Welcome to this site, focusing on my musical career. For my work as a psychiatrist: DennisZeitlinMD.com. This site features comprehensive information about my recordings, compositions, and trio, duo, and solo performances. There are soundclips, videos, photos, and personal commentary throughout. In addition to music and psychiatry, visit some of my other interests, including: At Home, The Great Outdoors, Wine, Mountain Biking, and Fly Fishing. I invite you to sign up for my email list.


VINYL LOVERS: brand new Vinyl LPs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s are available. Scroll thru the albums HERE.


Latest CD…

2023 Release Denny Zeitlin Solo Piano: Exploring George Gershwin: A concert album recorded at Piedmont Piano Company. Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2022 Release Denny Zeitlin: The Name Of This Terrain: First release of his initial electro-acoustic 1969 project Reviews-You Tube link-Purchase

2021 Release Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh: Telepathy: The third in their series of Duo Electro-Acoustic Improvisations Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2020 Release Denny Zeitlin: Live At Mezzrow: live trio album with Buster Williams & Matt Wilson recorded at Mezzrow Jazz Club, NYC. Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2019 Release Denny Zeitlin: Remembering Miles live solo piano explorations of compositions associated with Miles Davis Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2018 Release Denny Zeitlin: Wishing On The Moon: live trio album with Buster Williams & Matt Wilson recorded at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Lincoln Center, NYC. Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2017 Release Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh: Expedition Duo Electro-Acoustic Improvisations, a sequel to "Riding The Moment (2015)" Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

2016 Release Denny Zeitlin: Early Wayne Live solo piano explorations of classic Wayne Shorter compositions Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

June 2015 Release Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh: Riding The Moment Duo Electro-Acoustic improvisations integrating Jazz, classical, funk, & the avant-garde Reviews-Audioclips-Purchase

July 2014 Release Denny Zeitlin: Stairway to the Stars A live trio album with Buster Williams & Matt Wilson recorded at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles

July 2013 Release Denny Zeitlin: Both/And Solo Electro-Acoustic adventures integrating jazz, classical, funk, & the avant-garde Reviews-Audio Clips-Purchase

July 2012 Release Denny Zeitlin: Wherever You Are A solo piano album of all one mood: Ballads, gentle music, subtitled "Midnight Moods for Solo Piano". Reviews-Audioclips-Video-Purchase

June, 2011 Release Denny Zeitlin: Labyrinth Like Precipice, solo piano concert music featuring American songbook and jazz standards, original compositions, and free improvisation. Reviews-Audioclips-Video-Purchase

May, 2010 Release: Denny Zeitlin: Precipice Reviews-Audio Clips-Video-Purchase

February, 2009: Denny Zeitlin celebrated his his 70th year with simultaneous releases spanning a 45 year recording career:
Denny Zeitlin Trio In Concert Featuring Buster Williams and Matt Wilson (Sunnyside)
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Denny Zeitlin: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
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Critical Acclaim…

"...extraordinary in range, electrifying in depth and intensity, hypnotic in its flow and sweep, perfection itself..." Thomas Albright, SF Chronicle

"He is the jazz world's most visible Renaissance man, a full time practicing psychiatrist, a medical school teacher, and a world class jazz musician." Don Heckman, LA Times

"...there was a sense of play, creativity and boldness; one felt the power of improvisation as a skill and as an almost philosophical endeavor." Ben Ratliff, NY Times

"By any measure, Zeitlin's output over the past 50 years places him at Jazz's creative zenith." Andrew Gilbert, JazzTimes

More Reviews Watch Video: Denny Zeitlin Wears Many Hats

Unlocking the Creative Impulse: The Psychology of Improvisation

A highly acclaimed Lecture-Demonstration where Denny Zeitlin, wearing both hats of his dual career as a world renowned jazz pianist and composer and highly respected practicing psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at the University of California in San Francisco, invites his audience into the psychological terrain where the deepest levels of creativity can be experienced.

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