Danny Grissett

Danny Grissett (born 1975) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.

Early life Grissett was born in Los Angeles in 1975. He first played the piano at the age of five, taking classical music lessons. Grissett released his first album as a leader in 2006, on the Criss Cross label, for whom he has continued to record. Promise and his following album, Encounters, were trio recordings with Vicente Archer (bass) and Kendrick Scott (drums). His next album, Form, from 2008, added saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and trombonist Steve Davis to the trio.

Playing style A Down Beat reviewer in 2010 commented that Grissett employed "strategies drawn from Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Clark to tell cogent stories that carry his own harmonic and rhythmic signature."

Discography An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.

As leader/co-leader

As sideman