Greg Spero Trio
Greg Spero Trio
Chicago, IL
Jazz / Funk / Metal
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Greg Spero has been studying piano independently for most of his life, and has studied jazz piano with world-renowned musicians including Chip Stephens, Joan Hickey, and Chip McNeal. He has written the music for several plays including the Chicago Feltre Theater's performances of Ionesco's "Exit the King" and two Tennessee Williams one-acts. He has composed music for films such as Joe Burgess' "The Perfect Breakup", and produces R&B/Hip-Hop for New-York singer Guia Cuyugan. His most recent recording on Frank Catalano's Mighty Burner album debuted at 11 on the Jazz Billboard Charts, and after 20 weeks on the Billboards became a best-selling jazz album for 2006.
Spero began playing professionally at the age of 14 with a Chicago based blues group called "The Slack Daddies". Throughout his high school career he participated in and directed several musical ensembles, ranging from jazz to rock, spanning the gamut all the way to heavy metal. He then went on to study Jazz Piano and Composition at University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana where he received his BA in Music Composition and Jazz Piano Performance.
He currently performs with his self-titled Jazz-Fusion trio and other groups such as the Frank Catalano Quintet and the Jennifer Hartswick Band, at such venues as the House of Blues Chicago, The Green Mill, Andy's Jazz Club, the Metro, Martyrs, Fitzgerald's, and Wise Fool's Pub, and performs with other musicians such as Harrison Bankhead, and Leon Joyce (of the Ramsey Lewis Trio), Frank Russell, Dede Sampio, and Robert Lee Irving III (the latter three of the Miles Davis ensembles) and Todd Carey.
Spero's influences range from Oscar Peterson to Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, to Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Greg draws influence from american-born jazz and Spanish flamenco rhythm, but finds great inspiration in the hardcore head-banging western electric distortion, along with the heavy-hitting groove-based hip-hop rhythms. Greg Spero is often recognized as one of the premiere up-and-coming pianists in Chicago.
The Greg Spero Trio includes players such as: Mark McKnight, Hank Horton, Connor Grant, Dan Wonsover, Jerald Gary, Andrew Schurman, Alison Semmes, Ben Taylor and Agent Mos, to name a few.
Greg recently formed GMG Trio with the phenomenal Graham Czach on bass and the incredible Makaya McCraven on drums. This trio is hitting the scene with some soulful, nasty funk sure to make your body movin'.
Spero began playing professionally at the age of 14 with a Chicago based blues group called "The Slack Daddies". Throughout his high school career he participated in and directed several musical ensembles, ranging from jazz to rock, spanning the gamut all the way to heavy metal. He then went on to study Jazz Piano and Composition at University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana where he received his BA in Music Composition and Jazz Piano Performance.
He currently performs with his self-titled Jazz-Fusion trio and other groups such as the Frank Catalano Quintet and the Jennifer Hartswick Band, at such venues as the House of Blues Chicago, The Green Mill, Andy's Jazz Club, the Metro, Martyrs, Fitzgerald's, and Wise Fool's Pub, and performs with other musicians such as Harrison Bankhead, and Leon Joyce (of the Ramsey Lewis Trio), Frank Russell, Dede Sampio, and Robert Lee Irving III (the latter three of the Miles Davis ensembles) and Todd Carey.
Spero's influences range from Oscar Peterson to Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, to Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Greg draws influence from american-born jazz and Spanish flamenco rhythm, but finds great inspiration in the hardcore head-banging western electric distortion, along with the heavy-hitting groove-based hip-hop rhythms. Greg Spero is often recognized as one of the premiere up-and-coming pianists in Chicago.
The Greg Spero Trio includes players such as: Mark McKnight, Hank Horton, Connor Grant, Dan Wonsover, Jerald Gary, Andrew Schurman, Alison Semmes, Ben Taylor and Agent Mos, to name a few.
Greg recently formed GMG Trio with the phenomenal Graham Czach on bass and the incredible Makaya McCraven on drums. This trio is hitting the scene with some soulful, nasty funk sure to make your body movin'.
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