Eddie Higgins

ehiggins.jpg (15333 bytes)Eddie Higgins, veteran jazz pianist, has in his 46 year career performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in jazz. To name a few: Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter. He plays major jazz festivals around the world and has been the only featured performer invited back 18 times on the SS Norway’s Annual Jazz Cruise each and every year since it started. Higgins is listed in Leonard Feather’s Encyclopedia of Jazz, has over 25 recordings on which he is the leader, and many more as a sideman.

Down Beat (4/97) ...Higgins' renditions...sound like the definitive jazz text from which other versions are departures.

JazzTimes (4/97) ...one of the most impressive piano trio albums in recent memory. Higgins is less a stylist than a brilliant generalist who ranges through the history of the music, selecting, winnowing and refining.....draws from all eras of jazz piano without being tied to any of them..


Eddie Higgins is featured in the Riverwalk program: The Tommy Saunders Midwest All Stars: Runnin' Wild