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Willie Myette Jazz Keyboardist, Composer, Author, Teacher Artist Profile There is a way that most people do things. There are trends and styles; common mistakes and Murphy’s Law. However, Berklee College of Music graduate, Willie Myette has been bucking the system for most of his adult life. Shortly after graduating from Berklee in ‘96 with a degree in Film Music, Willie set out to live as a jazz performer. He started by returning home to Rhode Island, where his father had taught him piano. Like those before him and after, he taught to make a steady income. Wanting to teach jazz and improvisation to his students, he looked for materials that mirrored his own free- formed musical upbringing

Album

Step Away

Label: Incline Records
Released: 2004

Album

This is Jazz

Label: JazzKids Records
Released: 2003

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Article: Album Review

Willie Myette Trio: This is Jazz

Read "This is Jazz" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Especially in this world of fragmented formats such as the abominable “smooth jazz," Berklee-trained performer and instructor Willie Myette has chosen an ambitious and even hubric title for his debut album. Though he may not cover all the Basies, and though he may occassionally seem as if his sense of “Jazz" as an entire genre disappeared ...

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Willie Myette:

Read "" reviewed by David Adler


This is the promising debut of Willie Myette, a straight-ahead player based in Providence, Rhode Island. The Berklee- and Fred Hersch-trained pianist offers up seven standards, as well as Oscar Peterson’s “Hymn to Freedom" and an original waltz titled “Ella’s Song" — dedicated not to the first lady of song, but to Myette’s daughter. Joining Myette ...


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