Joe Gillman
Featured on piano, Dr. Joe Gilman is a retired full-time professor of music at American
River College in Sacramento, an adjunct professor of jazz studies at CSU
Sacramento, and a longtime associate of the Brubeck Institute and the Stanford
Jazz Workshop. Joe was the music director of Capital Jazz Project from 1997 to
- He has received bachelor's degrees in classical piano and jazz studies at
Indiana University, a master's degree in jazz and the contemporary media from the
Eastman School of Music, and a doctoral degree in education from the University
of Sarasota.
Joe was the primary pianist with jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson from 2006
-2016, and the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra since 2010. He has also performed
professionally with Eddie Harris, Joe Locke, Chris Botti, Nicholas Payton, Charles
McPherson, Wycliffe Gordon, David "Fathead" Newman, and Slide Hampton, and
has recorded with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Jeff Watts, and Tootie Heath.
Dr. Gilman has twice been an International Jazz Ambassador through the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts and USIA, traveling to West Africa in 1999 and
East and Southern Africa in 2000. His restauarnt Twin Lotus Thai features delicious
Thai cuisine and live music several nights each week!