Chris Geith is an American composer and arranger of
contemporary jazz and
New Age music. His band, The Chris Geith Group, signed with
Jive Records
Jive Records was an American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary to the Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chicago. Jive was best known for its successes with hip hop, R&B, an ...
in Asia in 2001. The band has been no. 1 in the contemporary jazz, Jazz Fusion, and Contemporary Urban/ R&B charts on
MP3.com. In 1995
Keyboard Magazine
''Keyboard'' is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, inc ...
awarded him the top spot for his composition "Sunrise Hunter" at their 20th Anniversary Keyboard Competition. His music can be heard on
The Weather Channel,
Music Choice cable,
Sirius XM radio, and on a number of different national TV shows including
VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network based in New York City and owned by Paramount Global. It was created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Commun ...
(Behind The Music); Inside Fame,
PBS (
Hometime);
Discovery Health (Berman & Berman For Women Only);
Speed Channel (
Autoline Detroit,
My Classic Car
''My Classic Car'' is a television show about classic car, classic automobiles, hosted by Dennis Gage. It was originally broadcast on The Nashville Network, TNN, and Speed (TV network), Speed Channel, followed by MAVTV, MAVtv and Velocity. As of 2 ...
);
Animal Planet - (
That's My Baby);
Super Station (
Famous Homes & Hideaways), and on TV and radio commercials for clients like Toyota, IBM, Supermodel.com and others.
Discography
*''Prime Time'' (2006)
* ''Timeless World'' (2008)
* '' Island Of A Thousand Dreams'' (2010)
* ''Chasing Rainbows'' (2014)
See also
The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II''The Weather Channel Launches A Second Smooth Jazz Compilation''
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* List of jazz arrangers
References
External links
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Interview
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Composers for piano
American jazz composers
American male jazz composers
Smooth jazz pianists
Male pianists
21st-century pianists
21st-century American male musicians