Add one more win to the track record of Team Moran: pianist Jason Moran was just included in TheGrio’s 100, a Who’s Who of African-American achievement compiled by MSNBC.com. He’s one of the only jazz musicians featured (Wynton Marsalis is in there too). The video above outlines a bit of Moran’s back story, and concludes thus:
“Young people wishing to get into the music are often just looking for something that is closer of a reflection of themselves. And hopefully my generation is continuing to kind of give people enough of a reflection of what can be possible within the jazz umbrella.”
Moran’s new album, Ten,
drops on Blue Note in June, two days before his gig with Ron Miles and Mary
Halvorson on this thing.
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