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Geoff Keezer: Zero One
by C. Michael Bailey
Geoff Keezer was the last pianist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, performing between 1988 and 1990. At age 17 he showed himself a capable hard bop pianist whose performance personality echoes that of Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, and more recently, Benny Green. Since the demise of Blakey, Keezer has logged time for Sunnyside, Blue Note, DIW/Columbia ...
Tenor Legacy
By Benny Golson
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lester Leaps In (for Lester Young); Body and Soul (for Coleman Hawkins); St. Thomas
(for Sonny Rollins); Cry Me a
River (for Dexter Gordon); My Favorite Things (for John Coltrane); Whisper Not (for
Benny Golson); The Girl from
Ipanema (for Stan Getz); My Old Flame (for Zoot Sims); Lover Come Back to Me (for
Ben Webster); In Memory Of (for
Don Byas).
The Jazz Messengers: The Legacy Of Art Blakey
By Benny Golson
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: One by One; A La Mode; Whisper Not; Oh, By the Way; Plexus; Blues March.
Geoff Keezer: Turn Up The Quiet
by John Sharpe
Turn Up The Quiet is an eclectic mix of standards, pop tunes and even, Japanese folk songs. Keezer hooks up with hot-shot sidemen Christian McBride (bass) and Joshua Redman (tenor) on three tracks, adds vocalist Diana Krall on three and goes it alone on three more. Krall's sultry, smoky rendition of The Nearness Of You, enhanced ...
