ジョーイ・カルデラッツォ (Joey Calderazzo)

Joey Calderazzo
Joey Calderazzo (b. February 27, 1965 in New Rochelle, New York) is one of the leading pianists in the jazz realm. Inspired by a friend who lived next door, Calderazzo began his piano studios at age seven. He progressed rapidly in a house where other family members were also playing drums and singing, and at 14 became the youngest member of brother Gene Calderazzo's rock band. When the other, significantly older band members enrolled at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and switched their allegiance to jazz, Calderazzo set aside his passions for the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, began listening to Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner and proved that he was still able to hang with the bigger boys, including the many musicians in New York with whom he began sitting in at age 17.

Calderazzo met the late Michael Brecker at a clinic, and soon the saxophonist was introducing Calderazzo to the jazz world as part of the touring Michael Brecker Quintet beginning in 1987 and on two tracks of the his 1988 album Don't Try This at Home...
(Wikipedia: Joey Calderazzo)