Jeb Patton

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Jeb Patton
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Jeb Patton (born August 17, 1974 in Kensington , Montgomery County , Maryland ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , arrangement , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Patton studied at Duke University , where he had lessons from Tibor Szasz , Douglas Buys and Jane Hawkins . During this time he also played in the Duke Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Paul Jeffrey , with whom the first recordings were made in 1994 ( Tribute to Trane ). After earning his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences with distinction ( magna cum laude ), he worked as a musician and arranger in the USA and Europe. He completed his master's degree at the Aaron Copland School of Music , at Queens College and at the City University of New York , where he taught with Roland Hanna and Jimmy Heath . With a master’s degree ( summa cum laude ), he also received the Louis Armstrong Award for Composition from the ASCAP Foundation in 1997 . After graduation he toured with the Heath Brothers and with Jimmy Heath's Generations Quintet ; In 1996 he moved to New York. There he also worked with Charles McPherson , Winard Harper , Antonio Hart , Jon Faddis , Lewis Nash , Sachal Vasandani , Roberta Gambarini , Javon Jackson , James Moody , Diego Urcola , Jeremy Pelt , Keter Betts , Eddie Locke and Marlene VerPlank . In 2006 he presented his debut album A Lovesome Thing . In 2019 he played in the Jeremy Pelt Quartet.

Influenced by Roland Hanna, Patton also dealt with classical music. As a soloist he performed a. a. at Queensborough Community College with Chopin Ballads, and with the New York Philomusica, with which he performed Duke Ellington's music. He has also performed with the Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. Patton teaches piano, improvisation, transcription and ear training at Queens College and Five Towns College in Dix Hills, New York. In the field of jazz he was involved in 39 recording sessions between 1994 and 2018, including a. also with Dmitry Baevsky , Josh Levinson , Mike Melito .

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  1. ↑ a b Jeb Patton. Smalls, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 1, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Patton, Jeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensington, Maryland