Whats new:
7/29/24
Hard to believe it is almost August! It’s been a busy summer, spending a lot of time in my home city of Buffalo NY, with gigs at Pausa Art House, Duende, and this week at the AKG Museum (formerly know as the Albright Knox Art Gallery, which has been running regular jazz performances since the 1960’s). This weekend August 2-4 headed down to Pennsylvania for the Scranton Jazz Festival, performing with Marko Marcinko, John Hart, Ron Oswanski, and Chris Rogers. Also part of the big band backing Joe Lovano on closing night Sunday. Alway great to hear and hang with Joe, one of my favorite jazz musicians.
In late August I’ll be coaching young jazz players at the Suncliff Fine Arts Camp in Derby NY, just south of Buffalo. Likely will also play out at night during that week, gigs will be posted here on this site.
Also looking forward to the completion of a record-at-home project with Gary Lindsay featuring myself on soprano sax (thank you Gary!). Just waiting for Steve Rucker to put his drums on the recording and for Gary to get it mixed and mastered. Beautiful writing as always from Gary Lindsay!
The new edition of the Jazz Chord/Scale Handbook is selling steadily and getting great reviews. It is available exclusively from Gary Keller Music. Click here for a detailed description and endorsements. The new edition features expanded content and revisions reflecting insights gained from my teaching and performing since the original edition was published in 1998. Price is $30 plus postage and handling, can remit via PayPal or Venmo. To order send an email to gary@garykeller.net with your address and preferred payment method. Please be aware that the current book is substantially expanded and revised from the earlier edition on Advance Music, which is out of print and unavailable. Beware discounted used copies of the old edition, which are now showing up online as people replace their original copies!
Some less recent but significant projects:
Fans of my dear friend and mentor Ron Miller will be excited to hear that The Regions Tribute to Ron Miller is now available digitally on Spotify, with other outlets soon to come. Former students of Ron’s have banded together to create an album of some of his iconic tunes, under the direction of producer Jon Gilutin. This pandemic project was done all remotely in our individual home studios and it sounds pretty awesome thanks to Jon’s keyboard and production prowess. These are all new approaches and fresh arrangements on ten great tunes!! My particular contribution was on the tune “Men in White.” Hope you like it.
Brian Lynch’s new big band album The Omni-American Book Club won the Grammy award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording. You can hear me blow alongside Dave Liebman on the 4th track “The Trouble With Elysium.” Crazy chords! The sax section is all Frost alums and my former students, anchored by lead alto Tom Kelley.
Some other places you can check out my playing:
Miami Sax Quartet You Tube channel
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