Jason Moran & The Bandwagon (Performance/Demonstration)

Award-winning pianist, composer, and Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran is known for challenging "the same old thing" in jazz and confronting contemporary audiences' notions about the classic jazz trio. In this high-energy performance and demonstration program with his group the Bandwagon (Nasheet Waits on drums, Tarus Mateen on bass), Moran explores the genres of jazz, gospel, blues, and hip-hop, and features jazz students in performance with the trio (recorded in 2007 at C. D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA).