The Brandee Younger Trio

From the venue:

On Friday, March 13, jazz harpist Brandee Younger will lead her trio in the final concert of the second season of Jazz at All Saints’. Acclaimed for revolutionizing the harp’s role in modern music, Brandee is the recent recipient of a $525,000 Doris Duke Artist Award, honoring her as an artist who plays a “singular role in enriching life and enlivening society.”

As a composer as well as a performer, Brandee builds on her classical training with the rhythmic soulfulness of R&B, gospel, and hip-hop. In 2022 she made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, and in 2024 she won an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album for her album, “Brand New Life.” Her most recent album, “Gadabout Season,” includes original works evoking our shared search for joy—“our search for meaning and beauty amid life’s most complex moments.”  “Gadabout Season” was selected as one of the best jazz albums of 2025 by both The New York Times and NPR.

While her music is about forging new paths—artistic, personal, political, and spiritual—Brandee is especially noted for continuing the legacy of the women who ushered in the harp as a distinct voice in jazz, especially Detroit natives Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. She is now the custodian of Coltrane’s harp, which she played in a recent Carnegie Hall concert. Brandee has worked with other cultural icons, including Stevie Wonder, Common, Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Pharoah Sanders, the Roots, and Christian McBride. Her original composition “Hortense” was featured in the Netflix Concert-Documentary Beyonce: Homecoming. In addition to performing and recording, this celebrated young artist is a dedicated educator, teaching at both New York University and The New School College of Performing Arts.

Concert takes place in the sanctuary followed by Q&A with Jazz at All Saints’ Artistic Director Virginia Schenck and reception.