Thursday, May 24, 2012
I was interviewed for Scott Brown's feature in this week's New York magazine. My interview was cut and pasted to the point where I'm not certain it makes any sense, but heck, I'm adorable. A…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:19PMMonday, April 30, 2012
My editor at Hal Leonard, the estimable Rick Walters, called me in 2010 with the idea that we should do a book-and-CD folio of me playing accompaniments to my own songs, with a male and fema…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:12PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
I've always sort of liked the Drama Desk Awards. Over the years, I've appreciated that they really did try to be inclusive of a wide swath of New York theater, not just big-money Broadway sh…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:49AMThursday, April 12, 2012
An unbelievable night with Anika, who was even more brilliant than ever, and a fantastic band in the gorgeous Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. Sold out with al…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:17AMMonday, March 19, 2012
In less than two weeks, the amazing Anika Noni Rose will join me and a blazing eight-piece band for a one-night-only blowout at the gorgeous BROAD STAGE in Santa Monica! Anika and I did this…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:46PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
I think these folks are doing important and beautiful work and they need all the help they can get spreading the word. I hope Kony can be stopped. I hope we can make it happen.KONY 2012 from…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:38AMSunday, March 4, 2012
So I had this friend. An old girlfriend, actually, who is now (I swear this is true) a Christian missionary who serves mostly in Thailand. And last night she posted, as her Facebook status, …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:44AMA wild and wacky night at the Woodland Opera House! Apparently all of this traveling is catching up with me – I didn't put together the set list before the show, so I was just winging it f…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:05AMSunday, February 26, 2012
Thanks to Wally Jones and the whole gang at Fort Worth's historic Casa Mañana Theatre for bringing me and Shoshana down to Texas to have a foot-stompin' good time. The theater itself looks …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:08PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
I've been playing "Vienna" for a long time – it's one of those songs that I can pull out at a piano bar or a party when it doesn't feel like it's the right kind of room to do one…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:53PMSunday, February 12, 2012
The awesome folks at Starving Artists Studios in Orlando, FL brought me down South for a concert and masterclass, and I brought along Gary Sieger, my longtime guitarist, because his entire f…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:48PMFriday, February 3, 2012
I got a weird and huffy comment this morning on yesterday's blog about "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Perhaps this guy was annoyed by my incessant Twittering about the Billy …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:02PMThursday, February 2, 2012
When I said I was going to cover The Stranger in its entirety, I knew (as did you all) that what I really meant is that I was going to have to deal with "Scenes From An Italian Restaura…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:10PMMonday, January 30, 2012
As good as you think Shoshana Bean is, you haven't heard anything until you hear her in her hometown. Every time we get to sing together is a privilege, and we'll be doing it again at the en…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:51AMFriday, January 13, 2012
There's a fun tradition in gospel music of taking secular love songs and, with the smallest changes in the lyric – a pronoun here, a reversal of direction there – turning them into love …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:17PMSaturday, January 7, 2012
The second track on The Stranger is the title track, a song that on the original album bounces in turn from smoky film noir jazz to Steely Dan-style rock to tropical disco and back again ove…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:28PMFriday, December 9, 2011
A warm and wonderful crowd at the Falls Theatre at ACT last night – my first solo concert ever in Seattle, and it felt like home. Thank you all for being so welcoming and for laughing at m…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:34PMSunday, November 27, 2011
Billy Joel's LP The Stranger was released at the end of September, 1977, and I'd guess it made its way to our house in Rockland County about two months later, presumably because my mom or da…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:32AMSunday, October 16, 2011
Mostly the same songs as last night, but with one significant difference. Before the show, Sho and I were told that some members of the audience were disappointed not to hear "Stars and…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:01AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
My first concert in about six months, and what a pleasure to do it in front of a sold-out house here at the Columbia Club, and with Shoshana Bean singing so gorgeously all night. Thanks to L…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:21AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
At some point last night, I reached 13,000 followers on Twitter. What makes that particular number extra cool is that the day I hit 13,000 is three years to the day from 13's opening night o…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:35PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
There isn't much I can say about this song or the events that inspired it. I don't perform it very often anymore because it now feels like a promise that wasn't kept. But for several years a…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:43PMThursday, June 23, 2011
As you can read in the news feature I posted yesterday, the CD of The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony is now available for purchase and download. I'm so thrilled that people are gettin…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:37PMWednesday, May 18, 2011
I have been so inspired by Paul Simon for my entire creative life, and never more so than now, when he's got a spectacular new album, So Beautiful or So What, for which he's been touring aro…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:18PMWednesday, May 11, 2011
Among the many problems particular to musical theatre writers is the occasional need to write a song that the audience thinks is bad. Some moment in the script will call for a delusional hac…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:34AMMonday, April 25, 2011
Production meetings, band rehearsals, sound checks, publicity shots, camera runthroughs; I just hit the ground in New York and I'm already running. Thursday night, I begin a three-night stan…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:34AMFriday, April 15, 2011
CAP21 (which was once an acronym for "Collaborative Arts Project" but now stands intriguingly undefined) has used their Spring Gala as an opportunity to celebrate great musical the…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:49AMSunday, March 20, 2011
A really lovely way to close out this tour, by returning to the city – and in fact, the very theater – where I first played Australia eight years ago. Many members in the audience were t…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:31AMTuesday, March 15, 2011
Unbeknownst to me, the sound engineer in Brisbane recorded our show on Friday, and since we've been having so much fun doing the concerts, I thought I'd share some of that recording with you…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:32AMSaturday, March 12, 2011
Brisbane! Who knew? Filled a 600-seat theater at the Queensland Conservatorium with raving musical theatre nerds of all stripes, and they had themselves a party. A fantastic crowd, another r…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:30AMThursday, March 10, 2011
When I was in Hamburg last September, I was interviewed by Ralf Rühmeier for Musicals Magazine, a German periodical devoted entirely to musical theatre. (Don’t you love that there’s one…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:47AM 
