Ex / sideman with Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Donald Fagen, Chris Potter and many others, Wayne Krantz has made seven acclaimed albums under his own name since 1991; three on the Enja label ("Signals", "Long to Be Loose" and "2 Drink Minimum"), one on the Alchemy label ("Separate Cages") and, most recently, the self-produced CDs "Greenwich Mean", "Your Basic Live" and "Your Basic Live '06".


Wayne's bands feature some of the best players on Earth: Keith Carlock, Tim Lefebvre, Anthony Jackson, Cliff Almond, James Genus and Paul Socolow. Incendiary gigs in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan have inspired his ever-growing fan base to continually support the projects Wayne produces through his website, www.waynekrantz.com : CDs, downloads of all his live shows and a method book he has written called "An Improviser's OS".


Wayne Krantz has given clinics and workshops worldwide, has been on faculty at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is presently on faculty at NYU/Steinhardt in...