Dan Siegel

Clean jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel continues to be assisting to shape the genre since his recording debut in 1980. Created in Seattle and elevated in Eugene, OR, Siegel began acquiring piano lessons at age group eight and was fronting a rock-band at 12. After going to the Berklee University of Music in Boston, he received a qualification in composition from your University or college of Oregon and started documenting his own functions. Quickly thereafter, well-known self-employed jazz label Internal City Records authorized the youthful keyboardist, liberating 1980’s Nite Trip, which presented guitarist Lee Ritenour. Siegel’s second recording for Inner Town, 1981’s The SPOT, was more lucrative and spent ten weeks in the very best Ten of Billboard’s jazz graph. In 1983, he relocated to LA to pursue film and tv work, and a more active documenting profession. Spending half of the 10 years composing Television and film ratings in addition to releasing many albums of differing interest, he agreed upon with Epic in 1986 and started leaving the ailing jazz fusion picture and in to the adult modern jazz audio that he previously been toying with all along. Features of this period consist of 1994’s worldbeat-influenced Hemispheres as well as the urban-flavored Clairvoyance, released in 1998. Siegel spent the 1990s documenting for a number of labels, dealing with a number of the larger names in even jazz (Boney Adam, Larry Carlton, John Patitucci), and leading the hard bop combo Wild birds of the Feather. In 2000, Legacy Recordings released a most significant hits compilation known as On the way: THE VERY BEST of Dan Siegel.