David Howard Lanz (born June 28, 1950, in Seattle, Washington) is an American pianist and composer.
[1] She played songs by Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole on the piano and became his first musical mentor.
In the late 1970s, he was musical director for the Seattle band the Sweep, with Ken McCann as singer, Peter Pendras on lead guitar, Glenn Ayers on drums, and Hugh Gerrard on bass.
In an interview with Barnes & Noble, Lanz stated that he wanted to create an atmosphere similar to that of Steven Halpern's music, but with a "more popular hook in it".
In the front of his Musicbook, The David Lanz Collection, he writes: "At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct.