Jazz pianists: Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Phineas Newborn, Jr., George Shearing, Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Red Garland, Wynton Kelly, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Horace Silver, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Danilo Perez, Mulgrew Miller, Geoff Keezer; other musicians: Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, Dave Holland, David Liebman, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, the Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Mahalia Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Santana; traditional Japanese music (especially shakuhachi), Brazilian music, Nuevo Tango (Astor Piazzolla and Pablo Ziegler), Afro-Cuban music; classical pianists, including Cortot, Gieseking, Rubinstein, Horowitz, Schnabel, Richter, Gilels, Gould, de Larrocha, Michelangeli, Argerich; classical composers, including Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Mahler, Grieg, Faure, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Ives, Copland, Stravinsky, Bartok, Takemitsu, Arvo Part; artists: Hiroshige, Hokusai, Rene Magritte, Edward Hopper, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt; and poets: Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, and Basho (and other haiku poets).
Sounds Like
Main website is: www.lukegillespie.com. Click on "Videos" above for excerpt of "Footprints" title track (RIAX Records).
Luke Gillespie was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Osaka (where he studied classical piano with Yoshiko Sato, professor at Osaka College of Music) and went to an international school in Kobe, Japan (with Japanese as a second language). His musical career has had its bilingual aspects, too. He studied both jazz (bachelor's and master's degrees with David Baker) and classical piano (master's and doctor's degrees with Michel Block and Leonard Hokanson, a student of Artur Schnabel) at Indiana University, winning the concerto competition for a performance of Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto. His career has emphasized both teaching and performance. He now teaches jazz and classical piano, jazz styles, music history/appreciation, and coaches jazz combos at Indiana University, and also teaches at the summer Jazz Camps in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, and the Bands of America Jazz Camp. As a performer, he won the 1994 Indianapolis Jazz Festival Competition, and has appeared with such jazz artists as Jamey Aebersold, Dee Bell, Steve Davis (drums), Benny Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Bunky Green, Jimmy Heath, Steve Houghton, Ingrid Jensen, Kelley Johnson, Pat LaBarbera, Janet Lawson, David Liebman, James Moody, Ed Neumeister, Chris Potter, Jim Snidero and Rufus Reid. He has recorded with the Arts Center Jazz Collective, David Baker, the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Everett Greene, Dominic Spera Big Band, and Tom Walsh (with whom he toured Europe in May 2002-2003 and Japan in May 2004-2005) as well as classical musicians Bruce Bransby (bass), James Campbell (clarinet) and Corey Cerovsek (violin). His solo jazz piano CD, FOOTPRINTS, was released on RIAX Records in 2003, and his book, STYLISTIC II/V7/I VOICINGS FOR KEYBOARDISTS (endorsed by Danilo Perez, Geoff Keezer, David Liebman, David Baker and Frank Mantooth), was published by Jamey Aebersold in 2000 (2nd printing in 2006). Gillespie's unique style, with its rhythmic and harmonic virtuosity and lyricism, shows the influence of jazz, blues, latin, gospel and classical music.
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Thinking about you, Luke...saw that you played at Bear's tonight...next May I'll have my life back...maybe then I'll be able to catch a gig or two...hope all is well with you. Beth.
Wow, I haven't visited your page in awhile; I LOVE the new songs you've got up (especially "Round Midnight") we just got a combo together a little bit ago (oh-so-cleverly titled K.O.M.P.--the last names of each of our original members...Kolve, Osberg, Meier, Peterson), and that's one of our favorite songs to play.
I'm definately going to have to get your CD at shell lake this summer. I'm coming to week II on either vibes/drums (haven't decided yet) and for combo week (on piano). I'm so excited already! :D
Can't wait to see you; hope everything is going well. Keep up the awesome work, I love listening to you and your combo songs!
Hi Luke, Thank you very much for your very kind words!! It's a spoiler playing with Steve and Jeremy as you well know! Have a Happy Holidays!!! take care, Steve
I just wanted to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and talk with my parents and I about IU, it really helped alot. IU is definatley near the top of my list for colleges right now. It was very nice of you to meet us, so thank you so much!!
Thanks Luke. Kind greetings from Sardinia. I am here with Don Byron. Next I go to Helsinki to sing with UMO Jazz Orchestra. Talk soon. How is Bloomington? Obama! Godspeed, Dean
