Warren Byrd, International Keyboardist
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Pianist/Composer/Vocalist
Warren Byrd is a Hartford native with an international touring
schedule after many fruitful years playing Jazz throughout Connecticut,
Southern New England, and New York.
Born in 1965 the youngest in a
family of sixteen, he grew up in a musically fecund world. His experiences
with performing began with singing in the church choir with his older
siblings and lead to rich performing adventures in during his teen years,
exposing him also to the vast treasures past and present of musical ideas.
By the time he’d been awarded a full scholarship for Classical Vocal Studies at Hartt College of Music, he’d decided he wanted to be a Jazz artist. Through the listening, absorbing, practicing, and synthesizing of legacies of not only Jazz, but also Classical, Folk, and Popular music past and present, he formulated his approach to improvisation and composition.
In the last, twenty years, he has lended his musicianship to many groups and performers in Jazz, R&B, World, Latin, Pop, etc., as well as Dance and Theatre. A short list of performers would include Archie Shepp, Eddie Henderson, Frank Lacy, Saskia Laroo, Steve Davis, David Chevan, Mixashawn, Kenny Hamber, Alvin Carter, Nita Zarif, and many more.
In 2000, he released Truth Raised Twice, his only album as a leader with many of his own compositions as well as standards from the Jazz repetorie.
The last several years include many international tours and an album release with Saskia Laroo and two duo albums, four ensemble albums, and considerable press exposure with David Chevan and the Afro-Semitic Experience. He touts composition as the cornerstone of his development as an artist and the springboard of his career direction.
View these links: www.addr.chevan.com/ and www.saskialaroo.nl.
Also view these videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enm0NOI5HeA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4LTar7beA0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mb4Up0gVqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymi2D5zn2GQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6hV7Jihda4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9VjqBjHvs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2A7JqE7Eu0
Also See my Extended Bio at http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia