David Kikoski

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David Kikoski, July 2001

David James "Dave" Kikoski (born September 29, 1961 in New Brunswick ) is an American jazz pianist and keyboard player .

Live and act

Dave Kikoski learned to play the piano from his father. As a teenager he played in bars with his father. In the early 1980s, Kikoski studied at Berklee College of Music . In 1985 he went to New York City and toured mainly with Roy Haynes (from 1986), Randy Brecker (1986-88), Bob Berg (1988) and Billy Hart (1989). He also played with George Garzone , Barry Finnerty , Red Rodney , Craig Handy , Ralph Moore , Didier Lockwood , Joe Locke and the Mingus Big Band . At the beginning of 2011, Kikoski will play again with Randy Brecker and his wife, the saxophonist Ada Rovati, Dave de la Spina and Adam Nussbaum . Kikoski occasionally tries his hand at the alto saxophone .

Since 1989, Kikoski has recorded a number of albums for the Criss Cross Jazz and DIW Records label , on which musicians such as Seamus Blake , Scott Colley , Larry Grenadier , John Patitucci and Jeff Tain Watts played.

Discographic notes

  • Presage ( Freelance Records , 1989)
  • Inner Trust (Criss Cross, 1998)
  • Almost Twilight (Criss Cross, 2000)
  • Surf's Up (Criss Cross, 2001)
  • Comfortable Strange (DIW, 2002)
  • Combinations (Criss Cross, 2002)
  • Details (Criss Cross, 2004)
  • Limits (Criss Cross, 2006)
  • Mostly Standards (Criss Cross, 2009)
  • Live At Smalls (SmallsLive, 2010)
  • Consequences (Criss Cross, 2012)
  • Phoenix Rising (HighNote, 2019)

credentials

Remarks

  1. ^ To Kunzler Jazzlexikon in Milltown, New Jersey