Jerry Weiss - Piano & Keyboard
Jerry
has been into music since his grandmother gave him a 78 rpm record at age 6. His
musical interests are wide ranging - playing just about anything he could get
his hands on over the years including piano, clarinet, sax, flute, digeridoo,
bass guitar, and guitar – with jazz piano being his favorite expressive medium.
He counts Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Bill Evans as his primary jazz-piano
influences. Jerry has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Lamont School of
Music where, under a scholarship grant, he studied jazz piano with Eric Gunnison
and jazz composition and arranging with Dave Hanson. His compositions have been
recognized by concert-selection and awards. Jerry is an in-demand freelance
musician and plays regularly with many local groups including : Max Wagner,
Deborah Stafford, Mellani Day and Dazed, Kevin Karrick and Swing Essence, Andrew
Vogt and Cadillac Jazz, Janine Gastineau, Wonavaqind Quintet, Lewis/Church
Quintet, The Usual Suspects; and has played with John Hines Quartet, Flatirons
Jazz, Fusion Juice, the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, Colorado Jazz Workshop, Ron
Ivory's One on One, Balance-Smooth Jazz, Donna Wickham Trio, Linda Styles Band,
Coal'd Fusion, and Pau Brazil. He is the leader of the Peneplain Jazz
Project, and has worked with internationally known artists Greg Abate and
Marguerritte Jeunemann (of Rare Silk) and opened for Maynard Ferguson and Eddie
Palmieri. .
Jerry
has been into music since his grandmother gave him a 78 rpm record at age 6. His
musical interests are wide ranging - playing just about anything he could get
his hands on over the years including piano, clarinet, sax, flute, digeridoo,
bass guitar, and guitar – with jazz piano being his favorite expressive medium.
He counts Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Bill Evans as his primary jazz-piano
influences. Jerry has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Lamont School of
Music where, under a scholarship grant, he studied jazz piano with Eric Gunnison
and jazz composition and arranging with Dave Hanson. His compositions have been
recognized by concert-selection and awards. Jerry is an in-demand freelance
musician and plays regularly with many local groups including : Max Wagner,
Deborah Stafford, Mellani Day and Dazed, Kevin Karrick and Swing Essence, Andrew
Vogt and Cadillac Jazz, Janine Gastineau, Wonavaqind Quintet, Lewis/Church
Quintet, The Usual Suspects; and has played with John Hines Quartet, Flatirons
Jazz, Fusion Juice, the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, Colorado Jazz Workshop, Ron
Ivory's One on One, Balance-Smooth Jazz, Donna Wickham Trio, Linda Styles Band,
Coal'd Fusion, and Pau Brazil. He is the leader of the Peneplain Jazz
Project, and has worked with internationally known artists Greg Abate and
Marguerritte Jeunemann (of Rare Silk) and opened for Maynard Ferguson and Eddie
Palmieri. .
