ON MY OWN TIME

RELEASED: February 6, 2026
LABEL: Summit Records

1. On My Own Time
2. Moonlight in Vermont
3. Just After Three
4. Maybe We'll Try
5. If Only I Could Forget
6. Brief Distraction - Interlude 1
7. Busy Work
8. Before Tomorrow
9. A Short Walk from Here
10. In Walked Bud
11. Last-Minute Thought 
12. Time of the Season

All composition by Darren Litzie except Moonlight in Vermont (Suessdorf/Blackburn); In Walked Bud (Monk); Time of the Season (Argent)

Darren Litzie - piano
Chris DeAngelis - bass
John Riley - drums

Recorded June 17 and 18, 2025 at Firehouse 12 Studio B, New Haven, CT
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer - Greg DiCrosta
Producer - Jamie Begian

REVIEWS

“Darren Litzie’s On My Own Time doesn’t sound like a second album. It sounds like a pianist who’s already found his voice. Throughout, Litzie favors touch and nuance over flash. DeAngelis and Riley play as equals, shaping the music moment to moment. The trio sounds settled and sure of itself. They push and pull the music with precision, landing every line with effortless swing.” 

- Tim Larsen, Jazz Views

“A solid display of artful jazz piano and song composition… Litzie wrote two-thirds of the tunes and shows an imaginative approach to composition, writing in different beat-centric genres to highlight his strong sense of rhythm and melody. It is the rhythm of Litzie's playing that really stands out. There is a sense of Vince Guaraldi's syncopated playing and Herbie Nichols' style of tying the melody to the drum's cadence, but Litzie has cultivated a real sound of his own.”

- Don Ball, All About Jazz

“With a set of stylistic, hipster originals and uniquely haunting, atmospheric, expansively arranged re-imaginings, the brilliant multi-talented emerging pianist/composer Darren Litzie gamely showcases his supple sense of swing,  improvisation, originality and transcendent adventure.”

- Jonathan Widran, JW Vibe

"On My Own Time is a bright, colorful, at times effervescent piano trio album that never lags or gets bogged down in unnecessary experimentation, yet boasts plenty of imagination."

- Jim Hynes, Making a Scene

"Darren Litzie's On My Own Time presents the pianist in a focused trio setting that highlights his lyrical phrasing, rhythmic drive, and compositionsl clarity. Litzie on piano leads with confidence and restraint. The result is a cohesive trio recording that feels conversational and grounded solidly in swing."

- D. Glenn Daniels, The Jazz Page

MY HORIZON

RELEASED: June 17, 2022
LABEL: Summit Records

1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Cole Porter)
2. My Horizon (Darren Litzie)
3. Up, Up and Away (Jimmy Webb)
4. Faded Portrait (Darren Litzie)
5. Blues for 3 (Darren Litzie)
6. Question and Answer (Pat Metheny)
7. Lucky Guess (Darren Litzie)
8. Before Too Long (Darren Litzie)
9. I Have Dreamed (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II)
10. Hackensack (Thelonious Monk)

Darren Litzie - piano
Chris DeAngelis - bass
John Riley - drums
Nick Biello - flute, soprano saxophone
Andrew Beals - alto saxophone

Recorded June 22 and 23, 2021 at Firehouse 12 Studio, New Haven, CT
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer - Greg DiCrosta
Producer - Jamie Begian