians #drummer #jazzclub #montrealmoments #interviewtips #musicianslife #drum #jazzy #montreallife #interviewtime #guitar #percussionensemble (à Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBT4BdAH1Oa/?igshid=weaowj8jl7ve

#interview #music #percussion #jazz #montreal #interviews #musicians #drums #mtl #musician #jazzmusic #mtlmoments #interviewready #musiciansofinstagram #percussionist #jazzmusician #mtlblog #interviewing #talentedmusicians #drummer #jazzclub #montrealmoments #interviewtips #musicianslife #drum #jazzy #montreallife #interviewtime #guitar #percussionensemble

[projazznet]

Tal Wilkenfeld – Transformation

“Wilkenfeld possesses all the requisite chops and uses them to terrific advantage on Transformation, her 2007 debut as a leader, released prior to hitting the road with Beck. As with Beck, she proves herself a potent groove-meister, in this case working hand-in-glove with Keith Carlock, best-known as Steely Dan’s recent drummer of choice, both on the road and on its last release, Everything Must Go (Reprise, 2003). The grooves are rich and visceral on this set of Wilkenfeld originals (one, the beautifully balladic “Truth Be Told,” co-written with Transformation’s keyboardist, the ever-tasteful Geoffrey Keezer), with solo space aplenty and a less restrictive format allowing Carlock greater freedom than in The Dan’s more defined context.” – John Kelman/AllAboutJazz.

#jazz #jazzfusion #fusion #bass #talwinkelfeld

[reviewsphere]

MUSIC REVIEW: Norse Myths

MUSIC REVIEW: Norse Myths ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @SNJO2 @GCHalls @88Keezer @TommySmithMusic #norsemyths

The SNJO brings us Norse Myths – a collaboration between composers Florian Ross, Geoffrey Keezer and Bill Dobbins, and Norwegian jazz musician and composer Øyvind Brække – which pairs Norse mythology and contemporary jazz. Taking centre stage for this concert are European jazz masters Arild Andersen on bass, Paolo Vinaccia on drums and percussion, and SNJO director Tommy Smith on saxophone.

Each…

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#Arild Andersen #Bill Dobbins #Florian Ross #Geoffrey Keezer #Norse Myths #Øyvind Brække #Paolo Vinaccia #Scottish National Jazz Orchestra #Tommy Smith

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La Montaña Rusa #502. Especial Roy Hargrove.

La Montaña Rusa #502. Especial Roy Hargrove.

Número especial monográfico dedicado al trompetista Roy Hargrove que nos dejó a principios de este noviembre, debido a la enfermedad que llevaba padeciendo desde hace años.

Roy fue uno de los llamados “Young Lions”a finales de los 80, una generación de jóvenes talentosísimos músicos de jazz que servían de puente entre la mejor tradición jazzística y las corrientes de jazz más modernas. Además de…

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#Al Foster #Branford Marsalis #Brian Blade #Charles Fambrough #Cyrus Chesnut #Dave Brubeck #David Sanchez #Frank Lacy #Gary Bartz #Geoffrey Keezer #Gerald Clayton #Gregory Hutchinson #Horacio El Negro Fernández #Joe Henderson #John Hicks #John Patitucci #Joshua Redman #Justin Robinson #Lewis Nash #Michael Brecker #Miguel Anga Díaz #Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen #Oscar Peterson #Ralph Moore #RH Factor #Rodney Whitaker #Ron Blake #Roy Hargrove #Russell Malone #Slide Hampton

[mosaicrecords]

Michael Cuscuna: Cruising with Blue Note 2019

Well, this year, I took the plunge and went on the 3rd annual Blue Note Jazz Cruise. Don Was and I were interviewed by Mark Ruffin and the seven-day cruise was full of talks and performances in a number of excellent venues. It was great to meet a lot of Mosaic fans and catch up with old friends, some of whom like Geoffrey Keezer and Billy Kilson I hadn’t seen in decades. And food and wine was wonderful!

-Michael Cuscuna

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#Blue Note Records #Don Was #cruise #Mark Ruffin #classic jazz

[theloniousbach]

THE MILES DAVIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AT SMALL’S LIVE: ALMOST COUCH TOUR FOR THE SECOND SETS

Geoffrey Keezer and RON CARTER, MEZZROW’S, 17 JUNE 2022

GEORGE COLEMAN with Spike Wilner, Peter Washington, and Joe Farnsworth, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 7 JUNE 2022

Of course, I had to see the second sets of these two giants (and there’s a second day of the run for George Coleman with this stellar band having seen them before. Ron Carter was just as elegant in his white suit and magnificent with vibrant playing that also reflected of 60 years of accumulating techniques and ideas. Coleman, by contrast, is quite disheveled with a shirt tail out, in need of a hair cut, and a rather vacant look in his eyes (plus he seems to have taken his upper dentures out during a piano solo and adjusted them). Except he too was vibrant and inventive. As long as there’s music, evidently.

Geoffrey Keezer was a worthy vehicle for delivering the tunes—three of them RON CARTER’S including a reprise of Loose Change from the first set, one of Keezer’s, and two standards (if we begrudgingly call a LeGrand/Bergmann and Bergmann a standard—it was fine, a useful enough vehicle for improvisation, but rather predictable). He’s bright, inventive, and exploratory. They made Mezzrow’s the continuation of the Bradley’s aesthetic and certainly Carter was a more than equal partner. His pulse was impeccable, his lines rich, his embellishments—overtones, including within chords, and slides into deeper notes—graceful and astonishing. Keezer handled the announcements and maybe even selected the tunes, but it was Carter’s gig for all of us watching with delight. And perhaps the person with the best seat to watch the show was sitting on the piano bench who was generally beaming.

GEORGE COLEMAN’s set was hardly elegant—bluesier, less mannered with honks and high register runs, and more catch as can—but no less worthwhile. And, what was clear this time, is that Coleman was in charge, calling arrangements—III-VI turnaround, for example, or changes as he resolved and modulated an ending. He listens irrepressibly, adding comments to the solos of others. He is not an old man playing his solo and sitting out. Well, he is an old man…..and the dentures thing sticks with me. I could only place I’m In The Mood For Love among the standards, though the short torch-y blues was familiar. But it all swung without at all playing it safe and things stretched out. Spike Wilner didn’t just buy the right to play as he is solid. Peter Washington is a big presence on bass with provocative lines. And good old Joe Farnsworth can’t help but swing, but there are smart touches that sneak up on us.

I cut my teeth on those pre-Wayne Shorter Miles Davis Quintet albums, so this felt like what jazz should sound like, comforting but not safe.

#concert review #jazz #small’s live #almost couch tour #Mezzrow’s #2022 #small’s jazz club

[rich4a1]

Geoffrey Keezer & Friends Playdate

Geoffrey Keezer & Friends Playdate

Geoffrey Keezer & Friends Playdate Markeez This is the 23rd album as a leader for acclaimed pianist, composer, and arranger Geoffrey Keezer, who lighthearted calls this session, Playdate. While the term connotes arranging a date for a group of kids to congregate and play, Keezer and his bandmates do anything but approach this far-ranging recording casually. As if the kids were to touch many bases…

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#cd review #jazz #Jazz Review

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Ingrid Jensen & Steve Treseler - Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler (Whirlwind Recordings, 2018) [CD]

Ingrid Jensen & Steve Treseler – Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler (Whirlwind Recordings, 2018) [CD]

Por Carlos Lara.

La trompetista Ingrid Jensen y el saxofonista y clarinetista Steve Teseler rinden un homenaje al gran trompetista Kenny Wheeler del que se acaban de cumplir cuatro años desde su fallecimiento. En Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler se reinterpretan las composiciones de este prolífico músico canadiense, afincado la mayor parte de su vida en Inglaterra.

Kenny Wheeler ha influido a…

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#Carlos Lara #Christine Jensen #Geoffrey Keezer #Ingrid Jensen #Ingrid Jensen - Steve Treseler #Jon Wikan #Katie Jacobson #Kenny Wheeler #Martin Wind #Steve Teseler #Whirlwind Recordings

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USA, NYC: January 10, Kendra Shank: Abbey Lincoln Tribute @ NYC Winter Jazzfest / March 20, 21 @ Kitano & more

KENDRA SHANK: A TRIBUTE TO ABBEY LINCOLN January 10 on NYC Winter Jazzfest:  Zinc Bar - 8:30 pm

Kendra Shank voice

Frank Kimbrough piano    Billy Drewes saxophones

                           Dean Johnson bass    Matt Wilson drums

“Imaginative and daring.” - Steve Futterman, The New Yorker “Kendra Shank is an original; a singer with a sound.” - Abbey Lincoln

Friday, January 10  ~  8:30 pm Zinc Bar: 82 W. 3rd St, New York NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon Tickets - 15% discount code: 2020Friends (includes entry to multiple venues and bands)

  New York vocalist Kendra Shank pays tribute to her friend and mentor Abbey Lincoln(1930 - 2010) in a program of songs composed by the legendary singer, songwriter, actress, poet, civil rights activist, and NEA Jazz Master whose powerful messages of love, struggle, hope, and freedom are timeless and timely. Shank’s CD A Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook (2007, the first Lincoln songbook ever recorded) received a New York Times Critics' Choice, 4 stars in DownBeat, and numerous "Best of the Year" awards, among other accolades. “Her tribute is both reverent and creative, illuminating new possibilities for these songs and shedding new light on their composer” (Larry Blumenfeld,Entertainment Weekly). Shank played guitar on Lincoln’s Over the Years CD and live with her at the Blue Note. "Abbey's songs celebrate the human spirit and address social issues that are relevant to our times," says Kendra, "I'm honored to celebrate her legacy and 90thbirthyear at Winter Jazzfest."  

Audio    Video    Photos Tour dates available in 2020-21 and beyond for “A Tribute To Abbey Lincoln.” A program of varied composers is also available. New CD on Ride Symbol Records anticipated for 2020.  Meet Kendra Shank at APAP & Jazz Congress. CONTACT:  [email protected]   www.kendrashank.com

March 20 & 21 @ Jazz at Kitano: 66 Park Ave, New York City Last Fridays Residency @ 55 Bar: 55 Christopher St, NYC

“A wide open, mind-bending celebration of the human spirit.” -Tom Henry, The Blade

Kendra Shank’s seven CDs have won numerous “Best of the Year” citations, DownBeatpoll recognition, and acclaim for her “delectable voice” (TIME magazine) and “breathtakingly original concept” (Boston Globe). Her career began as a folk singer-guitarist busking in Paris. When her passion turned to jazz, she studied with vocalist Jay Clayton in Seattle and was also mentored by Shirley Horn who co-produced her debut album and showcased her at the Village Vanguard in 1992. Since then Shank has headlined at New York’s Blue Note, Birdland, Jazz Standard, Iridium, and holds an 18-year residency at the 55 Bar. She’s appeared on NPR's JazzSet and Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz and has toured in Europe, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Canada and the U.S. including jazz festivals in Portland, Saratoga, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Vienne, Marciac, Wangaratta, and more. In addition to her 21-year collaboration with Frank Kimbrough and Dean Johnson, Shank has performed and/or recorded with Fred Hersch, Larry Willis, Geoffrey Keezer, Bob Dorough, Jay Clayton, Joe Locke, Gary Bartz, Steve Wilson, Peter Leitch, John Stowell, Ben Monder, Victor Lewis, Matt Wilson, and many others. (Time quote by Terry Teachout; Boston Globe by Andrew Gilbert)

“Very refreshing… a singer who's approaching the music with her voice as an instrument.”

- Dee Dee Bridgewater, DownBeat (blindfold test)

  “Ms. Shank, an emotionally forthright singer, brings care and confidence to her performance. She sounds equally at home with the worldly ache of "Down Here Below" and the percussive clangor of "Throw It Away.” - Nate Chinen, New York Times (Critics' Choice)

  “Skin-peeling, heart-stopping renditions. So much beauty and power here.” - Joseph Blake, Victoria Times Colonist

  “Shank smoothly navigates difficult passages, handles tempo shifts and chord changes without hesitation or vocal misstep, and can swing, sing the blues or shift into a samba sequence while maintaining control and also putting her own imprint on every number.” - Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper

    CONTACT:  [email protected]    www.kendrashank.com

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The Geoffrey Keezer Trio with Guest Vocalist Gillian Margot at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Dec 12th 2018! This will be a very special night...