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Jason Lindner grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and started playing piano by ear at an early age. Seeing this, his parents enabled formal piano studies which began at age 7 and continued for about 5 years until rock led him to blues then to jazz music (he dabbled then on the electric guitar and the saxophone). In Music and Art High School in Manhattan Jason formed lasting ties with musical collaboratives like drummer/recording engineer Daniel Freedman (Third World Love) and saxophonist Myron Walden (Brian Blade Fellowship), and began his professional career performing at local galleries, clubs and restaurants, as well as in the great performance halls of Carnegie and Lincoln Center with school ensembles.
Soon he would find his two most important gurus. He apprenticed with Barry Harris (taking the place of what would have been his early college years), and then briefly with Chris Anderson (Herbie Hancock's harmonic guru). Always guided by the light of his mentors, Lindner explains, “I've brought everything I inherited from my elders in the New York jazz community - like Barry Harris, Chris Anderson, Frank Hewitt, Jimmy Lovelace, Tommy Turrentine, C Sharpe, Junior Cook, Junior Mance - and really used the knowledge and tradition they passed on as a foundation from which to
spring ahead and mix with newer rhythms and musical ideas...to really be part of the musical current, the present movement, the present moment.”
Jason soon was playing piano locally in Latin dance bands and playing weekly at the University Of The Streets' singers' open mike/workshop. His world travels soon began as he toured and recorded with Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen, followed by Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuña, and Lindner became obsessed with seeking out different musical cultures from around the globe in search of intensely vital forms of musical expression. "No one
music is more important than any other," he professes. "They are actually all different parts of the universal and total musical expression, the language of music. As knowing multiple verbal languages broadens your native tongue as well as your mind and your expression, so does knowing multiple musical dialects. Music from different places specializes in different detailed forms of expression and gaps can be filled in your own ability the more that is known. I believe this is what my generation is learning."
