I grew up in the suburbs in North Carolina playing sports and skipping school. In high school, captivated by the progressive rock band Rush, I started playing drums, bass and eventually guitar. In 1990, I went to UNC-Chapel Hill and squeaked out a degree in journalism while spending my time writing complicated rock music, leading a band, and transcribing jazz solos. After graduating, I remained in Chapel Hill (a hard place to leave), touring extensively with a jammy rock band, playing local jazz gigs, and transcribing more jazz solos. In 1998, my twenty-something-college-town reverie was disrupted when my girlfriend could no longer endure Chapel Hill's intense gravitional pull and initiated a move to New York. Since then I have been playing jazz in NYC and all over the world with people like Harry Connick Jr., Kate McGarry, Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge, MOSS (Kate, Luciana, Peter, Theo Bleckmann, Lauren Kinhan), Donny McCaslin, Gary Versace, Clarence Penn, Fred Hersch, Christian McBride, Reuben Rogers, Greg Hutchinson, Victor Lewis, Sean Smith, John Ellis, Otis Brown III, Steve Cardenas, Gretchen Parlato, Jo Lawry, and many others.
News
I have released a collection of solo acoustic guitar songs called Music For People which I recorded at home around 2000-2001. You can hear some of it on the player up there and you can check it out in full at cdbaby.
Kate McGarry's new record "If Less is More.Nothing is Everything" was released on Palmetto Records 8/19/08! It features the dream team of Gary Versace, Reuben Rogers, Clarence Penn and Donny McCaslin as well as Kate and myself.
Also, the debut cd of vocal supergroup MOSS featuring Kate, Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge, Theo Bleckmann, and Lauren Kinhan with Ben Monder, Ben Wittman, Tim Lefbvre and myself was released by Sunnyside Records in April. Check it out!
Keith Ganz uses Acoustic Image amplifiers and G7th Performance capos
