Jason Moran News

 
New York Times
Art, Ancestry, Africa: Letting It All Bleed
New York Times
Alicia Hall Moran is an operatic mezzo-soprano, and Jason Moran is a jazz pianist. They met at the Manhattan School of Music and married in 2003. Since then they've made a lot of their work separately. Mr. Moran has toured and recorded for 12 years ...

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On Jazz Day, Jason Moran Makes The Case For Relevance
NPR
It's Jason Moran's job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center's artistic adviser for jazz, Moran says he hopes to widen the audience for jazz, make the music more accessible and preserve its history and culture. "[Jazz] seems like it's not really a ...

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Blue Notes: Joan Jonas, Jason Moran and the Art of Collaboration
Austinist
But there is something unique about Jason Moran's work with Joan Jonas, combining as it does an improvisational score with an artistic piece that fundamentally changes depending on the space in which it's performed. In her post-performance interview, ...


 
Music Worcester's outgoing executive director plans stellar season
Worcester Telegram
Alden Hall, WPI. Jason Moran and the Bandwagon, Nov. 9 — Moran and his group (with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits) have been described as “the future of jazz.” Tuckerman Hall. Siberian Virtuosi, Nov. 14 — From the geographically vast ...


 
The Week in Culture Pictures, May 18
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Yana Paskova for The New York TimesKara Walker performing in “Bleed,” by Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran, at the Whitney Museum. A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week. From the deluge of art, ...

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Chicago Calendar
Naperville Sun
Jason Moran leads a special tribute to Fats Waller. Look for detail and tickets at Symphony Center's web site, www.cso.org. or at the box office at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., or call 312-294-3000. New York Times College Life Fair: Hundreds ...

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WNYC
Gig Alert: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran
WNYC
Musician, actress and artist Alicia Hall Moran and her husband Jason, who is an acclaimed jazz pianist, composer and the artistic director of the Kennedy Center start a residency at the Whitney Biennial on Wednesday. The five-day interdisciplinary ...