DEANNA WITKOWSKI
Jazz Related Gospel / Post Bop / Third Stream / Latin Jazz / Hard Bop • United States
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The winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Witkowski has released six critically hailed albums over the past two decades, with each new project revealing a steadily evolving sensibility marked by melodic invention and emotional connection. As an accompanist, she’s toured with soul-steeped vocalist Lizz Wright and held down the piano chair for ten years in the Jim McNeely–led BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra. Her projects as a leader feature fellow heavyweights like bassist John Patitucci and saxophonist Donny McCaslin.
Witkowski talks eloquently about the primal, transporting power of group singing, and her trio brings a similar collective ethos to the music on Makes the Heart to Sing. She’s played with drummer Scott Latzky since she settled in New York City two decades ago, having moved with a full-time job as a church music director, while bassist Daniel Foose is a more recent collaborator.
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