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LARRY
EANET, a Washington, DC native, began to study the piano at
the age of four and by his early teens had performed in solo recitals and as
concerto soloist with amateur orchestras. Meanwhile he was serving his jazz
apprenticeship in local small combos and dance bands. In college he was
co-leader and valve trombonist of a Chicago-style “trad” band,
Harvard’s Crimson Stompers. During the subsequent forty-three years, he
has played piano in and around the Washington, D.C. area with a great variety
of local and nationally-known artists, including Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Stan Getz,
Lee Konitz, Coleman Hawkins, Scott Hamilton, Sonny Stitt, Harry Allen, PeeWee
Russell, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett, J. J.
Johnson, Kai Winding, Urbie Green, Slam Stewart, Joe Venuti, Louie Bellson,
Milt Jackson, Red Norvo, Gary Burton, and singers Cab Calloway, Jimmy
Witherspoon, Eddie Vinson, Barbara Lea and Marlene VerPlanck. He toured
Indonesia in 1989 with the Hot Mustard band, playing in Sumatra, Java and Bali,
and toured Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in 1991 with Brooks
Tegler’s Hot Jazz. Since 1987 he has performed regularly in the Garden
Terrace of the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown (Sunday brunch) with Tommy
Cecil, bass, and Wally Garner, clarinet, and is otherwise to be heard in a
variety of local jazz venues and social situations. He has recorded with
Barbara Lea (Do It Again, on Audiophile) and has a recently-released two-volume
solo CD set on the JUMP label, as well as a quartet recording coming out on
Arbors Records in the spring of 1999. |
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