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Geoffrey Keezer: Making, And Controlling, His New Music
by R.J. DeLuke
Pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer has been playing piano since age three and has been on the road since 1989 when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers after a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, he's recorded steadily and played with numerous jazz luminaries including Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Christian ...
Wildcrafted: Live at the Dakota
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2005
Track listing: Stompin' at the Savoy; Tea and Watercolors; Koikugari Bushi; Mirrim; Venus as a Boy; The Kindest Soul (for J.W.); Black and Tan Fantasy; Ghost in the Photograph; Breath of the Volcano.
Geoffrey Keezer: Wildcrafted: Live at The Dakota
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, ...
Geoffrey Keezer: Wildcrafted: Live at the Dakota
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 ...
Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Angel Face; Hank
Geoffrey Keezer: Falling Up
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 ...
Geoff Keezer: Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones
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. ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
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 ...
One Day, Forever
By Benny Golson
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.


