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Colin Stranahan

Born In Denver, Colorado, and the son of a Jazz Educator, Colin Stranahan has always been surrounded by music. 

By his teenage years he was already actively working on the local Denver scene, and has recorded multiple records of Capri Records. 

After receiving the prestigious NFAA Presidential Scholar award in 2005 , he studied in California for one year as a Brubeck Institute Fellow. Shortly thereafter he attended the prestigious Monk Institute of Jazz. Stranahan was also one of the winners of the 2012 Thelonious Monk Drum Competition. 

Now living in Brooklyn, New York, Colin is among the most sought-after drummers in the world. working with such artist as Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jonathan Kreisberg, Fred Hersch, Terence Blanchard, Dave Kikoski, Kevin Hays, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and many others. He also now is part of a collective trio featuring some of the most talented and praised you musicians in New York City. Rick Rosato on bass and Glenn Zaleski on piano. Together they are the Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato trio. They have recorded 2 albums that have been very successful and a third on the way which was recorded Live at Smalls which is scheduled to be released in 2015. 

Wellspring

By Tom Gershwin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Let Be – 02:41 Wellspring – 08:29 Passages – 15:39 Belong Here – 02:54 Embers – 06:44 & You – 06:29 Counter Earth’s Turn – 07:07 Still – 09:24

Cornerstone

By Nico Moreno

Label: Independent
Released: 2024
Track listing: 01 - The Confessor’s Tongue 02 - La Luz Verdadera 03 - Cornerstone 04 - Eucatastrophe 05 - Back To Kindergarten 06 - Mother Pelican 07 - Sleeping Nephilim 08 - Song For Sonny

Head Towards The Center

By John Raymond

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Where Am I?; Power Fall; Mantrois; Around, Forever; Mr. Hope; Between The Bars; Distant Signal; Sweet Spot; Head Towards The Center.

Kind Folk: Head Towards The Center

by Jerome Wilson
July 3, 2022

Kind Folk is a quartet consisting of trumpeter John Raymond, alto saxophonist Alex LoRe, bassist Noam Wiesenberg and drummer Colin Stranahan. They recorded their first album in 2018, then went their separate ways for various reasons. They finally reconnected in June 2021 and came up with the simmering blend of jazz, rock and folk sensibilities that ...

[Long] Live (at) the Jazz Standard! - Companion Mixtape

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 4, 2021

There was so much great music recorded live at the Jazz Standard, that we could not possibly squeeze it all in our weekly radio show, so here's a bonus mixtape with another couple of hours of great memories from the celebrated venue, as part of our commemoration series. [Check out Part 1 and Part 2]

Where We Started

By Julian Shore

Label: Tone Rogue Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: I: Preludio; II: Winds, Currents; III: Tunnels, Speed; O Vos Omnes; Nemesis; IV: Marshes, Amphibians; Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess; Where We Started.

The Vision

By Norvald Dahl

Label: Blamann Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Young Again; Running Out of Faith; Three and Two; Bye Bye Blackbird; Come Play with Me; Redman; Out of Reach; Quantum Leap; The Vision.

Julian Shore: Where We Started

by Troy Dostert
August 19, 2020

A pianist of uncommon sensitivity and graceful temperament, Julian Shore crafts music with atmosphere and feeling, aiming for emotional depth rather than settling for typical jazz devices. On Where We Started, his third release, he offers eight well-honed tracks which are both evocative and nuanced; while they might not win over the uninitiated in a crowded ...

Norvald Dahl with Colin Stranahan: The Vision

by Troy Dostert
May 18, 2020

Norwegian newcomer Norvald Dahl has cultivated his expansive approach to jazz piano since his 2018 debut, Organic Chamber (AMP Music), a trio outing which included saxophonist Jon Irabagon and bassist Mats Eilertsen. That free-spirited release revealed a deeply iconoclastic spirit in Dahl, someone who is as comfortable teasing the contours of a pop-inflected tune as he ...