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Dan Kaufman

Dan Kaufman has emerged as a leading and promising young voice in Jazz Piano. Dan’s playing is adventurous and dynamic while firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. As a versatile and sensitive sideman , he has performed for audiences around the world, with many of the most prominent figures in jazz. From Jimmy Heath, Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride and Mark Turner. He is also an accomplished composer and arranger.

Kaufman began classical piano studies at age four and was working professionally as a teenager. He then moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Fred Hersch and Danilo Perez. He joined the Grammy Nominated group, The Either/Orchestra, and quickly became on of the most in demand young talents on the Boston scene, working extensively with Jeremy Pelt, Miguel Zenon, and Bob Moses among others.

After a brief stint as a member of the highly selective Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Kaufman moved to New York to attend the Juilliard School on a full scholarship for the inaugural class of jazz studies where he studied with Kenny Barron.

Kaufman has established himself as an in demand pianist in New York, joining the working bands of Donald Harrison, Ben Wolfe, Wycliffe Gordon, Rodney Green, Wayne Escoffery and Dominck Farinacci. He also works regularly for many of the worlds top jazz vocalists including Nnenna Freelon, Kevin Mahogony, Robin McKelle, Allan Harris, Gretchen Parlato and Marilyn Maye. He currently resides in Manhattan and is releasing his debut recording as a leader, "Familiar Places" this fall on Red Piano Records.

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Album Review

Peter Slavov: Little Stories

Read "Little Stories" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While these ten tracks recorded by bassist Peter Slavov's variable-sized outfit were all fleshed out in the studio between 2017 and 2019, this debut album actually covers a wider span of time. Collecting music penned over the past 20 years, and attaching attendant stories for background and bridging purposes, Slavov essentially looks back over his entire professional career and beyond. Fantasy, family, literature and life as we know it all play a part in the telling of these ...

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Dan Kaufman: Force of Light

Read "Force of Light" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


This may be the most challenging, but also one of the most rewarding releases, in Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series history. Art-rock Barbez's Dan Kaufman's musical realization of the poems of the late Jewish/German poet Paul Celan (1920-1970) is a courageous act. Celan, whose parents perished in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II while he was sent to forced-labor camps, wrote poetry torn between deep solidarity with the tragedy of Jewish people and loyalty to the rich German ...

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Red Piano Records To Release "Familiar Places", The Debut Recording From Pianist/Composer Dan Kaufman

Red Piano Records To Release "Familiar Places", The Debut Recording From Pianist/Composer Dan Kaufman

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Red Piano Records To Release Familiar Places, The Debut Recording From Pianist/Composer DAN KAUFMAN Available on November 6, 2015 CD Release Celebration - November 2 at Smalls Jazz Club, NYC Brooklyn-based Red Piano Records is proud to announce the release of Familiar Places from pianist/composer Dan Kaufman. This album marks Kaufman's debut as a leader, with a stellar line-up featuring Johnathan Blake on drums, Gilad Hekselman on guitar, Matt Clohesy on bass, Sam Sadigursky on saxophones and Keita Ogawa on ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Little Stories

Slavov Music
2019

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Familiar Places

Red Piano Records
2015

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In Defense of the Minotaur

From: Little Stories
By Dan Kaufman

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