Critics have called New York City-based pianist/composer Dan Tepfer "brilliant" (the Boston Globe), "one of tomorrow's jazz stars" (Eugene Weekly) and "certainly among those clearly willing to play with familiar formulas and take new approaches, even as he incorporates strokes from the masters" (Jazzreview.com). His eclectic sound, which one French reviewer called "a resolutely fresh approach to the piano, somewhere between classical music and jazz" (La Terrace), reflects the diverse path that led him to a career in jazz.
Featuring Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Richie Barshay (whom Tepfer shares with fellow pianist Herbie Hancock), the trio is Tepfer’s main working ensemble. Today, after more than two years of touring and performing through France, Japan, Peru and the USA, the group is reaching that rare sense of mutual understanding that comes only through extended experience, prompting one reviewer for BostonLive.net to write: “[The trio] has it all together with the kind of trust and adventure in the air that solidifies a great jazz performance." The group’s debut CD, Before the Storm, was named by Cadence Magazine as one of the ten best albums of 2005.
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