Press

2025

JazzWise – Rufus Reid, Melissa Aldana, Sasha Berliner and many more get 20th Sligo Jazz Project swinging

Of the headliners, […] vibes specialist Sasha Berliner has complete command of her instrument, and a Hutcherson-like ability to make it sing at speed.

Jazz Weekly – Sasha Berliner “Fantome” Review

Sasha Berliner plays vibes, congas and ohter percussions as she teams up with Harish Raghavan/b, Jongkuk Kim/dr and mixes and matches with Taylor Eigsti-Lex Korten/p-key, David Adewumi/tp-fh and Rico Jones/ts on this wide ranging collection.

All About Jazz – Sasha Berliner “Khan Younis” Single Review

Fantôme (Outside In Music, 2025) is vibraphonist Sasha Berliner‘s third release as a leader, and it is excellent from start to finish, due to its diversity of moods, energy, instrumentation, arrangements and well-written compositions.

Jazz Halo – Sasha Berliner “Fantome” Review

Über die Musikerin und das Album lesen wir Nachstehendes: „… Vibraphonist and composer Sasha Berliner, an already acclaimed voice on the contemporary scene, heralded as being‚ in the firmament of the here and now in modern jazz, and appears likely to occupy that upper stratosphere for some time to come‘ (All About Jazz).

JazzWise – Interview with Sasha Berliner

Sasha Berliner is at the leading edge of a new wave of vibraphone virtuosos, matching forceful attack with a sophisticated sound as both solo artist and collaborator with the likes of Christian McBride and Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Downbeat Magazine – Sasha Berliner: A Prodigy Fulfilled

Part of the jazz vibraphone conversation since her late teens, Sasha Berliner has long come across as a fully formed artist.

The Wall Street Journal – ‘For These Streets’ and ‘Fantôme’ Review: Agile Jazz Ensembles

Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill and vibraphonist Sasha Berliner adeptly exploit the shifting sounds and textures of their bands […]

UK Vibe – Sasha Berliner ‘Fantôme’ LP/CD (Outside In Music) 5/5 Review

American vibraphonist and composer Sasha Berliner follows up on her little gem of an album, “Onyx” (JMI 2022), with “Fantôme”, a startling new release that solidifies her reputation as one of the most captivating musicians on the jazz scene today.

JazzViews – Sasha Berliner “Fantome” Album Review

FANTOME takes its name from the French word for “phantom,” a fitting metaphor for Berliner’s mission to shake off the ghosts of strict jazz labels. As she explains, this album is “about creating moods, making new interpretations of familiar songs or phrases, and presenting instrumental configurations that have rarely been done or explored before”…

Paris Move – Sasha Berliner “Fantome” Album Review

Until now, I had never found vibraphonists’ albums particularly inspiring or innovative, but this year is off to a remarkable start, unveiling a host of artists who stand out with truly captivating propositions. Among them, Sasha Berliner emerges as a singular voice.

JazzTimes – Sasha Berliner: Categories as Phantoms

A chat with the vibraphonist about her stirring new album, Fantôme.

ABC Listen Australia – Berliner’s New Beat

Sasha Berliner is one of the contemporary leaders on the vibraphone, and the New York-based musician has just dropped a new record. It’s entitled ‘Fantome’, or Phantom in English, and it’s a session bursting with creative flair. On the release, Berliner joins a host of American heavyweights, including pianist and recent GRAMMY winner Taylor Eigsti performing across a mix of standards and originals.

Cancion Aquemarropa – La Vibrafonista Sasha Berliner Publica Fantome

El 28 de marzo de 2025, la vibrafonista y compositora Sasha Berliner lanzará su tercer álbum a través de Outside In Music, Fantome. El arte de Berliner invita a hacer una pausa en el debate en curso entre tradición y modernidad, sugiriendo que estos elementos no necesitan ser vistos como fuerzas opuestas, creando una declaración destacada que clama por tomar la música por lo que es y dejar atrás la fuerza bruta de categorizar la música jazz.

2024

Transition festival: the spark of new jazz

At the Utrecht jazz festival, Transition in TivoliVredenburg, musical discoveries are at their best. Such as the American Sasha Berliner, who throws fireballs behind her vibraphone

NN North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam

Live Nation’s NN North Sea Jazz Festival (NSJ) […] provided plenty of highlights to impress both casual NSJ ‘newbies’ and festival old hands alike. […] Early Saturday mention goes to US vibraphonist Sasha Berliner, with a great band including emerging sax star Nicole McCabe and some fabulous drumming by Jongkuk (JK) Kim in particular.

Sasha Berliner and Gretchen Parlato celebrate International Women’s Day at Savoy JazzFest, Helsinki

Two top female jazz artists created a spellbinding evening of shimmering vibes and breathy vocals in the Finnish capital. […] The slow-burning ‘Jinx!’ was breathtaking, with Berliner gradually raising the stakes, eventually showing her blindingly fast, intricate mallet improv in the upper register. Berliner showcased the delicate, shimmering side of her sound on an unaccompanied arrangement of ‘My Funny Valentine’.

2023

NPR Music Jazz Nights in America: Youngbloods, Vibes – Joel Ross, Sasha Berliner, and Simon Moullier

In 2022, we introduced our first installment of Youngbloods, a new class of jazz artists paving their way, and more importantly, pushing the music forward. Our inaugural class featured five exciting artists, all under the age of 30. For our second season, we spotlight six artists divided between vibes and brass, presented amongst their peers. This episode, we tell the story behind three trailblazing vibraphonists: Joel Ross (28), Simon Moullier (29), and Sasha Berliner (25).

Sorties Jazz Nights: Sasha Berliner and Jocelyn Gould/Caity Gyorgy + Young Talent Grand Prix @ Festi Jazz International de Rimouski

Festi Jazz International de Rimouski to explore and discover jazz artists, we offer you the Nuits Jazz Toyota Rimouski series with Sasha Berliner (photo) on Friday September 1st and the duo of guitarist Jocelyn Gould with singer Caity Gyorgy on Saturday September 2nd.

Hot House Jazz Magazine: Sasha Berliner – Winning Spins

New albums by female percussionists — a veteran drummer / leader now in her 50s and a rising mallets star still in her early 20s — are this month’s Spins. Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s latest just won the Grammy for Best Jazz Recording. Sasha Berliner has been voted a Rising Star on Vibes, the instrument she plays exclusively on her new release.

Stetson Presents: The New Age Jazz – Stetson Stories

As evidenced on her lush, swirling 2022 album “Onyx,” 24-year-old vibraphonist Sasha Berliner is one of the most exciting voices in jazz today. Naturally percussive, with an ever-expanding grasp of harmony and counterpoint, the Bay Area native studied at the New School in NYC’s Greenwich Village.“I always wanted to move to New York. Once I saw the music, I thought, this is the place for me.”

Sorties Jazz Nights REVIEW: Sasha Berliner – Onyx

A rising star to follow since her arrival in New York in 2016, young composer and vibraphonist Sasha Berliner made a strong impression in the jazz world when she released her first album in 2019. With Onyx (2022), her second album appeared last July, the musician refined her harmonic palette and her atypical writing, crossing a whole range of emotions and atmospheres like the dark and mysterious aspect of the stone which gives its title to the album.