DIAL & OATTS
Genres: Progressive Big Band, Third Stream, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Big Band • United States

Pianist, composer, producer, and teacher Garry Dial and saxophonist Dick Oatts had already put together impressive résumés before joining together to form the post-bop duo Dial & Oatts in 1990. A native of Iowa, Oatts joined the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra soon after moving to New York in 1972. Since then, he's gone on to work with a diverse range of jazz and Latin musicians including Eddie Gomez, Jerry Bergonzi, Lester Bowie, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Paquito D'Rivera, Tito Puente, and Gunther Schuller. A member of the Red Rodney/Ira Sullivan Quintet in the late '70s and early '80s, Dial appeared on the group's Grammy-nominated albums Live at the Village Vanguard in 1980 and Ira Sullivan Does It All in 1981. In addition to brief stints as pianist for James Moody and Gerry Mulligan, he played on three albums and a video by folk-pop trio the Roches. A longtime student of read more...