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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, Larry can 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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