“Muneer's new album release called Blue House Session contains some of the purest, most tunefully accessible stuff this side of 1965. There’s blues in spades—oozing out of every corner, not just in the original track “Nasser’s Blues” or the Miles Davis cover “All Blues.” There’s also a wallop of Afro Caribbean sounds, including two Cuban-spiced numbers, “Cancel Culture” and “Public Eye,” and a reggae pastiche in “Black Disciples.”” - Michael J West
Muneer Nasser
Musician, Educator, Historian, Speaker
Muneer Nasser Bio:
The Son of a Jazz Icon
Born on June 3, 1967 to the late, great bassist Jamil Nasser, Muneer 's exposure to the jazz idiom was early and powerful. In 1976, "My dad took me to see Dizzy Gillespie at the Village Gate and Dizzy blew the place apart. I had to get a trumpet and weeks later I did."
My band has performed at SOLD OUT shows: Smalls Jazz New York, Takoma Station, Westminster Jazz, Rudy's -Nashville, Crosstown Arts- Memphis, 2024 H Street Festival, 2024 DC Jazz Festival, 2025 The MidAtlantic Jazz Festival, The National Jazz Museum of Harlem, 2025 Silver Spring Jazz Festival, Hillfest 2025-DC, Jazz @the Kramer, Overton Park Shell-Memphis, Blues Alley DC, and many more reflected in my bio and on my website.
www.muneernassermusic.com and www.jamilsnasser.com
The Muneer Nasser Quintet and the new CD has been released and it's on all streaming platforms. It's called Blue House Sessions by the Muneer Nasser Quintet.
Our music is Jazz, but we have reggae jazz tunes, Latin jazz tunes, etc. Check out my music on https://muneernassermusic.com/music
In addition to teaching jazz improvisation at the University of Maryland, Nasser's passion and knowledge for jazz history was evident in educational forums he held at the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University. In 2015, he won an award for the best soundtrack at the DC 48-hour Film Festival.
Muneer developed a lifelong commitment to the study of jazz. Consequently, he read over one hundred books, magazines, and conducted informal interviews with jazz masters whose answers stimulated his quest to document jazz history. His book Upright Bass: The Musical Life and Legacy of Jamil Nasser unveils previously undisclosed yet important jazz history. Check out Muneer's CDs "A Soldier's Story" and "Blue House Session."
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