Buddy Greco virtually invented acid jazz. He's essentially a jazz guy in the vein of the young Nat Cole, but with an aggressively cocky stance that has more in common with the hard rockers of more recent generations……He is so simpatico with audiences that it's appropriate that a significant number of his many albums were done live in clubs….we listen to his smooth vocal delivery, his excitedly aggressive swing numbers and surprisingly sensitive ballads, his virtuoso piano playing, and his relentless sense of rhythm, and can we not be captivated?

Will Friedwald, Verve Records


Buddy Greco, singer-pianist pal of Frank Sinatra who has been playing jazz piano since the age of four, celebrates his 50 th year in show business with a rare and welcome appearance in New York…his playing constantly stuns and reduces the audience to oohs and ahs…. Heavily influenced by Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson, Mr. Greco can switch from a jaunty stride to hard-driving melodic swinging in a few chords playing with passion and informed precision.

Rex Reed, The New Yorker

In performance, Greco is warm and expressive, a charming man who doesn't flaunt his exceptional skills at the piano. He doesn't have to; his talent speaks for itself without any self-promoting gestures. His playing is so strong, in fact, that when he periodically segues to purely instrumental numbers, the audience sits at the edge of its collective seat …..

Barbara & Scott Siegel, TheatreMania.com

There is nothing campy or retro-hip about this chipper 71 year old….He is the real thing. In fact, he helped invent it…A genial, hard-boiled swinger and custodian of Sinatra's tough, high-rolling showroom style, he is different from most of his peers, he is a singing pianist rather than a stand up vocalist….