Phil DeGreg - Piano
Friday, April 29, 2005
Phil is house pianist at Cincinnati’s Blue Wisp Jazz Club where he performs weekly with touring jazz artists such as Ken Peplowski, Slide Hampton, Hank Crawford and Ira Sullivan.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of North Texas, Phil toured for a year as pianist with the Woody Herman Orchestra. He is Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and teaches at Jamey Aebersold’s Summer Jazz Workshops and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Phil has written Jazz Keyboard Harmony, a popular book amongst jazz pianists.
He has recorded eight CDs as a leader, most recently ‘Brasilia’ and ‘Trio con Brio’. He appears with J.J Johnson in the video ‘Live in Concert’. In the UK he has performed at Ronnie Scotts, the Purcell Room (with Scott Hamilton), the 606 Club, and the Brecon Jazz festival.