George Zack

With the title of his one solo release, Party Piano of the Roaring '20s, George Zack stakes a claim as one of the liveliest of the classic jazz pianists associated with the Chicago music scene. Zack was born in the Windy City and started out his performing career in a particularly newsworthy fashion as a member of a combo of youths making music while selling papers, the Chicago News Boys Band. Some four decades later he had relocated to the considerably more temperate climate of Tucson, AZ, but was still making regular trips back to Chicago for gigs. The pianist studied at the...