Zach Brock, Bob Lanzetti, and Keita Ogawa perform at the Jack London

“One of the notable post-millennial voices in jazz violin” (All About Jazz), Zach Brock is the music’s most vital young violinists, best known as a GRAMMY-winning member of Snarky Puppy and for his collaboration with bass legend Stanley Clarke. He performs music from his latest GroundUP release, Dirty Mindz, with his superb trio.

The Kentucky native began his violin studies at four and after honing his craft through high school, eventually decamped to Chicago for studies at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and the beginnings of his jam-packed professional career. Mentored by eminent jazz pianist Phil Markowitz and now based in New York, Brock has lent his virtuosic melodicism to work with Wycliffe Gordon, Idan Raichel, Frank Vignola and Snarky Puppy keyboardist Bill Laurance, winning DownBeat’s 2013 Critics Poll for Rising Star Violinist.

He has led a trio of dates for Criss-Cross featuring a host of acclaimed sidemen including Eric Harland, Aaron Goldberg, and Matt Penman, and appeared on five releases with Snarky Puppy, including the 2016 GRAMMY winner Culcha Vulcha and 2019’s Immigrance. Of Brock, Snarky Puppy leader Michael League states, “Not only is he my favorite violinist in the world but he’s also one of my favorite musicians, period. He has an improvisational spirit more so than anyone I think I’ve ever met in my life.”