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from the 1983 Berlin Jazz Festival
Free Improvisation/
What Is This Thing Called Love

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Latest CD…

Denny Zeitlin - Solo Voyage"Solo Voyage," an album of originals, free improvisations, jazz and songbook standards, was released by MaxJazz in June, 2005.

It features solo acoustic piano for half the album, and added synthesizer orchestration on an 8- part suite comprising the other half. Soundclips, Additional Info, Reviews

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Solo Voyage

Critical Acclaim…

“...extraordinary in range, electrifying in depth and intensity, hypnotic in its flow and sweep, perfection itself…” 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.” 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.” NY Times

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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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