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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. 

Confluence

By Pat Bianchi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: It Was A Very Good Year; Jitterbug Waltz; I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Up To Dry; The Song Is You; Confluence; Come Rain or Come Shine; Wise One.

Pat Bianchi: Confluence

by Pierre Giroux
March 24, 2026

Pat Bianchi has never been content to let the organ settle into its own mythology. With Confluence, he shows that the organ trio, when in skilled hands, remains one of the most energetic formats in jazz. Joined by saxophonist Troy Roberts and drummer Colin Stranahan, Bianchi delivers a seven-track session that feels more like a late-night ...

Tom Gershwin: Wellspring

by Jack Bowers
January 10, 2026

On Wellspring, the fourth album under his name, Vermont-based trumpeter Tom Gershwin resumes his anomalous musical journey, pursuing a path that is for the most part low-key and serene but seldom less than interesting. In so doing, Gershwin wrests the most support he can from every member of his able quintet to unravel eight ...

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.