Darrell Grant

Once more unto the breach dear friends.
Jazz Pianist, composer, educator and citizen artist.
New album - Our Mr. Jackson is out Oct. 6!

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

Grateful to @SFCV for previewing MJ New's hits at The Sound Room (Oakland), Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (SF), and @healdsburgjazz Festival!
https://t.co/otejavgQLk

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

I'm excited MJ New is playing a hit with @TheNashJazz on June 8th!
https://t.co/Di5fhQNozu

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

On October 17, 2013, four tuxedo-clad gentlemen stepped out on stage to pay homage to the MJQ. A few days shy of the 10th anniversary of our first gig, MJ New's debut album, Our Mr. Jackson, is out! https://t.co/jNlAmL24Tb

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

OUT NOW! “A Viennese Affair” was the first original I wrote for MJ New. Inspired by John Lewis’ “Blues on Bach,” I took a recognizable classical theme by Beethoven and infused it with harmony based on Gigi Gryce’s “Minority.”
Check it out: https://t.co/RJYQ7hi153

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

Crossing the Bridge: Vanport is out! Listen here: https://t.co/21LiC0rONg
#newjazz #jazz

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

"Versailles" is here — one of the first MJQ pieces to make it into MJ New's book! It combines 2 of my favorite aspects of MJQ's sound — intricate counterpoint + ebullient swing.
🎥Cyrus Shiva, engineering Andrew Jones
https://t.co/oL944MrtB5

[Earshot Jazz @EarshotJazz]

#EJF22 Performance Previews: #Portland pianist Darrell Grant, @Sterling1, takes inspiration from the Modern #Jazz Quartet and melds Bach fugues, American song, mid-century modernism, & blues. “MJ New” Quartet 🗓️ 10/27 at 7:30pm at @THSEA's Forum.

Tickets: https://t.co/KKdFzfUTCE

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

Loved hearing this on Morning Edition today. https://t.co/ztlv5sCxzi

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

Putting this “bootleg” out, knowing that the live sound wasn't all it could be, felt like a risk. But I believed the music would speak for itself, and I'm grateful others are experiencing it that way. Thanks to @AllAboutJazz & @prauch1956 for taking it in. https://t.co/jc5YnyT4L8

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

@boutwillismusic It is all that♥️🙌🏾👍🏾👏🏾😎🔥🔥🔥

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

Joining me for the special double-header first edition of "What is the New Black?" on IG Live TOMORROW are @EspeSpalding (10 am PST) and @morethan88 (11am PST). I'm freaking out!

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

6/6 Black identity is the inevitable byproduct of the willingness to love ourselves as we are and share that love with the world.

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

1/6 In the early 90s, I wore my hair in “dreadlocks” (now called locks or locs). A couple of months after arriving in Portland '97, I invited friends over to our apartment, and each person cut off a lock or two until they lay in a pile on the floor.

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

5/6 28 years later, I'm still answering those questions. Looking back at the young man I was, I want to tell him that Black identity is not something to be dictated but to be discovered. And the identity that Black Art was trying to define can't be reduced to any one thing.

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

6/6 Charnett Moffett-54, Dwayne Burno, Tony Reedus and so many more — against the same cold realities? As we create new possibilities for what Black thriving means, this is one legacy that I will gladly relinquish.

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

1/6 3 weeks away from starting rehearsals for my jazz chamber opera Sanctuaries, COVID hit. During those first surreal weeks, what brought home to me the pandemic's trajectory was the news on 3/31/20, that trumpeter Wallace Roney had died from complications related to COVID-19.

[Darrell Grant @Sterling1]

5/6 So, how is it that 50 years of health advances, education, and international recognition didn’t inoculate my generation’s brilliant artists — Kenny Kirkland-43, Roy Hargrove-49, Mulgrew Miller-57, James Williams-58, Geri Allen-60, Ralph Peterson-58...