Jason Moran
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The Kennedy Center announced
Tuesday that it is extending its contract with pianist and composer
Jason Moran, 39, the center’s artistic adviser for jazz since 2011.
Moran is being renewed for another three years with a bump in title to
artistic director for jazz, the designation held by the center’s
longtime jazz figurehead, Billy Taylor, until his death in 2010.
“It shows our confidence in what Jason has done for the Kennedy
Center, and what he is going to do,” says Darrell Ayers, the center’s
vice president of education and jazz.
Moran, a 2010 MacArthur fellow, has made a point of courting
younger audiences and working across genres. A signature project is the
Crossroads Club in the atrium upstairs, which features standing room
only, a dance floor and a bar. (Now in its second season, Crossroads
originally was called the Supersized Jazz Club.)
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