Joel Frahm

Joel appeared in a virtual online performance by the Prime Rib Big Band sponsored by the Ottawa Jazz Festival. You can listen to the performance along with an interview with Joel here.

Joel talks about his early influences in jazz and offers advice to young players in this podcast from New York City's Smalls Jazz Club.

Joel talks about the music that inspires him in a wide-ranging interview written by Peter Robb of artsfile, a Canadian   media company covering the arts in Ottawa, Ontario.

Joel appeared with the  Brad Mehldau Quintet at the 2019 Ottawa Jazz Festival. Here is a review.

Joel is one of several guest artists on  Brad Mehldau's "Finding Gabriel," which won a 2020 Grammy award as "Best Jazz Instrumental Album."  Joel also appeared on the Dafnis Prieto Big Band album, "Back to the Sunset," winner of a 2019 Grammy and was a featured soloist on the 2019 Grammy-nominated album, "My Mood is You," by vocalist Freddy Cole.

Joel is a member of Toronto native Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop band, whose recording "Abundance" won a 2020 Juno award, Canada's equivalent of a Grammy.

• Here is an interview with Joel posted on SaxShed.com.
• And another from Chronogram Magazine.

New England Public Radio host Tom Reney writes about Joel in this Jazz Times column, "Storytelling Tenor."