THE SHOWROOM SESSIONS: Streaming LIVE from Piedmont Piano Company
Edward Simon & Jeff Denson
Edward Simon and Jeff Denson are two of the most distinguished Bay Area artists, each a band-leader and composer with a long list of credits and accolades. Collaborating for the first time, the extraordinary piano and bass duo present a program of music by the legendary saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter. This will be a special show and you don't want to miss it!
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Pianist, composer, and educator Edward Simon, a native of Venezuela, has made a name for himself over decades in America as a jazz improviser, composer-arranger and band leader, with his profile heightening in recent years as he has explored the commonalities jazz can have with the folkloric sounds of Latin America. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, as a member of the all-star SFJAZZ Collective, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow along with being awarded multiple composition grants as part of the Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works initiative. Simon, a Yamaha artist, has recorded 16 albums as a leader or co-leader; his latest is 25 Years, released via Ridgeway Records in October 2020. edwardsimon.com
Bassist, vocalist, composer, and educator Jeff Denson has balanced a full career as both an acclaimed performing musician and a highly respected educator. Jeff has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe with both his own groups, worked with some of jazz’s finest artists such as Brian Blade, Jane Ira Bloom, Dave Douglas, Charles McPherson, Cuong Vu, Ralph Alessi, Walter Smith III, Dayna Stephens, Mimi Fox, Florian Weber, Dan Weiss, Paul Hanson and had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz for over a decade. Jeff is the Dean of Instruction of the California Jazz Conservatory and Chair of the Bass Department. jeffdenson.com