Jeff Fairbanks

Jeff Fairbanks (born January 6, 1980) is an American composer, band leader, and multiinstrumentalist. Awards Music awards and honors include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, US Air Force Sammy Nestico Award, the BMI Charlie Parker Award, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, three ASCAP Plus Awards and an IMA Independent Music Awards. He received grants from the Aaron Copland Fund, American Composers Forum, four grants each from the New Music USA and Queens Council on the Arts. He has been commissioned by the West Point Band Jazz Knights, BMI/NY Jazz Orchestra, USAF Airmen of Note, Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, National Gugak Center, Nangye Gugak Orchestra, Hora Decima and more. Bandleader Jeff’s Jazz ensemble, Project Hansori, appears on his debut recording as a leader, Mulberry Street (BJURecords). Documenting his compositions fusing East Asian traditional music and Jazz, this award-winning album was released on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label in 2011, to international critical praise. Produced by Darcy James Argue, the album includes as a guest the late Fred Ho, baritone saxophonist and pioneer in Asian-Jazz fusion. Notable ensemble members include Li