Gerald Clayton Trio (usa) at Bray Jazz Festival at Mermaid Arts Centre

Gerald Clayton is a six times Grammy Awards nominated pianist, composer and arranger and one of the rising stars of the prestigious Blue Note jazz label.

Indeed his debut Blue Note release, 2020’s ‘Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard’ earned the pianist a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Album of that year.

38 year old Clayton has been a regular fixture in the touring band of legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd for a decade, and has toured and recorded with such notable jazz stars as Roy Hargrove, Terri Lynne Carrington, Diana Krall and Dianne Reeves.
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Gerald Clayton is a six times Grammy Awards nominated pianist, composer and arranger and one of the rising stars of the prestigious Blue Note jazz label.

Indeed his debut Blue Note release, 2020’s ‘Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard’ earned the pianist a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Album of that year.

38 year old Clayton has been a regular fixture in the touring band of legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd for a decade, and has toured and recorded with such notable jazz stars as Roy Hargrove, Terri Lynne Carrington, Diana Krall and Dianne Reeves.

Upon signing for Blue Note records in 2020, label president Don Was described Clayton as “one of the most accomplished, distinctive and innovative pianists performing today.”

While Down Beat Magazine’s readers named him one of the top up-and coming pianists more than a decade ago – from early on Clayton sought to dodge the pressures to emerge as a prodigy, and instead honed his talents with his own trio – although the spotlight was never far away.

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