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Jan Esbra

Jan Esbra is a Colombian guitarist, composer, and improviser known for “[capturing] emotional warmth within layered textures” (ADSR Collective) while “blurring the lines between a wide range of musical influences” (All About Jazz).

Esbra’s musical world is centered around a playful orientation to improvisational practices; which he combines with elements from ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, and math-rock to create evocative and emotional pieces of music.

Currently based in Brooklyn, Esbra has performed with a variety of artists including Becca Stevens, Don Pardo, Ferro Dormer, Noah Rott, André Sacalxot, and Mike Talento

PSALM017: Suspended In A Breath

By Jan Esbra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Intro; Flowers; Crystal Bubbles; Dusk; Teacup in a Cloud; Lullaby; Semi-Sentient; Returning; Suspended in a Breath.

Piano Poetry

By James Fernando

Label: Balloon Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Piano Poem 1 Silhouette Of Scars (Feat. Phöenix Lazare) Piano Poem 2 Piano Poem 3 Where The Bees Don’t Sting (Feat. Catey Esler and Jan Esbra) Piano Poem 4 Diana (Feat. Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, and Marcy Marxer) Piano Poem 5 Hot Cross Buns Piano Poem 6 (Feat. Anthony Fung) Piano Poem 7 The Poet (Feat. Taisha Estrada and Matt Lagan) Piano Poem 8 (Feat. Lucas Ashby) Auld Lang Syne

Cycles

By Jade Collective

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Light; Cycles; Interlude (feat. Isaac Wang); Don't (feat. Ben Wendel); Lilith.

Temporary Objects

By Jan Esbra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Moment of Clarity; Eternally Recurring; An Open Space; With Vague Outlines; Always In Motion; Yet Constant (12.8.20); A Vast Cloud; From a Distance; Fading; Rearranging; Three Miniatures for Guitar and Electronics pt. 1 - A Lightning Flash; Three Miniatures for Guitar and Electronics pt. 2 - Between the Forest Trees; Three Miniatures for Guitar and Electronics pt. 3 - I Have Seen Water.

Jade Collective Dreamily Combines Jazz With Brian Eno And Shoegaze Influences On 'Cycles'

April 20, 2021

Jade Collective is a group of talented musicians with the common goal of bringing freshness, personality and innovation to the world of modern jazz music. Their most recent EP features five songs that blur the lines between a wide range of musical influences. The first song, “Light” showcases beautiful ambient soundscapes and piano parts that make ...

Jade Collective

Jade Collective is an NYC based indie-jazz band led by Jan Esbra and Catey Esler. Their music is influenced by their diverse musical backgrounds, drawing from alternative rock to folk to create a sound all their own.

In September 2016, Jade Collective released their debut album Clarity which was successfully crowdfunded through Indiegogo. Since their start in 2016, Jade Collective has toured as supporting act for world-renowned singer-songwriter, Becca Stevens and has held residencies at The Middle East in Boston as well as The Shrine & Silvana in New York. In 2016 their original song “Beyond the Last Thought” won a Downbeat Student Music Award for Undergraduate College Outstanding Composition.