Artist: Jason Moran

Jason Moran is an American jazz pianist,  composer, and educator involved in  multimedia art and theatrical installations. 

Moran recorded first with Greg Osby and debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, Moran has released albums with his trio The Bandwagon, solo, as a sideman, and with other bands. He combines post-bop and avant-garde jazz, blues, classical music, stride piano, and hip hop. 

Moran attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 1993. He then enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music, from which he graduated in 1997 with a BM degree.

Moran's album, 2000's Facing Left (after a work by Egon Schiele), featured a trio that formed out of Osby's group, New Directions: Moran, bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits.

In 2002, Moran released a solo album, Modernistic, and followed it in 2003 with a live trio album, recorded at New York's Village Vanguard, called The Bandwagon.  Moran's 2005 album Same Mother, an exploration of the blues, brought guitarist  Marvin Sewell into the Bandwagon mix. In April 2007 Moran took the piano in Charles Lloyd's New Quartet, succeeding Geri Allen. He was the last member to join the group, which keeps touring (as of 2014), having recorded one studio album and two live albums.

In April 2014 Moran and Imani Winds premiered  Jump Cut Rose, which he wrote for the quintet and a piano, In May, Looks of A Lot, a theatrical co-production with Theaster Gates on the theme of Chicago artistic history  premiered in the city's  Symphony Center. Participants included The Bandwagon, the Kenwood Academy Jazz Band, Ken Vandermark and Katie Ernst, bassist and vocalist. 

In addition to recordings under his own name, Moran has recorded with a range of other musicians including Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Charles Lloyd, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Von Freeman,  Francisco Mela, and Don Byron. He also performed with Marian McPartland, Lee Konitz, Wayne Shorter (as substitute),  Robert Glasper, violinist Jenny Scheinman, The Bad Plus, guitarist Mary Halvorson and trumpeter Ron Miles, drummer Herlin Riley, Dave Holland (Overtone Quartet), and Bill Frisell.