Joe Block is a pianist, composer, arranger, educator, musical director, and bandleader based in New York City. A proud Philadelphia native, Joe began his classical training at the age of two before starting his jazz education in middle school at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. He is a recent graduate of both the Juilliard School (MM '22 Jazz Studies) and Columbia University (BA '21 American Studies). 
 Joe has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Potter, Maria Schneider, Victor Lewis, Joel Ross, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Alvin Ailey Dance Company, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Hailed by Jazz at Lincoln Center as one of "jazz's most promising young composers'', Joe has written or arranged music for the JALC Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, saxophonist Grace Kelly, baritone Kenneth Overton, and of course his own group, the Joe Block Quintet. He appears on the 2020 Grammy-nominated album "The Intangible Between" by Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, and has studied under many esteemed pianists, including Ted Rosenthal, Marc Cary, Geoffrey Keezer, Bruce Barth, and the late, great Frank Kimbrough. Joe maintains a busy performance schedule both as a bandleader with his trio and quintet and as a versatile sideman for a variety of projects and artists.