Deardorf Peterson Group

Although they sport one particular old-school jazz combo names which makes them appear to be the type of fusty, hidebound corporation that underwrites political-affairs roundtables on PBS (“The program is manufactured possible with a grant from your Deardorf Peterson Group”), the Deardorf Peterson Group are in least as musically with it as hipper-named acts just like the Bad In addition and E.S.T. (aka the Esbjörn Svensson Trio). Although Deardorf Peterson Group focus on a clean, melodic audio extremely similar to the Western Coast cool performers from the 1950s and ’60s (Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, Vince Guaraldi, etc.), there are a hip, post-bop exploratory quality with their music that helps to keep them from ever arriving close to simple clean crossover pop-jazz, filled with tasty licks and mellow grooves. The primary from the Deardorf Peterson Group, logically plenty of, is definitely bassist Chuck Deardorf and guitarist and composer Dave Peterson. A indigenous from the Pacific Northwest who analyzed music at Olympia’s bohemian enclave Evergreen Condition College, Deardorf offers maintained a dynamic performance and documenting career like a sideman within the Western Coast while staying focused on jazz education, 1st as an trainer at Traditional western Washington University or college and later on as the administrator from the extremely acclaimed music section at Seattle’s Cornish University. Peterson graduated using a level in composition in the music section at American Washington School in 1977 and in the same calendar year recognized a teaching placement at Cornish University, where he provides remained while preserving an active profession being a composer and sideman for performers like Cedar Walton, Diane Schuur, and Richard Cole. Though Deardorf and Peterson frequently played together because the past due ’70s, their debut as co-bandleaders didn’t arrive around until 2004’s exceptional Portal, which they were joined up with by saxophonist Hans Teuber, pianist George Wires, percussionist Michael Spiro, and drummer John Bishop.