Jeff Gardner
"Jeff Gardner’s playing on his “Breath” CD is luminous. Taste, touch, and a blockbuster technique; elegance and eloquence in both conception and articulation, notes that come splashing aurally with brilliance and ebullience; virtuostic piano playing alongside vibrant musical collaborations with sidemen Drew Gress and Anthony Pinciotti. This is not a global music (i.e., commercial and bland) but an original transcendental type of post-modern music, and one that syncretizes the best from diverse traditions such as Brazilian music with American classical improvised jazz piano and classical composed non jazz piano. An artist whose ambition and drive seems nothing less than to create and sustain originality in his presentation of original works that make Jeff Gardner arguably the most compelling and unique post-Bill Evans pianist." Dr. MICHAEL HITTMAN – producer "IN THE POCKET" - Radio WLIU ******
