Jason Stein

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Jason Stein (born December 6, 1976 in Washington, DC ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( bass clarinet ).

Live and act

Stein grew up on Long Island . He studied at Bennington College with Charles Gayle and Milford Graves , then at the University of Michigan with Donald Walden and Ed Sarath . He has lived in Chicago since 2006 , where he has worked with his own ensembles and with Boris Hauf , Keefe Jacksons Project Project , Kyle Bruckmanns Wrack , in the Exploding Star Orchestra and in the Trio My Silence (with Mike Reed , Nick Butcher). With his own trio Locksmith Isidore , which includes Jason Roebke or Kevin Davis and Mike Pride , he has recorded three albums so far (2017). In 2009 he released the solo album Solo: In Exchange for a Process on Leo Records . He runs the Hearts & Minds duo with pianist and synthesizer player Paul Giallorenzo . In the field of jazz Stein participated in 21 recording sessions between 2005 and 2014, and he also recorded with the songwriter Nina Nastasia ( Outlaster , 2010), with Mike Reed ( Flesh & Bone ) and the Jason Roebke Octet.

Stein also played with Michael Moore , Jeff Parker , Rudi Mahall , Ken Vandermark , Rob Mazurek , Jeb Bishop , Michiel Braam , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , Pandelis Karayorgis , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Tony Buck , Kent Kessler , Tobias Delius , Nate McBride , Jack Wright, Michael Zerang , Michael Vatcher , Frank Gratkowski , Peter Brötzmann , Fredrik Ljungkvist , Wilbert de Joode and Håvard Wiik .

Discographic notes

  • Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: A Calculus of Loss ( Clean Feed Records , 2008)
  • Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: Three Less than Between (Clean Feed Records, 2009)
  • Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore: Three Kinds of Happiness ( Not Two Records , 2010)
  • Jason Stein Quartet: The Story This Time ( Delmark Records , 2011), with Keefe Jackson, Josh Abrams, and Frank Rosaly
  • Jason Stein Quartet: Lucille! (Delmark, 2017), with Keefe Jackson, Josh Abrams, Tom Rainey
  • Hearts and Minds: Electroradiance (Astral Spirits, 2018)
  • Ivo Perelman / Jason Stein: Spiritual Prayers ( Leo Records , 2018)
  • Jason Stein, Grag Ward , Eric Revis , Jim Black: Nature Work (2019)
  • Threadbare: Silver Dollar (2020), with Ben Cruz, Emerson Hunton

Web links

Commons : Locksmith Isidore  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  2. Portrait at All About Jazz