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Jarrett Cherner

Hailed as “an impressive soloist and an immaculate accompanist” (Richard Kamins) with “a bright future” (Scott Yanow), Brooklyn-based pianist, composer and bandleader Jarrett Cherner has captivated listeners with his lyricism, technical facility and consistently evolving musical vision.

Originally from San Francisco, where he garnered praise as “one of the most exciting young pianist-composers on the Bay Area scene” (Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News), Cherner debuted on his own BaldHill Music label in 2006 with the compelling trio release Burgeoning, which earned recognition from the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards. As a driving force behind the collective jazz quintet Sketches (sketchesmusic.com), Cherner released two albums, both critically acclaimed: Sketches Volume One (BaldHill, 2013) and Volume Two (Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2014).

Cherner’s 2016 trio release Expanding Heart (BaldHill, due October 2016) features bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Jason Burger in a set that reflects personal growth, combining original material with covers of wildly disparate songs by Vincent Rose, Otis Redding and Ornette Coleman. Also to come in 2016 is Cherner’s vlog #StandardsWithFriends, a series of home duo recordings with guests to be announced.

After earning a B.S. in mathematics from Tufts University in Boston, Cherner went on to a Jazz Piano Performance Degree from New England Conservatory, where he studied with master teachers Danilo Pérez, Jerry Bergonzi, Frank Carlberg and Michael Cain. Returning to San Francisco for a time, Cherner then moved to New York in 2008 to pursue graduate studies at Manhattan School of Music, studying with Jason Moran, Garry Dial and Dr. J. Mark Stambaugh. He has since toured throughout the U.S. as well as South America, Canada, Mexico and Europe, as both a leader and sideman. An adjunct professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, he also teaches through the New York Jazz Academy, and privately and via Skype from his Brooklyn studio.

Cherner’s first instrument was the violin: he began Suzuki method at age 7 and continued for 8 years. He also took up piano and drums at age 12 and played both throughout high school. His chief inspirations as a violinist were Vivaldi and Bach, but after an ill-fated attempt to sit in with a friend’s rock band — they had no sheet music — he became intrigued by improvisation and the deeper mysteries of music. Able to play only from the page or from memory, he felt limited and thus found his way to jazz conceptually, before he actually heard it.

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Album Review

Jarrett Cherner Trio: Expanding Heart

Read "Expanding Heart" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Forget about “the art of the trio." It's undoubtedly a topic worth discussing when you look at this album, and one that automatically comes up when you look at any piano-centric threesome, but it's a phrase that's been overused. Instead, let's talk about the heart of the trio--how it beats, what it feeds, where it leads, and the manner in which it expands (and contracts) to forward life and development. That's a topic that's more apropos here, as pianist Jarrett ...

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Marcia Miget Premieres 'Feed Your Soul' Series with Pianist Jarrett Cherner

Marcia Miget Premieres 'Feed Your Soul' Series with Pianist Jarrett Cherner

Source: imajinnWEST

On Wednesday September 5, 2007, and for the next eight Wednesdays Marcia Miget of Miraflores Music School will perform a series of lunchtime concerts on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and 'E' Streets, San Rafael. Each week from noon to 1:30 pm Ms. Miget will perform with a local name musician or ex- student in jazz, Latin or classical genres.

The first 'Friend' is Bay Area native, pianist, composer, educator and past student, Jarrett Cherner. ...

"Pianist Jarrett Cherner brings beauty into the picture and serves as a go-between, linking the horns and the rhythm section together" —Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz

"[Cherner is] an impressive soloist and an immaculate accompanist." —Richard Kamins, Step Tempest"

"Cherner has established himself as one of the most exciting young pianist-composers on the Bay Area scene." —Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News

"A lyrical player who sounds thoughtful even when playing an uptempo piece, Jarrett Cherner clearly has a bright future. His compositions are quite original (rather than being based on familiar chord changes), his improvising hints in spots at Bill Evans but is personal, and his interplay with his trio finds the three musicians often seeming to think as one." —Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene

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Primary Instrument

Piano

Location

New York City

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Tone

BaldHill Records
2020

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Expanding Heart

BaldHill Records
2016

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Burgeoning

BaldHill Records
2006

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