Glenna Powrie

Although she can handle straight-ahead settings, the New York-based electric keyboardist/acoustic pianist Glenna Powrie has preferred to devote much of her time to playing and composing fusion, jazz-funk, and crossover jazz. Powrie is not a native New Yorker; the Canadian improviser was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, but she moved to the Big Apple in 1985 to further her career as a musician/composer. Many jazz-oriented artists who move to New York from other cities work as sidemen in hard bop or post-bop groups and play a lot of Tin Pan Alley standards -- even...