Harbour Bar
Friday 2nd May. Time 6.30pm
Pianist Greg Murphy played for more than 20 years with Rashied Ali, former John Coltrane drummer, on the New York scene.
He appears here with top-line Irish rhythm section, Cormac O’Brien on bass and drummer Shane O’Donovan.
A world class pianist, Greg Murphy has also worked with Ornette Coleman, Carlos Santana and Archie Shepp. His 2019 album ‘Bright Idea’ was #1 in the jazz charts.
Greg began his musical adventures in 1971 when he joined the Ray-Fisk Grammar School Band in Chicago.
A jazz study grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984 gave Greg the opportunity to go to New Orleans and study with the eminent pianist and jazz educator, Ellis Marsalis. He began recording and performing with The New Orleans Jazz Couriers, Percussion Incorporated, and his own group, The Fusicians. While living in New Orleans, Greg performed with Donald Harrison, Wynton Marsalis, and countless other great musicians.
He moved to New York in 1987 and began what had become a long association with Rashied Ali. Greg performed and recorded with Ali and his various groups throughout Europe, Canada and The United States from 1987 until Rashied passed away in 2009.
Throughout his career, Greg has performed extensively in the US, France, Ireland, Japan, China, The Philippines and beyond with his own trio and other groups. He’s also worked in New York with Ornette Coleman and in France with Carlos Santana and Archie Shepp. In 2012, Greg recorded the theme song “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” for the HBO documentary Redemption, which received a 2013 Academy Award nomination for best documentary short.