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Keith Ganz

Keith Ganz is a guitarist/composer/arranger living just outside of New York City. He has performed at the Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, Avery Fisher Hall, and Joe’s Pub, as well as Spoleto Festival USA and the Frogen Festival in Olso. In addition to his own solo guitar recording Music for People, Keith has performed on recent/upcoming releases from such diverse artists as jazz singer Kate McGarry, bassist/composer Sean Smith, singer/songwriter Amanda Baisinger, folk siren Devon Sproule, the free improve troupe Ensemble Gergana, and the folk/jazz/rock collective TLAB, as well as various mainstream jazz artists.

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Album Review

Ellie Martin: Verdant

Read "Verdant" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


There is no time like the present to fulfill your dreams. The hands we are dealt often have a way of making that clear, as vocalist, composer and educator Ellie Martin knows all too well. After receiving a cancer diagnosis, beating the disease, starting a family and finding joy in watching her children bask in the beauty of their present, she realized that practicing carpe diem was the only proper way to carry on. So Martin did what she needed ...

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Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What to Wear in the Dark

Read "What to Wear in the Dark" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Being taken for granted is the greatest tribute and worst slight to any artist. Kate McGarry has made music that brilliantly colors outside the lines since her release, Show Me (Palmetto Records) in 2003 (there was a 1992 standards release, Easy To Love (Vital Records) that is out-of-print). Her career has provided five provocatively thoughtful and inventive recordings between that release and 2018's The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records). Listeners have come to expect something a little different from ...

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Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What to Wear in the Dark

Read "What to Wear in the Dark" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Let us start with a nod to Steely Dan, the rock/jazz group headed up by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a pair of tunesmiths who hit a career zenith in the early 1970s with albums like Can't Buy A Thrill (1972), Countdown To Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974) and Aja (1974), all on ABC Records. The group drew in top jazz artists to help craft their albums—saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Tom Scott, guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour, drummers Steve ...

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Keith Ganz and Sean Smith: A Wish For A Wish To Come True

Read "A Wish For A Wish To Come True" reviewed by Jim Josselyn


This recording, with its soft acoustic guitar and bass, reminds me, in mood and tempo, of the recording that Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny made a few years back. The disc opens with guitarist Keith Ganz’s title track, a soft, pretty ballad with a memorable melody and pretty changes. Bill Evans’ “Time Remembered" is similar in tempo and mood, as is Ganz’s “Or, As The French Say...", as is the Dietz/Schwartz standard, “Alone Together", which is played, interestingly enough, without ...

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Performance / Tour

Keith Ganz/Steve Cardenas Quartet Thursday September 21 at Cornelia Street Cafe

Keith Ganz/Steve Cardenas Quartet Thursday September 21 at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street NYC, New York 212-989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F, V to West 4th St

KEITH GANZ/STEVE CARDENAS QUARTET Thursday September 21, 8:30PM

Keith Ganz, guitar; Steve Cardenas, guitar; Sean Smith, bass; Vito Lesczak , drums

You may have heard Steve Cardenas (Charlie Haden, Paul Motian) and Keith ...

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Keith Ganz Quintet featuring Donny McCaslin at 55 Bar Sept 5th

Keith Ganz Quintet featuring Donny McCaslin at 55 Bar Sept 5th

Source: All About Jazz


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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Verdant

Self Produced
2023

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Time Traveler

Origin Records
2021

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What to Wear in the...

Resilience Music Alliance
2021

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Music For People

Unknown label
2005

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Time Traveler

From: Time Traveler
By Keith Ganz

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