Pianist Jeff Baumeister teaches music theory, ear training and jazz improvisation at Bucks County Community College. As a freelance writer, his transcription and analysis essays are frequently featured in DownBeat magazine. In 2004, he received the prestigious Cultural Incentive Grant from the Bucks County Community College Foundation to record his original compositions for jazz quartet. This recording titled “Useful Music” was acknowledged by All About Jazz.com as Editor’s Choice, Best of 2005 - New Discoveries, and Publisher's Top Picks for 2005, and was selected Top Ten Best Albums Of 2005 by Jazz Views.com.
Jeff earned degrees in jazz studies from William Paterson University and The University of the Arts. His teachers include, Uri Caine, Tom Lawton, Don Glanden and Jim McNeely. He studied classical piano with Sam Bellardo, and composing and arranging with McNeely and Manny Albam at the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop in NYC. He was awarded the Eubie Blake Scholarship and the Bernard Peiffer Jazz Piano Award for Excellence, Creativity, and Dedication to Jazz Piano. Jeff lives in Huntingdon Valley, PA with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Annemarie, and dog, Maggie.
"The Questionnaire" from Cadence Magazine, April 2006
1.) Your most pertinent biographical facts or points of
reference.
A.) I am a piano player. I was born in Philadelphia in 1963. I
was first introduced to Jazz by Uri Caine when I was a teenager. I think he was only in his
twenty’s. ...read more (page 1 / page 2)
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