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Jeff Pittson represents a dynamic force in the world of jazz having performed with such important figures as Joe Henderson, Ruth Brown, Eddie Henderson, John Handy, Jack Walrath, Mike Clark, Maynard Ferguson, Larry Coryell, Kenny Garrett, and many more. A virtuoso performer on piano and Moog synthesizer, he is also fluent on a wide spectrum of keyboards including Hammond B-3. As a composer, Mr. Pittson wrote and performed on the soundtrack for the documentary film Ann Calvello: Demon of the Derby, making it’s debut at the San Francisco Film Festival in 2000. His classical piano work, The Dietrich Variations, made its debut under the auspices of the Redding Ballet in 2003. Such gifted artists as Billy Childs, Chris Potter, Harvie S and Paul Jackson have performed and recorded his jazz compositions and he has appeared on CD along side of such distinguished artists as Herbie Hancock, Alphonse Mouzon, and Bennie Maupin.
Emerge Dancing
Label: Vineland Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Blackbird; Everything I Love; The Secret Life of Plants; It All Goes 'Round and 'Round; Blues and the Abstract Truth;
You've Got a Friend; I Get Sentimental Over Nothing; Never Never Land; Without a Song; Love's the Thing (Frame for
the Blues); Something More; What Can I Do?
Suzanne Pittson: Emerge Dancing
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Emerge Dancing is a fascinatingly intriguing album from New York vocalist (and pianist/composer) Suzanne Pittson and her husband, pianist Jeff Pittson. Primarily a duo album, the pair is joined on a trio of tracks by their son, violist Evan Pittson. Team Pittson has delivered a buffet of jazz, pop, rare-find and well-known standard fare that emerges ...
Awake
By Jeff Pittson
Label: Vineland
Released: 2022
Track listing: Amaya; Roads Less Taken; Promenade I; Blue Notion; Arhat; Goin' Somewhere; John Fahey's Blues; Farewell; Memories
in a Photo; I'm Yours; Promenade II; Roy Batty; Silent Grotto; Awake; Primordial
Modern Artifact
By Jeff Pittson
Label: Vineland
Released: 2021
Track listing: Solar: Blue Skies; Just in Time; The Face of Love; Out of Nowhere; Zoyd; Everything Happens to Me; I'll Follow the Sun;
Ruby
The Dietrich Variations
By Jeff Pittson
Label: Vineland
Released: 2018
Track listing: Theme: Falling in Love Again (Can't Help it); Lonesome Love; Westworld; Exile Rhapsody; Hamburg; Mysterium; Night
Intervals; Watercolors; Bodhi Tree Satti; Third Eye; Running Man; Eight Winds; Preludium; Inventio; Pianola Duo; Opus
Posthuma; Love Lost Tango; Tears In The Rain; Les Six; Majorca; The View From Manhattan; Leningrad; Shiva; Etude In
Fifths; Microdensities; Endlessly Rising; Fantasies; Flying Dutchman; The Starry Sky; Fanfare; Fin De Siecle; Reductio;
Coda
Friends, Colleagues And Students To Celebrate Janet Lawson In NYC on May 15th
Friends, current and former students, and many of the incredible musicians she has collaborated with over the years will gather on Monday, May 15th 2017 from 7 to 10pm at the extraordinary Minnie Petrie Synagogue at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 West 4th St. (near Broadway) in New York City, to offer a ...
Mike Clark: East Bay Funk
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]I remember the first time I heard the classic Herbie Hancock album Thrust (Columbia, 1974). It was on the radio, if you can believe it. The song “Actual Proof" burned into my brain: I had been a fan of Herbie's, especially of ...
Out of the Hub: The Music of Freddie Hubbard
Label: Vineland
Released: 2011
Track listing: Our Own (Gibraltar); Up Jumped Spring; Out of the Hub (One of Another Kind); Bright Sun (Lament for Booker); True
Visions (True Colors); You're My Everything; We're Having a Crisis; Moment to Moment; Lost and Found (The Melting
Pot); Like a Byrd (Byrd Like); Betcha by Golly, Wow!
Elli Fordyce Quartet Back by Popular Demand at Garage
On August 7th from 11:30am to 3:30pm, the Elli Fordyce Quartet, featuring Jeff Pittson on piano, Ratzo B. Harris on bass, Phil Stewart on drums, with Elli doing the vocals, will return for another great Greenwich Village Jazz Brunch. Expect a wonderful experience, surprises and a kicking straight-ahead jazz concert with your brunch, coffee or drinks, ...
