Pete Malinverni: New York Stories

Join creatively fiery New York City Jazz pianist Pete Malinverni, along with his London bandmates, legendary bassist Dave Green and first-call drummer Steve Brown, as they offer a program of spirited, engaging and accessible improvisations on New York-centric music by composers such as Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Malinverni himself.

Malinverni, a pianist, composer and educator, has recorded seventeen times, to acclaim, as a bandleader, is a Full Professor at the State University of New York at Purchase, where he served as Chair of Jazz for twelve years, and is known the world over for his joyous approach to making music for people. Audiences are assured a fun evening of inspiring takes on familiar music as well as original works by the pianist, all characterized by rhythmic and melodic diversity and imbued with the energy for which New York City – the Big Apple – is so well known and appreciated.

“audacious and exquisite.”– Village Voice (New York)
“a pianist with a forthright and elegant style”- NY Times
“Dashing but without ego, Malinverni tells tales short on embellishment and long on resonance.”– Four stars, DownBeat
“Pete Malinverni is one wild cat…his playing can be dark, gritty and oddly rapturous…he digs into the piano and emerges with exotic treasure…”– Philadelphia Inquirer