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Denny Zeitlin has recorded over thirty critically acclaimed albums; twice won first place in the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll; written original music for Sesame Street; and appeared on network TV, including repeats on the Tonight Show, and CBS Sunday Morning. Zeitlin’s lecture- demonstration “Unlocking the Creative Impulse: The Psychology of Improvisation” has been presented across the U.S. and in Europe. He has concertized throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Europe, at colleges, jazz clubs, and major festivals; appearing with jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Tony Williams, Bobby Hutcherson, John Patitucci, John Abercrombie, Marian McPartland, Charlie Haden, David Grisman, Kronos Quartet, Paul Winter, David Friesen, Matt Wilson, Buster Williams and many others. Zeitlin was born in Chicago in 1938
With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Falling In Love with Love; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; He Was Too Good To
Me; Johnny One Note; Wait Till You See Her; Ev'rything I've Got; This Nearly Was
Mine; Have You Met Miss Jones; I Have Dreamed; Happy Talk; With A Song In My
Heart.
Bill Evans Trio: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)
by Mark Corroto
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, a barrier many believed human beings could never break. Today, any elite miler can run that time, which makes Bannister's accomplishment harder for modern sports fans to fully appreciate. Something similar happens when listening to pianist Bill Evans' two Riverside studio sessions, Portrait in Jazz ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Dan McClenaghan
The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025. Andrew HillA Beautiful Day, Revisited Palmetto ...
Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers
by Dan McClenaghan
Musical memories from childhood have a way of sticking. For some, it might be an encounter with Beethoven from a dusty stack of old albums packed away in the parental record collection. For others, it might be the (then, 1954) modern surge of Bill Haley and the Comets shaking, rattling and rolling into the kitchen to ...
Denny Zeitlin: With a Song in My Heart
Pianist Denny Zeitlin's very first recording was for Columbia in 1963, as a sideman on Jeremy Steig's Flute Fever. His first trio leadership album, Cathexis, came next for Columbia in February 1964, with Cecil McBee on bass and Freddie Waits on drums. Carnival followed in October, with Charlie Haden on bass and Jerry Granelli on drums. ...
Denny Zeitlin: With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers
by Pierre Giroux
Richard Rodgers' melodic genius has long been a favoured playground for jazz musicians, but few reimagine his work with the intellectual depth and intuitive poetry of pianist Denny Zeitlin. On With A Song In My Heart, Zeitlin offers a riveting solo piano exploration of eleven Rodgers classics, combining architectural reharmonization, rhythmic invention and unflinching emotional insight. ...
Panoply
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: I Was Doing All Right; Excursion; Only One; Ambush; Music Box; Cherokee; Regret; Weirdo; A
Raft, A River; Limburger Pie and Beeswax Crust; I Should Care; Johnny Come Lately.
Pierre Giroux's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Pierre Giroux
These recordings showcase a remarkable range of artistry, from innovative compositions to heartfelt tributes. They celebrate the genre's vibrant evolution while honouring its deep traditions. They offer a tapestry of sounds that redefine boundaries and affirm jazz as a timeless and ever-relevant musical force. Roger KellawayLive At Mezzrow Cellar Music Group ...
Denny Zeitlin: Panoply
by Dan McClenaghan
There was a Steinway in the Zeitlin household in the outskirts of Chicago in the early 1940s. During this time Denny Zeitlin would find his way to the piano playing parental laps and sit at the keyboard, where he, he says: “I would put my little hands on their hands and go along for the ride...and ...
