“I’m thinking that I have to figure out a way to represent for Detroit’s techno music,” the pianist, bandleader, composer and ...

“Shock” is the word Jason Moran uses for being named Artist-in-Residence for the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival.

He will also perform at the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center on Tuesday, April 15 during the festival's preview event.

On the occasion of Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, the great composer passes the torch to his modern counterpart, Jason ...

Other performances have followed in the US and abroad, some entirely solo piano, others involving big bands. On Saturday March 1, Moran will present a solo show at the Berklee Performance Center as ...

But most Americans are unfamiliar with Europe’s story. Until recently, that included jazz pianist, composer, and artist Jason Moran. But lately it has become an obsession of his — one that ...

Since his formidable emergence on the music scene in the late 90s, jazz pianist Jason Moran has proven more than his brilliance as a performer. The Blue Note Records recording artist has established ...

The Houston native and Blue Note Records artist is currently the artist director for jazz at the Kennedy Center.

Jason Moran, who has released 18 solo albums and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022, expressed his honor at being chosen for the role. He hinted at plans to ...

"Maybe myself and another artist can churn away for an hour," he teases. By Gary Graff Jason Moran plans to blend genres in one of his performances as the Detroit Jazz Festival’s artist-in ...