JASON ROBINSON
Saxophonist, Flutist, Composer
NEXT CONCERT:
9 November 2025
Matt Steckler's Dead Cat Bounce
The Square Root | Boston (Roslindale), MA
SOMETHING IS COMING!
So...much...music!
It's quite literally spilling out of me these days. On stage at gigs, I cherish every moment I'm lucky enough to sing through my saxophone, that magical metal contraption of love and joy. In recent months, the studio has been my salvation. I've been hard at work on a massive project that is close to my heart, Blue Salience: For Yusef Lateef. Composed over the last few years, including during intensely productive recent residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell, and spilling across nearly 400 pages of score organized into 13 pieces, the project features a brand-new 17-piece version of my ensemble, Jason Robinson's Janus Orchestra.
Inspired by and dedicated to Dr. Yusef Lateef, the legendary figure in American music who called western Massachusetts home for many decades, I see the project as both a tribute to one of my important inspirations in music, as well as a pledge to celebrate Dr. Lateef's continuing influence in our corner of New England. Information about the project will become available gradually over the coming weeks and months, gaining momentum as we approach its anticipated release date in late 2026. If you're not already subscribed to my quarterly email newsletter, you can do so at the bottom of this page, or at this link. I'll include updates about the project in future newsletters. I'll also add to the following list of links as more information appears:
About Jason Robinson
The music of American composer, saxophonist, flutist, and scholar Jason Robinson ("rugged and scintillating," New York Times) thrives in the fertile overlaps between improvisation and composition, acoustic music and electronics, tradition and experimentalism. Initially a devotee of post-1960s jazz and creative music, Robinson is celebrated for bringing together various historical directions in jazz--bebop, post-bop, the avant-garde--with an improvisatory and compositional sensibility drawn from and extending the languages of John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Lester Young. His musical interests, however, span far and wide. Born in 1975, he is a critically acclaimed distinctive voice in a generation of creative musicians in equal dialogue with jazz, popular music, experimental music, and electronic music.