Chris Geith is an American composer and arranger of contemporary jazz and

new age New Age is a range of Spirituality, spiritual or Religion, religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western world, Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclecticism, eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise d ...

music. His band, The Chris Geith Group, signed with

Jive Records Jive Records (later stylized as JIVE Records) was a British-American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary of the Zomba Group of Companies, Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chic ...

in Asia in 2001. The band has been no. 1 in the contemporary jazz,

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric gui ...

, and Contemporary Urban/ R&B charts on

MP3.com MP3.com was a website operated by Paramount Global publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies. It is better known for its original incarnation as a legal, free music-sharing service, ...

. In 1995, ''

Keyboard Magazine ''Keyboard'' is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, in ...

'' awarded him the top spot for his composition "Sunrise Hunter" at their 20th Anniversary Keyboard Competition. His music can be heard on

The Weather Channel The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group. The channel's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia. Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel ...

Music Choice Music Choice (abbreviated as MC) is an American television music service that digitally broadcasts audio-based music channels and video-related content to cable television providers in the United States. In 2019, it reached 65 million household ...

cable,

Sirius XM radio Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting corporation headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. The company was formed by the 2008 merger ...

, and on a number of different national TV shows including

VH1 VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American basic cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global's networks division based in New Y ...

(Behind the Music), Inside Fame,

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...

('' Hometime''); Discovery Health (''Berman & Berman for Women Only'');

Speed Channel Speed was an American sports-oriented cable and satellite television network that was owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of 21st Century Fox. The network was dedicated to motorsports programming, including auto racing, as well as a ...

(''

Autoline Detroit Autoline Detroit is a weekly television show about the global automotive industry. Extra contents that did not fit into the television broadcast are also found in the show's website. Autoline in LA Autoline in LA was a special series produced ...

'', ''

My Classic Car ''My Classic Car'' is a television show about classic automobiles, hosted by Dennis Gage. It was originally broadcast on TNN, and Speed Channel, followed by MAVtv and Velocity. As of 2019 the show airs on the Motor Trend network. It was produc ...

''),

Animal Planet Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel focusing on the animal kingdom owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. First established on June 1 ...

(''That's My Baby''), and on TV and radio commercials for clients such as

Toyota is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the List of manuf ...

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

, Supermodel.com and others.

Discography

*''Prime Time'' (2006) *''Timeless World'' (2008) *'' Island of a Thousand Dreams'' (2010) *''Chasing Rainbows'' (2014) *''Well Tempered Love'' (2016) *''Invisible Reality'' (2021) *''Tales of Christmas'' (2022)

References

External links

* *
Chris Geith interview
at Cruise with Bruce {{DEFAULTSORT:Geith, Chris Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Composers for piano American jazz composers American male jazz composers Smooth jazz pianists American male jazz pianists 21st-century American pianists 21st-century American male musicians

Discography

See also

References

External links