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Javier Santiago

Pianist, composer, and popular sideman Javier Santiago is one of the most promising voices in the international music scene today. As an accomplished producer/beatmaker, arranger and educator, Santiago has become a notable force in both the beat and hip-hop scenes as well as in the jazz world.

The Minneapolis-born Santiago was exposed to a myriad of great music and talented musicians in his early years. Taking his inspiration and career endeavors to the next level, he furthered his path by relocating to New York City to attend The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, then later moved out West, first to the Bay Area in 2017, and then to Los Angeles in 2021, which remains his home base. Santiago is an alumnus of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA and The Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program. He was a finalist in the American Jazz Pianist competition in 2015, a recipient of the 2016 McKnight Fellowship for Musicians, and was selected to participate in the 14th Annual Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program in 2011.

Javier Santiago has had the distinguished opportunity to play with many celebrated musicians on today’s jazz scene including Herbie Hancock, Terrace Martin, Louis Cole, Alex Isley, Jonathan Kreisberg, Braxton Cook, Kassa Overall, Azar Lawrence, Kenneth Whalum, Aja Monet, John Raymond, Sheila Jordan, and Yosvany Terry. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Awards

Alumunus of:

The Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program

The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music,

Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA

 

American Jazz Pianist competition Finalist (2015)

McKnight Fellowship for Musicians (2016) 

Annual Betty Carter Jazz Ahead (2011)


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Read "As Many, As One" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


È un debutto da leader significativo questo di Julien Knowles, trombettista residente a Los Angeles, dove s'è laureato all'Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (assieme a tre partner di questo disco). Hancock è stato suo mentore e l'ha scritturato--ancora studente--nei suoi tour, poi ha collaborato con Louis Cole, Gerald Clayton, Alan Ferber, Joe LaBarbera e inciso nel gruppo del sassofonista Peter Epstein in Two Legs Bad. Knowles non è solo un eccellente solista (un lirismo carico di pathos) ma ...

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Multistrumentista assai attivo sull'asse San Francisco (dove vive) New York, con sortite verso Chicago and Los Angeles, Steve Lugerner presenta il suo terzo lavoro con lo SLUGish Ensemble, formazione di giovani talenti della West Coast. Le sette composizioni di In Solitude hanno origine nel periodo di isolamento dovuto alla pandemia, per la maggior parte si riferiscono ai nomi delle vie quotidianamente percorse in quel di Frisco e trasmettono gli umori, i sentimenti, i pensieri e le sensazioni provocate da quell'insolita ...

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SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude

Read "In Solitude" reviewed by Robert Middleton


This is an extremely satisfying and enjoyable album on so many levels. First of all, it is infused with lovely, dancing grooves. The opener, “Del Sur," sets the pace with a provocative, snakelike bass clarinet solo. It all falls into place like a song one has known forever. Most of the songs name-check the streets of the Miraloma neighborhood in San Francisco, where Steven Lugerner lived during the pandemic and where he came to embrace solitude. In the ...

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The Place To Be

Self-Released
2024

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Warrior Energy

Independent
2024

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As Many, As One

Biophilia Records
2024

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In Solitude

Slow And Steady Records
2023

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WOODLAWN

Illicit Productions Records
2020

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