Award-winning and GRAMMY-nominated pianist and composer Ernest Turner’s professional career has spanned 20 years, and has included performances and recordings with some of the biggest names in jazz and pop music, including Delfeayo Marsalis, John Legend, Raphael Saadiq, and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. His latest album, My Americana (2019), offers an understated “ode to black American music” rooted in an innovative reimagination of pieces by Stevie Wonder, Fats Waller, and others, alongside original compositions.

Since the mid-1990s, Stephen Riley has worked with jazz musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Harry Connick, Jr., Ray Charles, Christian McBride, Jason Moran, Natalie Cole and Nora Jones, and many others. Stephen Riley has been and is currently a featured artist at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s concert series. He is a Steeplechase recording artist with 13 critically acclaimed album releases as a leader. In 2021, Stephen joined the ranks of the Canadian label Cellar Live Records and released a duo record entitled Original Mind.

• Ernest Turner – Piano
• Stephen Riley – Saxophone

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