Album Notes

Bob Long

Keyboardist and composer Bob Long studied music at Roosevelt and DePaul Universities in Chicago and Berklee College and New England Conservatory in Boston. Bob played, recorded, and toured with the Chicago based jazz fusion band Street Dancer. He has played and recorded with jazz guitarist Henry Johnson who has covered several of Bob's compositions. Bob has performed at the JVC and Saratoga festivals in New York, the Telluride Jazz Festival in Colorado, the Chicago Jazz Festival, as well as the Tonder Festival, the Montreux and North Sea jazz festivals in Europe. He is living in Chicago where he plays, produces, and arranges for several groups including the quartet he co-leads with saxophonist Brian Gephart, the Gephart Long Quartet (http://www.glq.com) with four cd's on the Birch Tree label, the latest of which is "Play". He also performs every Friday night in Chicago at the Green Mill with the Green Mill Quartet. In addition, The Bob Long Trio has a cd on the Cellar Record label, "Straight Roads" and Bob has two solo piano releases, one in 2003 entitled "Bird of Aragon" and the most recent, "Retratos", in 2005.