LISTEN NOW: Jason Moran Interview at KUVO

Jason Moran – hailed as the “future of jazz” – stopped by the studio to discuss the state of the arts in America with Take Note host Susan Gatschet. Hear the full interview here.

Moran will perform at Baur’s Listening Lounge June 14.

Since his formidable emergence on the music scene in the late 90s, jazz pianist Jason Moran has established himself as a risk-taker and innovator of new directions for jazz as a whole.

Currently serving as Jazz Director of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Moran challenges the status quo in improvisation, composition, group concept, repertoire, technique and experimentation.

Leveraging the wider world of art as his muse, Moran finds inspiration in edgy 20th Century painters.

Thelonious Monk had a pivotal role in influencing Moran to become a jazz musician. In 1981, at the age of six, the Houston native began studying the piano, but longed to quit until he first heard the sounds of Monk. 

Monk became an early role model in Moran’s creative development, which was later honed while gaining a music education at New York’s Manhattan School of Music.

Moran is on the piano faculty at Manhattan School of Music and has been a lecturer/instructor at Yale University, Dartmouth University, The Kennedy Center, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Denmarks’ Vallekilde Jazz Camp, Skidmore and Stanford Jazz Workshop, and more.

Moran has performed and/or recorded with artists Cassandra Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Charles Lloyd, Dave Holland, Marian McPartland, Don Byron, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Jenny Scheinman, Christian McBride, and others.

Learn more and purchase tickets here.