A five, six, seven, eight…
Come on down and swing along to the best ragtime, stride, and jazz the Big Apple has to offer. With special performances on select Thursdays and sprinkled spontaneously throughout the season.
Find Piano in Bryant Park on the Upper Terrace at the base of the William Cullen Bryant Statue behind the New York Public Library.
Sue Maskaleris
Thelonious Monk Award, Composer
“A touch like Bill Evans.” - McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane Quartet
Sue Maskaleris is an award-winning pianist, singer, composer, lyricist, arranger, and producer. She has lived in and around NYC for over 40 years, performing and touring the world as a bandleader and soloist. Sue performs a seemingly endless repertoire of unusual material and reconceived standards, but Brazilian jazz and Latin jazz are her wheelhouse. Sue’s CD of original Brazilian jazz, Bring Nothing But Your Heart debuted at #3 nationally, featuring Mark Egan and Horacio “El Negro” Hernández. Sue’s latest CD, Love Is the Key featured Grammy-nominees violinist Sara Caswell and drummer Mauricio Zottarelli, as well as percussionist Nêgah Santos from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and was met to critical acclaim. In addition to piano, Sue also dabbles in electric and acoustic violin, upright and 5-string bass, Brazilian guitar, and sings in six languages. She has held an annual week in the Piano in Bryant Park series for nearly 20 years, thanks to Cobi Narita and Paul Ash!
Thank you for the music!
Many thanks to Sam Ash Music Stores for their support through the years.
