Images
MGM Casino, Northfield OH, between tunes on a Walt Sanders concert, January 2020. This photo (and many of the best photos on my website) courtesy of professional Cleveland photographer Toni Geib (Bella Fotos Photography).
Abbey Road, NW London, England, January 2020
Adrian College's Beautiful Hammond B-3. (Photo: Megan Parsell)
Melodica in Cleveland on Walt Sanders Concert. (Photo: Toni Geib)
An Event in Toledo with Hepcat Revival
Carnegie Hall, 2010, Adrian College Choir. That's me at the piano, Shannon Ford on saxophone and Pam Wilkinson-Horst on Clarinet.
Keith Emerson's historic Modular Moog Synthesizer. Asheville, NC
Carnegie Hall, 2010
With Sax 4th Avenue at the Toledo Museum of Art. They are about to play selections from my "Jazz-Infected Fugues" in front of a modern painting entitled "Art of the Fugue" for the 4(19) Festival, August 2019
Duo Jazz with Tom Ritter at the former Degage Jazz Club, Maumee OH
Pete and Shannon with legendary keyboard tech Will Alexander (formerly Emerson's keyboard tech), before a Yes concert in 2017 (where he was Geoff Downes' keyboard tech).
Ye Olde Durty Bird, downtown Toledo, next to the Mudhens Stadium. The most consistent place in NW Ohio to hear live jazz by talented local musicians.
With Walt Sanders' backup vocalists Erica Bickhart and Cathy Belfiore, backstage prior to gig January 2020. (Photo: Toni Geib)
Hard Rocksino gig; I appear on the giant screen during Walt Sanders concert. (Photo: Dan Moyer)
Hepcat Revival, probably Cleveland area.
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada; the Woodford family living room Korg piano, signed by Keith Emerson (who had been a guest with them on different occasions). My thesis of his music is on top the piano. The Woodfords are absolutely splendid people.
Electric Bass on Alisia Chmielewski's Senior Percussion Recital at Adrian College, fall 2018.
with Walt Sanders, January 2020, MGM Grand, Northwood OH. (Photo: Toni Geib)
Toledo Museum of Art's "Castle Steinway" on one of the occasions where I got to perform with a jazz group in their Glassalon.
In British Columbia, sitting in with a blues band that just completed a tour of Russia, at the Kelowna Rotary Centre for the Arts. This picture is an electronic artifact from Jason Woodford's computer, when I was in BC for the Emerson documentary. (Photo courtesy Jason Woodford)
"School of Blues with Kenny Wayne and Sherman Doucette" was the group with which I sat in. I don't recall what the tune was/tunes were, but I seem to recall playing in "G." It is always affirming when an upright bassist smiles at a piano player!
Program page for a concert for which I wrote custom instrumentation arrangements, played about half of the concert on piano, and conducted the rest of the concert with musicians from the Toledo Jazz Orchestra. Maureen McGovern, for the uninitiated, sang theme songs to multiple Hollywood blockbuster movies in the 1970's, including "There's Got to Be a Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure.
Prominent composer Samuel Adler and his wife Emily Freeman Brown, January 16, 2016. They were sitting very close to me at at Toledo Symphony Orchestra concert I attended, and I could not resist the opportunity to get a selfie.
2010 BGSU New York Voices Camp; I worked as an auxiliary jazz pianist here for a few summers. In this pic, bassist Norm Damschroder and I back up Melody Brooke, one of dozens of talented vocalists from around the world we accompanied.
Cleveland Oktoberfest, 2017 or 2018, backup keys with Walt Sanders. Photo credit: Erica Bickhart
At a soundcheck in Ottawa, IL, circa 2016. Backup keys for three very different tributes on the same concert: "Johnny Cash," "Elton John," and "Elvis." The crowd seemed to dig all three.
Another Walt Sanders pre-concert sefie with the talented background vocalist ladies Erica Bickhart and Cathy Belfiore, here at Norwalk Ohio, July 2021
Playing piano at Hard Rock Cafe in Pittsburgh with Elvis Tribute Artist Walt Sanders, January 2013
February 25th 2022--The Pete Ford Trio in front of a Renoir still life at the Swope Museum of Art in Terre Haute, IN. I composed the "Swope Suite for Jazz Trio" for this occasion, celebrating Renoir's date of birth. Eric Schatz on bass and Scott Kretzer on drums.
Professor Ford Presenting about Jazz Piano at the Michigan Music Conference, Grand Rapids MI, January 21, 2023
Bass with Swingmania Big Band at Hollywood Casino, Toledo, May 2023
Studio Work in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for guitarist/songwriter Sammy Nyberg, June 2023
At the infamous Detroit Athletic Club, four hours of solo piano on Mother's Day 2023