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Jason Moran: The Bandwagon
by Rex Butters
For his fifth Blue Note album, Jason Moran continues to build creative momentum. Once again, Moran stands as a conduit for a wide range of musical sources, from blues to classical to hip-hop to the Great American Songbook, often within the same song. His seemingly limitless vocabulary finds sympathetic support from two longtime collaborators, bassist Tarus ...
'The Bandwagon' Storms The Kennedy Center
by Franz A. Matzner
October 15, 2003 The Kennedy Center Washington, D.C. Virtually drowning in accolades, Jason Moran needs little introduction. With the support of his band-mates, Tarus Mateen (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums), Moran has established himself at the forefront of modern jazz, particularly with the breakthrough album released this year, The Bandwagon. One element ...
Jason Moran on 'The Bandwagon'
by Franz A. Matzner
Jason Moran is busy. Busy touring to promote his upcoming release The Bandwagon , a live album featuring his outstanding trio; he’s busy winning critics and readers poles; he’s busy talking to reporters; and he’s busy carving out time for younger musicians like those gathered at the recent clinic Moran held at the University of Maryland ...
Jason Moran: The Bandwagon
by Jay Collins
Without a doubt, Jason Moran is now at the forefront of so-called modern jazz. While he has his share of detractors, his stature is certainly deserved. Possessed with a fearless technique, an impressive pedigree (both in terms of his mentors and his former employers), a striking compositional style and adventurousness within the conventional framework of the ...
Jason Moran: The Bandwagon
by Franz A. Matzner
Evaluating Jason Moran’s latest release, Bandwagon, feels as inconsequential as describing the relative worth of oceanic conditions or the comparative pleasures of desert vistas, mountainous landscapes, and tundra planes. For Moran’s music is as much a display of nature, and incorporating as varied a range of phenomena, as the above physical environments. Moran ...
Modernistic
By Jason Moran
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. You've Got to Be Modernistic 2. Body and Soul 3.Planet Rock
4. Planet Rock Postscript 5. Time into Space into Time
6. Gansterism on Irons 7. Moran Tonk Circa 1935
8. Passion 9. Gangsterism on a Lunchtable
10. Auf Einer Burg/In a Fortress 11. Gentle Shifts South
A Fireside Chat With Jason Moran (2002)
by AAJ Staff
I have always liked Jason Moran. If not his killing playing, his uncanny unwillingness to need to be the king of the playground. He is comfortable with his identity and so his approach is clear and ultimately his own. Now, I don't know much, but I have known since Oz's Further Ado, “JaMo" was to be ...
Jason Moran: Modernistic
by Mark F. Turner
Let's just cut to the chase. Jazz pianist Jason Moran has the goods. And more importantly, he has his own set of goods. His voice is unique among an onslaught of talented pianists. Exhilarating, challenging, and animated, are just a view of the ways to describe Moran's delivery. A student of the late Jaki Byard, his ...
Black Stars
By Jason Moran
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Foot Under Foot; Kinda Dukish; Gangsterism on a River; Earth Song; Summit; Say Peace; Draw the Light Out; Out Front; The Sun at Midnight; Skitter In; Sound It Out
Jason Moran: Black Stars
by C. Andrew Hovan
Among the current crop of jazzmen at the new Blue Note, Jason Moran just might be the most ambitious. At a time when it seems that much of the current crop of new releases will have limited shelf lives at best, Moran’s music strikes a more profound chord. At present, a shining star in Greg Osby’s ...
