Results for "Jeff Gardner"

Jeff Gardner

Jeff Gardner was born in New York and moved to Brasil in 2002. After classical piano lessons with Ruth Schontal and Ivan Tcherepnin he studied jazz with Jaki Byard, Charles Banacos, Don Friedman, and John Lewis, and harmony with Nadia Boulanger. He has performed with such musicians as Kenny Wheeler, Gary Peacock, Norma Winstone, Eddie Harris, Steve Lacy, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Sheppard, Rick Margitza, Nelson Veras, Dominique di Piazza, Paulo Moura, Lisa Ono, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Victor Assis Brasil, Dori Caymmi, Karim Ziad, Sheila Jordan, Ron McClure, Drew Gress, Ndugu Chancler, Dave Carpenter, Charlie Mariano, André Ceccarelli, Riccardo del Fra, Hein van de Geyn, Lars Daniellson, Guillermo Anderson, and the piano quartet with Jaki Byard, Martial Solal, and Paul Bley. He has performed as a solo artist or as a leader at: Nice Festival, Paris Jazz Festival, San Rafael Festival, Maison de la Radio France, Jazz D'Or Festival, New Morning, October Jazz Festival in Saint Lucia, German National Radio (Berlin), Jazz a la Plantation Festival and CMAC in Martinique, Centre des Arts (Guadeloupe), Groningen Jazz Days, Bimhuis, Madajazzcar Festival, Lille World Jazz Festival, Birdseye, etc

Alchemy

By Jeff Gardner

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2007
Track listing: Alchemy; Coisa Do Rio; Stories Untold; Line For Tommy Flanagan; Waiting On You; Angel; For Duke & Strayhorn; City At The Bottom Of The Sea; Betwen Our Hearts; Zero Gravity; Dancarina; Maastricht; Selva.

Breath

By Jeff Gardner

Label: Terramar
Released: 2007
Track listing: Jazz Prelude 9; Breath; Rosa; Talk About It; Vals Criollo; Lambran

Jeff Gardner Trio: Breath

by Hrayr Attarian
August 29, 2007

Simplicity and sophistication are not mutually exclusive, especially when it comes to music. Jazz pianist and educator Jeff Gardner's trio disc Breath illustrates the point extremely well. The setting is a pared down, piano-led trio. The tunes are straightforward, mellifluous and serve as launching pads for very sophisticated improvisations. The music, all composed ...

Jeff Gardner: Alchemy

by Martin Gladu
June 19, 2007

The alchemists' esoteric quest of transforming the mundane into the precious and pure, literally such as transmuting base metals into gold, but also figuratively, applies to art and artists as well. For their part, jazz musicians extricate vibrations from instruments to translate feelings and touch peoples' souls. Maybe inspired by the nobler aspirations of the age ...