Phil DeGreg

Phil DeGreg (c. 1960) is an American jazz pianist and university professor.

Life and work

Phil DeGreg studied after graduation from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1972 psychology at Yale University in New Haven. He also played in a folk rock duo in coffee shops in the New Haven. Through the music of Bill Evans, he found to Jazz and belonged to the Yale student jazz band. He eventually moved to Kansas City, came up with the local jazz scene in Contact and studied from 1979 to 1982 in the program of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop, which took place at North Texas State University. He also belonged to the One O'Clock Lab at band emerged with the first recordings; In 1983 he became a member of the Woody Herman big band for a short time. For family reasons - his daughter just came to the world - he returned to Cincinnati.

In 1987 he became a lecturer in the Department of Jazz Studies at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM ) and wrote a textbook ( Jazz Keyboard Harmony). In addition to his teaching activities put DeGreg since the late 1990s, a number of albums under his own name before, where musicians such as Joe LaBarbera, Tim Ries, Don Braden, Drew Gress and Randy Johnston participated. He has also appeared on recordings by JJ Johnson ( Live in Concert, 2007). Since 1991 DeGreg Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Disco Graphical Notes

• The Green Gate (1999)
• Whirl Away ( 2000)
• Table For Three ( 2003)
• Brasilia ( 2004)
• Trio Con Brio (2005)
• Hymnprovisation (2007)
• Down the Middle ( 2007) with Joe LaBarbera, Tom Warrington
• Amazonia (2010)
• Melodious Monk ( 2011) with Kim Pensyl