gallery of selected videos
2025 MARK KRAMER | BREAKOUT LEAGUE 16:9 EDITED FORM
Part of the first collection of Immersive Alt-JAZZ Trips! 🔆Mark Kramer | BREAKOUT LEAGUE | “BEYOND ”
🔆Full duration MP4 only at: https://mark-kramer.com/BEYOND
"Beyond Belief" unfolds a story where exotic textures provide the anchor for simple trio improvisations. It was a thrill to weave in unique sounds like tablas, bowed cymbals, and my old cello.
GO TO: https://www.youtube.com/@BEYONDAUDIOVISUALS/videos ✨where you will find video samples of all 13 tracks. Even before their prerelease on the revenue-null major platforms, full duration audio can be streamed at https://mark-kramer.com/BEYOND. PLEASE consider supporting my dedication by BUYING some videos, DONATING whatever you can, and SHARING with your network. All of these pixels do cost!
2024 MARK KRAMER: A Jazz Legend's Solo Hour
This documentary captures an hour-long performance by jazz pianist Mark Kramer at Arkadia University, Pennsylvania on March 1st, 2024. The event, attended by around 100 guests, opens with a spirited introduction by Professor Samuel Heifetz, a renowned international pianist, composer, educator, and orchestrator. Heifetz had been a decades long admirer of Kramer's recordings from afar; he compares Kramer to Evans, Peterson, Corea and Hancock, saying that, like them, Kramer has developed his own highly distinctive recognizable style and innovations. He expresses his delight at having been personally invited to one of Kramer’s local concerts a few weeks prior , and reveals his surprise at discovering (who he terms as “legendary”) that the musician lived nearby.
"OL' MAN RIVER "
the Mark Kramer Trio with Eric Kamau Gravatt | drums and Craig Thomas | bass
Filmed 20. Jan 2019, USA
"JU JU"
The Mark Kramer Trio | Eric Kamau Gravatt | Craig Thomas |
Filmed 20. Jan 2019, USA
"CANTALOUPE ISLAND -2019"
The Mark Kramer Trio | Eric Kamau Gravatt | Craig Thomas |
Filmed 20. Jan 2019, USA
"SILENT NIGHT"
The Mark Kramer Trio | Eric Kamau Gravatt | Craig Thomas |
Filmed 20. Jan 2019, USA
"I LOVES YOU, PORGY"
The Mark Kramer Trio | Eric Kamau Gravatt | Craig Thomas |
Filmed 20. Jan 2019, USA
THE REALITY of SILENT NIGHT - SOLO JAZZ PIANO
Please kindly receive this solo piano jazz version of Silent Night. Recorded late yesterday evening (12/24/20), its vibrations convey Peace, Health, Happiness, and Equanimity. Above all, an omnipresence - manifesting faith, love, hope, and consciousness - can channel through us. May we be moved to befriend and bear witness to this presence. Our wish to serve as its conduit is to be very human.
Believe me, the melody is there: just concentrate!
Best to all, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Filmed on 24 DEC 2020.
"SWEET WAY" the Mark Kramer | Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Billy Drummond Filmed in late 2016, USA
"AS IS" A Mark Kramer original played by the Mark Kramer / Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Billy Drummond Filmed in late 2016, USA
"SONG IN HEART" the Mark Kramer | Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Billy Drummond Filmed in late 2016, USA
the Mark Kramer | Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Billy Drummond a Mark Kramer original from
the release "The Art of Music" Filmed in late 2016, USA
"Improvising with an old friend, Reel 2 " Mark Kramer | Eric Kamau Gravatt. After a 40 year hiatus, drummer Eric Kamau Gravatt (McCoy Tyner, Weather Report, et al) and pianist Mark Kramer ( Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Bruno, et al) are caught catching up. Fiery, raw, real improv on "The Wind, Gone With" - rooted in Philly's 1960s to well beyond the region and year, Flip-side of impressionistic approach, no less disciplined. Filmed in June 2018, USA
"TROUBLED TIMES"
A Mark Kramer Original played by the Mark Kramer Trio featuring Gary Mazzaroppi, bass, John Mosemann on drums.
Contains some biographical material. Filmed in 2011, PA. USA
In Italy at Teatro Garabaldi Version the Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Mark Kramer and Joe LaBarbera Filmed in 2010, Italy
"A BEGINNING" A Mark Kramer original played by the Eddie Gomez Trio featuring Mark Kramer and Joe LaBarbera Filmed 2010 in Modica Italy (very end is missing)
"BELIEVE, IF YOU MUST, IN SPRING"
From an Evening with Eddie Gomez, with Mark Kramer . A unique studio recording of this selection is also available from the release "Troubled Times" (Believe in Spring [Hope in Snopes[) Filmed in 2005 , NYC
We are always adding videos, Some of those in the works are pretty rare! We will announce in the BLOG and NEWS.