“One of the finest jazz pianists alive

Jazz pianist Kenny Barron emerged in the early sixties with the Dizzy Gillespie Quartet but didn’t become an established recording artist until the 1970s.

He embraced the electric jazz of that time without ignoring more traditional styles, which included an album with guitarist Ted Dunbar that featured the duo interpreting the likes of Gershwin’s Summertime. In the 1980s he teamed up with Stan Getz and was his pianist until Getz’s death in 1991. It was said of the 1986 album Voyage that Getz had finally found the perfect piano accompanist - Kenny Barron, “one of the finest jazz pianists alive”.

Nominated for numerous Grammys, inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is still recording. His latest work, The Source, is his first solo album since 1981, he having retained the post-bebop style for which he is renowned.