Juan David Castaño

Phil Markowitz: Catalysis

by Ken Dryden
February 20, 2009

Phil Markowitz has been on the jazz scene for several decades, though the veteran pianist is more widely known to many jazz fans as a sideman than as a leader, having worked with Chet Baker, Bob Mintzer, Dave Liebman, Jack Wilkins, Al Di Meola and many others. But Markowitz has written a number of impressive compositions over the years, one of the best being “Sno' Peas," recorded by the late Bill Evans on his album Affinity (Warner Bros., 1978), with ...