Michael Greensill

b. Michael Robert Greensill, 5 Sept 1946, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Britain. We were young in a little English community that had a superb cathedral choir and choirmaster, Greensill obtained a fantastic musical base. At age 13 he uncovered Louis Armstrong and Jelly Move Morton and he started playing clarinet. For some from the 60s, he obtained experience playing within the presently well-known trad jazz rings. In 1968 he visited Leeds University of Music where for four years he examined with trumpeter Dickie Hawdon, tenor saxophonist Crimson Price among others, steadily changing from clarinet to piano. During this time period, he took all of the regional gigs he may find, playing many forms of music. After his early contact with Armstrong and Morton, additional important influences had been pianists Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Rowles, Ellis Larkins, and Wynton Kelly. Pursuing graduation from Leeds, Greensill resided for four years in Hong Kong, operating as personnel arranger at EMI Information so when accompanist to numerous going to American jazz performers. In 1977, he transferred to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where in 1981 he fulfilled and later wedded vocalist Wesla Whitfield. As Whitfield’s musical movie director he toured thoroughly and produced 15 CDs between 1986 and 2005. In the first 00s, he was also citizen piano participant on West Coastline Live, a live radio present on NPR. Furthermore to his function as accompanist, Greensill is normally popular as an arranger, composing not merely for his very own trio and the tiny groups that always accompany his wife, also for big rings and symphony orchestras, the last mentioned like the Boston Pops, the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Symphony as well as the Sacramento Symphony. Among music artists with whom Greensill spent some time working over time are Junior Make, Scott Hamilton, Joe Henderson, Adam Moody, Cecil Payne, Charlie Rouse, Bud Shank, and bass participant John Wiitala and drummer Donald Bailey, the last mentioned pair signing up for Greensill on the live date documented on the Plush Area in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. Among many esteemed venues of which he provides performed are Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Middle as well as the Light House, through the Clinton administration. Much less often on screen are Greensill’s abilities as piano soloist however when he is noticed in this function, as by himself name produces, his interpretative and improvisational presents are clearly noticeable.