Gerald Clayton

Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton can be an adept, Grammy Award-winning improviser and composer using a bent toward post-bop and straight-ahead jazz. The boy of bassist/bandleader John Clayton, Gerald was created in holland but was raised in California. Thinking about music from a age, Clayton began monitoring piano at age group seven and finally graduated through the Los Angeles State SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Arts, and he gained a music level through the USC Thornton College of Music. In 2006, Clayton got second put in place the renowned Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Piano Competition. Structured out of NEW YORK, Clayton provides performed using a bevy of name music artists including trumpeter Roy Hargrove and pianist/vocalist Diana Krall, in addition to his father’s Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra as well as the Clayton Brothers trio. He provides received many Grammy nods, including a nomination for Greatest Instrumental Structure for the tune “Battle Group” for the Clayton Brothers record New Tune and Dance. Clayton released his debut single record, Two-Shade, in ’09 2009, which garnered a Grammy nomination for Greatest Improvised Jazz Single for his undertake Cole Porter’s “Everyone.” In 2011 he shipped his sophomore record, Connection: The Paris Periods. That same season, he made an appearance on trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s sophomore record, When the Center Emerges Glistening. Akinmusire after that returned the favour, showing up on Clayton’s third single record and initial for Concord Information, Life Discussion board. An ambitious all-star documenting, the recording earned Clayton another Grammy Award nomination, this time around for Greatest Jazz Instrumental Recording. In 2017 he produced the proceed to Motéma Music for Tributary Stories, which featured efforts from saxophonists Logan Richardson, Ben Wendel, and Dayna Stephens, in addition to vocalist Sachal Vasandani and poets Carl Hancock Rux and Aja Monet. From his solo function, the pianist offers stayed busy producing looks on albums by Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Bernstein, Avishai Cohen, among others.