[Dixielandjazz] young jazz pianist Sam Reider

[David Richoux]

not exactly OKOM, but anyway - In the San Francisco Chronicle this  
morning:



Sam Reider leans into the grand piano at the Urban School of San  
Francisco and improvises a half-dozen bop-inflected choruses on the  
chord changes of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm,'' singing along with the  
lyrical lines flowing from his fingers. At 18, the kid plays with the  
swinging fluidity of a seasoned pro.

Like most jazz musicians, Reider, an Urban senior, knows those  
"Rhythm'' changes inside out. He works them over every day after  
school in all 12 keys at ever-faster tempos.

"It's taken me two and a half years to get to that point,'' says the  
prize-winning pianist, whose daily regimen also includes playing  
scales, a classical work (lately Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu'') to  
polish his technique, sight-reading some Bach and transcribing  
another piece into every key.

Reider will play a range of music -- his original tunes, Charlie  
Parker numbers, blues, perhaps the Hebrew song "Eli, Eli'' and some  
of mandolin master David Grisman's "Dawg'' music -- Thursday night at  
the Great American Music Hall at a benefit concert he cooked up,  
raised the money for and is producing.



continued at

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/11/ 
DDG5SP5GHB1.DTL&type=music



Dave Richoux