Tuesday, January 5, 2016
I can’t think of a better way to start out the New Year than by making music with my favorite singers and players in the world. Shoshana texted me the day I got to LA and said “Y…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:52PMMonday, January 4, 2016
A couple of months ago, I got an email saying that a high school principal had told one of his students that they couldn’t do “13” for their Spring Musical because one of t…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:26AMThursday, December 31, 2015
Here’s what I got in 2015. I got to conduct Parade at Avery Fisher Hall. I got to conduct The Trumpet of the Swan at the Halle Staatskapelle. I got to conduct three songs from Bridges …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:46PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
JRB, piano; w Benny Koonyevsky (dr), Randy Landau (bs), Steve Benson (gtr), Tony Kadleck (tpt), Sal Spicola (sx) and Rob DeBellis (cl); special appearance by Jeffrey Lesser's head. Kilgore S…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:49PMThursday, November 28, 2013
Oh, I suspect there are many things in the world that can be blamed on Larry Blank, but only some of them are musical, and this is the story of one of those things.
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:42AMSunday, December 16, 2012
I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place.
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:06AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Since the dawn of time, Man has told tales of horror and devastation. Perhaps they serve as a warning. Perhaps they draw a community together. Or maybe people just have a collective need to …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:32PMThursday, October 25, 2012
Still Hurting/Jessica Molaskey (world premiere, 1999)
The first public performance of this song. Jessica Molaskey, vocals; Jason Robert Brown, piano; Gary Sieger, guitar; September 27, 199…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:24AMMonday, July 2, 2012
Yes, it's true, the 2012 JRB Karaoke Competition is now closed to any further entries. You can hear all 694 renditions by going to the JRB Karaoke Group on SoundCloud.com. I am amazed and ho…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:53PMMonday, June 11, 2012
It's time once again for the JRB Summer Karaoke Competition! Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! I did this once before, back in 2008, and to my shock and amazement, I got over 200 ent…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 09:12PMMy first concert at the Red Mountain Theatre Company was back in 2006 (when they had a different name), and I've been back almost every year since then, always amazed at the incredible talen…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:08PMThursday, May 24, 2012
As Songs for a New World evolved over the course of my first five years in New York City, I was absorbing a lot of different music in that way that is really only possible when you live by y…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:40PMI was interviewed for Scott Brown's feature in this week's New York magazine. My interview was cut and pasted to the point where I'm not certain it makes any sense, but heck, I'm adorable. A…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:19PMMonday, April 30, 2012
My editor at Hal Leonard, the estimable Rick Walters, called me in 2010 with the idea that we should do a book-and-CD folio of me playing accompaniments to my own songs, with a male and fema…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:12PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
I've always sort of liked the Drama Desk Awards. Over the years, I've appreciated that they really did try to be inclusive of a wide swath of New York theater, not just big-money Broadway sh…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:49AMThursday, April 12, 2012
An unbelievable night with Anika, who was even more brilliant than ever, and a fantastic band in the gorgeous Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. Sold out with al…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:17AMMonday, March 19, 2012
In less than two weeks, the amazing Anika Noni Rose will join me and a blazing eight-piece band for a one-night-only blowout at the gorgeous BROAD STAGE in Santa Monica! Anika and I did this…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:46PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
I think these folks are doing important and beautiful work and they need all the help they can get spreading the word. I hope Kony can be stopped. I hope we can make it happen.KONY 2012 from…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:38AMSunday, March 4, 2012
So I had this friend. An old girlfriend, actually, who is now (I swear this is true) a Christian missionary who serves mostly in Thailand. And last night she posted, as her Facebook status, …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:44AMA wild and wacky night at the Woodland Opera House! Apparently all of this traveling is catching up with me – I didn't put together the set list before the show, so I was just winging it f…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:05AMSunday, February 26, 2012
Thanks to Wally Jones and the whole gang at Fort Worth's historic Casa Mañana Theatre for bringing me and Shoshana down to Texas to have a foot-stompin' good time. The theater itself looks …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:08PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
I've been playing "Vienna" for a long time – it's one of those songs that I can pull out at a piano bar or a party when it doesn't feel like it's the right kind of room to do one…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:53PMSunday, February 12, 2012
The awesome folks at Starving Artists Studios in Orlando, FL brought me down South for a concert and masterclass, and I brought along Gary Sieger, my longtime guitarist, because his entire f…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:48PMFriday, February 3, 2012
I got a weird and huffy comment this morning on yesterday's blog about "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Perhaps this guy was annoyed by my incessant Twittering about the Billy …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:02PMThursday, February 2, 2012
When I said I was going to cover The Stranger in its entirety, I knew (as did you all) that what I really meant is that I was going to have to deal with "Scenes From An Italian Restaura…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:10PMMonday, January 30, 2012
As good as you think Shoshana Bean is, you haven't heard anything until you hear her in her hometown. Every time we get to sing together is a privilege, and we'll be doing it again at the en…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:51AMFriday, January 13, 2012
There's a fun tradition in gospel music of taking secular love songs and, with the smallest changes in the lyric – a pronoun here, a reversal of direction there – turning them into love …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:17PMSaturday, January 7, 2012
The second track on The Stranger is the title track, a song that on the original album bounces in turn from smoky film noir jazz to Steely Dan-style rock to tropical disco and back again ove…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:28PM 
