Riley Riley Mulherkar

• 1 Chicken Coop Blues 02:34
• 2 Ride or Die 03:14
• 3 Looking Out 02:28
• 4 King Porter Stomp 04:00
• 5 No More (feat. Vuyo Sotashe) 04:15
• 6 Stardust 06:15
• 7 Hopscotch 05:19
• 8 Looking Up 02:28
• 9 Honey Man 04:03
• Total Runtime 34:36

Info zu Riley

Back when Washington Middle School trumpeter Riley Mulherkar announced himself to the world one afternoon in Bellevue with a crackerjack solo on Duke Ellington’s “The Mooche,” it seemed like a good bet he was a budding young star. But who knew his debut album as a leader 18 years later would be so daring and original? You no doubt already know his ensemble work with The Westerlies, but here he presents himself as lonely trumpeter in an unpredictable sonic world that talks back in the language of electronics – reverb, choruses, and thrumming beats – thanks to sound artists Rafiq Bhatia and Chris Pattishall – as well as that of a more traditional acoustic piano trio (Pattishal, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums). Moving from intense close-ups highlighting his very intakes of breath (kind of like those guitar records where you can hear fingertips scraping the strings) to wide panoramas of a far-off horizon or open sky, Mulherkar places jazz fundamentals – blues, work song, bebop, Jelly Roll, free, Gershwin, Hoagy – into a carefully sculptured and personal world. Nine tracks, 35 minutes. Quite a bold and succinct tour de force.

"The contrast between naked intimacy and electronic distortions makes sense here. The music sounds like two sides of the same experimental coin. It has a sense of daring that evokes adventurous trumpet players like Jon Hassell and Peter Evans and a stark beauty that skirts at the outer edges of jazz. This album is a compelling and haunting work." (AllAboutJazz)

Riley Mulherkar has been recognized as a “smart young trumpet player” by The New York Times and praised by The Wall Street Journal as a “youngster to keep an eye on.” Riley is a founding member of The Westerlies, a new music brass quartet that creates the rarest of hybrids: music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Riley works with a number of leading artists of our time, including Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Alan Cumming, and Anna Deavere Smith. Riley also serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at Joye in Aiken, bringing leading young talent to the historic city of Aiken, South Carolina.

Born and raised in Seattle, Riley moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School, where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 2014 and his Master’s in 2015, receiving the Knowles Prize for Jazz and the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music. He is also an inaugural recipient of Juilliard’s Marks Fellowship. In 2011, Riley was named a “rising jazz artist” by Wynton Marsalis in JET magazine, and in 2014 was the first recipient of the Laurie Frink Career Grant at the Festival of New Trumpet Music. Riley is actively engaged in educational outreach, founding the music program at START Osceola, directing the Summer Advanced Institute at Seattle JazzEd, and serving as an ambassador for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz for Young People” program in New York and St. Louis. He has facilitated master classes in Brazil, Mexico, and across the United States.

Riley Mulherkar, trumpet
Chris Pattishall, piano, programming, sound design
Rafiq Bhatia, additional programming and sound design
Russell Hall, bass
Kyle Poole, drums
Vuyo Sotashe, vocals

Recorded December 14th-15th, 2020 at Sear Sound, New York, NY; September 1st and 8th, 2021, and October 27th, 2022 at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Engineered by Chris Allen (Sear Sound) and Todd Carder (Bunker Studio)
Mastered by Steve Fallone & Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound NJ
Produced by Bryan Gallace

Riley Mulherkar
has been recognized as a “smart young trumpet player” by The New York Times, praised by The Wall Street Journal as a “youngster to keep an eye on,” and is a 2020 recipient of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award for his work as “an original bandleader, composer, arranger, educator, community activist and advocate for jazz and the arts.”

Riley works with a number of leading artists of our time, including Wynton Marsalis, Anna Deavere Smith, and Alan Cumming, and is a founding member of The Westerlies, a new music brass quartet that creates the rarest of hybrids: music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Riley also serves as Artistic Director at Joye in Aiken, bringing leading young talent to the historic city of Aiken, South Carolina.

Born and raised in Seattle, Riley moved to New York in 2010 to study at The Juilliard School, where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 2014 and his Master’s in 2015. In 2014, he was the first recipient of the Laurie Frink Career Grant at the Festival of New Trumpet Music.

Riley is actively engaged in educational initiatives, founding the Joye in Aiken Jazz Camp in 2021, directing the Summer Advanced Institute at Seattle JazzEd from 2017-2019, and serving as an ambassador for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Jazz for Young People” program in New York and St. Louis from 2016 – 2018. Riley is also a faculty member of The College of Performing Arts at The New School in New York, NY.

Riley is an Edwards Artist and performs on Edwards trumpets.

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