Sean Wayland

Piano
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Sean Wayland, Desmond White & Jimmy Macbride
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Sean Wayland , Nate Wood & Sam Minaie
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The Sean Wayland Trio
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11/25/2009
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The Jon Gordon Nonet
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The Sean Wayland Quintet
10/20/2008
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The Matt Geraghty Group
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The Jon Gordon Quartet
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His was a musical family, his father's love of jazz enabled Sean tohear the music of Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and others as a youngchild. His father's mother Muriel Cohen was a concert pianist and thefirst Australian to perform Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'Oiseaxpublicly. To this day Sean is still entranced by Debussy and Messiaen.Perhaps intimidated by living up to his family's talent, Sean chose tostudy the violin as a child. His interest in the piano increased andas a teenager he fooled around on the instrument. The fact that he wasalready an accomplished fiddler and had a busy schedule playing withschool orchestras etc meant that he had little time to practise piano.In his final year of high school Sean met jazz pianist John Bostock. At the time in Australia it was difficult to find out about jazz andJohn hipped Sean to the music of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and JohnColtrane. After school Sean spent a couple of years at Universitystudying Electrical Engineering, but the seed had been sown and hecame to realise that his calling in life was to be a musician. Seanstudied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1992 and 1993. He has had numerous piano teachers including Mike Nock, RogerFrampton, Judy Bailey, Paul Macnamara in Australia. In New York he hasstudied with Barry Harris, Kevin Hayes , Geoff Keezer, GeorgeColligan, Sam Yahel and Bruce Barth. While at the Conservatorium hereceived the Jack Chrostowski piano award. In 1993 he was a finalistin the National Jazz Piano Awards at the Wangaratta Festival. In 1999Sean recieved a grant from the Australia Council to study jazz pianoin New York which helped him to relocate there. Sean has worked for a number of internationally renowned musiciansincluding : Allan Holdsworth, Wayne Krantz, Jon Gordon, Jon Iragabon, David Binney, Madeliene Peyroux, Tom Guarna, Tim Miller,Ingrid Jensen, Jon Gordon, Dave Smith , Dan Pratt, Ike Sturm , CornellDupree, Jesse Harris, Sheryl Bailey, Gerald Hayes, Dale Barlow,Justine Clark, Phil Slater , Jackie Orsascky, Steve Hunter, JamesMuller and Steve MckennaSean has released over 10 critically acclaimed CDs, featuringmusicians such as Adam Nussbaum,Dennis Irwin,Seamus Blake, ChadWackerman, Steve Kirby, Alvester Garnett, Jesse Harris, James Muller,Jochen Rueckert, Matt Penman, Donny McCaslin and Will Vinson .Sean has successfully toured internationally. He has performed in manycountries including U.S.A ,China, Japan, England, Germany , Hong Kongand New Zealand under his own name. In 2004 , with his trio, Sean madethe first instructional jazz DVD produced in China by foreigners.As well as recording his own CDs he has appeared on numerous otherjazz releases including albums by David Binney , Elana Stone, TimHopkins, Banana, John Mackie and Nick McBride and Luca Benedetti.Sean's compositions and arrangements have featured on albums by JamesMuller , Lily Dior , The Jazzgroove MothershipOrchestra , Matt McMahonand more .Sean's most well known CD internationally is "Colossus of Rhodes"released by prestigious Japanese label DIW. Sean has recorded over 8critically acclaimed CDs which feature his original compositions. Theyinclude: Fangin (SEED 001) with Adam Armstrong and Nick McBride;Stolen Van (RUFUS 035) featuring works by contempory songwriters suchas Steely Dan and Elvis Costello; Stevo (SEED 002) featuring AdamNussbaum and Dennis Irwin; and 99 (SEED 004) with Seamus Blake (MingusBig Band), Alvester Garnett (Regina Carter), Steve Kirby (Elvin Jones)and others;South Pacific Soul (SEED 005);Colossus of Rhodes (DIW) withMatt Penman and Jochen Ruckert; Lurline(SEED 006) with Matt Penman andJochen Ruckert.Australian Rhythm Changes ( SEED 007) with Chad Wackerman, JamesMuller, Andrew Gander etc download bio photo for press (300 dpi JPEG,433kb)"Solo" ( SEED 008 ) . Solo piano compositions and improvisations."Expensive Habit " ( SEED CD009 ) with Jochen Rueckert , Matt Penman,Donny McCaslin , Will Vinson and James Muller.weblinks:www.seanwayland.com