Ryan Burns Music

Press: Ryan Burns - Electronic Keyboardist

"Keyboardist Ryan Burns has a controlled style on organ, Moog and Fender Rhodes, the latter played with a gorgeous chime-like tone."
-Scott Albin, Jazz Times

"On Fender Rhodes, Ryan Burns re-minds listeners that the instrument was one of the
most successful attempts at an electric, piano-like sound. And, while it can sound retro-hip now,
it also can be hip, plain and simple, and that's a far more worthy accomplishment."

"...in the wake of all the good that Weather Report and Miles Davis had done
for jazz electronification, he generally steers well clear of what are, at this remove, its many cliche's."
-Peter Monaghan, Earshot Jazz

"...with keyboardist Ryan Burns pulling wah-wah guitar sounds out of the ether, or maybe it's his Fender Rhodes,
though I've never heard those sounds from one before."
- Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

Burns' concoction of mysterioso fizzing and burbling adds menace and mystery...
- Christopher Delaurenti, The Stranger

"The jazz/rock aesthetic comes in large part from Burns, for whom there are no limits to the noises made on his keyboards."
- Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

"And the most underrated but important part of any Classic Rock band,
Ryan Burns throws out his keys with reckless abandon."
-Christopher Ryan Disario, Seattle Sinner

"Burns snakes his way through the disc with inventive soloing and distorted synth clusters. His out-of- left-field accompaniment on the second half of “Crazy” is worth the price of admission."
- John Barron, All About Jazz

Press: Ryan Burns - Pianist/Composer

"Burns has a fantastically fertile brain, prodding the music with unexpected voicings and twisted runs; as with the best pianists, his comping is as intriguing as his solos."
-Mark D. Fefer, Seattle Weekly

"Solid on piano, forthrightly bluesy, Ryan Burns is one of those workmanlike pianists you could listen
to pleasurably all night. He catches your attention
for how steadily and appealingly he plays piano."
-Peter Monaghan, Earshot Jazz

"Burns continues to impress as a composer. It's good to see that Seattle's
promising new mainstream talent has much to offer."
-Jim Santella, Cadence Magazine

"Burns' energetic and bright piano technique is both melodic and bluesy and shows
the marked influence of Ahmad Jamal, McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington."
-Eric Madis, Victory Review