Blue Note Records debut album tour — You’re Exaggerating! releases in August and features a 9-song set of Paul Cornish originals.
Paul was one of only seven jazz prodigies worldwide selected to be awarded a fellowship to the esteemed Herbie Hancock Institute, and was a recent finalist in American Pianists Association’s Jazz Competition.
"Paul just goes for it, playing so free and so expansively — his sense of melody and rhythm is untethered. He is so in the moment, flexible and pure." — Joshua Redman
Cornish has performed extensively across the globe with such notable artists as Joshua Redman, Louis Cole, Mark Guiliana, HAIM, Snoh Aalegra, Terrace Martin, Kanye West, and many more.Paul was born and raised in Houston. He began taking classical piano lessons at age 5 and discovered jazz performance in his middle-school jazz band.
“In many ways, Cornish is the most profound embodiment yet of Blue Note’s regenerative influence.” — Blue Note Records
In Houston fashion, the church also played a pivotal role in his evolution. By middle school he was a paid working musician, leading programs of genre-blurring contemporary gospel at a youth church. He graduated to adult congregations, and to a three-service, full-day grind that taught him invaluable lessons in commitment and purpose he’d use later as a touring musician. “I still play in church to this day,” Cornish says, “and it instills this idea that you’re in service to something that’s larger than yourself. You’re a vessel for a message.”
$35 General Admission | FREE for Music Students | 50% for Working Musicians | Info & Tickets at JazzCoterie.com
