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Jason Moran, Randy Weston and Billy Harper at SFJazz
by Harry S. Pariser
Jason Moran, Randy Weston and Billy Harper SFJazz San Francisco, CA November 24, 2013 Three fine musicians came together on stage in a new jazz facility in San Francisco. First up was a rising star in the jazz world, an acclaimed pianist who frequently incorporates samples of taped music and text in his onstage performance. The second portion of the evening saw the reunion of two longtime off-and-on collaborators. The venue was SFJazz. The musicians: ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Ten
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dieci anni di vita per Bandwagon, il trio guidato dal pianista Jason Moran con il bassista Tarus Mateen e il batterista Nasheet Waits. Giusto celebrarne la coesione espressiva e l'efficacissima capacità di sintesi che ha dimostrato in questo decennio di dischi e concerti, gettando in un certo senso un ponte - di magistrale architettura - tra tradizione e nuove creatività urbane, mostrando con naturalezza come il dialogo tra il jazz e l'elettronica, la scrittura contemporanea, l'hip-hop e le altre discipline ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Ten
by William Carey
Jason MoranTenBlue Note Records2010
Ten celebrates the ten year life of the Bandwagon, pianist Jason Moran's trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits. The piano trio is a mainstay in the jazz tradition, and here the Bandwagon does a characteristically great job of being firmly in that tradition while also blazing a new trail.
“Blue Blocks" starts with a descending motif, planing chords in a gravitational freefall, the hint of ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Ten
by David Adler
Pianist Jason Moran offers Ten, to mark a decade with the Bandwagon, his trio with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits, and it's an anniversary worth celebrating. But Ten is also Moran's first release since Artist In Residence (Blue Note, 2006), so it affords him the opportunity to include pieces from long-form commissioned works he's written since then. The loping, gospel-tinged “Blue Blocks" is from a multimedia suite inspired by the quilt makers of Gee's Bend, Alabama. “RFK in ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran Returns to Monk at Town Hall
by Eric Benson
Jason Moran and the Big Bandwagon In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall 1959Town Hall New York, New York February 27, 2009
Jason Moran was playing perfectly. He'd just begun his solo introduction to “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959"—his tribute to, and reimagining of, Thelonious Monk's historic concert--dashing off a few strains of “'Round Midnight" in a medley that had him leaping across the keyboard with poise and polish. ...
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by Martin Longley
Pianist Jason Moran usually plays well within the jazz tradition, but often adopts a sideways slant, open to electronic interference or maybe an askew cover version of a pop or rap tune. Growing up in Houston, he went on to study at the Manhattan School Of Music, becoming firmly entrenched on the New York scene.
He's now becoming increasingly concerned with the world of multimedia presentation, the latest example of which is “In My Mind: Monk ...
Continue ReadingJason Moran: Artist in Residence
by AAJ Italy Staff
Abbiamo spesso parlato in queste pagine di Jason Moran, tra i pianisti più significativi della sua generazione, tanto più interessante in quanto si muove spesso in territori fortemente codificati. In Artist In Residence Moran ha riunito e “montato" alcuni estratti di tre commissioni ricevute nel 2005, rispettivamente dal Lincoln Center, dal Walker Art Center di Minneapolis e dal Dia:Beacon. Il rapporto del pianista con le altre arti - il cinema ad esempio è una delle sue grandi passioni - è ...
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