Mark Kramer is a Philadelphia-born jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and producer/engineer.

Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra mentored him on violin from the age of five. His early jazz performances, in his teens and twenties included those with Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

 and Randy Brecker

Randy Brecker

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, Charles Fambrough

Charles Fambrough

Charles Fambrough was a Jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Fambrough was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s...

, Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...

, and Eric Gravatt

Eric Gravatt

Eric Kamau Grávátt is a jazz drummer who has played with McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Weather Report, and others.-Discography:With Julian Priester*Love, Love...

. Over the next decades his trio went on to record a series of specialty productions including:

• the largest known body of jazz renditions of complete Broadway shows, including Evita en Jazz (distributed internationally by Telarc International records), The Sound of Music/Jazz, Jazz Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, Rent, Sophisticated Ladies, and others
• A recording and reharmonization of an entire symphony by a jazz trio: Mozart’s G minor
  Symphony No. 25 (Mozart)
  The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated...
  
   (K.550), Eroica
  Eroica Classical Recordings
  Eroica Classical Recordings is a leading classical record label, based in Carpinteria, California in the United States. It is internationally recognized for its Bartók recordings, and discoverer of new talents...
  
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• Jazz versions of principal themes from the John Williams
  John Williams
  John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
  
   score of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, released in the United States and India as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. The film is the first instalment in the Harry Potter film series,...
  
   (Eroica label)
• a compilation of jazz renditions of the music of The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
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Thus, to date, the main part of Kramer’s musical career has been as an arranger and leader of his own trios.

In addition, from the mid-1990s his collaboration with co-leader - legendary bassist Eddie Gomez

Eddie Gomez

Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...

 - has produced a far ranging catalogue of duo and trio recordings, including the Art of the Heart on Art of Life Records(released May 2006.) These recording are reminiscent of those produced by pianist Bill Evans

Bill Evans

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

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External links

• http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=1485 official biography
• http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/Mark-Kramer/