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Dahveed Behroozi

Pianist and Composer Dahveed Behroozi is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician. His focus is in jazz, classical, and new music. He is an active player both as a leader and sideman in the Bay Area, nationally and also internationally.

Behroozi’s expansive musical palette comes from a wide array of places that almost seem endless. His musical frame of reference ranges from Bach, Brahms, Schoenberg, Alban Berg, 20th century jazz luminaries, as well as the rock and ambient worlds.

His main focus in music is improvisation. Behroozi approaches improvisation as a form of musical composition. It is within the improvisation, that over time, compositions begin to appear, take shape, and ultimately form. He’s constantly striving to find new sounds and feelings in his work, and hopefully take the listener on a multi-sensory landscape, rather than just a sonic one.

Born in CA in 1981, the son of a classical guitarist, Behroozi quickly came into contact with the classical canon, and soon developed a strong interest in Jazz. By his teens, he became an active sideman in the San Francisco Bay Area, and would later go back east to study at the Manhattan School of Music, as well as Brooklyn College. It was during his time in NYC, where he was able to develop his sound and concept by playing and studying with some of the finest musicians.

Pianist Fred Hersch describes his playing as, "intense, immersive, emotionally fulfilling and musically deep."

Dahveed will be releasing his second full-length record Echos with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Billy Mintz on Sunnyside Records this coming June 2021.

Currently, Dahveed serves on the music faculty at Gavilan College as well as San Jose State University.


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Dahveed Behroozi: Standard Fare

Read "Standard Fare" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


What would be a recipe for presenting a standards project? Pianist Keith Jarrett could surely tell us. He breathed new life into the form that seemed to be fading out of fashion with his Standards, Vol. 1 (ECM Records, 1983). Then he went on to make a good chunk of his career with those familiar tunes, working with his Standards Trio that included bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. The recipe seemed to be: Pick your songs well. Know ...

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3x3: Piano Trios: July 2021

Read "3x3: Piano Trios: July 2021" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Lest there be any doubt that the classic trio remains as malleable as ever, we have an eclectic batch exploring the range of what the format is capable of--familiar and conventional, or very much otherwise. Dahveed Behroozi Echos Sunnyside Records 2021 While Dahveed Behroozi's CV emphasizes his extensive training in both jazz and classical, those are pretty misleading reference points for what he offers on his second release. True, there's an unmistakable ...

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Dahveed Behroozi: Echoes

Read "Echoes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


On his sophomore effort, West Coast-based pianist Dahveed Behroozi goes into a deeply atmospheric mode on Echoes. He is joined by a pair of blue ribbon sidemen in this piano trio affair. Drummer Billy Mintz, as a drummer-texturalist, is in a league with past greats Paul Motian and Jon Christensen, creating off-kilter, unsettled weather systems of his own, whether on one of his own too-infrequent recording or his work with pianist Roberta Piket, saxophonist John Gross, or pianist Hal Galper. ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Standard Fare

Sunnyside Records
2023

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Mind Noise

Epistemology
2022

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Echos

Sunnyside Records
2021

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Battery Powered Clouds

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By Dahveed Behroozi

East Fourteenth (International)

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