More than piano royalty, Kenny Barron is a revered master who has helped define the modern jazz keyboard tradition across four decades and over 40 albums as a leader. The Philadelphia native scored his first major opportunity as a teenager in 1962 with Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet, a four-year stint that put him firmly in the international spotlight. A series of long-running gigs with Freddie Hubbard, Yusef Lateef and Ron Carter kept him there. In his creative prime at 65, Barron is one of the true disciples of the piano trio format, as evidenced on his 2008 Sunnyside release, The Traveler.

“One of the most fertile imaginations and pleasing sounds in jazz.” —Boston Herald

“The go-to man of mainstream jazz piano.” —The New Yorker