PROGRAM
Brilliant Corners/Thelonious/San Francisco Holiday (Worry Later)/Trinkle-Tinkle/Monk’s Mood/Two Timer/Misterioso
Gallop’s Gallop/Ruby, My Dear/Jackie-ing/We See/Bye-Ya/
Who Knows/Eronel/Little Rootie Tootie/’Round Midnight/Skippy
Light Blue/Off Minor/Children’s Song/Sixteen
Pannonica/Ask Me Now/Five Blues Themes (Monk’s Point, North of the Sunset, Raise Four, Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are, Blues Five Spot, Blue Hawk)/Nutty
Monk’s Dream/Boo-Boo’s Birthday/Blue Monk/52nd Street Theme
Work/In Walked Bud/Hackensack/Crepuscule with Nellie/Played Twice/Locomotive/Four In One
Reflections/Hornin’ In/Green Chimneys/Bemsha Swing/Evidence/Introspection/Combination of Friday the 13th and Oska T.
Rhythm-a-ning/Let’s Cool One/Stuffy Turkey/Teo/Coming on the Hudson
Humph/Well, You Needn’t/I Mean You
Functional/Shuffle Boil/Criss-Cross/Ugly Beauty
Let’s Call This/Brake’s Sake/Bright Mississippi/Think of One
A Merrier Christmas/Straight, No Chaser/Epistrophy
Composer/pianist and Steinway Artist Jed Distler gained acclaim early in his career for transcribing jazz piano solos by Art Tatum and Bill Evans. As a pianist championing new music, his recitals have offered premieres of works by Virgil Thomson, Richard Rodney Bennett, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Lois V Vierk and many more. His master classes, lecture/demonstrations and work as a sought-after adjudicator have taken him across the United States and throughout Europe.
Distler’s presenting organization ComposersCollaborative, Inc. earned a Guinness Record for world’s largest keyboard ensemble, featuring his works for 175 electronic keyboards. In 2021 Distler embarked on a multi-year project performing all of Mahler’s Symphonies and several Shostakovich Symphonies in four-hand arrangements around the globe, collaborating with Chantal Balestri, Gabriele Baldocci, Martina Frezzotti, Stewart Goodyear, Allison Brewster Franzetti, Drew Petersen, Cristian Sandrin, Risto-Matti Marin and Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi. He currently is composing 1,827 Bagatelles for the 2027 Beethoven anniversary year. Distler has recorded prolifically for the high-resolution Steinway Spirio player piano, while TNC Music released Distler’s solo piano CD Fearless Monk (available from Bandcamp).
His fall 2025 tour has included recitals and master classes in London, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, PianoEspoo Festival, the Guido Agosti Piano Series in Forlì, the Modena Conservatory of Music and the University of California. As Artist-in-Residence for WWFM.Org – The Classical Network, Distler is the creator, host and producer of the 2017 ASCAP Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award radio program Between the Keys. He also hosts The Piano Maven, a friendly podcast guide to piano recordings, and was a television commentator during the recent 19th International Warsaw Chopin Competition. Distler contributes reviews and articles to Gramophone and ClassicsToday.com, and has written numerous CD booklet notes for Sony/BMG and Universal Classics. Visit www.jeddistler.com.
