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“These Juilliard-trained musicians clearly know the jazz tradition, but push at the corners of hard bop and hip-hop. Classy and classic.” – NPR

New Jazz Underground has been blowing up online and on stage, garnering tonnes of acclaim for their distinctive merging of traditional jazz sensibilities with modern influences like hip-hop, house/afro-beat, and Afro-Cuban music. The core of the group met at Juilliard and began playing in NYC parks during 2020’s lockdowns, before viral videos like “Harlem to Havana”, “f**k/s**t/c**t/jazz”, and “they can hate but we still swingin” introduced the band’s exuberant chemistry and ambitious musicality to millions of music fans around the world. Vancouver jazz lovers and hip hop heads will giddily unite when the quartet kicks into “MF DOOM SUiTE”, their harmonically imaginative, coolly grooving tribute to the late metalfaced rap icon.

Each NJU member is a prodigious artist in their own right. Bassist/composer Sebastian Rios is a 2024 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award winner and a long-time student of bass legend Ron Carter. Rios and drummer TJ Reddick have been sidemen for the likes of Jon Batiste, Sullivan Fortner, Emmet Cohen, and ELEW. Winner of the 2023 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, Noah Halpern has been a creative force on the New York jazz scene with his own quartet and work with Wynton Marsalis, Jason Moran, KNOWER, Ulysses Owens, Lalah Hathaway, and many more. A Juilliard alumn and now faculty member, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson is known for his work with the John Pizzarelli Trio as well as performances with Christian McBride, Steve Turre, Catherine Russell, Buster Williams, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

New Jazz Underground have dedicated their lives to the legacy of jazz and the promise of dynamic new creative paths. The future of Jazz will come from Underground.

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