Jason Lindner

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Jason Lindner at a concert in the Treibhaus Innsbruck 2009

Jason Lindner (born February 1, 1973 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American fusion and jazz musician ( piano , keyboard , arrangement , composition ) and orchestra conductor .

Live and act

Lindner, who was able to play the piano by hearing at the age of three, had piano lessons from the age of seven. After high school he studied at Mannes College The New School for Music in 1991 and then took lessons from Barry Harris . He first played with Junior Cook and Dennis Charles . He was a member of Meshell Ndegeocello's band and worked as musical director, arranger and pianist for Claudia Acuña , including on her debut album Wind from the South . In 2000 his record debut Premonition was released . a. Contributed by Avishai Cohen , Jeff Ballard, and Charles Owens . In addition to other band projects, he has been leading a big band since 1995 , with whom he regularly appears at the New York jazz club Smalls , rehearsing new works and in 2005 released the album Live at the Jazz Gallery . With his trio Now vs. Now he has released three albums. In 2015 he was involved in David Bowie's last album Blackstar ; then toured with Donny McCaslin ( Beyond Now , Blow ).

Michael G. Nastos compares his big band work with that of Maria Schneider , Toshiko Akiyoshi and Carla Bley . In 2015, his big band won the Down Beat critics poll in the “Rising Star” category. Arturo O'Farrill brought him in 2013 for the recording of his track "They Came" with the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra on the Grammy- winning album The Offense of the Drum (2014). In 2019 he led the hr big band for a concert for which he arranged the music of Donny McCaslin.

Discographic notes

  • Premonition (Stretch Records 2000)
  • Live: UK (Sunnyside 2001, with Jimmy Greene, Omer Avital and Marlon Browden)
  • 1, 2, 3, etc. ( Fresh Sound Records 2001, with Giulia Valle and Marc Ayza)
  • Live at the Jazz Gallery (Anzic Records, 2005 with Miguel Zenón )
  • AB Aeterno (Fresh Sound 2006, with Omer Avital and Luisito Quintero)
  • Now vs. Now (Anzic Records 2009) with Panagiotis Andreou , Mark Guiliana and Kurt Rosenwinkel , Anat Cohen )
  • Now vs. Now: The Buffering Cocoon (Jazzland, 2018; with Panagiotis Andreou, Justin Tyson)

Lexical entry

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josh Jackson: Jason Lindner: The Sound of 'Now' at NPR-Jazz
  2. ^ Review of the album Live at the Jazz Gallery by Michael G. Nastos at Allmusic . Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ hr big band
personal data
SURNAME Lindner, Jason
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion and jazz musician (piano, keyboard, arrangement, composition) and orchestra leader.
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City