ROGER DAVIDSON
Genres: Latin Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk, World Fusion, Third Stream, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Cool Jazz • France

Roger Davidson was born in Paris in 1952 to a French mother and an American father. The family moved to New York when he was a year old. He started playing piano on his own at 4, and taking violin lessons at 8. “Playing the piano is all I did. We didn’t have a TV,” he reminisces. “Two things I did as a kid for entertainment: I climbed up the piano bench and played, and I read about cars, a hobby I still have.” Although he taught himself how to read and write music, Davidson learned to play through improvising, a practice that has served him well as a jazz pianist. But, he says, “I had to take piano lessons in graduate school because I had to learn repertoire.” He attended Boston University, studying with David Del Tredici and Theodore Antoniou among others, and earning a master’s degree in composition in read more...