About

Darrell Grant  is founder and director of the Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute.  A professor of jazz studies at Portland State University since 1997, he has built an international reputation as a stellar pianist, skilled composer and committed educator.  He has performed extensively both as a sideman with such jazz luminaries as Betty Carter, Tony Williams, and Roy Haynes, and as a bandleader and solo artist throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe in venues ranging from clubs to major jazz festivals.  His 1994 debut Black Art was selected as one of the year’s top ten jazz CD’s by the New York Times.  Darrell is active in the Northwest music scene as a performer, producer and presenter, as well as an advocating for arts and education.