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garybrunotte.com herb pomeroy sincopato records non_vocal_instrumentalist piano , organ , accordion jazz , post-bop gary brunotte
 gary brunotte musician , composer
gary brunotte

gary brunotte -lrb- born 1948 -rrb- is an american post-bop jazz musician , noted as a pianist , organist , music arranger , and composer .
he is from st. paul , minnesota .
brunotte began on accordion at age 9 , but switched to organ and then piano in his 20s while attending college .
he was an instructor at the berklee college of music in -lsb- boston from 1977-1980 .
while living in boston , he studied piano with charlie banacos .
upon leaving berklee he moved to new york city , where he received a national endowment for the arts grant to write a big band suite for the boston-based herb pomeroy big band in 1981 .
from 1987 to 1991 he worked at coda music software and was instrumental in the development and release of a music notation software called finale written by phil farrand .
in 1992 brunotte recorded his debut cd for distribution by the altenburgh record label .
it included saxophonist eric marienthal , plus two members from the group flim & the bb 's .
from 2004-2007 he recorded three additional cds under his own label again using drummer bill berg formerly of flim & the bb 's .
in 2008 he released a cd on the sincopato records label with former berklee classmate and good friend , gian wiegner .
it was a quartet -lrb- organ/guitar/bass / drums -rrb- format .
brunotte currently resides in durham , north carolina and graduated in 2010 with a master of music degree - jazz studies from north carolina central university .
