For those who can't make it to the Jazz Baroness Room, Monkfish now streams live all of its performances on their Facebook page. Dinner reservations are recommended. Please specify that you want a table in the Jazz Baroness Room.
1st Show: 7:00-8:15pm   and   2nd Show: 8:45-10:00pm

Jason Yeager, piano

Julie Benko, vocals

Bob Sinicrope, acoustic bass

Award-winning, pianist, composer, and educator Jason Yeager creates music that is deeply expressive, forward-looking and multi-faceted, defying convention while also embracing the rich traditions of jazz, the blues, the Great American Songbook, western classical music, and West African and Latin American rhythms.  Originally from Framingham, MA and now based in New York City, Yeager is a recording artist on Inner Circle Music, where he has released three albums of original music to wide acclaim, including Ruminations (2011) and Affirmation (2014) with his eponymous trio.  In 2017, Yeager and violin/mandolin virtuoso Jason Anick released United, which received a glowing 4.5-star review in Downbeat Magazine.  His forthcoming album with composer-saxophonist Randal Despommier, entitled “All At Onceness,” will be released in 2018.

Yeager has been touted as “an incredible composer and musician…[who] surprises you like a thunderbolt” by renowned pianist/composer and MacArthur Grant recipient Ran Blake.  He has performed and recorded with such noteworthy artists as Blake, Ayn Inserto, George Garzone, Jason Palmer, and Sara Serpa, and has played at such venues as the Blue Note and Smalls in New York, the Regattabar in Boston, and Thelonious in Buenos Aires.  A an educator, Yeager has been on the piano faculty at Berklee College of Music since 2012, when at age 25 he became one of the school’s youngest instructors. In 2014, he won the Hot House Jazz Fans Decision Awards for best pianist and best organist.  A classically-trained pianist, Yeager graduated from the Tufts University/New England Conservatory Double Degree Program (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Kappa Lambda), earning degrees in International Relations and Jazz Piano Performance.  At NEC, he studied with Danilo Perez, Fred Hersch, Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, Jerry Bergonzi, John McNeil, and Jerry Leake.

Website: www.jasonyeager.com

Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @jyeagermusic