Jul 22, 2025 1:24 PM
Pianist, Educator Hal Galper Dies at 87
Hal Galper, a pianist, composer and arranger who enjoyed a substantial performing career but made perhaps a deeper…
Galper was often regarded as an underrated master of his craft.
Jul 22, 2025 1:24 PM
Hal Galper, a pianist, composer and arranger who enjoyed a substantial performing career but made perhaps a deeper…
Kenny Garrett’s Sounds From The Ancestors is among DownBeat’s latest crop of 5-star reviews.
Dec 28, 2021 12:49 PM
Welcome to DownBeat’s best-reviewed albums of 2021. Below you’ll find the 5-star recordings, both new and…
Hal Galper didn’t recognize his own playing when he first heard the recording of The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite.
Mar 24, 2020 8:23 AM
In 1997, Seattle musicians Matt Jorgensen and John Bishop birthed Origin Records, an independent label “run by…
