Jason Crosby

Multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Jason Crosby built a career as a prolific sideman and session musician, recording and performing with countless peers before linking up with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Blue+Rose+Music%22">Blue Rose Music</a> in 2017 to release his solo debut full-length, Cryptologic. Performing since he was a teenager, Crosby went on to work with artists like <a href="spotify:artist:3eqjTLE0HfPfh78zjh6TqT">Bruce Springsteen</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6PAt558ZEZl0DmdXlnjMgD">Eric Clapton</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7yGQgQiiKpg2k00JXf8hJk">Carlos Santana</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:13vQloYd6mP7V1mVwKJwS2">Dave Matthews</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5Ws3s6lSP4Un8kQf8CrAta">Susan Tedeschi</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1P9syEkl41IFowWIJN7ZBY">Pete Seeger</a>, and many more. In addition to his own early works, like Out of the Box (2000) and Four Chords and Seven Notes Ago (2003), Crosby also recorded with acts like <a href="spotify:artist:5j56BMAuL3r3c9jgECwUhP">Zen Tricksters</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2uhs3nCegLYEslxiqKtUo6">God Street Wine</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6p5JxpTc7USNnBnLzctyd4">Phillip Phillips</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1dwRnam2taNMv8H3VR6isd">Assembly of Dust</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4xac3zhHlBm5QDxbZeqgeR">Robert Randolph & the Family Band</a>, and others. In 2013, Crosby moved from New York to California and connected with <a href="spotify:artist:4f89vSCi2dhBZH40L1Suv1">Phil Lesh</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:6YB0tbDGk01Q0P6wcHPjpC">Bob Weir</a>. In this new creative environment, he found a new audience that allowed him to go from playing for tips to headlining sell-out shows. In early 2016, he entered the studio with Karl Derfler (<a href="spotify:artist:7x83XhcMbOTl1UdYsPTuZM">Tom Waits</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:13vQloYd6mP7V1mVwKJwS2">Dave Matthews</a>) to begin recording his first solo studio LP. The first half of the album was performed entirely by Crosby -- keyboard, guitar, bass, violin, trumpet, vibraphone, marimba, timpani, banjo, and ukulele -- while a second recording session yielded songs recorded in a more collaborative jam environment. Along with <a href="spotify:artist:7DvcUPMTX0XfGlO0RexUh0">Tim Bluhm</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:754hwfwMX4RL52JZYmQaBR">The Mother Hips</a> -- who co-wrote the second half of the album -- Crosby was joined by the rest of <a href="spotify:artist:754hwfwMX4RL52JZYmQaBR">The Mother Hips</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1zj82yjzextpDit0LayNnJ">Midnight North</a>'s <a href="spotify:artist:1x4GPwYFtuDPRzawYz7e8U">Elliot Peck</a>. The resulting effort was Cryptologic (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Blue+Rose+Music%22">Blue Rose Music</a>), a ten-song set that includes the songs "Roads Are Torn" and an instrumental interpretation of "What The World Needs Now is Love." ~ Neil Z. Yeung