Jazz Articles about Sam Reider

Sam Reider: Petrichor

by Mark Corroto
July 6, 2022

There is something very George Gershwin-like about Petrichor from pianist Sam Reider. He recorded this solo session after moving back to the Bay area from New York where he studied at Columbia University and did a deep dive into American folk music. Like Gershwin, his playing is informed by not only jazz, but classical and popular music. Maybe his interests in bluegrass and Americana explains why the sound is situated sixty to eighty years ago, when jazz evolved from Tin ...