Ah, the Hoosier state. Indiana. Many good things have come from that storied place. Car racing, basketball, and Mark Kieswetter.
There is no order in that listing. The common factor is good things. Mark, the jazz pianist and composer, a native of Indiana who made Canada his home, was a generous artist. Generous in the way he played and played with others. When sharing space and time in the company of other artists when playing in an ensemble Mark did it all with a generosity that displayed the breadth of his adventurous spirit at the keyboard and complemented collective artistry.
He filled the music he made with the piano keys and did it with an array of a spectrum of color. Those colors of sound ranged from subdued and sometimes mysterious to a playful bounce with dancing catchy rhythms almost like the notes played a kind of expressive and fun-loving kind of ‘tag you’re it’ as they flowed alongside one another in the lines.
We lost him way too soon, but the spirit of the music artistry he left us all with is in the color of good things.