🏳️🌈 For #PrideMonth, I’m celebrating the legacy of queer genius Cole Porter with his 1930 classic “Love for Sale.”
Porter’s music reminds us that daring artistry and queer visibility have long been intertwined.
#QueerJazz #LoveForSale #JazzPiano #ColePorter #EricScottReed #OutLate #YamahaPiano
🏳️🌈 For #PrideMonth, I recorded Billy Strayhorn’s “U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group),” written in 1955. Strayhorn was a queer Black genius who spoke boldly—through beauty.
#QueerJazz #UMMG #BillyStrayhorn #PrideMusic #JazzHistory #Pride2025 #LGBTQJazz #YamahaPiano #OutLate
Hee hee. All smoke ‘n mirrors!
Jazz for Relief LA
Monday, January 27, 2025
The World Stage, Leimert Park
#Jazz4ReliefLA
Eyeglasses
*instrumental* 🤦🏾♂️
Here is an insturmental solo piano snippet of a song I wrote called “The Thorn”. Rapper Kendrick Lamar sampled it for his iconic work “Rigamortis” on his album “Section.80”.
#KendrickLamar #TheyNotLikeUs #GNX #Rigamortis #Rigormortis #Section.80 #Section80 #TheThorn
#Travel #BlueSkyTravel #
Do you recognize these chord changes? #JazzSky #SkyJazz #JazzPiano #JazzShed #JazzPractice #JazzImprovisation #PopStandards #YamahaPiano
Much obliged!
The invasion of the Jazz pianists! I’m coming to your town next week! 🙃
“Thelonious” (Thelonious Monk) #JazzPiano #TheloniousMonk #JazzStandards #JazzSky #SkyJazz
