Saturday's solo jazz concert at the Steinway Piano Gallery was a great success. Schaefer's keyboard virtuosity remains among the best in the jazz world-- inventive, original, technically polished and masterful in interpretation. "Hal Schaefer is one of the best solo jazz piano players alive today" |
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| "World class!" —Matt Schudel, Sun-Sentinel |
". . . a romantic with a rhythmic soul." —John S. Wilson, New York Times |
| "Innovative, resonant, deeply
felt, commercially viable and absolutely phenomenal." —David Pulizzi, Jazziz |
"Lean, unpredictable and gently dissonant." —Harvey Pekar |
| " . . . a traditional jazz
pianist with great maturity and imagination . . . to a great extent, he's unmatchable. He's unique. He has his own style, and it's very swinging and creative." —Dick King |
" . . . an uncanny knack for zeroing
in on the mood of a song that quickly moves beyond the melody into the spirit it suggests
to him." —JazzTimes |
Schaefer's eclectic career as jazz pianist, composer and arranger varies from playing with big bands led by Benny Carter, Harry James, Boyd Raeburn and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey to writing movie scores for 20th Century Fox and dance arrangements for Broadway shows such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Foxy.
