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Denny Zeitlin celebrated his 70th year in 2009 with simultaneous releases spanning a 45 year recording career:

Denny Zeitlin Trio In Concert Featuring Buster Williams and Matt Wilson (Sunnyside) showcasing his current trio performing originals, free improvisations, jazz and songbook standards.

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Denny Zeitlin: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic) is a 3 CD re-issue of Zeitlin’s critically acclaimed trio recordings from the sixties, with one hour bonus tracks.

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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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