Personnel:
Joe Block - Piano
Kimon Karoutzos - Bass
Anwar Marshall - Drums

Throughout the month of May, the Django will be featuring young, emerging talent as part of our inaugural "Next Generation Series":

Pianist and composer Joe Block is a dynamic rising talent in the jazz world. A proud Philadelphia native, Joe has had the opportunity to work and play with Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel., Leslie Odom Jr., Peter Bernstein, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ari Hoenig, Victor Lewis, Jaleel Shaw, Hannibal Lokumbe, and The Captain Black Big Band. He is an active and versatile sideman in the New York and Philadelphia jazz scenes and leads his own trio and quintet. Hailed by Jazz at Lincoln Center as one of "jazz's most promising young composers", Joe has been commissioned to write or arrange music for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, and the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia. He appears on the 2020 Grammy-nominated record "The Intangible Between" by Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band. Joe currently lives in NYC where he attends both the Juilliard School and Columbia University.