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Jazz Arts Trio

Oscar Peterson. Bill Evans. Vince Guaraldi. Erroll Garner. Horace Silver. Herbie Hancock. Chick Corea. Hear the Jazz Arts Trio bring to the concert stage the best trio performances of these historic piano giants all in one evening!

What can safely be called the only jazz group of its kind, the Jazz Arts Trio, through note for note transcriptions of historic moments in piano jazz, is keeping alive music that otherwise would live on only in recordings. The Jazz Arts Trio does not simply imitate. Rather, the three musicians infuse the music with their own vitality and interpretations, much the way a chamber music ensemble approaches Bach or Beethoven. This “classical” approach to jazz breaks down genre boundaries, delighting long-time jazz enthusiasts as well as those new to this great music. And classical music lovers will thrill to the Jazz Arts Trio's high level of artistry and technical prowess as applied to this most classic of American art forms.

The Jazz Arts Trio -- one of a kind among jazz ensembles today.

Lifetime friends, the members of the Jazz Arts Trio began playing together over 30 years ago while in junior high school in the Boston area.

FREDERICK MOYER, piano

Frederick Moyer has established a vital musical career that has taken him to forty-one countries and to such distant venues as Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sydney Opera House, Windsor Castle, Carnegie Recital Hall, Tanglewood, and the Kennedy Center. He has appeared as piano soloist with world renowned orchestras including the Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras, the St. Louis, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Houston, Boston, Singapore, Netherlands Radio, Latvian, Iceland and London Symphony Orchestras, the Buffalo, Hong Kong and Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil, and the major orchestras of Australia. His 22 recordings on the Biddulph, GM and JRI labels comprise works by over thirty composers and reflect his affinity for a wide variety of styles. PETER TILLOTSON, bass

Blessed with an empathic ear and cursed with an insatiable musical thirst, bassist Peter Tillotson's journey has taken him everywhere from garage bands to Lincoln Center and from Be-bop to Bluegrass. As a first-call bassist in the New England area, Peter has performed with members of the Boston Symphony, Jim Hurst (International Bluegrass Music Association's guitar-player of year), entertainers Don Rickles, Steve Allen, Scott Bakula, Maureen McGovern and Suzanne Somers. Peter's expertise in acoustic amplification has kept him busy as a technical consultant to a who's who of artists including Acoustic Alchemy, Barenaked Ladies, Daughtry, Sheryl Crow, Count Basie Orchestra, Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, Dixie Chicks, Lisa Loeb, Lyle Lovett, Avril Lavigne, Dave Mathews, John Mayer, Joe Perry, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon and Pete Townshend. PETER FRAENKEL, drums

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Jazz Arts Trio: Swing of Many Colors

Read "Swing of Many Colors" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


For the most part Jazz Arts Trio's Swing of Many Colors presents relatively sedate recreations of recordings by some of jazz's most famous piano trio greats, including Ahmad Jamal, Red Garland, Oscar Peterson, and Keith Jarrett.Clearly a labor of love, each tune is meticulously reproduced with the fine attention to detail only a pet project can achieve. All three players are astute practitioners and their devotion to the trio form bleeds through, especially on pieces like “Night Train," ...

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Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute

Read "Tribute" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Recreating music note-for-note is fraught with pitfalls. It could be as palatable as drinking a soda after all the fizz has escaped or it could stand deep in the shadow of the original. But as the saying goes, imitation is the best form of flattery and the Jazz Arts Trio makes that apparent as they reinterpret 11 performances with flair and skill.

Frederick Moyer (piano), Peter Tillotson (bass) and Peter Fraenkel (drums) were friends who went their separate ...

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Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute

Read "Tribute" reviewed by Brian Gall


Rightfully so, more tributes to Oscar Peterson continue to appear. On its debut CD, the Jazz Arts Trio combines six tunes by this late piano legend with one song each from kings of the keyboard Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver.

Tribute, released on JRI Recordings, is an attempt to re-create specific moments in jazz history.

Pianist Frederick Moyer, bassist Peter Tillotson and drummer Peter Fraenkel are three high school friends ...

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Jazz Arts Trio: Tribute

Read "Tribute" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


When artists cover old classics, there is generally something different about them: a new arrangement, something added or something removed, in an attempt to make it “their own." Pianist Frederick Moyer and his Jazz Arts Trio take a different approach on Tribute. They perform eleven classics, note for note, just as they were recorded previously. Moyer is a classical pianist who has performed as a soloist with major metropolitan orchestras in Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, Singapore, along with ...

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CADENCE CADENCE (July-Aug-Sept 2009)

The roots of this project go back over 30 years, when pianist Frederick Moyer painstakingly transcribed Oscar Peterson’s “Bossa Beguine” note-for-note using his parent’s reel-to-reel recorder and experienced the joy of playing them with friends and fellow musicians Peter Tillotson and Peter Fraenkel in high school. Following music studies at Indiana University, Moyer became a Classical pianist, and for twenty-five years he performed thousands of recitals and appeared as a piano soloist with numerous orchestras all over the world. In 2007, during a nine-month sabbatical, Moyer rediscovered his interest in Jazz. He began transcribing more Jazz performances by Oscar and other great pianists, and then contacted his old friends and trio- mates Fraenkel and Tillotson, who had each become musicians with extensive experience and qualifications in Jazz, symphonic, and other musical forms and endeavors. The three reunited as the Jazz Arts Trio, and in Tillotson’s words “happily spent many hours transcribing, rehearsing, polishing and perfecting what we believe is the best of the best of piano Jazz.” The results are on this CD, redone versions by the Jazz Arts Trio of eleven landmark Jazz trio performances from albums originally recorded between 1961 and 1972, plus one DVD done in 1985.

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Swing of Many Colors

JRI Recordings
2012

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JRI Recordings
2008

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