Rob Clearfield

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Rob Clearfield at the 2011 Chicago Jazz Festival

Rob Clearfield (born November 12, 1984) is an American jazz musician (piano, also accordion, guitar, keyboard, composition) who is active in the music scene in Chicago.

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Clearfield's mother is a music educator and church musician; at the age of five he had his first piano lessons. As a teenager, he first learned to play the guitar himself before switching to the piano. He had his first appearances with the gospel choir led by his mother. In 2003-05 he had private lessons with Jim Trompeter at Roosevelt University during his college years. After leaving college early, he worked with guitarist Fareed Haque , with whom he went on tour. From 2004 to 2011 he led the band Information Superhighway , with whom he recorded his own compositions and released two albums. He also performed in the prog rock band District 97 between 2006 and 2015 . In the following years he also played with Grażyna Auguścik , Matt Ulery , Marquis Hill , Makaya McCraven , Greg Ward , Howard Levy , Patricia Barber , Chris Siebold , Melvin Butler , Ernest Dawkins and Adam Larson . He was also a founding member of the R&B / soul band Hood Smoke and the folk rock band Outertown .

His compositions are influenced by gospel music , Johannes Brahms , Blues , Radiohead , Kneebody , Marilyn Crispell , Ben Monder and Kurt Rosenwinkel . Clearfield has also written commissioned compositions for parishes ( Grace Commons ), stage productions (Purdue North Central University) and film ( The Lost Remake of Beau-Geste ). In 2012 the self-produced debut album The Long and Short of It was released , which Clearfield recorded with a quintet. In 2016 he presented the trio album Islands , which he recorded with Curt Bley and Quin Kirchner . In the field of jazz he was involved in 14 recording sessions between 2007 and 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so far unoccupied
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 1, 2016)
  3. ↑ Discussion in Riftides
personal data
SURNAME Clearfield, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1984