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Jarrod Lawson

Formerly held close as one of the Pacific Northwest’s best-kept musical secrets, Jarrod Lawson has exploded as an international sensation, garnering awards, performing at prestigious venues and spawning fresh notability for Portland's burgeoning soul/jazz music scene. Ever since Lawson released his eponymous debut album in 2014, the smokey voiced singer-songwriter and virtuoso pianist has been sending positive ripples around the globe with his powerful message music. He has completed six successful international tours with prestigious highlights extending from Rotterdam’s North Sea Jazz and the UK’s Love Supreme festivals to Java Jazz festival in Indonesia, with performances in Beijing, Melbourne and at Tokyo’s Billboard Live

How Moonchild Put The Jazz Into Soul

by Peter Jones
January 31, 2022

Last summer, an online-only big band called The Sages of Future Soul recorded their arrangement of Moonchild's “The List," featuring reeds wunderkind Alexa Tarantino. What strikes you on listening to the Sages' version is not so much that it has transcended its origins, but that the original tune has such inbuilt jazz sensibility. Moonchild's Andris Mattson ...

Jarrod Lawson Heads For Europe

by Peter Jones
October 14, 2021

Timing is everything in music, but launching an album in the midst of a global pandemic was not ideal for singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jarrod Lawson. As he prepares to embark on a European tour, he will finally get the chance to feature the music from his second album Be the Change in front of live ...

Umbria Jazz Winter 23

by Libero Farnè
January 12, 2016

Orvieto 30.12.2015-03.01.2016 Per certi aspetti abbiamo assistito a un'edizione in tono minore per Umbria Jazz Winter, soprattutto dal punto di vista dell'originalità dell'offerta. Esasperando una formula vincente già sperimentata in passato, quasi tutti i protagonisti invitati, quelli di maggior richiamo come i nomi meno noti, sono stati ospitati “in residenza" ...