Jason Robert Brown

I read an article last year about a middle-aged guy who was learning, for the first time, to drive. His realization was this: Driving is not particularly difficult, it’s just incredibly dangerous. This is more or less what I think about music in the theater. It is actually music’s simplicity that makes it so potent. Music changes the molecular structure of a room completely, and the volume and density of the sound are almost irrelevant. Play a single note quietly on a piano in the middle of a scene, and the air becomes charged instantly, freighted with expectation. That firstRead More »

It All Fades Away from The Bridges of Madison County I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes Long Long Road from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes I Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas The Old Red Hills of Home from Parade King of the World from Songs for a New World Nothing’s Bigger Than Kong from King Kong Fifty Years Long The Hardest Hill Twenty-Six Names All Things In Time from Jason Robert Brown In Concert Moving Too Fast from The Last Five Years Someone To Fall Back On from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes

An incendiary night at SubCulture, with the blaze lit by the incomparable Lena Hall, force of nature beyond compare, and stoked by the dazzling Dave Eggar on cello. I don’t remotely support people taking video during the show, but how can I not share this with you? Nothing’s Bigger Than Kong from King Kong (2016) (world premiere) I Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas (2015) The Hardest Hill (2016) Lena Hall: Blues: Feel The Rain Fall from Parade (1998) Lena Hall: Getting Out from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (2005) Wondering from The Bridges of Madison County (2014) Dave Eggar: AlwaysRead More »

In honor of the great Randy Landau’s birthday today, a heretofore unreleased track. Gary, Randy and I did a trio date in Copenhagen in 2009, and this recording comes directly from the soundboard (it was pretty late in the show, as you can tell from my voice). It’s not a perfect performance from any of us and it’s not a perfect recording, but it exemplifies everything I love about The Bald One’s playing – the inventiveness, the technical security, the emotional depth, the rhythmic strength, it’s all there. You wanna know why I’ve been playing with Randy since 1993? HereRead More »

Starting the New Year and the New Residency with a blizzard of notes! Among the high points: the boys and I revisited “I’m In Bizness” for what I’m pretty sure is the first time this decade (in fact, I don’t see any record of us having performed it as a trio since 2006!); the NY premiere of “The Hardest Hill,” which is criminally fun to sing and play; our guest band member, the amazing Guy Klucevsek, who not only added his virtuoso accordion stylings to many of our greatest hits, but allowed us to accompany him on his epic “DancingRead More »