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A Foggy Day ezweiss 18 views "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin) Ezra Weiss, piano Jon Shaw, bass Chaz Mortimer, drums January 18, 2012 Ivories Jazz Lounge Portland, Oregon
Song for Balkis (Billy Hart) - Ezra Weiss Trio with Jon Shaw and Chaz Mortimer ezweiss 25 views "Song for Balkis" Composition by Billy Hart Harmonization by Ezra Weiss Ezra Weiss, piano Jon Shaw, bass Chaz Mortimer, drums January 18, 2012 Ivories Jazz Lounge Portlan...
What I Can Never Say - Ezra Weiss Quartet with Eddie Parente, Jon Shaw, and Chaz Mortimer ezweiss 63 views "What I Can Never Say" (Ezra Weiss) The Ezra Weiss Quartet Eddie Parente, violin Ezra Weiss, piano Jon Shaw, bass Chaz Mortimer, drums December 13, 2011 The Camellia Loun...
Layla-Joy (Billy Hart) ezweiss 31 views In honor of Jabali Billy Hart's birthday, my quartet played his composition "Layla-Joy." Please enjoy! "Layla Joy" (Billy Hart) The Ezra Weiss Quartet Ben Fowler, alto s...
Winter Machine ezweiss 15 views "Winter Machine" (Ezra Weiss) The Ezra Weiss Quartet Ben Fowler, alto saxophone Ezra Weiss, piano Jon Shaw, bass Chaz Mortimer November 8, 2011 The Camellia Lounge Portla...
Before You Know It ezweiss 67 views "Before You Know It" (Ezra Weiss) The Ezra Weiss Sextet Paul Mazzio, trumpet Ben Fowler, alto saxophone Renato Caranto, tenor saxophone Ezra Weiss, piano Andre St. James, ...
Ezra Weiss Kickstarter Update 8 ezweiss 105 views http://kck.st/n5kRHs
Kickstarter Update 7 - Wayfaring Stranger ezweiss 41 views http://kck.st/n5kRHs Hi Everybody! Here's an excerpt from another big band chart from my Junior Recital that we'll be updating for the CD. Photos of Oberlin by Barry Weiss...
Kickstarter Update 6 ezweiss 91 views http://kck.st/n5kRHs An excerpt from "Crazy Lucky" performed at my Junior Recital at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. This was the first big band composition I wrote, an...
Kickstarter Campaign - Ezra Weiss and the Rob Scheps Big Band with Greg Gisbert ezweiss 90 views http://kck.st/n5kRHs My name is Ezra Weiss, and my dream is to record a CD of original compositions for big band. I've written a bunch of big band music over the years, bu...

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Composer/pianist Ezra Weiss has released three CD's as a leader: The Five A.M. Strut (2003), Persephone (2005), and Get Happy (2007). All of these CD's have received national and international acclaim from press and radio.

Ezra has composed and/or arranged music for Billy Hart, Thara Memory, Rob Scheps Big Band, Leon Lee Dorsey, Stan Bock, and Renato Caranto, among others, and has performed with Billy Hart, Greg Bandy, Michael Philip Mossman, Antonio Hart, Thara Memory, Rob Scheps, Renato Caranto, and Dennis Rowland, and co-led the Courtney Bryan/Ezra Weiss Jazz Orchestra. He has led bands in many of the country's greatest clubs including Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, Smalls, and Tonic in NYC; Ryles in Boston; Nighttown in Cleveland; Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia; The Triple Door in Seattle; Jimmy Maks in Portland; and Catalinas in Los Angeles

He has also composed music and lyrics to two children's musicals: Alice in Wonderland: a Jazz Musical (2009) and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2010). Both musicals were designed to expose young children to jazz.

Ezra has won the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award three times. He holds a Bachelors in Jazz Composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Masters in Jazz Piano Performance from Queens College. His teachers have included Wendell Logan, Neal Creque, and Bruce Barth. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches at Portland State University.

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