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Alison Shearer is a saxophonist with tremendous style, lyricism, and intuition whose talents have brought her around the world. Alison has performed at The Blue Note NYC, Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Merkin Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, Brooklyn Bowl, National Sawdust, Rockwood Music Hall, among many other venues.

College at the Manhattan School of Music introduced Alison to many of the musicians she works with today. One of the notable groups to emerge from MSM during Alison’s time was PitchBlak Brass Band, a ten piece hip-hop brass band that has received critical acclaim from publications DownBeat Magazine, Live for Live Music, Brooklyn Vegan and The Source Magazine. Alison is a founding member of PitchBlak and has toured with the group extensively since its beginning in 2010. PitchBlak’s debut album “You See Us” was released in 2014.

In 2013 Alison formed her own group, Alison Shearer Group, which is now her main musical focus. Alison has been writing a tremendous amount of music for this group, which features guitarist Sean Richey, keyboardist Wade Ridenhour, bassist James Quinlan and drummer Mike Gordon. Alison’s debut album “I Am You” was released in early 2016.