Album Notes

Chris's third release on Evening Star features his highly compatible trio in a program of standards and originals that shows off the both lyricism and relentless swing of this gifted pianist.

Features: Chris Neville (piano); James Cammack (bass); Marty Richards (drums)


Critical acclaim:

Chris Neville continues to surprise and delight. I thoroughly enjoyed this new recording by one of my favorite pianists. Highly recommended!
-- Benny Carter

A stimulating Bop expedition.
-- Charles Winokoor, Cadence


About Chris Neville:

Chris Neville is a dynamic keyboard artist who has attracted much attention through his work with jazz legend Benny Carter and other jazz greats. "I was immediately taken with his authority and command of the keyboard," recalled Carter who used Neville on several recordings.

The classically trained pianist, who was born in Boston in 1955, was something of a child prodigy, having enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music at six. He later studied at Berklee and the University of Maine-Augusta. Neville has been a favorite of jazz audiences in the New England area, leading his own groups and accompanying such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Farmer, and Buddy DeFranco. In 1988, he was discovered by Benny Carter with whom he toured and recorded for a decade until Carter's retirement.

Neville's style reflects his primary influences, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock, and Bill Evans, as well as his own fertile imagination. As Benny Carter once said, "He has fresh ideas and doesn't fall back on the same old cliches and riffs."