Denny Zeitlin

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Denny Zeitlin (2000)

Denny Zeitlin (* 10. April 1938 in Chicago , Illinois as Dennis Jay Zeitlin ) is an American jazz pianist and doctor. Although he is not a full-time jazz musician, he “set standards in jazz with his tastefully balanced hybrids between tradition and modernity, strength and spirituality, process and form.”

Live and act

Zeitlin's parents both played the piano; he began playing the piano at the age of two and had music lessons from 1944 to 1952. He learned from Billy Taylor and George Russell , among others . In 1960 he toured Europe with Oscar Pettiford . He financed his medical studies at Johns Hopkins University through his jazz activities. In 1963 he made his record debut on the LP Flute Fever by flautist Jeremy Steig . After receiving his doctorate in 1964, he worked as a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in San Francisco . He also played with his own trio in 1964, which included Charlie Haden and Jerry Granelli , and appeared in 1965 at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival . From 1968 he appeared in the fusion context. From the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, he withdrew from the public eye.

In 1978 he wrote the score for Philip Kaufman's science fiction drama " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " with Donald Sutherland , Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy ; he has also composed music for Sesame Street . Since then he has given concerts as a jazz musician primarily on the west coast of the USA , for example in a trio with Peter Donald . He has also played with Herbie Hancock , Pat Metheny , David Grisman , Paul Winter , Joe Henderson and Buster Williams . His style is somewhere between Bill Evans , who took over his composition "Quiet Now", Lennie Tristano and Bud Powell .

He teaches as a psychiatrist at the University of California . With his presentation Unlocking the Creative Impulse: the Psychology of Improvisation , with which he also toured in Europe, he connects his different interests.

Discographic notes

  • Cathexis (1964, Columbia CL 2182, with Cecil McBee and Freddie Waits )
  • Carnival (1964, Columbia CL 2340)
  • Shining Hour - Live At the Trident (1965, Columbia CL 2463 / CBS BPG 62790)
  • Zeitgeist (1967, Columbia CL 2748)
  • Expansion (1967/1970) Double Helix DHLP1 / 1750 Arch 1758
  • Syzygy (1977, 1750 Arch 1759)
  • Soundings (1978, 1750 Arch 1770, solo)
  • Time Remembers One Time Once (1983, ECM 1239, with Charlie Haden)
  • Tidal Wave (1984, Palo Alto PA8044-N)
  • Homecoming (1986, Living Music LM0011)
  • Trio (1988, Windham Hill WH-0112; also released on CD)
  • Live At Maybeck Recital Hall (1993; Concord Jazz CCD4572)
  • Live At Maybeck Recital Hall: Duo Series (1995, Concord Jazz CCD4639, with David Friesen )
  • As Long As There's Music (1998, Venus (J) TKJV-19067)
  • Live At the Jazz Bakery (1999, Intuition INT3257-2, with David Friesen)
  • Labyrinth (2011)
  • Both / And ( Sunnyside , 2013)
  • Early Wayne (2016) solo
  • Solo Piano: Remembering Miles (2019)
  • Live at Mezzrow (2020), with Buster Williams and Matt Wilson

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Kampmann (ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 , p. 570.
  2. ↑ The three studio albums released by Columbia Records are re-released as Mosaic Select: Denny Zeitlin .
personal data
SURNAME Zeitlin, Denny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeitlin, Dennis Jay (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, USA