A Night of Jazz Piano with Devin Drobka Trio at Alphabet City - Northside

Devin Drobka Trio consists of Matt Blair (piano), Jakob Heinemann (acoustic bass), and Devin Drobka(percussion).

The trio released their first album, Resorts, in 2021 via Shifting Paradigm. Much of the music began as short piano pieces Devin recorded on his iPhone, which he then sent to the other musicians to learn by ear.

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Aaron J Johnson, Charles Mingus

Aaron J. Johnson is Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where he studies and teaches jazz, funk, film music, and MIR (music information retrieval). He studies social aspects of how music is produced, organized, and presented, the efforts of musicians to counter powerful institutional forces, and how musicians use media of all kinds. A professional jazz musician born and raised in Washington, D.C. during the apex of the Chocolate City era, he has electrical engineering degrees from Carnegie Mellon (BSEE) and Georgia Tech (MS) and a PhD in Music from Columbia University. He plays trombone, tuba, bass clarinet, and conch shells.