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Jason Moran
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American jazz pianist, composer, educator (born 1975)
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Jason Moran is an American jazz musician, composer, and recording artist who plays the piano. Born in Houston in 1975, he performs in the jazz, blues, and post-bop genres. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been recognized in the MacArthur Fellows Program. Moran has released music on ECM Records.
He is educated at the Manhattan School of Music and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. His works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 96,293
- Total plays
- 586,231
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34 year-old pianist Jason Moran has proven, after seven years on the estimable Blue Note Records, more than his brilliance as a performer. He’s established himself as a risk-taker, a seeker of new directions for jazz as a whole. Looking to the wider world of art for inspiration, Moran has found it in edgy 20th century painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat (check out “JAMO Meets SAMO” from Soundtrack to Human Motion, his 1999 debut as a leader <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jason+Moran">Read mo
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jason
- Family name
- Moran
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- ECM Records
- Official website
- www.jasonmoran.com
- Image
- Jason-moran.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jason Moran
- date of birth
- 1975-01-21
- social media followers
- 17216
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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