Jeb Patton

Jeb Patton is a New York jazz pianist best known as the longtime pianist for the Heath Brothers and the Jimmy Heath Quartet, a role he has held since 1998. He studied music at Duke University and earned a masters degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, where he received the ASCAP Foundations Louis Armstrong Award for composition. A protege of the pianist Sir Roland Hanna, Patton works both as a leader and as a simpatico accompanist on the New York scene, and he has recorded for the Mack Avenue label. He also teaches piano and jazz studies at Queens College and City College.