Recorded live at the Metropolitan Room, NYC, 9.22.13

Ryan Greer, Vocal
Neil Flink, Guitar
Mark Verdino, Bass

"I've Got The World On A String"
Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler

I've Got The World On A String

Recorded live at the Metropolitan Room, NYC, 9.22.13

Ryan Greer, Vocal
Neil Flink, Guitar
Mark Verdino, Bass

"Freedom Jazz Dance"
Eddie Harris, Eddie Jefferson

Freedom Jazz Dance

Recorded live at the Metropolitan Room, NYC, 9.22.13

Ryan Greer, Vocal
Neil Flink, Guitar
Mark Verdino, Bass

"No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)"
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jon Hendricks, Jessie Cavanaugh

No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)

"Do-Re-Mi" by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
"Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke
"C Jam BLues" by Duke Ellington

Recorded live 10.11.12 at The Metropolitan Room, NYC
Ryan Greer, Vocals
John Feliciano, Bass

In a remarkable paring down of his own Ryan Greer Jazz Group, acclaimed for its reinvention of the Great American Songbook, vocalist Ryan Greer teams with bandmate John Feliciano on upright for a standard-bending collaboration between voice and bass. Ryan and John spark a solid chemistry with their imaginative interplay on classic jazz compositions.

Do-Re-Mi Bebop!

All-original, retro-fresh, jazz-groove sounds.

RISING SIGN by RYAN GREER JAZZ  
is an independent album baked in Brooklyn: 
 Rehearsed at Complete Music Studios. 
 Recorded and mixed at The Creamery Studio. 
 Mastered at Super Fine Audio.

Ryan Greer, composer, vocals 
 Khairul Aiman, bass 
 Neil Flink, guitar 
 Josh Schusterman, drums 
 Stephanie Wells, keys 
 Quinn McCarthy, recording, mix  
Rich Morales, final master

My experience with the creative force is that when it takes hold, it's all consuming; and discovering your craft requires the kind of determination that must allow for years of practice before perfect—and it's never perfect. The beauty of any genesis is that it's flawed, making every creative endeavor a natural obsession with "playing the mistakes” and revealing your truer self. The goal is to find your own voice. 

As a self-producing artist in New York City whose body of work spans theater, dance and music, the epiphany came when I realized that every project since the beginning was rooted in jazz. Grateful for my achievements as an "expert director-choreographer" (The New Yorker), and "joyous, jazz-inflected dancing both crisp and sensual" (The Chicago Reader), it is my lifelong passion for music that is manifest in my awakening as a vocalist, composer and bandleader. On forming a new collective of aspiring musicians in 2011, Cabaret Scenes raved, “RYAN GREER JAZZ illuminates how a talented crew morphs classics into absorbing jazz numbers."

Variations of the combo have amassed an accomplished billing of live gigs, including an acclaimed stint at The Metropolitan Room, but the main event was an assembly of premier members of the group for a debut studio release in 2016. The resulting RISING SIGN was recorded and mixed by Quinn McCarthy at The Creamery Studio and mastered by Rich Morales at Super Fine Audio in Brooklyn. RISING SIGN houses my all-original, retro-fresh jazz-groove compositions featuring Khairul Aiman on bass, Neil Flink on guitar, Josh Schusterman on drums and Stephanie Wells (one of my best friends from Columbia College Chicago days) on keys.

Miles ahead - future gigs and recordings - I continue to be impassioned by the preservation and continuation of jazz music and art, inspired by the manifesto decreed by "Bird-Lives" poet Ted Joans:

Jazz is my religion.  
Surrealism is my point of view.

Do-Re-Mi Bebop!

Ryan Greer Jazz

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