🏳️‍🌈 For #PrideMonth, I’m celebrating the legacy of queer genius Cole Porter with his 1930 classic “Love for Sale.”

Porter’s music reminds us that daring artistry and queer visibility have long been intertwined.

#QueerJazz #LoveForSale #JazzPiano #ColePorter #EricScottReed #OutLate #YamahaPiano

🏳️‍🌈 For #PrideMonth, I recorded Billy Strayhorn’s “U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group),” written in 1955. Strayhorn was a queer Black genius who spoke boldly—through beauty.

#QueerJazz #UMMG #BillyStrayhorn #PrideMusic #JazzHistory #Pride2025 #LGBTQJazz #YamahaPiano #OutLate

Jazz for Relief LA
Monday, January 27, 2025
The World Stage, Leimert Park
#Jazz4ReliefLA

Here is an insturmental solo piano snippet of a song I wrote called “The Thorn”. Rapper Kendrick Lamar sampled it for his iconic work “Rigamortis” on his album “Section.80”.

#KendrickLamar #TheyNotLikeUs #GNX #Rigamortis #Rigormortis #Section.80 #Section80 #TheThorn

#Travel #BlueSkyTravel #

Do you recognize these chord changes? #JazzSky #SkyJazz #JazzPiano #JazzShed #JazzPractice #JazzImprovisation #PopStandards #YamahaPiano

“Thelonious” (Thelonious Monk) #JazzPiano #TheloniousMonk #JazzStandards #JazzSky #SkyJazz