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David Gleason

Pianist, Band Leader, Composer and Music Educator

Daily Gazette Article About David Gleason

David Gleason

Pianist, Composer and Music Educator

David Gleason's Resume

Daily Gazette Article About David Gleason

David Gleason is a pianist, composer, and music educator living in New York's Capital Region. He received an M.A. in music from Tufts University where he studied ethnomusicology and composition. As an ethnomusicologist he researched Caribbean folk and popular music in Puerto Rico and Cuba. His fieldwork culminated in a thesis entitled "La Parranda Puertorriquena: The Music, Symbolism and Cultural Nationalism of Puerto Rico's Christmas Serenading Tradition."

As a jazz and Latin pianist he has performed with ensembles such as RumbaNaMa, The Boston Latin Band, The Either/Orchestra, Altiplano, The Empire Jazz Orchestra, Big Soul Ensemble, Soul Session, Mojive, and the Kinewe African Drum Ensemble. He has also performed with renown musicians like Lee Konitz, Laurel Masse, Fred Wesley, Danilo Perez, and John Fedchock. He currently leads the acclaimed Latin jazz ensemble, Sensemaya.

Mr. Gleason studied music education and jazz studies at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. He also studied jazz piano with Capital Region guru Lee Shaw. He has taught Music Theory, I.B. Music, and Jazz Ensemble at the Sayles School of Fine Arts and World Music at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York. David Gleason is also the author of "The Total Blues Keyboardist" published by Alfred Publishing.

Sample Recordings:

Yesterdays
by Jerome Kern from the Pete Sweeney album "Forward Motion"
Skylark
by Hoagie Carmichael from the Pete Sweeney album "Forward Motion"
Take The A Train
by Duke Ellington from the Soul Session Promotional CD "Soul Session Plays Jazz"
The Girl From Impanema
by Antonio Carlos Jobim from the Soul Session Promotional CD "Soul Session Plays Jazz"
In A Sentimental Mood
by Duke Ellington from a live recording of the Kris Farrow Group in 2001
Piano Suite in Six Movements (2003)
by David Gleason
I. Antiguo, II. First Interlude, III. Lagrimas, IV. Winter, V. Second Interlude, VI. Waltz
Mantanzas 1958
by David Gleason. Demo recording all parts played by David Gleason
Dust
by Ryan Lukas, David Gleason, Ben Acrish, Tim Williams, Dickie Ogden and Matthew "Smittie" Smith from the Mojive album "Tales from the Tundra" (1999)
D Minor Fugue in the Style of J.S. Bach
by David Gleason