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Greg Lewis

New York native, keyboardist Greg Lewis, a highly accomplished mainstay on the city's jazz, blues and funk scenes, who has earned a solid reputation for his versatile work around town in a vast variety of settings, steps out front for the first time on his debut CD Organ Monk. Lewis' sensitive and soulful keyboard playing has made him a favorite among some of the music's finest vocalists - including blues queen Sweet Georgia Brown, jazz and soul songstress, Lezlie Harrison and ex-Brooklyn Funk Essentials singer / songwriter Stephanie McKay — and earned him a featured role on saxophonist Sam Newsome's Groove Project recording 24/7. Now on Organ Monk the spotlight is finally shined on his enormous talents as the leader of his own all-star trio featuring multitalented guitarist Ron Jackson and drummer extraordinaire Cindy Blackman.

Dorota Piotrowska: Jazz With International Voices

by R.J. DeLuke
August 10, 2026

As a child in Poland, Dorota Piotrowska was musical. She played piano and listened to records of music from America that her father was fond of, like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Queen. At age seven her piano studies centered on classical music, as is the case with most kids taking up the instrument. ...

20th Anniversary Concerts

By Ted Unseth

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD--Bennny Waters interview; Ted Unseth welcome; The Way I Feel Today; Wringin’ and Twistin’ Blues; The Man from Harlem; Mood Indigo; Benny Waters talk; Benny Waters talk re: Jabbo Smith; Rhythm in Spain; Toby; Trickeration; Benny’s Blue Waters; Jaybird; Peace and Love for All; Crescendo in Blue; Ted Unseth thanks, Breuker tag; Farewell. DVD—The Creeper; Can You Take It?; Trickeration; Hungry Blues; Lady Be Good; Man from Harlem; Basie’s Boogie; Jaybird; Personnel and Breuker tag.

Ted Unseth and the Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra: 20th Anniversary Concerts

by Jack Bowers
December 14, 2025

The 20th Anniversary Concerts performed by Ted Unseth's Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra were recorded in 1993, when the orchestra's guest artist, alto saxophonist Benny Waters, was a spry 91 years old. And for those who would like to see as well as hear Waters and the orchestra, the audio CD is accompanied by a briefer video ...

Perseverance

By Melvin Smith

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sound for Sore Ears; Karita; Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; A Letter to the Ancestors; Beatitudes-Interlude; One by One; Gettin’ It; Beatrice; Perseverance; Golden; Beatitudes.

Gregory Lewis

Born: November 10

Gregory Lewis, an accomplished mainstay across New York City jazz and blues scenes, is best known for his domination of the Hammond organ and his mastery of the music of the great pianist-composer Thelonious Monk. Growing up as a 70's kid in Long Island City, part of Lewis' societal foundation is deeply rooted in the height of the soul and funk eras. He would eventually fall in love with Monk’s work through his father’s record collection; furthermore, the understandably lasting impression was enough to inspire the young listener to devotedly study the idiosyncratic music for piano

Melvin Smith: Perseverance

by Jack Bowers
April 22, 2023

Perseverance, Florida-bred saxophonist Melvin Smith's seventh album as leader of his own group, is a hard-blowing session on which he shows (again) that he is one of the leading bop-based reed masters on today's scene. On soprano or tenor, Smith displays a clarity of purpose and storehouse of astute phrases that serve him well at any ...

Organ Monk: Uwo In the Black

by Howard Mandel
April 11, 2023

Organ Monk is the inspired--some might say “mad"--project of Brooklyn-based keyboardist Greg Lewis to play the unique compositions of Thelonious Monk as they've never been played before. Lewis throws down Monk's memorable turns of melody and digs into his harmonic insights, mostly at groovin' rhythms, on the Hammond C 3 organ. It's tempting to say Lewis' ...

Greg Lewis' Organ Monk: American Standard

by Howard Mandel
February 18, 2023

Thelonious Monk was an American original, a unique figure of his time and place. So is Greg Lewis, organist at the helm of Organ Monk, which on American Standard expands upon its mission of interpreting Monk's own compositions, just as Monk did himself. American Standard, Organ Monk's third album, takes up classic songs from ...

Gild The Black Lily

By Queen Esther

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Black Cowgirl Song; John the Revelator; The Whiskey Wouldn't Let Me Pray; Oleander; Take It To The Limit; Lonesome Road; This Yearning Thing; Our Dying Day; All That We Are; He Thinks I Still Care; Wishin' On The Cars; I Love You; The Whiskey Wouldn't Let Me Pray.