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Geoffrey Keezer: Wildcrafted: Live at The Dakota

Read "Wildcrafted: Live at The Dakota" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Geoffrey Keezer has established himself as one of the prime pianists of his day. He is adventurous, but adventure does not take him over the precipice. He plays thoughtfully, even as he gives vent to a rush of notes. Imagination and art work in close cleave. This live recording features Keezer originals, a couple of standards, ...

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Geoffrey Keezer: Wildcrafted: Live at the Dakota

Read "Wildcrafted: Live at the Dakota" reviewed by John Kelman


Pianist Geoffrey Keezer's career has consistently delivered on the early promise he displayed when he first emerged on the scene as a precocious nineteen year-old in Art Blakey's last Jazz Messengers. In the past fifteen years he's recorded and/or toured alongside contemporaries Roy Hargrove and Christian McBride, in addition to working with legends like Ray Brown ...

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Falling Up

Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2003
Track listing: Falling Up; Shiny Shell Lullaby

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Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Angel Face; Hank

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Geoffrey Keezer: Falling Up

Read "Falling Up" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Geoffrey Keezer has as a distinction being the penultimate pianist to perform in the Ray Brown Trio before the bassist’s death in 2002. He is a durable stylist with a big orchestral sound that he provided for the late Brown on recordings such as Live at Starbucks and Walk On . Mr. Keezer has also released ...

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Geoff Keezer: Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones

Read "Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Thirty-two-year-old Midwesterner Geoff Keezer was one of the last pianists to work as a part of the Ray Brown Trio. Many writers that I have spoken with feel that he was the quintessential Ray Brown pianist. The late Mr. Brown favored double-fisted orchestral pianists with a jones for the blues but also a strong ballad sensibility. ...

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Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey

Read "Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...

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One Day, Forever

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Day Forever, Blue Walk, Killer Joe, Are You Real?, Sad To Say, Out Of The Past, Blues Alley, Along Came Betty, On Gossamer Wings.

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Meet Duane Eubanks

Read "Meet Duane Eubanks" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Duane Eubanks is the youngest practicing member of yet another one of jazz's famous families, the Eubanks. In fact, the Eubanks family's immersion in music began with Duane's maternal grandmother, who passed on the tradition to Duane's mother, Vera, and to Duane's uncles, Ray and Tommy Bryant. Vera still performs in Philadelphia, and one ...

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Zero One

Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: These Three Words; Venus Is A Boy; Sleepfly; Life On Mars; Footprints; Asadoya Yunta; Fracture; Cybergrrrl; Black And Tan Fantasy; Maple Sugar Rays; Wild Card; Blood Count; Across The Universe; Hibiscus; Letdown/Hypnogong.


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