Thank you for visiting my website! Here you can find out about my recent work in drumming, composition, writing, and visual art.

My debut album, Listen to the Birds, is out now on Endectomorph Records! Check it out at any of the following places.

My record label’s website: https://www.endectomorph.com/listen-to-the-birds.html

Bandcamp: https://jakerichter.bandcamp.com/album/listen-to-the-birds

Streaming: https://orcd.co/streamlistentothebirds

Or catch me in person and buy a CD!

Here’s the album cover.

This is the design for the print materials.

Here is a performance from my album release tour at the Jazz Gallery in New York City.

Here is a playlist of all the videos I took during the album release tour.

Here’s the poster we used to promote the album release tour.


Video Archive:

Here is my quintet performing at the Jazz Gallery in New York City as part of my Listen to the Birds tour.

My Octet recently played at Barbes, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. This piece, Dirge, features Dave Adewumi on Trumpet.

This video is from my Masters Recital at the Manhattan School of Music, recorded February 29th, 2020.

Tangled, Untying - by Eliana Fishbeyn. Performed at UPenn with the Penn Sound Collective December 8th, 2023.

Balneary is a piece of writing by Brooklyn-based author K Hank Jost. In this video, I provide live improvised accompaniment to his reading of this piece.

Here is a performance from Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia as part of my album release tour.

I recently taught a class about contrast in music composition. I propose that approaching contrast with an analytical mindset may help you beat writer’s block.

In 2017, I played at the Jazz Gallery in New York City with the Indiana University Plummer Jazz Sextet featuring guest artist Marquis Hill. This is his arrangement of the classic jazz standard “Minority.”

Mantra - by Mike Talento, featuring Jan Esbra and Jake Kaplan. This is from our recent performance at Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia.

I recorded this composition, Hunting Song, in a duet with Evan Main in 2018 at the Indiana University Joshi Recording Studio.

I was honored to join Brandon Choi on his Masters recital at the Manhattan School of Music in May of 2023.

Shortly before moving back to New York in 2021, I recorded this trio concert with two of my fellow Wisconsin-natives (and favorite musicians), Lenard Simpson, and John Christensen.

In 2017 I played at the Next Gen Jazz Festival in Monterey, CA, with the IU Plummer Ensemble. This is our performance of my composition, Acorn

in 2017 I recorded an education video for the legendary drum company, Vic Firth. In the video I discuss how to use limitations to expand your coordination on the drums.

In the news:

Click the photo above to read about my recent run of performances playing the compositions of Wayne Shorter accompanying a modern dance company.

Click the poster above to read about my octet’s recent performance at Barbès in Brooklyn.

Click the image above to read about a recent performance at Union Pool with Nico Hedley.

Click the photo above to read about my receipt of the David N. Baker Jazz Composition Award, presented by BMI.

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