Sean Wayland

about

Sean Wayland was born in Sydney, Australia, June 4th , 1969 and resides in New York now. He is well known and respected for his prolific writing, and unique harmony and rhythm. His was a musical family, his father's love of jazz enabled Sean to hear the music of Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and others as a young child. His father's mother Muriel Cohen was a concert pianist and the first Australian to perform Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'Oiseax publicly. To this day Sean is still entranced by Debussy and Messiaen. Perhaps intimidated by living up to his family's talent, Sean chose to study the violin as a child. His interest in the piano increased and as a teenager he fooled around on the instrument. The fact that he was already an accomplished fiddler and had a busy schedule playing with school orchestras etc meant that he had little time to practise piano. In his final year of high school Sean met jazz pianist John Bostock -- http://www.johnbostockmusic.com At the time in Australia it was difficult to find out about jazz and John hipped Sean to the music of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and John Coltrane. After school Sean spent a couple of years at University studying Electrical Engineering, but the seed had been sown and he came to realise that his calling in life was to be a musician. Sean studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1992 and 1993. He has had numerous piano teachers including Mike Nock, Roger Frampton, Judy Bailey, and Paul Macnamara in Australia.

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'99 Featuring Jesse Harris And Seamus Blake

Solo

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Step Inside Love-A Jazzy Tribute to the Beatles

Step Inside Love - A Jazzy Tribute To The Beatles

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Pistachio

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Waylohits 2018

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Face to Face

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Australian Rhythm Changes

Pistachio (feat. Keith Carlock, James Muller, Adam Rogers, Tim Lefebvre)

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Jazzgroove

Pistachio 2

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Lurline

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