2001 · Black Stars
Jason Moran's name sits beside André 3000's on Shabaka Hutchings' 2024 album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. The former OutKast rapper, now devoted to flute, turns up as a working sideman in a serious jazz session.
Library — Piano
Jason Moran
2 albums as leader and 7 as sideman (2001–2024), each listed chronologically.
As Leader · 2
As Sideman · 7
Notes on these albums · 5
2020 · Omega
Jason Moran functions not just as a performing pianist but as a producer-mentor to younger musicians. He produced Immanuel Wilkins
2011 · When the Heart Emerges Glistening
When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Harish Raghavan
Walter Smith III2010 · Ten
Nasheet Waits made his name as the drummer on Jason Moran's piano-trio records Black Stars and Ten. On the 2024 album Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, he shares the session with André 3000 — the rapper turned flutist — linking a defining New York jazz drummer to pop history.
2024 · Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Best New Artist is a pop category, and it usually goes to whoever stands at the front and sings. In 2011 it went to Esperanza Spalding, an upright bassist who sings while she plays, on the strength of Chamber Music Society (2010) — a record built around a string trio. She was the first jazz musician to win it.
Esperanza Spalding