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Jason Yeager
A committed educator, Yeager is Assistant Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music. He is an honors graduate of the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Double Degree Program, where he studied International Relations and Jazz Performance. His primary teachers and mentors, in both performance and composition, were Fred Hersch, Danilo Pérez, Sophia Rosoff, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, and Jerry Bergonzi. Yeager earned a Master of Music degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, where he studied with Danilo Pérez, Doug Johnson, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Terri Lynne Carrington, Adam Cruz, and more.
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Continue ReadingPianist Jason Yeager Presents New Music With NYC Trio at Regattabar on March 7
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"Jason Yeager is a monster pianist and composer....[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt." —Ran Blake, pianist/composer and MacArthur Fellow “Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch." —Grego Edwards, All About Jazz Cambridge, MA—Framingham native and NYC-based jazz pianist/composer Jason Yeager returns to the Regattabar with his trio on March 7 at 7:30 PM. Having released his acclaimed debut CD, Ruminations, on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music label last March at the Regattabar, Yeager returns ...
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Jason Yeager's "Ruminations": Piano Trio Plus Much
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Pianist Jason Yeager has been working with his trio of Tal Gamlieli (bass) and Michael Gleichman (drums) for more than three years now. Their Ruminations (Inner Circle 020) shows the sort of subtle interplay a piano trio ideally develops when they grow together as a unit. Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch. Gamlieli shows sensitive accompanying abilities and the ability to step out in front of the ensemble and say something when called ...
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Jason Yeager Trio CD Release Party at Regattabar (Boston) on March 15th
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JAZZ TRIO PRESENTS “AN EVENING WITH THE JASON YEAGER TRIO" AT HARVARD SQUARE'S REGATTABAR, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, TUESDAY, MARCH 15 AT 7:30 PM “Jason Yeager is a monster pianist and composer" —Ran Blake Cambridge, MA—Ruminations is the title of the Jason Yeager Trio's sterling new jazz CD on Greg Osby's own record label, Inner Circle Music. Its upcoming March 1st release will be celebrated with “An Evening with The Jason Yeager Trio" at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel, One Bennett ...
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"An individualist with a high concept, his music contains grace and color and a great deal of depth." -Greg Osby, saxophonist/composer
"An incredible composer and musician...[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt….I think there's a potential for genius." -Ran Blake, pianist/composer, MacArthur Fellow
"Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch." -Grego Edwards, All About Jazz
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From: New Songs of ResistanceBy Jason Yeager
Jason Yeager
Location: New York City
Instrument: Piano
