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About Danny Grissett

Instrument: Piano

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Originally from Los Angeles, California, pianist/composer Danny Grissett is a relatively new addition to the New York jazz scene. He started playing the piano at age five, and began studying classically when he turned six. Danny continued his classical training through high school and college, earning his B.A. in Music Education in 1998, while developing a love for jazz along the way. He further explored his love for jazz in graduate school, earning his M.F.A in Jazz Performance from Cal Arts in 2000, and completing studies at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute in 2001. There he studied with jazz masters such as Barry Harris, Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, Jimmy Heath and Carl Allen. Also during this time he began to establish himself on the LA Jazz scene with the guidance of one of his mentors, drummer Billy Higgins

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Finesse

By Jim Rotondi

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ruth; Dark Blue; Lady Bug; Designated Hitter; Falset; Before Curtis; For Curtis; Going To The Sun; Prelude For 14 Strings and Flute; Interlude; In Graz; Happy Feet; Miller Time.

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Bernstein in Vienna

By Peter Erskine

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Somewhere; I Feel Pretty; It’s Love; Viennese Summer; Lonely Town; Calls and Hollers; Some Other Time; Cool.

Article: Album Review

Jim Rotondi: Finesse

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2024

Finesse is trumpeter Jim Rotondi's ninth recording as a leader but his first using a full orchestra including strings. The band and string section are from Austria, where Rotondi presently lives, performs, and teaches, and each one is quite good. As for Rotondi, besides playing superb trumpet--open or muted--he wrote every song on the album save ...

Article: Album Review

Nikos Chatzitsakos: Tiny Big Band 2

Read "Tiny Big Band 2" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2024

Cleaving to the premise that one Tiny Big Band deserves another, bassist Nikos Chatzitsakos is back with Tiny Big Band 2, the second album by his feisty nonet and a follow-up to the well-received Tiny Big Band! (self-produced), recorded in 2022. This time, Chatzitsakos uses two vocalists instead of one, rotating them on ...

Song of the Day

Somewhere

January 15, 2024

Album: Bernstein in Vienna
By Peter Erskine
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:33

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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles

By Theo Croker

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pinocchio/Milestones; Footprints; My Funny Valentine; So What; Miles Ahead Suite; Sketches of Spain Suite; Porgy and Bess Suite; All Blues.