Gary Versace

Keyboardist Gary Versace could popularity of the modern jazz picture in scant couple of years, yet the trip to prominence was hard fought and deservedly won. Delivered in Greenwich, CN Apr 25, 1968, his preliminary lessons originated from his mom who was simply a vocalist and organist. Urged by his dad to try the accordion, he rather gravitated towards the piano, and finally to jazz by senior high school. Versace got personal lessons with Kevin Hays, researched on the Eastman College of Music where he achieved his Experts in music overall performance, taught in the University or college of Oregon-Portland as a completely tenured teacher in the jazz research system for eight years, and performed a dual piano concert with Marian McPartland. Through the latter amount of his amount of time in Portland, he used the device of his mom — the body organ — then relocated to NEW YORK in 2002. In the ensuing years, Versace is becoming probably one of the most prominent, in-demand body organ players in modern jazz, dealing with the Grammy-award earning big music group of Maria Schneider, as well as the Nuttree Quartet with Jerry Bergonzi. The tiny ensembles he spent some time working with consist of fellow keyboardists Andy LaVerne and Frank Kimbrough, aswell as John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Adam Nussbaum, Eliot Zigmund, Lee Konitz, Dick Oatts, Seamus Blake, John Hollenbeck, Tim Ries, Donny McCaslin, High Perry, Jonathan Kreisberg, Adam Rogers, Tom Guarna, John Ellis, Scott Wendholt, Steve LaSpina, Loren Stillman, Jason Marsalis, Joey Baron, Tom Rainey, Tony Reedus, Clarence Penn, Danny Gottlieb, Matt Perrine, Drew Gress, Brad Shepik, Peter Bernstein, Ingrid Jensen, and Joe Magnarelli.Versace earned 3 consecutive placings like a Growing Celebrity in the Straight down Beat Publication Critics Poll from 2006-2008. His debut for the Pony Canyon label was Winter season Sonata in 2004, accompanied by Over and over (2005), Many Locations (2006), and Reminiscence (2007) for the Steeplechase label, and Outside In from Criss Mix information (2008). He’s a prominent person in Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts quartet offering Terrell Stafford as well as the past due bassist Dennis Irwin.