Jason Moran born in1975, in Houston is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator involved in multimedia art and theatrical installations.Moran recorded first with Greg osby and debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, he has released albums with his trio The Bandwagon, solo, as a sideman, and with other bands. He combines post-bop and avant-garde jazz, blues, classical music,stride piano ,and Hiphop.

His love for jazz bloomed way back when he was in high school. He attended Houston’s High School for Performing and Visual Arts(HSPVA), graduating in 1993 from the jazz program headed by Robert Morgan. In his senior year, he was student director of the school’s jazz combo and part of the Texas high school all-state jazz ensemble. Moran received JazzTimes’ 2011 Expanded Critics’ Poll voted Moran second place “Artist of the Year” and first place “Pianist of the Year”; the Charles Lloyd New Quartet, “Acoustic Group of the Year” and The Bandwagon fifth place in that category.

Moran married Alicia Hall, a mezzo-soprano and artistic collaborator,in 2003. They have worked on several projects together. They live in Harlem and have twins(awww❤!!!). His works include “artist in residence”, “ten”, ” Facing left”, ” “Black stars”(my personal favorite❤) , “bangs”, “MASS”, and his most recent one ” Music for Joan Jonas “.

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