Allyn Johnson

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Allyn Johnson (* around 1975 in Washington, DC ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Allyn Johnson began playing the piano at the age of five; from an early age he was a pianist for the youth choir in his uncle's parish. He was preparing for medical school at George Washington University College . When he heard the pianist Dwayne Adell , he changed his mind. He graduated from the University of the District of Columbia ; his mentor was Calvin Jones . At UDC, Johnson was one of the earliest winners of the Felix , a jazz performance scholarship . After completing his studies with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies in 1997 with honors ( magna cum laude ), he taught for six years as adjunct professor and deputy head of the Jazz Studies department ; after Calvin Jones' death he became its director in 2005.

The first jazz recordings were made in Washington in 1996 with Sunny Sumter, Steve Wilson and George Colligan ( Getting To Know You ); in the following years he also worked with Andrew White , the Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra, Tim Green, Reginald Cyntje, Marcus Printup ( Young Bloods , 2014) and Christian Winther . In 2005 he founded the Divine Order ensemble , in which he brings styles such as gospel , jazz and classical music together. He also worked with the Sonic Sanctuary formation , with his own trio and ensemble, stylistically oriented between straight-ahead jazz , fusion and funk . In the field of jazz he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1996 and 2017.

Discographic notes

  • Three for All: Premonition (ALM, 2005), with Mykle Lyons, Lenny Robinson

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Allyn Johnson. Smalls, December 13, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 14, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Allyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC