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Jeremy Manasia
Jeremy has toured the world with his music, and currently lives and teaches in New York City, where he has resided since 1997. Jeremy was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Competition, the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, and the American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition.
Jeremy has performed with The Charles Owens Quartet, The Hotpants Funk Sextet, The David Gibson Quartet/Sextet, The Peter Bernstein Quartet, The Ryan Kisor Quintet with Chris Potter, The Joe Magnarelli Quartet, Nneena Freelon, Marlena Shaw, Diane Schur, Jimmy Cobb, John Boutte, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Escoffrey, Rodney Green, Greg Hutchinson, and has recorded with Charles Owens, David Gibson, The Hotpants, Steve Santoro, Alex Graham, The Sickle Project, John Boutte, Five Up High and Melissa Morgan.
Jeremy's debut CD, "Witchery", was released in August 2007 by Canadian based CELLAR LIVE records and is available in stores and on the web. January 2009 will see the release of Jeremy's second CD as a leader, this time for Los Angeles based record label POSI-TONE records. The release entitled "After Dark" will showcase Jeremy's compositions backed by the wonderful Barak Mori and Charles Ruggiero, and with special guest appearances by Jane Monheit and Ian Hendrickson-Smith.
Jeremy is an aspiring film composer and has scored several short films.
Awards
finalist 1999 Thelonious Monk Piano Competition Runner up 1999 Jacksonville Great American Jazz Piano Competition finalist in the 1998 and 2001 American Pianists Association Jazz Piano Competition
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Javon Jackson: The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni
by Angelo Leonardi
Nikki Giovanni è una delle scrittrici afro-americane più note al mondo. Emersa alla fine degli anni sessanta come innovativa poetessa della Black Revolution entro il Black Arts Movement (c'erano anche Amiri Baraka e Ishmael Reed) ha pubblicato numerose raccolte di poesie e opere su questioni sociali, insegnando al contempo in varie università statunitensi. Giunta alla soglia degli ottant'anni ha un enorme curriculum di riconoscimenti prestigiosi. L'idea d'incidere quest'album col gruppo del sassofonista Javon Jackson nasce nel ...
read moreJeremy Manasia Trio: Metamorphosis
by Jack Bowers
The Jeremy Manasia Trio: new names one and all in this neighborhood save for the gentleman who makes the trio a quartet, guitarist Peter Bernstein. As it turns out, pianist Manasia, a native of Staten Island, has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene since he returned from Europe in 1997, and Metamorphosis is his sixth recording as leader of his own groups. While bassist Barak Mori and drummer Charles Ruggiero round out the trio, Bernstein appears on ...
read moreJeremy Manasia: Pixel Queen
by Dan Bilawsky
Pixel Queen is the third record to document the musical relationship that pianist Jeremy Manasia has with bassist Barak Mori and drummer Charles Ruggiero. Manasia's debut leader date--Witchery (Cellar Live, 2007)--featured a different rhythm crew, but this bass-and-drums team came aboard for After Dark (Posi-Tone, 2009), a pleasing trio-with-guests outing, and stayed for Green Dream (Cellar Live, 2012), an all-originals trio date. On this release, Manasia's fourth overall and first on the Blujazz imprint, this trio tackles six of the ...
read moreJeremy Manasia: After Dark
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist, composer and arranger Jeremy Manasia is the driving force behind After Dark, an excellent group of originals and standards rendered by Manasia, drummer Charles Ruggiero and bassist Barak Mori. Manasia wrote most of the songs with classic jazz as his guiding principle. Up-tempo tunes like Ruggburn" or the cool mid-tempo blues Arch Eyes" are straight from the hard bop lexicon. In the spirited Jake's Dilemma" one can hear whispers of Bud Powell's Oblivion." There are subtle ...
read moreEric S. Reed
"...we agree that is serious jazz coming from Manasia's trio. Jerry really swings on piano on "You Do Something To Me" and even with more of a swagger on "Witchery". These are young players coming together having played with more notable talent and now saying something on their own. Jeremy has four originals here as well and we're convinced that what he is saying is worth listening to!"
Primary Instrument
Piano
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
Faculty at Manhattan School of Music teach combos, big band, improvisation, piano for non piano majors,piano $75/hour
Clinic/Workshop Information
The art of rhythm section playing. The distinct roles of each rhythm section instrument, and the finer points and details on playing successfully behind soloists and each other.
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Never Let Me Go
From: With Peter BradleyBy Jeremy Manasia
Wade in the Water
From: The Gospel According to Nikki...By Jeremy Manasia