Davidian, Lambertson, Korschgen all met after moving to Greenville, SC … Joe Davidian (2024) from NYC, Nathan Lambertson (2024) from New Orleans, and Kevin Korschgen (2014) from Chicago. The trio literally met on the bandstand, where they had an immediate musical connection. The January 18th performance will be there second opportunity to “make music” together. Meet the band:

 

Joe Davidian

Born into a family of musicians and brought up on Black American Music, NYC jazz pianist Joe Davidian has always held a deep affinity for feel-good rhythms and strong melodies, nurtured throughout his childhood years in his classical piano studies all the way through the completion of his Master’s degree at the University of Miami. Since graduating college, Davidian has performed all over the world with some of the greatest musicians in jazz, including his own trio.

In addition to performing as a sideman on dozens of recordings, Davidian has released five albums under his own name: “For the Birds” (1999), “JD3: Live” (2003), “Silent Fire” (2008), “Live at the Jazz Cave: Volume One” (2013), and “Live at the Jazz Cave: Volume Two” (2017). The latter two document the best of his trio’s live performances at the Nashville Jazz Workshop.

In 2019, Davidian won first prize in the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition, an accolade that deemed him an undeniable voice in the world of jazz piano. He currently lives in NYC, where he maintains an extensive private lesson studio and performs at top NYC jazz clubs, including Smalls, Mezzrow, Dizzy's, and Birdland.

His 20-year-old trio, The Lost Melody (with bassist Jamie Ousley & drummer Austin McMahon), has released two albums: the first an album of original music entitled “New Songs for Old Souls" (2020), and most recently an album of standards, "I'll See You Again" (2022), which pays tribute to their great mentor and professor, the late Vince Maggio.

Davidian continues to tour internationally, teach private lessons, and pursue new opportunities for collaboration, personal growth and creative development.

 

Nathan Lambertson

Studied music theory, composition and performance intensely from 2001-2006, then focused his attention on working in as many different bands in every genre as possibly. He toured the US and Europe, the former for 5 years straight with The Mike Dillon Band, and the latter with various traditional New Orleans Jazz bands. Nathan has recorded on dozens of albums with artists from Rickie Lee Jones to Brian Blade, and played on the grammy nominated Treme Soundtrack Album with The New Orleans Jazz Vipers. “My biggest takeaway from my time in music was the ability to work on and lead teams, as well as work hard and practice on my own to learn hard things.” - As a composer, Nathan has written, recorded, produced and engineered all of his own albums, totaling around 20 releases on his own label (Hillsdale Productions), distributed by Distro Kid on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Youtube Music, etc

 

 

Kevin Korschgen

Jazz drummer and music educator, first moved to Chicago in 1980 to join a band called Rush Hour. His teaching career began in 1983 at Notre Dame High School for Boys, where he led the school’s award-winning jazz ensemble. He later developed a dynamic multi-cultural Latin Jazz Ensemble at Lake View High School, in Chicago, and has instructed jazz combos at the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association, and at the Chicago High School for the Arts (Chiarts). During a three-year sojourn to Santa Fe, NM, Mr. Korschgen served as Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association, and as Director of Bands at Santa Fe High School. Upon returning to Chicago in 2007, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Chicago Public Schools All-City High School Jazz Ensemble, and later became jazz coordinator at Chiarts, the city’s magnet high school for the performing arts.

Mr. Korschgen has performed with many of Chicago’s finest jazz musicians: Chris Foreman, Jody Christian, Ryan Cohen, Rob Amster, Dennis Carole, Pat Mallinger, Von Freeman, Pharez Whittig, Victor Garcia, Neal Alger, and George Freeman to name a few. In addition, he has shared the stage with Jon Faddis, Wallace Rooney, John Fedchock, James Carter, Etienne Charles, Marcus Belgrave, and Lyle Mays.

Now retired and living in Greenville SC, Kevin maintains an active teaching, writing, and performing schedule. He hosts and performs at The Wheel Sessions and leads several groups of his own: Art