Graham Messer

NO COVER, NO DOOR CHARGE, NO TICKET NEEDED FOR THIS SHOW ONLY. ENJOY!

At just 23 years of age, Graham is a young gun making a name for himself in the world of Jazz today. A dyed-in-the-wool bebop pianist, he seeks to uphold the tradition of Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, and Barry Harris, among others, and treats their music equally as soul food, and as ground for intellectual exploration, fertile as any music of the great European masters of the last 400 years. 

Armed with a rigorous classical training, he has, to quote one local great, "made a substantive contribution towards raising the 'mean tempo' of the tunes played within this sector of the S.F. jazz scene", though he feels just as at home on a contemplative ballad or a slow blues.

You may find Graham performing under either one of his apt pseudonyms: Dud Powell…