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Double bills of PocketWatch®, led by pianist Gerry Bryant, followed by The Equanimous Jones Quartet, led by saxophonist Tommy Myers. 

Pianist/Leader: Gerry Bryant

Gerry, Harvard educated, describes his music as “Third Stream”, a term coined in 1957 by world renowned composer/conductor Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre that is a synthesis of classical music and jazz.  Gerry has had extensive classical training since childhood and notes that his musical influences range from classical masters Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, to jazz legends Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington, to contemporary pianists Keith Jarrett and Ramsey Lewis.

Only Time Will Tell

By PocketWatch

Label: CCI Media Studios, Gardena, California
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rise 'n' Fly ; Welcome To This Place ; Motivic Development ; Chocolate Souffle ; Country ; Opus No. 1 in C ; Ode to Joe Sample ; Just Sittin' and Thinkin' ; A Joyful Journey

Gerry Bryant

Born: March 20

Gerry has been described by many as a renaissance man.  Multi-talented Gerry graduated cum laude from both Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard, and received two graduate degrees from UCLA. His musical influences range from classical masters Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff, to jazz legends Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington, to contemporary pianists Keith Jarrett and Ramsey Lewis.  He describes his original music as rhapsodic and “Third Stream”, a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre that is a synthesis of classical music and jazz.  Gerry has had extensive classical training since childhood, then later he began broadening his musical vocabulary by immersing himself in many other musical genres.