Canadian vocalist Gillian Margot and American pianist Geoffrey Keezer are acclaimed both as individuals and as a duo, in music and in life. Geoffrey has been a major figure in New York’s jazz piano scene since 1989, when he became the last pianist with the legendary Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He has toured and recorded with Ray Brown, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Diana Krall, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Dianne Reeves, David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Sting, Joe Locke and Christian McBride. Gillian is a student of a generation of jazz legends including Oscar Peterson, Freddy Cole, and Norman Simmons. She has performed in major venues worldwide with musicians including Sting, jazz trumpeters Chris Botti and Jeremy Pelt, pianist Robert Glasper, famed soprano Kathleen Battle, conductors Wayne Marshall (London Philharmonic) and Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Toronto Symphony Orchestra). Gillian and Geoffrey live in New York and have a seven year-old child.
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