Results for "Jacob Sacks"

Jacob Sacks

Jacob Sacks is one of the most creative pianists on the NYC jazz scene today. His strong individual voice has been heard in a variety of settings ranging from the mainstream jazz traditions of the Mingus Big Band and Orchestra to the open approach of the Paul Motian Septet to the vamp based fusion of David Binney’s Balance. Originally from Michigan, Jacob was a 1995 Presidential Scholar In The Arts before he moved to New York City to study with Garry Dial at the Manhattan School Of Music. After graduation in 1998, Jacob was a finalist in the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. In the last 12 years, Jacob has been a member of many different ensembles, recorded several albums, and has toured the United States, Europe, and Canada several times

Outing

By Mike McGinnis

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rollover; Incantation; Transformations; A Nice Boy/Discover Laughing; Stand In The River; Roundtable; The Gospel Of Bone Drye; Shiny Stockings.

Live in Red Hook

By Gui Duvignau

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024

For Tim Smith

January 7, 2023

Album: Dedication
By Dan Weiss
Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:39

Assembly

By Jacob Garchik

Label: Yestereve Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Collage; Pastiche; Bricolage; Homage; Fanfare; Idée Fixe; Fantasia; Impromptu; Reverie.

Dedication

By Dan Weiss

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: For Tim Smith; For Vivienne; For Nancarrow; For George Floyd; For Jacob; For Andrei Tarkovsky; For Bacharach; For Elvin; For Grandma May.

Rich in Symbols II

By Chet Doxas

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Slopes of Sainte-Tite-Des-Caps; Snow Clouds; The Jack Pine; Tree Trunk; North Shore, Lake Superior; House of Yprès; The Front of Winter.

Dan Weiss Trio at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
December 20, 2022

Dan Weiss Trio Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OH December 11, 2022 Are we living in a golden age of the piano trio? The recorded evidence from 2022 would suggest that we are. Piano trio recordings by John Escreet, Fred Hersch, Aaron Parks, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Marta Sanchez, Matthew Shipp ...

Dan Weiss Trio, Tyshawn Sorey, Lakecia Benjamin & BMC Records releases

by Maurice Hogue
December 19, 2022

Dedication, from drummer Dan Weiss with his longtime trio mates, bassist Thomas Morgan and pianist Jacob Sacks, leads several new releases in this episode of One Man's Jazz. Other new albums of note come from saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and trio with guest Greg Osby, veteran ECM bassist Arild Andersen, Dave Douglas, saxophonist Stephen ...

Dan Weiss Trio: Dedication

by Troy Dostert
November 1, 2022

Approaching any Dan Weiss album requires a willingness to be challenged. From head-scratching time signatures to fascinating shifts in mood and texture, Weiss gives intrepid listeners a number of pathways into his music, and his releases always justify repeated encounters. Dedication, his latest with his regular trio partners pianist Jacob Sacks and bassist Thomas Morgan, is ...