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| Jason Moran performing the Fats Waller Dance Party at Harlem Stage Gatehouse, NYC, 2011. Photo by Eric Sandler via revive-music.com. |
Luhring Augustine announces
gallery representation of jazz pianist, composer, and performance artist.
Jason Moran's rich and varied body of work is actively shaping the current and
future landscape of jazz. His activity stretches beyond the many recordings and
performances with masters of the form including Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell,
and the late Sam Rivers, and his work with his trio The Bandwagon (with drummer
Nasheet Waits and bassist Tarus Mateen) has resulted in a profound discography
for Blue Note Records.
The scope of Moran’s partnerships and music-making with venerated and iconic
visual artists is extensive. He has collaborated with such major figures as Adrian
Piper, Joan Jonas, Glenn Ligon, Stan Douglas, Adam Pendleton, Lorna Simpson,
and Kara Walker; commissioning institutions of Moran’s work include the Walker
Art Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dia Art Foundation, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Moran has a long-standing collaborative practice with his wife, the singer and
Broadway actress Alicia Hall Moran; as named artists in the 2012 Whitney
Biennial, they together constructed BLEED, a five-day series of live
music. BLEED explored the power of performance to cross barriers and
challenge assumptions, and it was widely hailed as groundbreaking in the music
and performance realm.
Moran’s upcoming ventures include the world premiere of Looks of a Lot,
a site-specific performance at Chicago Symphony Center with Theaster Gates in
May 2014, and an appearance with The Bandwagon at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in April in conjunction with the museum’s Carrie Mae Weems exhibition.
Moran’s new recording, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller,
will be released in September by Blue Note Records.
Moran was born in Houston, TX in 1975 and earned a degree from the Manhattan
School of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard. He was named a MacArthur
Fellow in 2010 and is the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center.
Moran currently teaches at the New England Conservatory.
