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Cyrus Chestnut
American jazz composer and pianist
Baltimore, United States • b. 1963-01-17
Cyrus Chestnut is credited on 249 releases across 106 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
249
Pressings credited
106
Albums
5
Decades active
11
In collections
Biography
Cyrus Chestnut (born January 17, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer. In 2006, Josh Tyrangiel, music critic for Time, wrote: "What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes and play space."
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
249 releases · 106 albums · active 1985–2025
- Performance · 471
- Other credits · 43
- Production · 21
Studios: Clinton Recording Studio · The Hey Hey Club · Points West Recording · Sound On Sound, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Cyrus Chestnut Trio
- Vincent Herring
- Denise Jannah
- Betty Carter
- Kim Waters
- Harrison/Blanchard
- James Carter (3)
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