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| keezer, geoffrey | |
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| american jazz pianists | |
| berklee college of music alumni | |
| people from eau claire, wisconsin | |
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He came from a musical background, his father Ronald Keezer being a Jazz Drummer and now-retired professor and jazz band director at the University Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire . He began his formal study of piano at five. In 1987 the National Association of Jazz Educators presented him with a NAJE Young Talent Award. After that he studied at the Berklee College Of Music . Keezer had his first album soon after and in the early 1990s was in "Three Musicians" with Joshua Redman . He has also been a member of the Ray Brown trio, the Joe Locke / Geoffrey Keezer Group (with recordings in Japan as "The New Sound Quartet"), and his own Geoffrey Keezer trio. Further he has done composing work with orchestras in California. Outside of jazz he works in several genres and did a duo with Hawaiian Slack-key Guitar ist Keola Beamer in 2003 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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