New York-based pianist Rob Schneiderman is an in-demand sideman. The cool, accomplished keyboard pro has performed and recorded with such artists as Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Harold Land, Charles McPherson, J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, James Moody, Art Farmer, and Clifford Jordan. His collaboration with Slide Hampton included the recording New Outlook, the first of Schneiderman's nine recordings as a leader on the Reservoir Music label. Professor Schneiderman—he has a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania—is also active as a jazz clinician and educator, including assignments at William Paterson University, Queens College in New York, and Berkeley's Jazzschool.