Aaron Diehl Trio - Mozart Jazz (2017)

Pianist and composer Aaron Diehl is an experienced jazz musician whose style is based on swing acoustic jazz and classical traditions.
Diehl was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1985. He grew up in a musical family and was the grandson of pianist and trombonist Arthur Baskerville. Introduced to the piano at the age of seven, Diehl first became interested in jazz while attending the Interlochen Fine Arts Academy summer camp. With tremendous talent, Diehl performed with the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra as a teenager and was a finalist in the 2002 Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington Competition, where he received the Outstanding Soloist Award. The following year, he accepted an invitation to tour with the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis Septet and enrolled in the newly created Juilliard Jazz Studies program. During his time at Juilliard, Deal studied with several luminaries, including pianists Kenny Barron and Eric Reed. Also during this time, he received several other awards, including winning the Jazz Arts Group Hank Marr Jazz Competition in 2003 and the prestigious Martin E. Segal Award at Lincoln Center in 2004.