He was one of the foundation sounds and artist fabric of the great Blue Note Records label in its heyday years of the 1950s and 60s.
An Atlanta native, he started off playing both piano and trumpet, but it was the wave of inspiration of the playing of Wynton Kelly that locked him into the piano. He took full advantage of the seeming limitless spectrum of the keyboard and applied it to becoming an adventurous arranger and composer. It is no surprise that his ability to find ways to weave music into multiple parts making them sound as one, in a band, led him to becoming an Artist and Records Representative for Blue Note becoming part of developing artists’ creative energy.
The piano sings with a depth of soul under Pearson’s fingers and compositional styles giving it a groove and cool that tonally travels all corners of the keyboard palette and then to the listener canvas.
The Pearson sound is a love affair with colour.