Jack Reilly

Jack Reilly (also known as Sean Petrahn) (January 1, 1932 - May 18.2018) was an American jazz pianist, author and educator. Reilly was born in New York City. He learned piano from his mother, who was a classical concert pianist, and studied at Brooklyn College and the Manhattan School of Music. He played in a U.S. Navy band while stationed in Puerto Rico from 1951 to 1954, and after returning to New York continued studying at the Manhattan School of Music in a graduate program. During this time he worked with Warren Covington, Hall Overton, John LaPorta, George Russell, Lennie Tristano, and Jerry Wald. He moved to California briefly in the mid-1960s to study Indian classical music, then moved back to Manhattan, where he composed the large-scale piece Requiem Mass for Chorus and Jazz Quartet. This work was performed in New York with Sheila Jordan, Jack Six, Norman Marnell and Jack Cocuzzo. Reilly took a residency at Norway's Molde Music School in 1971, where he played with Ben Webster. He became affiliated with Mannes School of Music later that decade, and became chair of jazz studies at the New England Conservatory in 1982. Discography (incomplete) Tributes (Carousel, 1976) Marco Di Marco - Jack Reilly, with Marco Di Marco (Modern Jazz Record, 1980) November (Revelation Records, 1983) Tzu-Jan: The Sound of the Tarot volumes 1 and 2 (Unichrom, 2000)