An evening of live jazz music celebrating Black History Month Columbus, featuring Christopher Pitts, an acclaimed pianist based in Indianapolis.
About Christopher Pitts
Pianist and composer, Christopher Pitts, is focused on connecting the deep roots of the jazz piano tradition with modern sensibilities through energetic performance, thoughtful collaboration, and aesthetic focused compositions. Christopher’s music stems from his eclectic mixture of influences from Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Trip Hop, Funk, Hip Hop, and traditional music from around the world.
Christopher joined forces with “Clint Breeze and the Groove” as keyboardist/co-composer and recorded their debut album and shared the stage with “Durand Jones and The Indications” and “Trombone Shorty”. Christopher has been featured with the Sean Imboden Large Ensemble on WCIR 88.7 Jazz at the Point, on 99.1 with local legend Rob Dixon at the “Mayors Ball” and at the Indianapolis Artsgarden with Sedalia Marie.
Christopher collaborated with visual artists, rhythmic dancer, poets, and musicians to deliver the story of Indianapolis’s diverse artistic community as musical director of “Convergence: Connecting Our Shared Experience Through Performance and Prose”. This program was nominated for the “Awesomeness Award” at the 2018 Spirit and Place Festival.
In 2018, Christopher teamed up with Robert Newport to bring arts and culture to the historic McGowan Hall in Indianapolis’s Old Northside. Christopher’s piano trio “CP3” hosts live music at the “First Friday After Party” and recently collaborated with Michael Graves and The Bridge collective to feature curated art for the event.
Christopher is currently working on composing music for the Christopher Pitts Piano Trio, who held a residency at Chatterbox Jazz club in the summer of 2019, and the Evan Drybread Quartet, who will complete a residency at Chatterbox Jazz Club in the winder of 2019 . Christopher is committed to using his art to further the jazz piano tradition through collaboration with the arts and community engagement.
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Black History Month Columbus is about celebrating Black culture, telling the true stories of Black history, and honoring the legacy and accomplishments of the Black community. Join us as we are creating a momentum for community healing through inspiring and educational experiences, and we warmly invite our neighbors from all walks of life to participate.