Aaron Diehl

Aaron Diehl (born September 22, 1985 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Diehl, whose grandfather was a pianist and trombonist, began taking classical piano lessons at the age of seven. He also attended the Interlochen Arts Camp , where he was introduced to the works of Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum .

At the age of 17 Diehl was a finalist in the Essentially Ellington competition at Lincoln Center, where he was discovered by Wynton Marsalis, with whose septet he toured Europe in 2000. From autumn of the same year he studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Kenny Barron and Eric Reed as well as the classical pianist Oxana Yablonskaya. In 2006, a year before he graduated, he released his debut album Mozart Jazz on the Japanese label Pony Canyon . The concert album Live at the Caramore followed in 2008.

With the album Live at the player (2010), that two of his trio documented (Quincy Davis and David Wong and Paul Sikivie and Lawrence Leathers ), he won the 2012 Prix du Jazz Classique the Académie du Jazz , the 2013 Jazz Journalists Award as Up-and-Coming Artist and the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival Commission Artist Award . In 2011 he won the Cole Porter Fellowship of the American Pianists Association and thus a recording contract with the Mack Avenue Records label . There he first published The Bespoke Man's Narrative (2013), which dealt with the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet and landed at number 1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart .

In 2013 Diehl also appeared on the debut of the singer Cécile McLorin Salvant , WomanChild , with whom he had previously worked, then went on several world tours and these on her albums For One to Love (2015; Grammy ) and Dreams and Daggers (2016, Grammy). Diehl continued to serve 2014 to 2015 as music director in the series New Orleans songbook of Lincoln Center . In 2014 he took part in the New York premiere of Philip Glass's Piano Etudes . In 2015 he released his third studio album Space Time Continuum , with guests including Benny Golson and Joe Temperley .

In 2017 Diehl performed Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra . His album The Vagabond (2020) with Paul Sikivie on double bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums includes his own compositions, Diehl's music by John Lewis and Sir Roland Hanna as well as Sergei Prokofjew and Phil Glass. In addition to Salvant and Marsalis, Diehl has toured or made recordings with Wycliffe Gordon , Marcus Printup , Warren Wolf , Lew Tabackin , Bria Skonberg , Matt Wilson and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra . At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner in the Piano / Rising Star category.

Web links

• Web presence
• Aaron Diehl at Allmusic (English)
• Aaron Diehl at Discogs (English)