Brian Torff, after a career as a jazz bassist and composer that began in the 1970s, now creates music as a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and blues harmonica player. Torff has performed with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, George Shearing, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, Mary Lou Williams, Stephane Grappelli and Marian McPartland, among others. As an author and Professor of Music at Fair�ield University, Brian Torff combines his music history and Civil Rights research trips to the Deep South with dynamic songs that tell an American story. “We need to create new musical categories,” says Torff, “and I hope our music is a soundtrack to an American road trip, past and present.”