Gerald Clayton

Pianist Gerald Clayton is an adept improviser and composer with a style steeped in post-bop jazz traditions, but whose work has grown ever more stylistically daring, exploring classical, Latin and DJ-inspired electronic textures. Since his emergence in the early '00s playing alongisde his father, bassist John Clayton, he has helped to shape a number of high-profile jazz projects, contributing to albums by Roberta Gambarini, Diana Krall, Roy Hargrove, and Ambrose Akinmusire. His own trio dates, including 2009's Two Shade and 2011's Bond: The Paris Sessions (with bassist Joe San...