Producer · Composer · Pianist · Conductor
J.J.Wright
Music shaped by improvisation, ritual, and the work of listening together.
Production, composition, piano, and conducting.
Trained as a jazz improviser, J.J. Wright brings these forms into conversation with sacred traditions and collaborative performance.
Production
Records and film work built in close collaboration with artists
Composition
Album, concert, liturgical, and staged work
Piano
Improvisation as a practice of listening and response
Conducting
Choral practice shaped through shared attention
Jazz · ritual · memory · common song
Projects as places to enter.
Different ensembles and traditions; one practice of attention, encounter, and shared making.
Transfiguration Vespers
A complete evening prayer recorded live in New York, carried by piano trio, cantors, an answering congregation, and improvisation.
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O Emmanuel
A ten-part Advent-to-Christmas work in which the Great O Antiphons move through children’s voices, chamber music, jazz, and gospel-inflected rhythm.
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Mysteries & Medicines
Ten songs made with Brother Isaiah and a close circle of collaborators, tracing repentance as a difficult, life-giving return.
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Rhythms of Faith
A collaborative course and podcast bringing liturgy, music, and creativity into the same field of inquiry.
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