Trio Bien

We play the full range of Jazz - Jazz Standards, Smooth Jazz, Latin-Jazz, and more!
Music to dance to, or just hang out.
We're professionals who make our living playing and teaching music. We try to fill our clients needs to the best of our ability and make our audiences happy and have a fun experience.
We love what we do and it shows.

THE JEFF KIER & THE GRILLY BROTHERS BIO/Press Release

The Jeff Kier Trio features Jeff Kier – keyboards, Dave
Grilly – woodwinds, and Lanny Grilly – drums.

The Trio performs pianist Jeff Kier's jazz compositions. Mark Stevens, a San Francisco DJ, commented, "Jeff was emerging as one of the great composers of our time." Their last CD, "Goin' Places!” by Jeff Kier & The Grilly Brothers, on the BluJazz label, with liner notes by noted Jazz Author, journalist, and Grammy Winner (2016), Neil Tesser.
The group members have a long history in Jazz and have performed with or shared the stage with such notables as Ahmad Jamal, Mose Allison, Willie Pickens (Elvin Jones), Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny), Henry Johnson (Ramsey Lewis), Chuck Webb (Aretha Franklin), Judy Roberts, Michael Arnopol (Patricia Barber), James Sanders (Chicago Sinfonietta), Fareed Haque (Sting), Nick Drozdoff (Maynard Ferguson), Oscar “Bobo” Brown III, Ed Peterson (Ellis Marsalis) …just to name a few.

Additionally, the members have played nationally at such places: Chicago’s Jazz Showcase, The Lion’s Share (San Francisco), The Desert Inn (Las Vegas), NightTown (Cleveland Heights), Small’s (New York City), and Snug Harbor (New Orleans) – as well as internationally in Paris, Rome, Tel Aviv, Negril, Jamaica, and The Jazz Café in Havana Cuba.

Their current show combines Jeff's indelible melodies and the band’s unique fusion of solid grooves and seductive world-rhythms.