Jahari Stampley Family Trio set to kick off 2026 West Coast Future Is Now Concert Series Tour @ Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles

Just Jazz and the Non-Profit Just Jazz Foundation launches 10 City, 12 Concert 2026 West Coast Future Is Now Concert Series Tour @ Loyola Marymount University's Murphy Recital Hall on Grammy Sunday, February 1st @ 5PM with masterclasses, local student musicians and Grammy Nominated and 2023 Herbie Hancock Piano Competition winner Jahari Stampley. Additional cities & venues to be announced soon.

Jahari Stampley Family Trio

Family bands are nothing new in jazz, but there’s never been a combo quite like the

Jahari Stampley Family Trio. A powerhouse pianist and keyboardist who roared out of Chicago with his 2023 victory at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition, Jahari seems to expand his creative reach with each performance. Deploying his capacious technique in the service of extended, multi-part compositions that unfurl like mini-suites, he tends to paint on a big canvas. The group features the dynamic drummer JongKuk Kim, and Jahari's mother, revered music educator D’Erania Stampley, on electric upright bass, alto sax, synth and voclas. Wisely, he features her extensively, and she makes it clear that the Stampley household must have been a fiercely creative crucible for her extraordinary son.

25 year old Jahari Stampley is a Chicago-born pianist who began playing the piano at the age of 14. Within two years of exploring the instrument, he began winning various competitions including Best High School Jazz Soloist Award and the National YoungArts Competition. By the age of 18 years old, he was recognized and followed by many world-renowned musicians including Yebba Smith, Jill Scott, Robert Glasper, Cory Henry, Jacob Collier, Stanley Clarke, and Derrick Hodge, among others. Jahari has toured with Stanley Clarke and is featured on Derrick Hodge’s "Color of Noise" album.

Jahari has performed in venues such as Radio City Music Hall in NYC, The Met Philadelphia, Byline Bank Aragon in Chicago, Carnegie Hall in NY, San Francisco Jazz Center, Monterey Bay Future Is Now Jazz Festival and many others. He’s also headlined & performed solo piano tours in Berlin, Koethen & Magdeburg, Germany, Geneva, Switzerland, and Los Angeles, California. He’s conducted music workshops in Santa Ana, Costa Rica, and taught masterclasses in Spokane, Washington. Jahari is also the band leader & featured pianist playing the part of Bill Wither’s keyboardist in the feature film “Spinning Gold". Many of Jahari’s performances have garnered praise in various media outlets, articles & magazines throughout the world.

Jahari won first place in the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute International Competition, 2023 Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz, 2023 Chicago Youth Symphony Alumni Award, the first non-classical musician to receive the honor; and awarded the 2023 Luminarts Fellowship for his debut album “ Still Listening.” Earlier in his life Jahari won the Bösendorfer prize for the international 2019 American Jazz Pianists Association Competition (for ages 18-25), the 2018 ASCAP Foundation Fran Morganstern Davis Scholarship, and the National Young Arts Foundation 2018 Young Arts Winner.

Alongside all of this, Jahari released his first Debut Album entitled “Still Listening” which rose on Apple iTunes in the first weeks of the Album’s release. The music on “Still Listening” has also been set in an orchestral arrangement for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Jahari Also designed and wrote the music for a music Education mobile game, "Piano Chronicles”. It is available as a mobile app for all mobile devices on Google Play Store and the Apple Store.

In May of 2025 Jahari released his single “To Be Alive” from his second album “What A Time” which is set to be released in Asia in July, 2025 and in the US in September, 2025.