Jazz Piano Cafe

“New Endings Old Beginnings” is a tune I wrote while jamming with the amazing drummer Colin Defreitas a few weeks ago. I perform it here, for its “world recording premiere”, as a solo piano rendition on a late 1950’s Steinway. It has an extended improvised intro and then a main melody that starts about half…

I had some fun playing around with my synthesizer and I created a quick ‘n dirty track which I call “Survive This”. Click below to listen! > Survive This – MP3 Audio – 5 minutes – Geoff Peters solo on a Korg MS2000B

Last July I performed at a wedding at Cecil Green Park at UBC, with a great jazz quartet. I was listening back to some of the recordings from that gig, and really enjoyed them. > Click here to listen to a live recording of “On Green Dolphin Street”. Features:Geoff Peters – pianoMark White – bassGreg…

Graham English is a blogging jazz pianist and his web site (click here) has lots of tips and ideas about songwriting, music theory, and ear training.

Birds in the house

Peter Calandra (click to view web site), a composer from NYC, has posted a video of himself performing an improvised jazz composition. See below or click here to view.

Today, on the anniversary of the tragic September 11th attacks, I created a new track, called “Pop Interlude”. It expresses sadness and quiet reflection. Click here to listen. (Created using an acoustic grand piano and a Korg MS-2000B analog modeling synthesizer.)

My cousins, Jacob and Misha, have been working on directing a movie: a documentary film about the aspirations, practices and ways of life of three young Westerners who follow three different eastern spiritual traditions. Visit the movie’s web site.

I wrote an article on some of my thoughts on Learning Jazz Piano (click here to read).

John Pitcher writes an article about jazz pianist Cedar Walton in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (click here), regarding Cedar Walton’s upcoming solo piano appearance in the Rochester International Jazz Festival, this coming Saturday. From the article: […] Yet as a soloist and leader, Walton has always been unfairly underrated. Despite having preceded pianist McCoy…