Sasha Berliner

Sasha Berliner is a musician, composer, producer, and band leader from San Francisco, CA. Sasha started playing drums at eight years old. She pursued a jazz emphasis at her high school, Oakland School for the Arts, where she picked up the vibraphone at age 13. She is an alumni of the SF Jazz High School All Stars Orchestra and the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. She headlined festivals like the Atlanta Jazz Festival, NYC Winter Jazz Festival, and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, by the age of 19. In that same year, she was deemed one of SF Jazz's 10 Rising Female Instrumentalists for 2018 and was featured by Hot House Jazz Magazine, The SF Jazz Education Center, PBS News Hour, NPR, NBC Boston, and The New York Times for both her musicianship and her activism

Painter Of The Invisible

By Jaleel Shaw

Label: Changu Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Good Morning; Contemplation; Beantown; Distant Images; Baldwin's Blues; Gina's Ascent Intro; Gina's Ascent; Tamir (For Tamir Rice); Meghan; The Invisible Man; Until We Meet Again.

Moving Parts

By Kaisa M?ensivu

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tykytys; Midnight Sun; Origin Story; Moon Waves; Who��s Asking?; Satama (Harbor); Best Kept Secrets.

Jaleel Shaw: Painter Of The Invisible

by Carl Medsker
July 30, 2025

For twenty years, Jaleel Shaw has steadily built a robust career that includes a lengthy apprenticeship with Roy Haynes, steady work as an in-demand sideman and mentoring the next generation at the Manhattan School of Music. Painter Of The Invisible caps two years of significant events: Dave Holland enlisted him in his 2024 quartet along with ...

Still Places Available On Europe's Biggest And Most Inclusive Jazz Education Event��Sligo Jazz 2025

June 3, 2025

Sligo Jazz Project��s annual Summer School and Festival runs from 22-27 July 2025, bringing a team of 33 world-class musicians from all over the world to teach and perform in Sligo over six days. From 22�C27 July 2025, Sligo will once again become a global hub for music lovers, students, and jazz legends, as it hosts ...

Sasha Berliner: Khan Younis

by Carl Medsker
May 19, 2025

Fant?me (Outside In Music, 2025) is vibraphonist Sasha Berliner's third release as a leader, and it is excellent from start to finish, due to its diversity of moods, energy, instrumentation, arrangements and well-written compositions. This is an ensemble effort, with everyone contributing to bringing Berliner's ideas to life. The core band consists of Taylor Eigsti (piano), ...

Nasheet Waits, Sasha Berliner, Nels Cline and the Premazzi-Nasser Quartet!

by Hobart Taylor
May 14, 2025

This week's show features the intricate melodies of the Premazzi-Nasser Quartet, new music from guitarist Rez Abbasi, Sasha Berliner, Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the latest from Nasheet Waits. Playlist Premazzi-Nasser Quartet “Raoul Blues" from From What I Recall (OA2) 0:00 Nasheet Waits “Snake Hip Waltz" from New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet) (Giant ...

Hiromi, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, Deborah Silver, Johnny O'Neal & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 5, 2025

This broadcast celebrates the close of Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Deborah Silver, Hiromi, Ella Fitzgerald, Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist and Johnny O'Neal, with birthday shoutouts to Kay Swift, Ella Fitzgerald, Ma Rainey, Ariane Racicot, Blossom Dearie and Kendra Shank, among others. Happy listening and please support the ...

Meet Bassist Tabea Kind

by Cheryl K.
May 2, 2025

In this hour, an interview with Cologne, Germany-based bassist and composer Tabea Kind. Her latest album is Fragments on Loumi Records. Playlist Silvano Monasterious “Ambar's Courage" from The River (Silvano Monastererios) 4:43 Eric Scott Reed “The Weirdos" from Out Late (Smoke Sessions) 6:30 Bigger Badder Bones “Waiting for Adeline" from Sliders (Summit) 6:05 [excerpt] ...

Sullivan Fortner, Sasha Berliner, Herbie Hancock

by David Brown
April 29, 2025

This week on The Jazz Continuum, the spotlight turns to pianist and composer Sullivan Fortner, a dynamic presence in modern jazz. Known for his nuanced touch and bold improvisational voice, Fortner has made a mark through collaborations with vocalists Kurt Elling and Cécile McLorin Salvant, and through his acclaimed trio, solo, and duo recordings--including an intimate ...