Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

IF YOU LIKE JAZZ THIS IS FOR YOU

Joey Calderazzo (born February 27, 1965 in New Rochelle, New York) is a jazz pianist and brother of musician Gene Calderazzo.

Joseph Dominick Calderazzo began studying classical piano at age eight. His brother, Gene, got him interested in jazz. He studied with Richard Beirach and in the 1980s continued his studies at Berklee College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. At the same time, he was playing professionally with David Liebman and Frank Foster.[1]

At a music clinic he met saxophonist Michael Brecker and became part of his quintet beginning in 1987.[2] In 1990, he signed with Blue Note Records.[1] Brecker produced Calderazzo's first album, In the Door, which featured Jerry Bergonzi and Branford Marsalis, his brother's roommate in Boston. They played on his second album, To Know One, which included Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.[3]

Calderazzo appeared on Brecker's albums Tales from the Hudson and Two Blocks from the Edge as pianist and composer. He played keyboard in Marsalis's Buckshot LeFonque and contributed to his album Music Evolution. When pianist Kenny Kirkland died in 1998, Calderazzo assumed his place in the Branford Marsalis Quartet.[2] In 1999 he recorded Joey Calderazzo with John Patitucci and Jeff 'Tain' Watts.[4] He played on Marsalis's albums Contemporary Jazz, Footsteps of Our Fathers, Romare Bearden Revealed, Eternal and on the DVD Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' Live in Amsterdam. Calderazzo's composition "Hope" appears on Braggtown.

He was one of the first musicians to sign with Marsalis Music, owned by Branford Marsalis. Haiku, his first solo album, appeared in 2002. His album Amanacer featured singer Claudia Acuña and guitarist Romero Lubambo. In 2011, he and Marsalis formed a duo and recorded Songs of Mirth and Melancholy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Calderazzo


Joey Calderazzo Trio / Mikell's (1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCLB_umvIU

Brecker, Metheny, Calderazzo, Holland, DeJohnette- Sling and Arrows (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wRUEjwF9rA

Brecker, Metheny, Calderazzo, Holland, DeJohnette- Sling and Arrows (part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdb7zadFxJo

Joey Calderazzo Trio - Blue In Green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFeBvWxXQTs

Hope - Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQcwPoxKO8

Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo - Eternal (duo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l424_qawF0c

Joey Calderazzo - Dolphin Dance - The Traveler (1993)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBABhpMYb0

Joey Calderazzo - Waltz For Debby (Stockholm 2006)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as3_Qb80KUM

Joey Calderazzo piano solo " my one and only love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYEI20WlNNA

Joey Calderazzo Trio - All Of Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyVoI5CZa3M

Joey Calderazzo Trio "Bye Bye Blackbird" (w/ Antonio Sanchez & Eric Revis) Ueffilo Gioia del Colle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrZBwm9P_Wg

Joey Calderazzo Tokyo Aug,1997

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERmFHWs8hyg

The T***sform Quintet with Joey Calderazzo - The Oracle (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHKEafBTFg

Joey Calderazzo piano solo on Resolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGNkLImBIkQ

Joey Calderazzo Trio Live at Dizzy's 2015 - part1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItm4mJpUz8

Joey Calderazzo Trio Live at Dizzy's 2015 - part2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db_j4XQBiTY

Acoustic Quartet - Bob Berg, Joey Calderazzo, Krzysztof Zawadzki, Andrzej Cudzich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ptavf96_k

Joey Calderazzo Trio play Kobylinski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaCbi7uT0-k

Joey Calderazzo trio - live at Padova Jazz Festival 2016

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqYXKEb5Bpc

Joey Calderazzo - Secrets (1995) - Full album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSl4ChzjJ6Q

Disgusted Veteran

As a musician I find this guy's dissonance and scrambling of otherwise enjoyable melodies to be an insult to the composers of the tunes he is butchering.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

Thanks, I Wouldn't Know... Don D.

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