Jason Moran

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Jason Moran (born January 21, 1975) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator who has worked with multimedia art and theater performances.Moran debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion.

Since then, he has released albums with his band The Bandwagon, solo as a sideman, and with other bands.

He blends post-bop and avant-garde jazz, blues, classical guitar, stride piano, and hip hop.

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Career

Moran was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Houston's Pleasantville neighborhood. Andy, an investment banker, and Mary, a librarian, influenced his musical and artistic sensibilities at the Houston Symphony, museums and galleries, as well as a friendship with John T. Biggers and a personal collection. When he was six, Moran began training in classical piano playing in Yelena Kurinets' Suzuki method music academy. However, his father's extensive record collection (about 10,000 in 2004), ranging from Motown to classical to avant-garde jazz.

He preferred hip hop music over piano until, at the age of 13, he first heard the song "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk at home and moved to jazz. Monk's childlike melodies, with their many empty spaces, struck him as fun to play and not overly ornate, although the beats were reminiscent of hip hop hits, and the harmonies were unorthodox. Both jazz and hip hop were active in Houston's skateboarding scene, in which he was active.

He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), graduating in 1993 from Robert Morgan's jazz program. He served as student director of the school's jazz ensemble and was a member of the Texas high school all-state jazz ensemble in his senior year.

He then transferred to the Manhattan School of Music, where he would graduate in 1997 with a BM degree and then study with pianist Jaki Byard. He appeared in Betty Carter's exclusive workshop last year, compiling the piece "Make a Decision" for the final concert.

Moran, a senior at Manhattan School of Music, was accepted to play in Europe in 1997 by a group of saxophonist Greg Osby, who performed mainly on older piano jazz, but no audition was made. Moran continued to play with Osby's band on his return to the United States, making his first public appearance on Osby's 1997 Blue Note album Further Ado. He will appear on several other Osby albums later this year, and Osby will introduce him to avant-garde pianists Muhal Richard Abrams and Andrew Hill.

Moran was led by his time with Osby to sign a Blue Note contract of his own. In 1998, his debut Soundtrack to Human Motion was released. Moran was joined on the album by Osby, drummer Eric Harland (a classmate of Moran's at the Manhattan School and one who recommended him to Osby), vibraphonist Stefon Harris, and acoustic bassist Lonnie Plaxico.

Moran's new album, Facing Left, 2000 (after a work by Egon Schiele), featured a trio that formed out of Osby's band, New Directions: Moran, bassist Tarus Mateen, and drummer Nasheet Waits. Some of Moran's compositions were inspired by Mateen, Duke Ellington, Björk, and Byard, as well as some by Mateen, Duke Ellington, Björk, and Byard. The trio, who came to be known as The Bandwagon, was joined by saxophonist and pianist Sam Rivers for their forthcoming album, Black Stars, which appeared in 2001. In NPR's "The 50 Most Important Recordings of the Decade," Black stars were included.

Moran released an individual album, Modernistic, in 2002, and followed it in 2003 with a live trio concert at Village Vanguard in New York.

He appeared at the Montreal International Jazz Festival the summer before, first partnering with Lee Konitz and then with the trio. He appeared on Don Byron's Ivey-Divey in 2004. From the Montey Jazz Festival to Montreal's Jazz Festival in 2006 to WinterJazzFest in 2009, the Ivey-Divey Trio (sometimes a quartet) toured for a number of years, from the Monterey Jazz Festival to Montreal's Jazz Festival in 2004 to WinterJazzFest in 2009.

Moran's 2005 album Identity, a blues journey, brought guitarist Marvin Sewell into the Bandwagon family.

Artist in Residence, Moran's 2006 release, contained a variety of selections from various museums; "The Shape, the Feeling of Things" is based on an artist's solo exhibit; and "RAIN," inspired by ringing sounds from African American slaves, is a recording of The Bandwagon, which premiered in 2005. Artist in Residence's critical reception has unquestionably been colder than his other debuts.

Moran's IN MY MIND, which premiered in 2007, is a multimedia presentation based on Thelonious Monk's 1959 "large band" concert at The Town Hall in New York City. It uses video footage of Monk's rehearsal, which was found in W. Eugene Smith's archives, as well as video art by David Dempewolf. Monk, one of Smith's tapes, and Moran, incorporating the soundbite into the composition, created a text-laden painting from Glenn Ligon. The Big Bandwagon orchestrates the show: the trio has a relatively varied five piece horn section. "It had a magical blend of theory and intuition, and the audience stayed completely with it," the New York Times wrote. The February 2009 installation is the subject of a documentary film of the same name.

Moran was the piano in Charles Lloyd's New Quartet in April 2007, succeeding Geri Allen. He was the last member of the band to join (as of 2014), having released one studio album and two live ones. In 2013, Moran and Lloyd released Hagar's Song, a duet album.

Moran performed with Dave Holland's Overtone Quartet from September 2009 to about 2012.

This is a 2008 response to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's On The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Cane was written for classical wind quintet Imani Winds, one of Moran's college classmate Toyin Spellman. It premiered in October 2008 and appeared on their album Terra Incognita in 2010; it refers to Marie Thérèse Metoyer and Moran's family roots in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Moran performed and accompanied Alonzo King LINES Ballet in 2009. "Refraction" is a ballet by Moran. In the 2000s, four independent short films and a feature documentary were released with Moran's soundtracks (see below). In addition, he collaborated with Ligon on 2008's The Death of Tom, an abstract, experimental, video artwork. Moran contributed a score based on Bert Williams' song "Nobody" based on his shared historical passions. The work is in the MoMA collection, but in a 2011 preview, he returned to it again.

Ten, which was released in 2010, marks a ten-year absence from Bandwagon's debut, Facing Left. "Blue Blocks" off the Philadelphia Museum commission, "RFK in the Land of Apartheid," the original score to a documentary film of the same name, and "Feedback Pt. Jimi Hendrix's appearance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was "number 2" in honor of him. At the IN MY MIND tour, Monk's "Crepuscule with Nellie" was recorded. Moran and Andrew Hill's composition is also included in the ten; others by Leonard Bernstein, Jaki Byard, Conlon Nancarrow, and Bert Williams. "Jazz Album of the Year" was named ten by the Downbeat 2010 critics, who also voted Moran "Pianist of the Year" and "Jazz Artist of the Year" in the Moran "Jazz Artist of the Year" and "Jazz Artist of the Year" and "Jazz Artist of the Year" and "Jazz Artist of the Year" and "Jazz Artist of the Year." Ten of the top ten pop and jazz albums of 2010 were chosen by the New York Times.

Moran has been performing "Fats Waller dance company" since 2011, first sponsored by Harlem Stage. It became the foundation of a 2014 film, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller, dedicated to Fats Waller and the style of popular entertainment during jazz's days. Meshell Ndegeocello, drummer Charles Haynes' ensemble with trumpeter Leron Thomas and trombonist Josh Roseman, saxophonist Steve Lehman, and bassist Mark Kelly were among the participants in the flimsy roster.

Moran's composition, "Slang," was commissioned for the 2011 Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. Alicia Hall Moran and Jason curated BLEED, a week-long exhibition that featured many artists and artisans and sought to reveal artistic processes to the point that "it has to be scary." In dOCUMENTA (13), a new performance with Joan Jonas was the first staged in the year. Moran appeared with The Bandwagon and guest Jeff Parker in the summer of 2013 and the next, as well as guest Jeff Parker and the Bandwagon, skateboarding performances in SFJAZZ Center.

Jump Cut Rose, which he wrote for the quintet and a piano, premiered in April 2014 in the city's Symphony Center; The Bandwagon, the Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, Ken Vandermark and Katie Ernst, bassist and vocalist, performed in May, Looks of A Lot, a musical co-production with Theaster Gates on the topic of Chicago cultural history premiered in Chicago's Symphony Center; participants included Moran and Imani Winds. The Bandwagon performed "The Subtle One" in the same month as Ronald K. Brown's ballet adaptation. He appeared twice in the Monterey Jazz Festival in September: In a one-piano duo with Robert Glasper and with Charles Lloyd New Quartet, a one-piano duete. He was in charge of the recording of the multi-nominated 2016 documentary 13th.

Moran has recorded with a variety of other artists, including Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Charles Lloyd, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Francisco Mela, and Don Byron. He performed with Marian McPartland, Lee Konitz, Wayne Shorter (as replacement), Robert Glasper, violinist Jenny Scheinman, The Bad Plus, guitarist Mary Halvorson, and trumpeter Bill Frisell (Overtone Quartet).

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