Johnny O'Neal Trio with Warren Wolf at Keystone Korner Baltimore

Whether as a pianist or as a singer, the legendary Johnny O'Neal has been one of the most powerfully compelling musical storytellers in the entire world for the past several decades. Johnny is a grandmaster entertainer in the most artistic sense of that word. After forty-plus years as a professional pianist, vocalist and entertainer, Johnny O’Neal has earned the title of “master” with fellow musicians and audiences around the world.

Highlights of his awe-inspiring career include stints with Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, as well as a Carnegie Hall debut in 1985 on solo piano opening for Oscar Peterson and induction into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998. There is little wonder he was tapped to play virtuoso pianist Art Tatum in the Academy Award-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray....

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Whether as a pianist or as a singer, the legendary Johnny O'Neal has been one of the most powerfully compelling musical storytellers in the entire world for the past several decades. Johnny is a grandmaster entertainer in the most artistic sense of that word. After forty-plus years as a professional pianist, vocalist and entertainer, Johnny O’Neal has earned the title of “master” with fellow musicians and audiences around the world.

Highlights of his awe-inspiring career include stints with Ray Brown, Milt Jackson and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, as well as a Carnegie Hall debut in 1985 on solo piano opening for Oscar Peterson and induction into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1998. There is little wonder he was tapped to play virtuoso pianist Art Tatum in the Academy Award-winning Ray Charles biopic Ray.

Johnny O'Neal, piano and vocals
Warren Wolf, vibraphone
Mark Lewandowski, bass
Charles Goold, drums

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