ZACH BROCK
Genres: Classic Fusion, Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, 21st Century Modern, World Fusion, Nu Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz • United States

This year is bringing great things for Zach Brock. After performing at The 2012 Sundance Film Festival in January he headed back home to New York City and made his first recording for the European label Criss Cross Jazz. Featuring an elite young squad of jazz players, ALMOST NEVER WAS, has the unique distinction of being the first recording by the label with a violinist as leader. Alongside jazz superstars Aaron Goldberg, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland, Zach performs his own compositions as well as songs by Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson, Zbigniew Seifert, Leslie Feist, and Jimi Hendrix. Zach’s performances in Chicago last summer prompted Neil Tesser of the Chicago Examiner to state that Zach is “…the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation.” Heralded also by the Chicago Tribune as the “great bright hope for jazz violin” and by Downbeat Magazine as a Rising Star pick 2005-2011 in the violin category, read more...