Ryan Truesdell

A world-renowned, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, composer, arranger, and educator, Ryan Truesdell was voted “Best New Artist” in the 2012 JazzTimes Critic’s Poll and is best known for his award-winning Gil Evans Project. This extensive project to unearth and bring to light some of the lesser-known music of Evans’ has resulted in two critically acclaimed albums: CENTENNIAL: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans and LINES OF COLOR: Live at Jazz Standard. Both albums were unanimously praised by the critics, receiving a total of four GRAMMY® nominations and a posthumous GRAMMY® Award for “Best Instrumental Arrangement” for Evans. In the studio, Truesdell has proven himself an invaluable resource, notably producing the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s albums Concert in the Garden, Sky Blue, The Thompson Fields, and Data Lords, which have received a total of eight GRAMMY® nominations and won two GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album,” with Data Lords also becoming a 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music. He also served as producer for Owen Broder 's The American Roots Project, Nick Finzer 's Hear & Now and JJ Johnson Centennial projects, Cowboys & Frenchmen, as well as radio broadcasts for the NDR Big Band in Hamburg, Germany with Bob Brookmeyer.