Joe Parillo

Created and raised in Rhode Isle, Joe Parillo is an extremely melodic and expressive pianist who isn’t popular nationally but offers kept busy performing and teaching in New Britain. Think about Keith Jarrett and Expenses Evans at their most lyrical and reflective, and you may get a concept what Parillo’s playing is similar to on his Neoga CDs from the 1990s. The classically qualified musician (who cites those pianists and Oscar Peterson as primary influences) researched jazz and traditional developing up before learning with several jazz greats in the 1970s and 1980s, including Marian McPartland in 1978 and Pat Metheny and Dave Holland in 1980. From 1977-83, Parillo performed piano with Telos 3, the golf swing music group of Dr. Arthur Motycka (a trumpeter/vibist who used Benny Goodman and Doc Severinsen), and in 1984, he toured Hawaii and New Zealand as an associate from the Glenn Miller “ghost orchestra.” Parillo’s 1st LP like a innovator, Songbook was documented in 1983, accompanied by Clouds in 1988, Nearly Carefree in 1994, Stop Island Summer season in 1996 as well as the introspective trio day Morning in your garden in 1997. Since 1985, he offers led his personal group, the Joe Parillo Outfit.