Jazz Lab Noah Kellman

In this episode of Jazz Lab, host Noah Kellman sits down with modern jazz piano master & GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist / composer Taylor Eigsti. Noah and Taylor discuss everything from the best improvisation exercises, how to achieve a "clean" playing style and sound, voicing exercises, Taylor's 49 Chords exercise for building good hand shapes, all the way to travel and packing tips for gigging and touring. 

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Photo credit: Lauren Desberg

Steven Feifke is a GRAMMY Award winning bandleader, composer, and arranger. He is one of the most in-demand jazz artists in the world today. He has been interviewed on TV shows like FOX, NBC, and CBS, and is heralded a "masterful pianist" by JAZZIZ Magazine. DownBeat Magazine calls his music is "an air of infectious joy."

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Paul Cornish received the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s 2020 New Note Commission and recently was awarded First Place in the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition and the 18th Street Arts Center’s 2021 Make Jazz Fellowship. Cornish was also awarded the Grand Prize in the 2018 American Jazz Piano Competition. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Cornish has performed extensively across the globe with such notable artists as Joshua Redman, Louis Cole, Theo Croker, Snoh Aalegra, Terrace Martin, Thumpasaurus and HAIM.

In this episode, host Noah Kellman sits down with modern jazz piano master Aaron Parks,  a forward-thinking  musician who first came to the public's attention during his time with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. In this episode, Aaron & Noah discuss two-handed solo piano techniques, modern improvisation concepts, advanced rhythm exercises, and more. You can also hear performances by Aaron solo, as well as the two playing duo.

Born in Seattle, Washington, Parks began playing piano at a young age and by the time he was 14 had enrolled in an early entrance degree program at the University of Washington. Parks has released several albums under his own name, including his 2008 Blue Note debut, Invisible Cinema. Parks, who has also recorded with Christian Scott, Kendrick Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Kurt Rosenwinkel, was an integral part of the James Farm Quartet with Joshua Redman, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland. 

ButtonMasher (aka Jake Silverman) is a GRAMMY award-winning composer, arranger, pianist and producer who specializes in fusing modern harmony, rhythm and reharmonization techniques with 8-bit Chiptune. In this episode, he explains many of his mind-opening techniques about reharmonization based on rhythm, as well as his fascinating and unique composition methods and processes. 

Rob Araujo is a shining example of a successful musician in today's music industry— with millions of streams on Spotify and other platforms, he uses various social media to share a large quantity of content while also having mastered the art of modern music production to create pristine music all on his own. In this episode, we discuss what it takes to be a pianist in today's world— including Rob's approach to the aforementioned skills, as well as how he views harmony, dissonance in improvisation, and more.