His brilliant and original playing draws the listener into his musical world where many of the artificial boundaries created in the “music business” fall away and leave the listener with a new appreciation for what Bruce calls “improvisational American Roots and Blues music”. Bruce Katz was a Professor of Piano at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for fourteen years where he taught music that was new as well as historically rooted; blues, jazz, funk and all sorts of soulful roots styles.