Greg Burk

Post-bop pianist Greg Burk was born in Lansing, MI, to parents both active in classical music. He studied piano from a young age, sometimes with his improv-minded grandmother, and joined his high school's jazz band while playing gigs for pay on the side. He studied at UMass-Amherst with Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp, and finished his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan. After college, he moved to Bratislava, Slovakia, and toured central Europe with his own trio for a year before returning home. Burk hit the jazz scene in Detroit and Ann Arbor hard, honing his perfo...