Jazz Articles about JJ Wright

J.J. Wright: Inward Looking Outward

by Dan Bilawsky
July 21, 2014

Pianist J.J. Wright has catholic tastes in more ways than one. He's the Director of Music at Sacred Heart Parish, the crypt church beneath the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the Sacred Heart, and his musical interests range far and wide; Wright's inspired and influenced by everything from the music of J.S. Bach to the work of Thelonious Monk to the songs of Sufjan Stevens. His debut album--a piano trio session with the highly capable Ike Sturm on bass ...