Steve Klink is an American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and jazz pianist. Steve Klink's

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

y piano style together with his distinct songwriting and arranging abilities makes for a striking blend of jazz, gospel,

swing Swing or swinging may refer to: Apparatus * Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and forth * Pendulum, an object that swings * Russian swing, a swing-like circus apparatus * Sex swing, a type of harness for sexual intercourse * Swing rid ...

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

and folk music. Steve has performed extensively for television and radio with his Steve Klink trio, and in the last 6 years alone has performed over four hundred concerts. He also performs with his wife Slovenian jazz vocalist

Mia Žnidarič Mia Žnidarič (born 9 December 1962) is a Slovenian jazz singer. History Mia's jazz career started, when Mia met Slovenian composer and actor Nino de Gleria at age 27. Mia has moved from Maribor to Ljubljana with him and started singing j ...

. Steve Klink trio have released 13 CDs. In 1999, with the support of ACT Music's Ziggy Loch, Steve was able to release ''Blue Suit'' with drummer Gregory Hutchinson. In 2000 Steve was invited by Minor Music label chief Stephan Meyner to produce a series of CDs featuring songs by two of today's most revered and venerable songwriters,

Joni Mitchell Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell ( Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter. Among the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her sta ...

and

Randy Newman Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern American English, Southern-accented singing style, early Americana (music), Americana-influenced songs (often ...

Partial Discography of Steve Klink trio

* Invisible Orchestra * Blue suit * Feels like home * Places to come from, places to go * Too close for comfort * Under the influence * Iskre * Pobarvanka * I wish I knew how * Hold my hand * Live in Concert * Searching the Blue Their latest album is ''The Ocean'', released in 2012.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Klink, Steve Living people American jazz pianists American male jazz pianists American jazz composers American music arrangers 21st-century American pianists American male jazz composers 21st-century American male musicians Year of birth missing (living people)