Aaron Diehl at Triple Door

About

Known in jazz circles as "The Real Diehl," multi-prizewinning pianist and composer Aaron Diehl makes comes to the Triple Door as an ensemble leader for these two much-anticipated Seattle shows. With a career steadily on the rise since his top ranking at the 2002 "Essentially Ellington" competition, Diehl's a Juilliard graduate who's famed for his inventive solos and for becoming one of the youngest artists ever to be named a 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival Commission Artist. Plus, his 2015 album "Space Time Continuum", was called "superior" and "jubilant" by "The New York Times".