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With his highly regarded discography, unique compositions, and acclaimed performances in a variety of configurations, multiple GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Geoffrey Keezer commands the attention typically reserved for the living legends of jazz. A native of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, holding down the piano chair for Art Blakey at age 18, and touring in the company of Ray Brown, Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Art Farmer, Benny Golson and Barbara Hendricks in his 20s. More recently he has toured with Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Sting, Joe Locke and Christian McBride; produced and arranged three GRAMMY®-nominated recordings with vocalist Denise Donatelli, and released a series of albums drawing influences from Hawaiian, Okinawan and Afro-Peruvian folk traditions

Album

Mezzo

By Tim Garland, Geoffrey Keezer

Label: Tim Garland Music in association with ECN Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: La Fiesta; Gnossienne No.1.; To The One Who Flies; A Prayer At Winter; Carousel; Out Of Towner; Every Time We Say Goodbye; Ghoist In The Photograph; The Waves Between.

Album

In Search Of...

By Virginia MacDonald

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Last Call at Dimitri’s; In Search Of...; Stardust; Retrogression; Up High, Down Low; Hope; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; Eternal Return of the Same.

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Ronnie Cuber: Baritone Boss

by Mark McKergow
September 14, 2026

Ronnie Cuber (1941-2022) made his mark on the jazz world as a versatile and muscular baritone saxophonist. Born in New York on Christmas Day 1941, he started on tenor saxophone but switched to baritone at 17, attracted by the vacant chair in Marshall Brown's Newport Jazz Youth Band (which also featured lifelong colleagues Eddie Gomez and Michael ...

Article: In Pictures

Branford Marsalis Quartet: A Joyous Celebration in Jamaica, Queens

by Dave Kaufman
August 2, 2026

On a beautiful summer afternoon at Rufus King Park in Queens, the Branford Marsalis Quartet turned the Downtown Jamaica Riddim and Jazz Festival (07/26/2026) into a joyous celebration. The quartet is one of the finest working groups in contemporary jazz. Its regular lineup includes Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass, and Justin Faulkner on ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Amanda Tosoff, Gergana Velinova, Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Lolivone de la Rosa, Lisa Rich, Michelle Lordi, Kay Kostopoulos

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 6, 2026

This broadcast includes new music from Amanda Tosoff, Gergana Velinova, Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, Lolivone de la Rosa, Lisa Rich, Michelle Lordi and Kay Kostopoulos, with birthday shoutouts to songwriter Joan Whitney (Far Away Places, Candy), Nancy King, Lauren Kinhan, Gillian Margot, Madeline Eastman, Tierney Sutton, Andrea Miller, Aubrey Johnson and Honorable Man Arturo O'Farrill, ...

Article: Album Review

Virginia MacDonald: In Search Of...

Read "In Search Of..." reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2026

Perhaps one reason that Virginia MacDonald is so hard to track down is that she is a woman who plays jazz clarinet. Do you know of any others? Here are at least two, both of whom are alive and active: New Orleans' Doreen Ketchens and Israeli-American Anat Cohen. Excellent players but several long strides from becoming ...

Article: Play This!

Virginia MacDonald: Last Call at Dimitri's

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 14, 2026

It is rare for a debut album to emerge as a contender for “year-end best-of" listicles. An exception to the rule may well be In Search Of..., the superb debut release by clarinetist Virginia MacDonald. A debut as a leader, that is: before stepping into the spotlight herself, MacDonald had already appeared on some twenty recordings ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's Debut + Steve Bernstein and Carlin Lee

by Hobart Taylor
May 27, 2026

Make way for clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's stunning debut release plus new tunes from Emily Kuhn, Alden Hellmuth, Steve Bernstein and a peace anthem from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Daphne Parker Powell “Perpetual Light of the Void" from The Death of Cool (Self-Produced) 00:00:08 Steven Bernstein “Two ...

Article: Album Review

Tim Garland, Geoffrey Keezer: Mezzo

by Neil Duggan
February 20, 2026

Saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Geoffrey Keezer have collaborated numerous times since their days in Storms/Nocturnes, the trio they formed with Joe Locke in 2001. The duo bring their 25 years of partnership, shared understanding, and experience sharply into focus on Mezzo. The nine-track album was captured live in New York in a single five-hour session. ...