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Jason Yeager

Originally from Framingham, MA, Jason Yeager is a New York-based composer, pianist, and educator. He has released four albums as a leader or co-leader, most recently All At Onceness (Red Piano Records) and United (Inner Circle Music), the latter being named one of 2017's best and receiving a 4.5-star review in Downbeat. His first two albums, Ruminations and Affirmation (both on Inner Circle Music), featured nearly all original compositions. Yeager has played at such venues as the Blue Note in New York, Thelonious in Buenos Aires, and the Panama and Dominican Republic Jazz Festivals. Yeager has also performed and/or recorded with such artists as Luciana Souza, Jason Anick, Ran Blake, Ayn Inserto, Sean Jones, George Garzone, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Jason Palmer, and Sara Serpa.

A committed educator, Yeager is Assistant Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music. He is an honors graduate of the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Double Degree Program, where he studied International Relations and Jazz Performance. His primary teachers and mentors, in both performance and composition, were Fred Hersch, Danilo Pérez, Sophia Rosoff, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, and Jerry Bergonzi. Yeager earned a Master of Music degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, where he studied with Danilo Pérez, Doug Johnson, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Terri Lynne Carrington, Adam Cruz, and more.

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Jason Yeager- Randal Despommier: All At Onceness

Read "All At Onceness" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Lavoro fondamentalmente cameristico che fa incontrare il jazz con la classica, aggiungendovi alcuni originali, All At Onceness è cofirmato da due artisti dell'area newyorchese, il pianista Jason Yeager e il sassofonista contralto Randal Despommier, ai quali in metà dei brani si aggiungono altri musicisti per formare organici diversi. Il programma prevede un brano a testa a firma dei due co-leader e per il resto riletture, tutte piuttosto libere, di brani classici: di Bach, Milhaud, Messiaen, Scriabin, Bartok e ...

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Jason Yeager: Affirmation

Read "Affirmation" reviewed by Mark Corroto


No sophomore slump for pianist Jason Yeager. His trio disc Affirmation actually has the feel of a mature artist's fourth, fifth, and sixth recording. Maybe that is because his trio is a true working unit with bassist Danny Weller and drummer Matt Rousseau or possibly it's his ability to integrate varying musical concepts without sounding imitative. Yeager's piano, under the tutelage of Danilo Perez, masterfully pulls from jazz, classical, blues and pop music with a seamless approach that ...

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Pianist Jason Yeager Presents New Music With NYC Trio at Regattabar on March 7

Pianist Jason Yeager Presents New Music  With NYC Trio at Regattabar on March 7

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"Jason Yeager is a monster pianist and composer....[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt." —Ran Blake, pianist/composer and MacArthur Fellow “Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch." —Grego Edwards, All About Jazz Cambridge, MA—Framingham native and NYC-based jazz pianist/composer Jason Yeager returns to the Regattabar with his trio on March 7 at 7:30 PM. Having released his acclaimed debut CD, Ruminations, on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music label last March at the Regattabar, Yeager returns ...

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Jason Yeager's "Ruminations": Piano Trio Plus Much

Jason Yeager's "Ruminations": Piano Trio Plus Much

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

Pianist Jason Yeager has been working with his trio of Tal Gamlieli (bass) and Michael Gleichman (drums) for more than three years now. Their Ruminations (Inner Circle 020) shows the sort of subtle interplay a piano trio ideally develops when they grow together as a unit. Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch. Gamlieli shows sensitive accompanying abilities and the ability to step out in front of the ensemble and say something when called ...

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Jason Yeager Trio CD Release Party at Regattabar (Boston) on March 15th

Jason Yeager Trio CD Release Party at Regattabar (Boston) on March 15th

Source: Sue Auclair Promotions

JAZZ TRIO PRESENTS “AN EVENING WITH THE JASON YEAGER TRIO" AT HARVARD SQUARE'S REGATTABAR, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, TUESDAY, MARCH 15 AT 7:30 PM “Jason Yeager is a monster pianist and composer" —Ran Blake Cambridge, MA—Ruminations is the title of the Jason Yeager Trio's sterling new jazz CD on Greg Osby's own record label, Inner Circle Music. Its upcoming March 1st release will be celebrated with “An Evening with The Jason Yeager Trio" at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel, One Bennett ...

"...[Jason Yeager] always impressed me with his talent, his curiosity and his desire to create his own music while really investigating the jazz piano tradition." -Fred Hersch, Grammy-nominated pianist/composer and Doris Duke Fellow

"An individualist with a high concept, his music contains grace and color and a great deal of depth." -Greg Osby, saxophonist/composer

"An incredible composer and musician...[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt….I think there's a potential for genius." -Ran Blake, pianist/composer, MacArthur Fellow

"Yeager plays a thoughtfully subtle, harmonically advanced sort of piano with great touch." -Grego Edwards, All About Jazz

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Sunnyside Records
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Outside in Music
2019

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All At Onceness

Red Piano Records
2018

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Affirmation

Inner Circle Music
2014

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Bokonon

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Gracias A La Vida

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