Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on January 17th, 1963 and is the Pianist. At the age of 61, Cyrus Chestnut biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Cyrus Chestnut (born January 17, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and producer.
"What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is the ability to abandon notes and play space," Josh Tyrangiel, a music critic for Time, wrote in 2006. Chestnut likes mixing styles and resists being typecast in any one market, though his gospel sound is apparent on a number of his albums.
Early life
Cyrus Chestnut was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1963, the son of McDonald (a retired post-office employee and church pianist) and Flossie (a city social services worker and church choir director) and a retired municipal social services employee and church choir director). Chestnut began playing the piano at the age of seven, and in his youth at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, he performed. He was studying classical music at the Peabody Institute by the age of nine. Chestnut earned a degree in jazz composition and arrangement from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1985.
Jazz career
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Chesnut worked with Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, and other bandleaders. He joined the band of jazz vocalist Betty Carter in the early 1990s and appeared on her 1992 album It's Not About the Melody. That same year, he recorded his first albums as a bandleader, The Nutman Speaks and Nut. Chesnut has continued to work and record as a bandleader into the 21st century.
In 2006, Telarc released Genuine Chestnut, his first album for the label. On it he is accompanied by his regular trio of Michael Hawkins, bass and Neal Smith, drums. Additional artists on this session include Russell Malone, guitar and Steven Kroon, percussion. It includes jazz interpretations of some well-known pop numbers of the past half-century, including "If", the early 1970s soft-rock ballad by Bread. "This song has been with me ever since the sixth grade," Chestnut recalled, "I had to play it for my English teacher's wedding. I've played it in many and various contexts. I actually played it in a Top 40 band when I was just out of school. A lot of time has passed, but then recently I just started thinking about it again." Chestnut's own "Mason–Dixon Line" is one of the album's high points, a joyful bebop number.