358 SEPTEMBER 2019 VOGUE.COM
An obsession with unsung histories unites
jazz pianist Jason Moran—whose solo show
opens at the Whitney this month—and his
wife, opera singer Alicia Hall Moran.
Off Beat
When I show up one Monday morning at the West Harlem
apartment of Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, they’ve
just sent their eleven-year-old twins off to school and are buzzing
about the boys’ performance in an Alvin Ailey recital over the
weekend. The kids study dance because it’s musical but not too
musical: “I don’t want to crush them,” Alicia, a mezzo-soprano, jokes.
“And yet I need to brainwash them.” Walking into the living room,
I’m struck by the eerie lack of background noise, any street racket
extinguished by sound-canceling windows. But in the adjoining music
room, the windows are standard-issue, and the din of urban life wafts
in. “It’s cool to shut out the world, but then you just hear
ART
DOUBLE TIME
“WE RUN ON A JAZZ
SCHEDULE,” SAYS
ALICIA HALL MORAN
(IN A DOLCE &
GABBANA DRESS),
PICTURED WITH HER
HUSBAND, JASON
MORAN (IN TOM FORD).
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
ETHAN JAMES GREEN.
FASHION EDITOR:
CAMILLA NICKERSON.
MENSWEAR EDITOR:
MICHAEL PHILOUZE.
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