Peter Zak
Piano
58 age
May 13, 1965 Birthday
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Birthplace
www.peterzakmusic.com Website
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Jazz pianist and composer Peter Zak has been performing and recording for more than twenty years, both as a sideman and bandleader. Zak most often records in the trio format working frequently with Paul Gill, Quincy Davis, Willie Jones III, Peter Washington and Paul Drummond. He also is a busy sideman playing with artists such as Jimmy Cobb, Walt Weiskopf, and Doug Webb. Since 1995 Peter Zak has been a faculty member at the renowned jazz program at the New School University.
Trivia
Peter Zak became interested in jazz when his high school teacher showed him how to play the chord changes to "Stella by Starlight". In 2005, Peter received a $10,000 grant from the Doris Duke Foundation and Chamber Music America to compose and perform a new work for his jazz trio. Most of Zak's recordings have been released by the Danish jazz label, SteepleChase.
Early Life
Peter Zak was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and grew up in Ohio. He began playing the piano at age 5. At age 16 his family moved to Oakland, CA where a high school band teacher sparked his interest in jazz. Zak attended UC Berkeley where he played in the Jazz Ensemble and earned a B.A. in History. After playing local clubs around Northern California for several years, in 1989 he moved to New York where he began participating in Sunday afternoon jam sessions at the Village Gate and soon found a community of like-minded musicians.
Peter Zak Solos
2018
Piano solo - I Hear a Rhapsody - 2018
4/4 swing in E♭ major at 196 BPM
Piano solo - Peace - 2018
4/4 ballad in E♭ major at 52 BPM
Piano solo - Out in the Open - 2018
4/4 swing in E♭ minor at 153 BPM
Piano solo - Triste - 2018
4/4 bossa nova in B♭ major at 158 BPM
Piano solo - Night and Day - 2018
4/4 swing in E♭ major at 159 BPM
Piano solo - Untitled - 2018
4/4 latin in B♭ minor at 156 BPM
Piano solo - New Blues - 2018
4/4 swing in F major at 167 BPM
Piano solo - Third Stone From The Sun - 2018
4/4 swing in D minor at 300 BPM