Aaron Goldberg
Aaron Goldberg (* thirtieth April 1974 in Boston ) is an American jazz - pianist .
Aaron Goldberg began playing the piano at the age of seven and later studied with Bob Sinicrope at Milton Academy and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi . In 1991 he went to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music , after which he moved to Harvard University , where he received the Clifford Brown / Stan Getz Fellowship Award from the International Association for Jazz Education and a scholarship in the Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program. After graduating from Harvard in 1996, he worked as a sideman with saxophonist Joshua Redman . With his trio of Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland , he recorded his debut album Turning Point in 1999 , on which Joshua Redman and Mark Turner also played. In 2005 he went on tour with the quartet of Wynton Marsalis . In 2006 his third album Worlds was released , from which the title OAM's Blues was recorded in the Sample Music folder of the Windows Vista system. As a sideman he worked on recordings with Omer Avital , John Ellis , Matt Penman , Joshua Redman ( Beyond , 2000), Wayne Escoffery , Matt Penman, Mark Elf , Guillermo Klein , Gregory Tardy and Terry Gibbs / Buddy DeFranco . In 2019 he is a member of the John Ellis Quartet. Goldberg lives in Brooklyn .
Discographic notes
- Turning Point (1999)
- Unfolding (2001)
- Worlds (2006)
- Bienestan (Sunnyside, 2011) with Guillermo Klein
- Aaron Goldberg / Ali Jackson Jr. / Omer Avital: Yes! (Sunnyside, 2012)
- Ali Jackson / Aaron Goldberg / Omer Avital: Yes! Trio - Groove du Jour (2019)
- Josua Redman Quartet: Come What May (Nonesuch, 2019)
Web links
- Aaron Goldberg's website
- Aaron Goldberg at Discogs (English)
- Nate Chinen: Where Hearing the Parts Whirl Is the Point (2011 concert review ) in The New York Times
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| SURNAME | Goldberg, Aaron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |