Zach Brock

Zach Brock
BornAugust 2, 1974
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
InstrumentsViolin
LabelsSecret Fort, Criss Cross, MDM, Woolgathering, Sitmom, Ropeadope, GroundUp, Dot Time, Universal Music Classics
Associated actsSnarky Puppy, Stanley Clarke, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman, Wycliffe Gordon, Zach Brock Quartet, Zach Brock & the Coffee Achievers, Alexis Cole, Matt Ulery's Loom,
Websitewww.zachbrock.com

Zach Brock (born August 2, 1974) is a classically trained and Grammy Award winning American jazz violinist and composer. He has been a member of jazz fusion super-group Snarky Puppy from 2007 to 2011 and again since 2016. He has collaborated with several major jazz musicians, most notably Stanley Clarke, Phil Markowitz, and Dave Liebman, as well as leading his own groups.[1]

Early life

Brock was born and reared in Lexington, Kentucky. His parents, Dan and Jenny Brock, were active in the local music scene and met as members of the Lexington Singers. His education began early with Montessori School, and he started learning violin with the Suzuki method. He graduated from Bryan Station High School in 1992, before attending Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, majoring in performance violin. At Northwestern, he met Erin Harper, who later became his wife and the mother of their twin daughters.[2]

As stated in the title of one of his albums, Brock's musical career, "Almost Never Was." During his sophomore year at Northwestern, while bicycling through a busy intersection, he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. Bystanders rushed to prevent his being hit again, since he was unable to stand or walk. He suffered compound-complex fractures of the femur, fibula, and tibia of his left leg, with the patella shattered into eight pieces. Surgeries and rehabilitation from the accident set back his formal studies by more than two years. However, although Northwestern did not then offer a course of study for jazz violin, Brock was allowed to audit jazz classes while recovering. Despite the delay, he graduated in 1999. [3]

Career

Brock began performing professionally and recording while still a student at Northwestern, His first recordings were with the band Spazztet which also featured guitarist Aaron Weistrop. The band's first album Beautiful Impatience was later reissued under Spazztet and Weistrop's name, and the second Silent Films was rereleased as by Spazztet and Brock. For several years after the turn of the century, Brock led and recorded with his quartet, Zach Brock and the Coffee Achievers, releasing three albums between 2003 and 2007. [4][5][6]

Around 2008 Brock became a member of two different bands with which he continues to be associated. He has recorded with Matt Ulery's Loom based in Chicago on seven albums. He was on three albums with Snarky Puppy, then working in and from Dallas and on the verge of international stardom. He departed Snarky Puppy in 2011 for other projects, including touring with Stanley Clarke, but he returned to the band in 2016 and continues to be one of now Brooklyn-based band's most frequent performers. [7]

In addition to his other activities, Brock is the Boyer Artist-in-Residence at Temple University in Philadelphia. [8]

Discography

  • The Magic Number (Secret Fort Records, 2011}
  • Almost Never Was (Criss Cross, 2012)
  • Purple Sounds (Criss Cross, 2014)
  • Serendipity (Criss Cross, 2015)

with Spazztet

  • Beautiful Impatience (Vibratop Music 1997)
  • Silent Films (Vibratop Music, 1999)

with Zach Brock & the Coffee Achievers

  • Zach Brock & the Coffee Achievers (Secret Fort Records, 2003}
  • Chemistry (Secret Fort Records, 2005)
  • Live at the Jazz Factory (Secret Fort Records, 2007)

Zach Brock & Eric Doney

  • As If By Magic {MDM, 2012)

Zach Brock & Phil Markowitz

  • Perpetuity (Dot Time Records, 2015)

with Snarky Puppy

with Matt Ulery's Loom

  • Music Box Ballerina (Woolgathering, 2008)
  • Themes and Scenes (Woolgathering, 2009)
  • Flora. Fauna. Fervor. (402 Music, 2011)
  • By a Little Light {Greenleaf Music, 2012)
  • In the Ivory (Woolgathering, 2014)
  • Festival (Woolgathering, 2016)
  • Delicate Charms (Woolgathering, 2019)

with Alexis Cole

with Wycliffe Gordon

  • The Intimate Ellington: Ballads & Blues (Criss Cross, 2013)

with Bill Laurence

  • Flint (GroundUP, 2014)

with Ada Rovatti

  • Disguise (Piloo, 2014)

with Triptych (Zach Brock, Matt Ulery, Jon Deitemyer)

  • Wonderment (Woolgathering, 2019)

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ "Zach Brock". Secret Fort Music. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  2. ^ "ChamberFest Stages Fusion of Jazz+Classical". UnderMain, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Zach Brock Almost Never Was". Northwestern Magazine/Northwestern University. Spring 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Silent Films by Spazztet". CD Baby. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  5. ^ {{cite web }uel=https://www.allmusic.com/album/beautiful-impatience-mw0001223286 |title=Spazztet Beautiful Impatience |publisher=AllMusic, member of the RhythmOne group |accessdate=17 October 2019}}
  6. ^ {{cite web }uel=https://www.allmusic.com/album/silent-films-mw0000008907 |title=Spazztet Silent Films |publisher=AllMusic, member of the RhythmOne group |accessdate=17 October 2019 }}
  7. ^ "About Snaqrky Puppy". Snarky Puppy & GroundUP Music. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Zach Brock, Jazz Violin, and Genre". Temple University Library. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  9. ^ "August 2013 issue" (PDF). DownBeat Magazine. August 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Best Contemporary Instrumental Album". Grammy Awards. Retrieved 17 October 2019.

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