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Jahari Stampley Trio
Jahari Stampley, Miguel Stampley, Grammy- Nominated D-Erania Stampley
Winner of the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute International competition and awarded the 2023 Luminarts Fellowship, and 2023 Chicago Symphony Orchestra honoree, Jahari Stampley is emerging as a modern innovator in the jazz piano world. Having played many of the world’s most prestigious venues before the age of 22, in a few short years, Jahari is recognized as a prolific pianist, composer, producer, and educator.
He began playing piano at the age of 14 and quickly swept through the music world winning many competitions, performing solo concerts internationally, and touring with renowned artists such as Stanley Clarke, Derrick Hodge, and Keyon Harrold, among many others.
Jahari is joined by D-Erania Stampley, Jahari's mother, a Grammy-nominated musician in seven categories from Chicago IL. The 59th Grammy Awards Committee recognized D-Erania's "Language of the Heart" CD for seven ballot categories. "Language of the Heart successfully balances accessibility and imagination. D-Erania has created a work that has wide appeal without sacrificing originality, one with plenty of inspired artistry that is solidly mainstream. This record is a portent of a brilliant career for this promising and talented musician." - Chicago Jazz Magazine, Hrayr Attarian.
Jahari is also joined by Miguel Russell, a 21-year-old drummer/producer from South Florida. Originally born in the Bronx, NYC, he started playing drums when he was 2 years old when his father taught him how to play. At age 4 he was enrolled in the Harlem School of the Arts, studying under mentor and master drummer, Baba Donald Eaton. At age 5, his professional career began. Eventually, he moved to South Florida at age 6 and continued his professional career. Before the age of 21, he would go on to play with legends such as Wynton Marsalis, Nestor Torres, Paquito D' Rivera, Pedro Martinez, Candido Camero, Stefon Harris, Stacey Dillard, Dayna Stephens.
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“JAZZ’S HANCOCK COMPETITION RETURNS, CROWNING AN ELECTRIFYING RISING STAR”Jahari Stampley, a 23-year-old pianist from Chicago, won the prize as the genre’s premier coronation ceremony for young talent was held for the first time since 2019… With his tall, wiry frame hunched over the piano, his style arrived like a lightning bolt. He seemed to have as much in common with pianists steeped in Black classical and 20th-century gospel — like Artina McCain and Courtney Bryan — as he did with the idiosyncratic jazz lineage he has assembled for himself, which appears to include fast-fingered expressionists like John Hicks and Don Pullen. With a sound built around fluttering, arpeggiated motifs that he carries across keys and the full range of the keyboard, Stampley also refers directly to an African inheritance, redolent of the patterned plucking of a Malian kora or a Zimbabwean mbira.
Most important, his playing felt unforced, as if powered from an internal engine. This was an artist you wanted to hear again and to know more about.”
October 17, 2023, Giovanni Russonello New York Times
JAHARI STAMPLEY: STILL LISTENING
“Chicago-based pianist Jahari Stampley is a definite prodigy. …Stampley's simultaneously effervescent and melancholic chords hint at times at folk and at other country influences while remaining steeped in the blues. His layered pianism captivates and mesmerizes with its subtlety. There are no unnecessary pyrotechnics here, just quiet introspection.”
Sept 12, 2023, Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz.
JAHARI STAMPLEY IS STILL LISTENING
Jahari Stampley is emerging as a modern Jazz innovator, recognized as a prolific pianist, composer, producer and educator. A well-seasoned professional at the at of 23, he has carved out a place for himself as a next-generation explorer of music.
His new album, Still Listening, is a mixture of solo piano and ensemble selections, is a collection of Jahari’s innovative and virtuosic Jazz expressions that takes the listener on a transcendent musical journey. His melodies & rhythms encompass elements from the past and showcase innovations for the future. - NOV 16, 2023, NPR JAZZ 24.
NEW YORK — Jahari Stampley has a swarming, kinetic interface with the piano, which can make it seem like a contraption rattling to keep pace with his stream of thought. In the last several years, that brash but tactical style has served him well on tour with the virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke and others. On Sunday night at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in Lower Manhattan, it won him first prize in the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition, instantly putting his insurgent talent on a broader global stage…When it was time for Goods and Allen to lock into his groove, they struggled, because Stampley left them in the dust; from his seat at the piano, he made it unclear whether he was piloting a Fazioli or a Ferrari.”
October 16, 2023, Nate Chinen, Editorial Director WRTI.
“... Jahari gives us chameleonic grooves anchored by impeccable arpeggios that rise and fall against dense, driving rhythms. He effortlessly balances whimsical notions and melancholic chords with fiery percussive statements that capture the complex and sweet moments of life.”
- Karas Lamb, Revive Music
PIANIST JAHARI STAMPLEY JUST WON A PRESTIGIOUS JAZZ COMPETITION- HE’S ONLY 24
"I've always loved someone like Herbie," Stampley said. "Not only can he embody the spirit of jazz and jazz itself, but he never limits himself into a bubble of anything that he creates artistically. And I feel like for me as an artist, I just always think about playing honestly. I think I won't limit myself to just jazz per se, but I want to expand beyond in the same way that I feel the people that I love have done, for example, like Jacob Collier or Jon Batiste or, you know, Herbie." NOV. 16, 2023, NEDA ULABY, NPR ART DESK
JAHARI STAMPLEY WINS HANCOCK INSTITUTE’S PIANO COMPETITION
“It was Stampley’s “potentiality” that impressed Danilo Pérez, who adjudicated the competition along with Herbie Hanock, Hiromi, Bill Charlap, and Orrin Evans. “[Stampley] articulated an image of a sound that was very personal,” Pérez said. “The uniqueness of his performance made a statement during that short 10 minutes.”
“When we were listening to all of the 11 contestants, we were thinking about who we wanted to continue hearing not just as judges but as fans,” Perez explained. “We were looking for someone who captured the potentiality of sound.”
October 31, 2023, John Murph, Downbeat Magazine
JAHARI STAMPLEY IS STILL LISTENING
Jahari Stampley is emerging as a modern Jazz innovator, recognized as a prolific pianist, composer, producer and educator. A well-seasoned professional at the at of 23, he has carved out a place for himself as a next-generation explorer of music.
His new album, Still Listening, is a mixture of solo piano and ensemble selections, is a collection of Jahari’s innovative and virtuosic Jazz expressions that takes the listener on a transcendent musical journey. His melodies & rhythms encompass elements from the past and showcase innovations for the future. - NOV 16, 2023, NPR JAZZ 24.