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Dave Frank Master Class #60

Adding Layers to a Walking Bassline Solo Jazz Piano Performance

Dave Frank Master Class #59

Join Dave Frank for a discussion of filming his evening with Pat Martino masterclass. This video includes Dave and Pat playing a duo version of Alone Together.

Dave Frank Master Class #58

Join Dave Frank and Joe Vulpis for an advanced zoom lesson) If you can get past the zoom sound quality haha, topics include playing with a relaxed time feel, how to simulate orchestral…
Dave Frank School of Jazz – Home

Dave Frank is one of the busiest solo jazz pianists and music educators on the scene today. He is the author of the best-selling Hal Leonard book and video series, Joy of Improv and Breakthrough to Improv, was an Associate Professor of piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1987-2004, is a jazz ambassador to the US State Department, and was a co-founder of the New York School of Jazz (1983-86). Dave Frank currently lives in Peekskill, New York (about an hour north of New York City) and directs the Dave Frank School of Jazz, teaching students worldwide online seven days a week. The DFSOJ offers private instruction for aspiring musicians at all levels, as well as frequent concerts/workshops for the general public.

“Dave is going to make everyone practice! He plays circles around most of the guys out there.” 

Charlie Banacos

“Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!”

Lennie Tristano

“I was deeply moved by Power of the Piano. Dave Frank is a monster!” – 

Pat Martino

“Dave Frank is a bearer of the Tristano flame in the world of modern jazz.” 

Charles Sibirsky

“Dave’s music sounds like jazz coming from an alternate universe” 

Dave Douglas

“Dave Frank is a new force to be reckoned with in the world of jazz piano. Ballads and Burners must be heard to be believed!”

Scott Yanow

AllMusic Guide
“This guy sounds like he has twelve fingers on each hand!”
HEAR Music
“I can honestly say, after twenty-three online master classes and six years of online lessons, that I believe Dave Frank to be the best jazz piano teacher on the planet.”

Chris DeVito

President, Blue Truffle Musi
“Dave Frank is the type of original artist that comes along only once in a great while.”

Bruce Lundvall

President, Blue Note Records
“A master of thematic improvisation.”
Amsterdam Jazz Journal