Jordan McLean
Performer / Composer / Producer
For 25 years, Jordan McLean has worked as a performer, bandleader, composer, arranger, producer, label owner, festival coordinator and educator. Based in New York, he tours year-round across the country and internationally, working in the leading studios, on the largest (and smallest) festival stages and in the most beloved clubs in the world.
His employers and collaborators over the past decade include Antibalas, Mark Ronson, Sharon Jones and The Dapkings, Charles Bradley, Valery June, The Roots, Jamie Lidell, TV on the Radio, Jovanotti, David Byrne, St-Vincent, Billy Gibbons, Iron and Wine, My Morning Jacket, The Alabama Shakes, Santigold, Tony Allen, David Murray, Atomic Bomb, Sinkane, The Complete Last Waltz, Greg Phillinganes, Craig Finn and The Hold Steady, Steven Tyler, The Lone Bellow, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, and Lady Antebellum.
As a composer he has over 100 registered concert and studio compositions, and has arranged and orchestrated nearly 200 hundred songs and other works for a variety of bands and chamber ensembles. He is a recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus Awards and has a Lucille Lortel Award for his work as an arranger, composer and Associate Music Director on the Tony Award winning musical FELA!
He has been an adjunct professor of musicology at SUNY Purchase and was a visiting artist in New York City public schools for 12 years. He studied theory at Brooklyn College, Orchestration at the Julliard School, holds an artist diploma in Jazz Trumpet Studies from the Mannes College of Music, and a BMA in Classical Composition from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College where he is currently completing a masters in Studio Composition.
Jordan has been the composition instructor for LAAP since 2007, working with participants on composition techniques, assisting in the construction of their pieces, and co-producing the LAAP recordings.
Visit his website for more information: jordanmcleannyc.com