Jarrett Cherner

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Jarrett Cherner (* 1981 ) is an American musician ( piano , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Cherner, who is from San Francisco, first learned to play the violin using the Suzuki method at the age of seven and continued to do so for eight years. He began playing the piano and drums at age twelve, and played both instruments throughout his high school years. After starting out in rock bands, he found his way to jazz . After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Tufts University in Boston, he studied as a performer on the jazz piano at the New England Conservatory . There he had lessons from Danilo Pérez , Jerry Bergonzi , Frank Carlberg and Michael Cain . Cherner returned to San Francisco for some time and moved to New York in 2008 to study at the Manhattan School of Music with Jason Moran , Garry Dial and J. Mark Stambaugh.

In 2006, Cherner self- published the debut album Burgeoning in trio; it was awarded the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards . In 2011 he was a semi-finalist at the Montreux Jazz Piano Competition. He also worked with the collective jazz quintet Sketches , with which the two albums Sketches Volume One (BaldHill, 2013) and Volume Two ( Brooklyn Jazz Underground , 2014) were released. In 2016 he presented the trio release Expanding Heart (BaldHill) under his own name , which he had mainly recorded with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Jason Burger; it contains original material and cover versions of works by Vincent Rose , Otis Redding and Ornette Coleman . From 2005 recordings were also made with Lisa Engelken ( Caravan , 2010), Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Terrence Brewer ( Mosaic: Setting the Standard Vol. 2 ).

As an associate professor, he taught at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . He also teaches at the New York Jazz Academy and gives private lessons in Brooklyn.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jarrett Cherner, piano. Smalls, accessed December 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Cherner, Jarrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1981