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Rachel Eckroth

Born: August 25, 1976

Polymath (noun): a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.

Music needs a term for this. What do you call one person who is a pianist, vocalist, keyboardist, composer, producer, arranger, band leader, sideman and more? Music may not have a term, but it does have a name: Rachel Eckroth. 

Eckroth can lead with a bold vision or accompany with the subtle skills necessary to make another musician shine. Her combination of jazz experimentation and pop feeling form the engine behind her own work as a leader or co-leader on 20 albums, most recently The Garden on Rainy Days Records (2021). That same crossover talent is why she's been featured on voice and keyboards in the bands of Rufus Wainwright, St. Vincent, KT Tunstall, and Chris Botti. 

High Desert Winter

By Rachel Eckroth

Label: Blackbird Sessions
Released: 2024
Track listing: High Desert Winter

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Humanoid

By Rachel Eckroth

Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Humanoid; Mind; Lawns; Under a Fig Tree; Fleurette Africaine; Evolution; Strange Meeting; Vines.

Mike Jurkovic's Best Albums Of 2023

by Mike Jurkovic
December 14, 2023

Led by Veronica Swift and Lakecia Benjamin, 2023 spotlighted some brilliantly moving new music in a year of previously unheard masterpieces. If music soothes the savage beast, this was a great year to be listening. John ColtraneEvenings At The Village Gate Impulse! Records

Daniel Hersog, Jaimie Branch, Tyshawn Sorey and Others

by Jerome Wilson
December 13, 2023

This show features 2023 releases from the Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra, Jaimie Branch, and Tyshawn Sorey as well as older music from Herbie Nichols, Chet Baker, and others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Claudia ...

Ben Goldberg, Patricia Barber, Rachel Eckroth and Others

by Jerome Wilson
November 29, 2023

This eclectic show features guitar, voice, and much more. Musicians heard on the program include Ben Goldberg, Patricia Barber, Michael Musillami, Rachel Eckroth, and Jason Kao Hwang. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Rachel Eckroth ...

Ray Gallon, Larry Young, Rachel Eckroth & Vince Guaraldi

by Joe Dimino
November 26, 2023

We are kicking off the 2023 holiday season and the 830th Episode of Neon Jazz in style with Vince Guaraldi leading the march of a never-before-released Charle Brown Thanksgiving. From there, we get into a host of tasty jazz from Rachel Eckroth, Janet Evra and Maria Grapsa. We also get some perennial music from heavyweights Petros ...

Strange Meeting

October 14, 2023

Album: Humanoid
By Rachel Eckroth
Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:37

Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

by Sharonne Cohen
October 6, 2023

"Humanoid is a departure for me," Rachel Eckroth said when we spoke about her new piano quartet album, recorded at Sam First jazz club in Los Angeles on October 28 and 29, 2022. Taking her first piano lesson at the age of five, this accomplished, multifaceted musician has honed her craft over the four decades since, ...