JASON ROBINSON
Saxophonist, Flutist, Composer
NEXT CONCERT:
25 April 2024
Convergence, with Allan Chase (saxophones), Charlie Kohlhase (saxophones), Matt Dwonszyk (bass), George Schuller (drums)
Blue Room at CitySpace | Easthampton, MA
ANCESTRAL NUMBERS I AND EUROPE TOUR 2024
Ancestral Numbers I, the first in a series of two new albums, is available for pre-order beginning April 14, followed by its release on May 14. See Robinson's Bandcamp site for details. The album features a quintet version of Robinson's Janus Ensemble. Robinson is joined by trombonist Michael Dessen, pianist Joshua White, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Ches Smith. The subsequent album in the series, Ancestral Numbers II, is scheduled for release in October 2024, which will be accompanied by a series of tour dates in the US Northeast. Meanwhile, Robinson heads to Europe in July 2024 to perform with GROWLER, a new group that reunites Robinson with long time musical friends, bassist Scott Walton (Cosmologic, Trummerflora) and trombonist Christopher Robin Cox (51st Monkey), along with several new collaborators. Concerts in France, Czechia, and Hungary.
About Jason Robinson
The music of American composer, saxophonist, flutist, and scholar Jason Robinson ("rugged and scintillating," New York Times) thrives in the fertile overlaps between improvisation and composition, acoustic music and electronics, tradition and experimentalism. Initially a devotee of post-1960s jazz and creative music, Robinson is celebrated for bringing together various historical directions in jazz--bebop, post-bop, the avant-garde--with an improvisatory and compositional sensibility drawn from and extending the languages of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Lester Young. His musical interests, however, span far and wide. Born in 1975, he is a critically acclaimed distinctive voice in a generation of creative musicians in equal dialogue with jazz, popular music, experimental music, and electronic music.