15 Facts About Aaron Goldberg

Aaron Goldberg was born in Boston to Alfred L Goldberg, a biochemist, and Joan Helpern Goldberg, a hematologist, and has one younger sister, Julie Goldberg.

Aaron Goldberg began taking piano lessons at 7, and started playing jazz when he was 14.

Aaron Goldberg moved to New York City at 17 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and devoted his off-hours to practicing the piano and performing in New York clubs.

Aaron Goldberg spent considerable time both musically and socially with jazz players at Berklee College of Music and continued to perform on piano, playing frequently at Boston venues including Wally's Cafe.

Aaron Goldberg spent the summers in Manhattan, performing and maintaining his ties in the New York jazz scene.

In 1996, following his graduation, Aaron Goldberg moved back to New York and concentrated on music.

Aaron Goldberg began what would become a lengthy association with saxophonist Joshua Redman, and toured extensively with him.

In 2001, as he continued to tour with Redman, the Aaron Goldberg Trio released a second album, Unfolding, on J Curve.

Aaron Goldberg was on the road with Redman full-time until 2002, when he returned to New York to perform with jazz performers including Nicholas Payton, Al Foster, Freddie Hubbard, and Stefon Harris.

Aaron Goldberg earned a master's degree in Analytic Philosophy in 2010, with Daniel Dennett serving as his academic adviser, and began to focus strictly on music.

Aaron Goldberg released a new album, Home, in 2010, and Bienestan, a collaboration with Argentinian composer Guillermo Klein, in 2012.

In November 2014, Aaron Goldberg released The Now, a 10-song album of his own compositions, jazz standards, and reworkings of Brazilian songs.

Aaron Goldberg has collaborated with many jazz musicians including Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Guillermo Klein, Charles Lloyd, Reuben Rogers, Dario Chiazzolino, Greg Tardy.

Aaron Goldberg organized Jazz for America's Future, a fundraising concert for John Kerry in 2004, and organized Jazz for Obama, a similar effort in 2008 and again in 2012.

Aaron Goldberg performed and led free workshops in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and participated in the 2014 fundraiser for the Haitian Education and Leadership Program.