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Alison Shearer is an American jazz musician and composer. She co-founded PitchBlak Brass Band in 2010 and the Alison Shearer Quartet in 2015. [1]
Musical career
[edit]Shearer graduated from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with jazz sax greats Dick Oatts, Steve Wilson, and Vincent Herring.[1] In 2010 she co-founded PitchBlak Brass Band, a brass band fusing New Orleans traditions with Hip Hop [2] which toured internationally. In 2015 she founded the Alison Shearer Quartet. [1] She released her first self-titled debut album View from Above [3] in 2022 with her quartet [4] and was subsequently described as a force on the rise by JazzTimes.[5] Shearer performed on NPR’s Jazz Night in America in 2022 [6] and on NPRs Tiny Desk Concert series in 2024. [7] She has toured internationally with Red Baraat[8], Wild Wild East [7][6] , Pitchblak Brass Band and her eponymous quartet.[9]
Early life and education
[edit]Shearer was born into a creative family. Her father, John Shearer, was a photojournalist for TIME and Look capturing the upheaval of the 1960s.[10] She attended school in Westchester, NY and later the Manhattan School of Music.[11] In 2010 she formed Pitchblak Brass Band a brass band fusing hip hop and New Orleans second line music which received critical acclaim from DownBeat Magazine, NPR, Live for Live Music, The Wall Street Journal, and The Source Magazine. [2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Miller, A. "Alison Shearer Bio". Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ a b Odell, Jennifer (February 2014). "Getting Deep and Breaking Rules". Downbeat: 48–49.
- ^ Berlatsky, Noah (16 February 2022). "Alison Shearer debuts with a fusion of grief, joy, and jazz". Chicago Reader.
- ^ Zivkovic, Ljubinko (18 February 2022). "SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ALISON SHEARER – VIEW FROM ABOVE". Spill Magazine.
- ^ Cohan, Brad (11 October 2024). "Alison Shearer: View from Above (Self-released)". Jazztimes.
- ^ a b Birch, Nikki (29 December 2022). "Jazz Night In America remembers the artists we've lost". NPR.
- ^ a b Contreras, Felix (5 January 2024). "Tiny Desk Concert: Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East". NPR.
- ^ Geledi, Sarah (11 October 2024). "Celebrate 2024 with Toast of the Nation". NPR.
- ^ Fox, Jane (22 March 2024). "Introducing Alison Shearer, saxophonist with New Canaan Chamber Music". New Canaan Sentinel.
- ^ Seelye, Katharine (27 June 2019). "John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72". New York Times.
- ^ "Alison Shearer". All About Jazz. 1 January 2025.