Apr 15 Columbus, OH: Midday Garden Concert
Apr 21 Chicago, IL : Constellation Ticket link
Apr 22 Madison, WI : Arts + Literature Lab Ticket link
Apr 23 Iowa City, IA : Feed Me Weird Things series at Trumpet Blossom Cafe Ticket link

Celebrating the release of journeys vol. 1 and the music of Embrace
Miami
Feb 18: Improvisation Workshop at S. Florida Center for Percussive Arts
Feb 19: Solo at S. Florida Center for Percussive Arts
Feb 21-22: Trio at Lagniappe House
Orlando
Feb 24: Solo at University of Central Florida
Feb 25: Solo at Sat Nam Wellness
Sarasota
Feb 26: Trio at Fogartyville Media and Arts Center
St. Petersburg
Feb 27: Trio at Palladium Theater for the St. Petersburg Jazz Festival
with
Chris Dingman – vibes
Carlo De Rosa – bass
Rodolfo Zuniga – drums
Chris has launched a brand new series on Bandcamp, recording and releasing one piece of music every week for subscribers !
Subscribe at chrisdingman.bandcamp.com/subscribe
Subscriptions include a new track every week, plus all previous weeks and 10 unreleased tracks from before the series began, and access to most of Chris’s back catalog including his first 3 full-length studio albums. This music is available for subscribers to stream on the Bandcamp site or app, or as CD-quality downloads, or mp3s.
Chris was recently featured in the publications amNY and The Villager in a piece about his musical journey, finding the vibraphone through his teacher Jay Hoggard at Wesleyan University, studies with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter at the then-named Thelonious Monk Institute (now Hancock Institute), and finally his experience creating the 5-hour album Peace for his father during his time in hospice care.
Chris will be live streaming a solo performance from Bop Shop Records in Rochester, NY!
Tune in on Friday, September 4, 8:00 PM EDT at:
bopshop.com/live
Also streaming at the Bop Shop’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
Today, Chris celebrates the release of a special project: Peace.
Peace was recorded as it was performed for Chris’s father during his time in hospice care, in the final weeks of his life. This extended album consists of five hours of Chris’s original solo vibraphone music.
He casts an enveloping atmosphere throughout, creating layers of ethereal sounds – poignant melodies, swirling textures, and undulating pedal tones. It’s an immersive listening experience that many have described as transportive, meditative, deeply healing, and transformative.
Click here to visit the album page, to hear the music and read Chris’s full statement about the album.
Embrace received a 5-star review in the UK-based Jazz Journal:
“Vibraphone-led trios aren’t common, and this is an outstanding realisation of the format”
Embrace received a glowing review in the New York Times!
“On each of his first two albums, the vibraphonist Chris Dingman made himself an element within his sextet’s prismatic splendor, full of interplay between spiky glistening surfaces — like an El Anatsui work rendered as music. On “Embrace,” his latest album, Dingman cuts the band’s membership in half, and the challenge of building a tapestry falls largely to him. Somehow he rises to it, laying chords atop arpeggios, running across the instrument’s range, all while focusing your ear on the big empty space in the trio’s sound. His study of Indian and West African classical musics has helped to furnish his toolbox, and on “Ali” he pays homage to an inspiration, the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré, though Dingman’s playing here is as influenced by the sound of the kora, a different West African stringed instrument, as by the guitar.” RUSSONELLO
See the full article here
Five years after his critically-acclaimed album The Subliminal and the Sublime, vibraphonist/composer Chris Dingman returns with his much-anticipated follow-up, Embrace. Due out March 6, 2020, the album features Linda May Han Oh on bass and Tim Keiper on drums, produced by Keith Witty.
How can we heal unacknowledged wounds within of ourselves? How can we find creative ways to work with our limitations and embrace new directions? The Embrace project explores these quandaries and more…
You can hear the first track “Inner Child” now and get an instant download when you pre-order the album.