Rob Clearfield

Review:

This is the forty sixth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.

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Rob Clearfield is a Chicago-based pianist and guitarist who studied at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

He has worked along the way with Patricia Barber, Howard Levy, Marquis Hill and other fine local musicians, leading eight albums of his original music and co-leading the group Persona with saxophonist Caroline Davis.

On his LiveStream from May 29, 2020, Rob Clearfield plays a relaxed solo set on his electric keyboard including an impressionistic and moody original to open the performance, “Georgia On My Mind,” and other pieces including a somber jazz waltz that is influenced by classical music; he has no difficulty holding one’s interest during his often-introspective program.

– Scott Yanow