Isaiah Collier

Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn based multi instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator, activist, motivational speaker and educator. Brownswood label head Gilles Peterson insisted on releasing music when Isaiah performed at World Wide festival and he closed the set with a track called Joy. Collier’s work, garners accolades and resonates across cultural spheres. He was featured on the cover of US mag DownBeat’s April 2025 issue, where he was named “The Next Sax Giant,” and profiled on NPR’s Jazz Night in America for his ambitious 13-movement interdisciplinary suite The Story of 400 Years, that traces 400 years of Black American History. He released two full-length albums in 2024 with The World Is on Fire highlighted in The New York Times’ Fall Arts Preview and The Almighty named among the publication’s Best Jazz Albums of the year. In addition to the release of Joy, Collier is touring his “Collier Plays Coltrane” program throughout 2026 in honor of John Coltrane’s centennial.