Joe Block Trio at South Jazz Club

Joe Block is a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He is classically trained, and began playing piano at the age of two before switching to jazz in middle school. While growing up in Philadelphia, a city with a rich jazz history, he was able to learn and study from musicians on the scene and from jazz education programs at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, the Kimmel Center, and Temple University. Joe currently resides in New York City where he attends both the Juilliard School and Columbia University as part of a highly selective and vigorous exchange program. He studies with Frank Kimbrough and Bruce Barth. ...

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Joe Block is a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He is classically trained, and began playing piano at the age of two before switching to jazz in middle school. While growing up in Philadelphia, a city with a rich jazz history, he was able to learn and study from musicians on the scene and from jazz education programs at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, the Kimmel Center, and Temple University. Joe currently resides in New York City where he attends both the Juilliard School and Columbia University as part of a highly selective and vigorous exchange program. He studies with Frank Kimbrough and Bruce Barth.

Joe has worked and played with a list of many esteemed artists including Wynton Marsalis, Jaleel Shaw, Terell Stafford, Joe Farnsworth, Tim Warfield, Hannibal Lokumbe, Don Sickler, and Byron Landham.

Joe has been nationally recognized by the National Youngarts Foundation (2017, Jazz Piano finalist and Jazz Composition honorable mention), Jazz at Lincoln Center (2016, J. Douglas White Composition Award), the Telluride Jazz Festival (2018, Telluride Jazz All-Star), and the Monterey Jazz Festival (2019, Next Generation Jazz Festival 1st Place Finalist and Outstanding Soloist). In December of 2018, he served as the musical director and pianist for Wynton Marsalis’ annual holiday fundraiser and performance at the NYC Brooks Brothers Flagship Store.

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