Pace Live

Jason Moran and Slauson Malone 1

Thursday, September 28
6:30 PM EDT
Doors Open: 6 PM EDT
510 West 25th Street
New York

Event Details:

Jason Moran and Slauson Malone 1
Thursday, Sep 28
6:30 PM EDT
Doors Open: 6 PM EDT
510 West 25th Street
New York

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Pace Live is pleased to present performances by Jason Moran and Slauson Malone 1 on the occasion of the exhibition Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years.

One of the boldest innovators of postwar American painting, Sam Gilliam often referred to the influence, impact, and ethos of jazz and musical improvisation on his work. To honor the artist’s legacy, Pace Live will present a two-part concert with musicians Jason Moran and Slauson Malone 1 (Jasper Marsalis), who in turn have been influenced by Gilliam.

A pianist, composer, and artist, Moran is the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center. He studied with pianists Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams, beginning his solo recording career in 1998. Moran has released 18 solo recordings with Blue Note Records and his own label Yes Records. In 2022, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was awarded the 2023 German Jazz Prize for Pianist of the Year. Slauson Malone 1 is a performance work created by Marsalis, an artist and musician who explores the intersections of popular music and avant-garde performance. His past releases include A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 (Crater Speak), and he is joined by cellist Nicky Wetherell.

Jason Moran

Pianist, composer, and artist Jason Moran is the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center. Moran studied with pianists Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams, and began his solo recording career in 1998.  He has released 18 solos recording with Blue Note Records and his own label Yes Records. In 2010 Moran was named a MacArthur Fellow and a Doris Duke Fellow. He scored Ava Duvernay's films Selma and The 13th.  His work with dance companies includes Alonzo King LINES Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Dance Company, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. He curated the permanent exhibition for the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY and co-curated the exhibition I’ve Seen the Wall at Das Minsk in Potsdam, Germany. In 2022, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was recently awarded the 2023 German Jazz Prize for Pianist of the Year. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Slauson Malone 1

On October 6th, 2023, multi-disciplinary artist Jasper Marsalis aka Slauson Malone 1 returns with his second LP, EXCELSIOR.

Recorded over the course of 5 years, EXCELSIOR signals the death of Slauson Malone, and birth of Slauson Malone 1 - a revived musical proxy for Marsalis, a creature freaky and fearsome, snarling and singing, thinking about love and the opposite while wandering the boring plains of a post-meteoric expanse.