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Broken Mirror 6:130:00/6:13
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Tears in My Eyes 4:270:00/4:27
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Blues for Willie J. 4:060:00/4:06
“Solid as a Rock! Melodic. Deeply rooted in black music. This is what springs to mind when you hear the name Anthony Geraci. ” - Marco Piazzalonga
BIO
About Anthony
Pianist, Hammond organist and composer Anthony Geraci was born in New Haven, CT in 1954. His interest in playing piano began at age four when he told his parents “I want a piano!” Kind of an odd request when most kids want a new baseball glove or bicycle. His parents weren’t musical-not even a record player at their house- but they always supported his undeniable passion for music. They soon bought a Kimball Grand Piano that his mother paid $4 a week to own. Lessons at the Neighborhood School of Music, affiliated with Yale University, soon followed. At around the age of 16 he befriended a fellow musician, Ed Cherry. They began listening to music together after school and one day Ed played a Jimmy Rogers recording, Chicago Bound, that literally changed his life. Ed went on to be Dizzy Gillespie’s guitarist for many years.
2026 Blues Music Award Nominee
Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop Perkins Piano Award.
Anthony Geraci's new recording Where Were you on Delmark Records-September, 2026 release. Delmark Records is the oldest continuously operating jazz and blues independent record label in the United States. Joining Anthony on the recording will be Delmark Artists Sheryl Youngblood and Dave Specter. As well as Rodrigo Mantovani, Anne Harris, Pooky Styx (from Buddy Guy’s band), Jon McDonald, and members of The Boston Blues All-Stars.
Anthony is a two time Blues Music Award (BMA) Winner from The Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN for Instrumentalist-Piano/Pinetop Perkins Piano Award. He has 18 personal BMA Nominations as well as a Grammy Nomination for Super Harps I (Telarc). Anthony has toured world-wide for over 40 years with Ronnie Earl, Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, The Proven Ones, and his own band The Boston Blues All-Stars, which were nominated 3 times for Band of the Year by the Blues Foundation. He has recorded with traditional blues artists such as Bob Corritore, Willie Buck, Welch/Ledbetter, Charlie Musselwhite, Teeny Tucker, Sugaray Rayford, Zora Young and many more. He has also toured with Otis Rush, J.B. Hutto, Hubert Sumlin, Big Joe Turner. He has played piano backing up Big Mama Thorton, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker. Anthony has had the honor to sit in with Muddy Waters and B.B King.
“It’s been said often that one’s reputation is determined by the people one picks as friends and collaborators. If true, then count Anthony Geraci as one well respected musician. In his performance of various piano styles, Geraci presents listeners with a concise history of the piano in American roots music.” -Art Tipaldi – Editor, Blues Music Magazine
LATEST MUSIC
"Anthony Geraci is a perennial BMA nominee on keyboards, and he's certain to receive honors for this disc, too, teaming with his band, the Boston Blues All-Stars, and trying something new here. He dazzles on the 88s, paying tribute to his musical forebears. But it's no cover album. It's an all-original effort that delivers a traditional feel throughout." - Marty Gunther, Red, Hot 'n Blues Music Reviews, Chicago Blues Guide
Anthony Geraci
Award winning Blues Pianist
Anthony Geraci: Upcoming recording Where Were You, his first on the Delmark Records label is scheduled for release September 2026.
Delmark Records is the oldest continuously operating jazz and blues independent record label in the United States. Joining Anthony on the recording will be Delmark Artists Sheryl Youngblood and Dave Specter. As well as Rodrigo Mantovani, Anne Harris, Pooky Styx (from Buddy Guy’s band), Jon McDonald, and members of The Boston Blues All-Stars.
"Anthony Geraci has long been part of the bedrock of the Boston-Providence blues scene. In recent years, he has stepped out of the seaside shadows into the limelight of international acclaim, largely on the strength of feature albums. “Tears” keeps the momentum going. Blessed with a fraught musical imagination and considerable ability on piano or organ, Geraci airs out a set of original songs of blues or bluesy persuasions.” 4 Star review in Downbeat Magazine. Frank-John Hadley.
“Tears In My Eyes, Anthony Geraci - on piano, Hammond organ, and vocals. I'm talking about the kind of stuff that would garner as many as ten Blues Music Award Nominations for one release. It appears that Anthony's dues are paid in full and it's now his time to shine.” Mary 4 Music-Peter Blewzzman Lauro.
"Geraci is one of the better instrumentalists in the blues world today.” - Bill Mitchell, Blues Bytes
"You’re one heck of a piano player.” - B.B King
“Geraci offers a picture of a time when the piano was THE featured instrument. Geraci’s knowledge of that history is obvious.”- Art Tipaldi, Blues Music Magazine
"Anthony Geraci is not only a gifted pianist, he also a talented a songwriter .” - Debra C. Argen, Luxury Experience
"A stalwart on the New England blues scene for decades as a key member of both Sugar Ray & the Bluetones and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, keyboardist Anthony Geraci continues to deliver stellar work as a bandleader." - Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine