JASON ROBINSON
Avant-Garde Jazz / 21st Century Modern / Progressive Big Band / Post Bop / Hard Bop • United States
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American saxophonist and scholar Jason Robinson grew up in the shadows of the magnificent Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California. Many of his early years were spent riding his bicycle past the property of the famed Folsom Prison, immortalized by Johnny Cash in “Folsom Prison Blues.” Robinson was around music from the get-go; his father is a rock guitarist and songwriter, who often invited him into his studio to help ride the faders in the days before automated mixing.
After a failed attempt to study classical saxophone technique, Robinson’s initial musical inspiration came from a combination of influences: Louis Jordan’s infectious mixture of jump blues and bebop, Jimmy Hendrix’s outrageous experimentalism, Charlie Parker’s virtuosic redefining of the alto saxophone and jazz language, and the Beatle’s late-period psychedelia.
While a high school student, Robinson began hanging on the Sacramento jazz scene. In the mid-1980s, Sac-town had a host of venues that supported a
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Avant-Garde Jazz
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