Solo Piano Work
Renzi has made relatively few appearances as a jazz instrumentalist. In 1986, he played on a 1986 album by saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, Soft Lights and Sweet Music. A 1987 concert at Brown University in Providence was issued by Stash Records as the LP The Mike Renzi Quartet. In 1988, Renzi played at the 80th-birthday Carnegie Hall concert of jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli. In 1992 he led his own trio at the Chestnut Room of the Tavern on the Green in New York.
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