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Tim Ray

Tim Ray is a pianist, composer, arranger, musical director, and educator whose leader recordings complement extensive jazz and vocal collaborations.

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Career Overview

About Tim Ray

Berklee identifies Ray as a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, musical director, and professor whose work spans more than one hundred recordings. Its faculty biography documents long associations with Tony Bennett and Lyle Lovett alongside performances with leading jazz artists and orchestras.[1]

Ray’s six-album leader catalog moves among solo piano, trios, and the string-and-piano project Tre Corda. Excursions & Adventures places his trio writing with John Patitucci and Terri Lyne Carrington, while his artist-run Bandcamp preserves the earlier trio session No More Dolphins.[1][2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, pianist, composer, and arranger

Tim Ray leader groups

Berklee documents six albums under Ray’s name, ranging from solo piano to trio sessions and the expanded instrumentation of Tre Corda.[1][2]

Pianist and musical director

Tony Bennett and Lyle Lovett

Ray served as Bennett’s musical director and pianist from 2016 through 2021 after more than fifteen years of touring work with Lovett.[1]

Professor, pianist, and clinician

Berklee piano department

Ray teaches private piano, recital preparation, and music associated with Jarrett, Hancock, and Corea while maintaining an active performing practice.[1]

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Recordings to Know

Windows

Leader, pianist, and composer

Berklee includes Windows in Ray’s six-record leader catalog and identifies it among the recordings shaped by his jazz-piano practice.[1]

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Tre Corda

Leader, pianist, composer, and arranger

Tre Corda expands Ray’s leader work beyond the conventional piano trio through a chamber-scaled string and piano setting.[1][2]

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2020 · Whaling City Sound

Excursions & Adventures

Trio leader, pianist, and composer

The trio recording joins Ray with bassist John Patitucci and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington in a leader program documented by Berklee.[1][2]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Oct 10, 7:00 PM

Donna Byrne Quartet

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sat, Oct 10, 8:45 PM

Donna Byrne Quartet

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sat, Oct 17, 7:00 PM

April Hall Quintet

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sat, Oct 17, 8:45 PM

April Hall Quintet

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Faculty biography, collaborations, and leader catalog

    Berklee College of Music

  2. [2] Official recording and performance archive

    Tim Ray

  3. [3] Artist-authorized trio recording

    Tim Ray