Joel Weiskopf

Joel Weiskopf (* 1962 in Syracuse , New York ) is an American jazz - pianist , composer and bandleader.

Joel Weiskopf grew up in a suburb of New York City . He is the younger brother of the saxophonist Walt Weiskopf , with whom he has been working in numerous band projects (quartet, sextet and nonet) since the late 1980s. He had one of his first professional jobs mid-1980s in the big band of Woody Herman to listen to the Concord album Woody's Gold Star of the 1987th

Weiskopf has also been leading his own bands since the mid-1990s, including Brian Blade , John Patitucci and John Swana . He recorded several albums with his own compositions on the CrissCross label, such as Song for the Lost on his debut album with Peter Washington and Billy Drummond or his Mingus - Reverenz Tuesday Night Prayer Meeting on his quintet album New Beginning . He has also worked as a sideman with Craig Brann , Ed Byron, Andy Fusco ( Out of the Dark , 1999), Joe Magnarelli , Dave Stryker , Gregory Tardy and John Swana.

Discographic notes

• The Search (CrissCross, 1999)
• New Beginning (CrissCros, 2001)
• Change in My Life (CrisCross, 2003)
• Devoted to You (CrissCross, 2007)

Lexical entry

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

• Joel Weiskopf at Discogs (English)
• Entry in allmusic