Results for "Ambient Jazz"

Fluidian

Born: August 6, 1973

Fluidian (Emil Gherasim, b. 1973) composer, musician, sound artist. His work includes electroacoustic and electronic art music, chamber music, film and theatre music, sound illustrations for contemporary dance and visual performances, minimalist textural music, sound paintings and ambient soundscapes.
His music is very personal and deeply meditative, with huge visual emotions, combining minimalist sound textures with a specific manner of improvisation. Due to his playing techniques like wind-guitar (blowing across the strings) or bowed-guitar (using a violin bow), manipulated with electronics and using his own minimalistic textural concept, his music transforms into a contemplative, floating sound journey.
Initially self-taught, he studied and graduated in music composition, mentored by award-winning composer Ede Terényi, at the Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Fluidian is best known for his solo performances, but has also been collaborate with artists like Arve Henriksen, Tibor Szemző, László Gőz, Ede Terényi, Petre Ionuțescu, Paul Taylor, Sándor Szabó, Roland Heidrich and many more.
In addition, he composes original music for theater plays, dance performances, films and new textural electronic art music for different sound ensembles.

Among his collaborative projects from the last years could be highlighted the "Opaque Lights" album created in collaboration with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, "Pendular Emotions" album with Romanian trumpeter Petre Ionuțescu and a soundtrack co-written with Arve Henriksen for Anastasia Isachsen's audio-visual light art installation "Perspective" premiered at Fjord Oslo Light Art Festival, Norway.

Christopher Robin Cox

Born: July 28, 1971

Christopher Robin Cox is a veteran creative improvising trombonist, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, who now lives in Budapest, Hungary.

After nearly 10 years away from playing music full time, earning three academic degrees, including a PhD in Geography,  he decided to return to his horn with a vengeance. He currently leads a trio and a double-bass quartet in Budapest and is beginning to tour around Central Europe as a soloist under the name AlOnE.

He brings a huge, dark tone, and a style that utilizes bluesy, gravely split-tones, plunger, and other prepared techniques. As an improviser, he is equally comfortable playing with lots of space and in more intense improvisation settings. He frequently utilizes effects pedals and loopers to create ambient soundscapes that are more akin to movie soundtracks that free jazz. However, during his time growing up the San Francisco Bay Area, he played with greats like Glenn spearman, Marco Eneidi, Donald Robinson, Garth Powell, and George Cremasci to name a few. He has also performed with George Cartwrite, Chris Bates, Nathan Hanson, and Jason Robinson.

Richard Davies

Born: March 27, 1974

I am a UK saxophonist experimenting with cinematic sounds and marrying jazz, blues, the electronic and ambient styles. I have been playing tenor and soprano sax for over 30 years and have a dozen albums to my name as well as appearing on many other titles across a number of genres. I also dabble in keyboards and electronics to create soundscapes.

Lyft Trio

Jazz, psychedelic rock and dark ambient. Always balancing between consonance and dissonance, clear melodies and spherical noises, simplicity and complexity. The Swiss based Lyft Trio around Mario Castelberg (g) brings their own version of modern jazz in a dynamic and radical way to the stage.

Mario Castelberg (git, comp), Joel Banz (b), Janic Haller (dr)

Genre: Psychedelic Jazz

Christer Fredriksen

Born: April 15, 1972

Christer Fredriksen is an ambient jazz guitarist and composer with a distinctive sound and a unique ability to tell stories through his music. Christer was born 1972 in Kristiansand, Norway and fell in love with the woods and the electric guitar at the age of 13. He studied music at the Agder University, finishing his Masters Degree with a Performing Masters in Rhythmical Music and began his musical career working as a session guitar player. He soon began composing his own music, leading his own jazz-trio with bassist Audun Ramo and drummer Bjørn Stiauren, releasing his first solo album Urban Country (2011) on Losen Records with his old tutor/renowned saxophonist Bendik Hofseth (Steps Ahead) as a featured artist

Jack Taylor

Born: March 18, 1994

Jack Taylor is a professional guitarist based in the North West of England. As a successful international and national touring musician, Jack has played over 500 gigs in 4 different countries. This includes performances at: Liverpool Sound City Festival, Liverpool, UK Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory, Nepal House of Music, Kathmandu, Nepal Pro Music, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Manicomicos, Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil Liverpool International Music Festival, Liverpool, UK Threshold Festival, Liverpool, UK Albert Dock, Liverpool Boomtown Fair Festival, Winchester, UK University of Chester, Queen’s Park Campus, Chester, UK National Urdd Eisteddfod, Cardiff, UK Powis Castle, Welshpool, UK As well as this, Jack leads a busy life as a professional musician and tutor working for a variety of higher education institutions in the UK. Jack has been teaching and playing the guitar for over 10 years and has a diverse background of national and international teaching, touring and performing

Jakob Rehlinger

Born: November 30, 1972

Jakob Rehlinger is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser living in south Etobicoke, ON. His music is typically somber in tone and draws inspiration from early electronic musicians and ambient new age artists as well as Scandinavian jazz and 20th century minimalist composers. Previously he performed and released music as BABEL until 2018 when he chose to abandon the moniker and operate under his own name. From 1999 to 2019 he ran the boutique micro-label Arachnidiscs Recordings which featured an array of international artists working in similarly textural and adventurous instrumental music styles

Daniel Walzer

Born: February 2, 1977

Daniel Walzer is an Indianapolis-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and audio engineer. Originally trained as a percussionist, Walzer’s recording discography includes more than two dozen albums as a session musician, engineer, and producer. A versatile collaborator, Walzer’s performance credits span a wide range of commercial and art music styles and include a five-year stint living in Nashville, TN. As a composer and collaborator, Walzer’s work has been featured at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, the International Computer Music Festival, New Music on the Bayou, TUTTI New Music Festival, and labels including Janus Music and Sound and others. Walzer has a BM in Jazz Studies from Bowling Green State University, an MM in Jazz Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in Music Production and Sound Design for Visual Media from Academy of Art University

Denis Krupin

Born: November 12, 1971

Denis Krupin was born on November 12, 1971, in Leningrad. At the age of six he began to play the guitar and studied classical and jazz guitar in the city of Leningrad. I learned to play the piano on my own. He played in various rock bands. Since 2012, he has focused only on studio work.

Keisuke Kishi

Born: June 18, 1988

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Drummer Keisuke, based in Japan, began his professional career in the world of jazz, influenced by drummers such as Tony Williams, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Brian Blade.

Born in Hiroshima, he encountered jazz at the age of 20 in Osaka, where he played in numerous bands and performed at venues like Billboard Osaka and Tower Records, and participated in jazz festivals, showcasing a diverse range of musical activities.

In 2016, he traveled to Tanzania, Africa, to study under Gogo musician Hakwe Zawose's son, Julius Zawose, and played the Ngoma drums and ilimba instruments, representing the Zawose tradition.