Dan Siegel, Smooth jazz Artist

Dan Siegel is a highly respected pianist, composer, and record producer. He has 21 solo albums, and hundreds of other producing, arranging, composing and performing credits in his extensive recording career. He holds a BS in Music Composition and a MM in Jazz Studies, and studied piano in Boston with the legendary Madam Chaloff.

After graduating from the University of Oregon, Dan began recording his own compositions with his band. In 1979 he was signed to Inner City Records, a New York based independent jazz label. His second album, “The Hot Shot” (1981), reached No.1 on the Radio & Records Jazz Chart and remained in Billboard’s Top 10 selling Jazz albums for 10 weeks.

Born: Seattle, Washington, USA

Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz

Siegel was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Eugene, Oregon. When he was eight, he began piano lessons, and at 12 he was performing professionally in a rock band. He went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, then the University of Oregon. After college, he started recording his own compositions. He signed with the jazz record label Inner City Records and recorded his first album, “Nite Ride” (1980). His second album, “The Hot Spot” (1982), reached the top ten of the jazz chart in Billboard magazine.

He moved to Los Angeles and composed music for movies and television. In 1986 he signed with Epic Records and released a series of smooth jazz albums.

Dan has traveled and performed around the world in support of his numerous Top 10 recordings, and maintains a global audience.

Over the years, his albums have provided an abundance of diverse material, from the electronic oriented “Another Time, Another Place” (1984), (with Patrick O’Hearn and Alex Acuna) which Keyboard Magazine called the best keyboard oriented fusion LP of the year, to the exotic world music direction of “Hemispheres” (1995), which features an ensemble of eclectic musicians including; Bela Fleck, Ottmar Liebert, Andy Narell, Osamu Kitajima, and Dori Caymmi, playing in unique and unlikely combinations. He has produced several other projects, one of which is the group Birds of a Feather, a gathering of world-renown musicians that has included Larry Carlton, Boney James and Ernie Watts. Dan is a frequent traveler to Asia and in 1995 went to Beijing, to record and produce China’s first jazz band, Tien Square.

Dan Siegel’s work as a TV and film composer has included the score for the cult film, Reform School Girls (1986), and Universal Studios dramatic TV series, Hard Copy (1987).

He has worked as musical director/ conductor on the late night CBS TV show, Overtime with Pat O’Brien (1990). Dan has played on numerous TV and film projects as a session player, including the Oscar winning film, The Usual Suspects.

He has recorded and performed with a variety of artists including: Glenn Frey (The Eagles), Chaka Khan, Berlin, Philip Bailey (Earth Wind & Fire), Kenny Rankin, Hugh Masekela, Joe Sample, Herbie Hancock and the London Symphony Orchestra. His music was also featured on the Weather Channel’s Local Forecast segments from 1986 to 1991.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Siegel_(musician)

http://www.dansiegelmusic.com/biography/