Denny Zeitlin

An engaging, often exploratory pianist, Denny Zeitlin began his career in the '60s crafting intimate, deeply harmonic acoustic jazz. Issuing albums like 1964's Cathexis and 1967's Zeitgeist, he also balanced his highly respected musical career with his other profession as a practicing psychiatrist and professor. Later experimentations with electronics, as well as forays into classical composition and jazz-rock, fueled his creative engine, informing his soundtrack to the classic 1978 sci-fi/horror remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Though he remains a highly inventive pe...