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Take Five With Shaun Mahoney

by AAJ Staff
May 30, 2010

Meet Shaun Mahoney:Shaun Mahoney began studying music at eight years old. He took piano lessons for four years before switching to the guitar. During high school, after attending summer music camps, he decided to study jazz guitar at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Upon graduation, Shaun stayed in Wilmington, NC working as ...

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Take Five with Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus

by AAJ Staff
May 29, 2010

Meet Trinelise Vaering and Fredrik Lundin aka Offpiste Gurus:Offpiste Gurus was formed as collaboration between Trinelise and Fredrik in 2008. The band's first album will be released on Stunt Records in 2010. Instrument(s):Vocal, saxophones, guitar, bass and drums.Teachers and/or influences?Our music sounds somehow like ...

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Take Five With Robert Spigner

by AAJ Staff
May 28, 2010

Meet Robert Spigner:Robert was born in Harlem, moved to the Bronx as a teenager. A dreamer who aspired to be a self taught musician earned a degree in business at Bronx community college. His entertainment career began as the bassist for a local band performing at venues in and around New York City. Throughout ...

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Take Five With Alison Cecile Johns

by AAJ Staff
May 27, 2010

Meet Alison Cecile Johns: Alison Cecile Johns is a vocalist and composer with one eye on the world of jazz, rock and '70s R&B, and the other on an open sky of world music and electronica. Legendary composer Pauline Oliveros praised her “spiritual voice," and she has worked with composers as diverse as Sebastian Robin Craig, ...

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Take Five With Jason Hammers

by AAJ Staff
May 25, 2010

Meet Jason Hammers:Originally from Gaithersburg, MD, Jason Hammers grew up in Stafford, VA where began his musical journey on the alto saxophone at age 11. While a student at Stafford Senior High School, he was named to numerous All-County and All-District Bands and had established himself as a featured soloist with the school's jazz ...

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Take Five With Amir Perelman

by AAJ Staff
May 24, 2010

Meet Amir Perelman: Amir Perelman (42) has been playing string instruments since he was 15. He grew up in Israel and partly in the U.S., living in the Netherlands and France for ten years, where as an active musician he performed at various jazz clubs and festivals throughout Europe. He taught music at the Rotterdam Conservatory ...

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Take Five With Ryan Kauffman

by AAJ Staff
May 22, 2010

Meet Ryan Kauffman: “What is not to like about a throaty tenor saxophone with a big aggressive sound, a full voiced soprano saxophone or a hauntingly velvety flute?" --Craig W. Hurst Ryan Kauffman is a saxophonist and private teacher in central and eastern Pennsylvania. He currently leads his own jazz trio and ...

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Take Five With Lissy Walker

by AAJ Staff
May 21, 2010

Meet Lissy Walker: Lissy Walker grew up in Berkeley, California. She studied piano and theatre as a child, and later formed her first jazz band under the tutorship of the legendary Phil Hardymon at Berkeley High School. She went on to study voice and theatre at UCLA and The Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC. ...

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Take Five With Jeanie Barton

by AAJ Staff
May 21, 2010

Meet Jeanie Barton: I am a singer/songwriter born in Nottingham, in the UK. After moving to London I studied jazz harmony at Morley College and bebop improvisation with BBC jazz award winner Anita Wardell. Jazz became my career after being taken under the wing of legendary bebop drummer Laurie Morgan and his band, for ...

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Take Five With Jeff Antoniuk

by AAJ Staff
May 20, 2010

Meet Jeff Antoniuk: Saxophonist Jeff Antoniuk is an internationally respected jazz composer and musician whose concerts and recordings are consistently well received by critics. His latest CD, Brotherhood, is out in May of 2010. Antoniuk has shared the stage with U.S. hitmakers Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Freddie Hubbard, Najee and Marcus Miller. He's worked with Canadian ...