Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss is an American jazz pianist and composer based in New York, esteemed in the hard bop and straight ahead tradition as a soloist, accompanist, and arranger. Born in 1958 in Dallas, he studied at Indiana University and moved to New York in 1982, soon beginning a fifteen year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin that brought him wide critical recognition. He has worked with masters including George Coleman, Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, and Charles McPherson, and in 2000 won the grand prize in the BMI and Thelonious Monk Institute composers competition. He leads his own trio and continues to perform regularly on the New York scene.