Results for "Arranger"

Wik Horn

Born: August 9, 1943

Born 1943, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Classical piano education (4 years) starting at 10. When I was 14 I started to play (classic) jazz with my younger brother Fred (trumpet/cornet/reeds). We formed in 1965 our first real band (after schoolbands, etc.): The Court Town Rhythm Kings. The band played authentic old jazz in the way of Oliver, Morton, early Armstrong, Williams, Beiderbecke and Half Way House. The band broke up in 1972 due to moving members - ready with their studies - and my own resettling from The Hague to Amsterdam. There my brother and I founded in 1973 "Madam Zenja and her Jazz Horns", together with singer Zenja Damm

Jimmy Deangelis

Born: March 4, 1961

DeAngelis began playing American jazz in French clubs, his unique sound allowed him to arrange many famous recordings. His peers credit him for elevating the guitar from a rhythm instrument to a solo instrument. DeAngelis was influenced by jazz recordings of Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

Matthew Herbert Big Band

Matthew Herbert began experimenting with aleatoric processes while studying drama at Exeter University in the early 1990s. He gave his first public performance in 1995 as Wishmountain, reportedly using a bag of crisps as an instrument. Two years of performing under this name followed before he retired Wishmountain in favor of Radio Boy. In addition to creating rhythmic musique concrete as Radio Boy, however, Herbert worked on more traditional, yet relatively experimental dance music. In the mid 90s he traveled to San Francisco, where he met jazz singer Dani Siciliano. The two became collaborators and romantic partners, and eventually married

Ill Poetic

Born: April 25, 1982

Ill Poetic is the Girl Talk of Cincinnati with a voice of his own. We are proud to present the new hip-hop representation. An artist whose inspirations in album production range from Trent Reznor to Jay Dilla, Ill Poetic distributes his mash-up albums via free download with the rest of his brethren. Most recently, his work includes a crossbreed of Joe Budden and Portishead (never thought I’d speak those words in the same sentence) titled Mood Music’sThird and a Nine Inch Nails and Outkast trip-hop sampling record called Nine Inch Nailiens (obvious much?). In the hip-hop community, he’s been tagged by VIBE and Rolling Stone, while locally, he’s been nominated for several awards due to skills both on the mic and on the boards. Ohio-born Tim Gmeiner, adopted his new home city of Cincinnati with a new name

killer BOB

The formation of killer BOB was an accident. When a friend (visual artist Gavin Gamboa) of drummer Max Jaffe came to New York City to play a show, he asked Jaffe if he had a group that wanted to play. Jaffe said yes, although no such group existed. This was on Monday. On Wednesday, killer BOB played their first show. Rounded out by guitarist David Scanlon and bassist Rob Lundberg, the trio went from experimenting with some of Scanlon's music in their free time to a singular unit in less than a week. After rehearsing and performing in the NYC area for a few months, the trio felt that their sound was missing something, and that something came in the form of tenor saxophonist Johan Andersson. As a quartet, the group has since developed a schizophrenic yet cohesive sound, drawing influence from bands like Rage Against the Machine and Deerhoof, as well as composers such as Olivier Messiaen and Anthony Braxton

Anthony Coleman II

Anthony Coleman II keeps his feet on the ground and his horn in the sky. Paramount for Anthony is the idea of respect; respect for the roots and traditions of Jazz, which earned him a spot in the inaugural class of Dave Brubeck, Don Byas, and Christian McBride's Brubeck Institute of Jazz; and respect for the vitality of the present, which has made him an in-demand live performer and studio musician for artists like Ludacris, Joss Stone, and Raphael Saadiq. Coleman honed his arranging chops further, earning his degree from the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, and now leads Enoeca, a small combo, and Simplistic, a big band which plays his own arrangements of virtuosic jazz and genre-bending hip hop -- yes, for fourteen horns. Anthony thus brings both academic rigor and real-world experience to the table as a working player and educator in New York City and the Bay Area, CA; from teaching private trumpet, theory, harmony, and ear training, to section and combo coaching at places like the Lafayette Music Workshop and the Police Athletic League. Coleman's native California informs every soulful groove he lays down, and in a post-Young Lion world, Jazz needs all the personality it can get

Antonio Ciaccas Harlem Jazz Collective

Reviving, Reliving what Monk, Dizzy, Bird started. Antonio Ciacca's Harlem Jazz Collective is a group of killing musicians who live in/around Harlem and just want to Swing! Every Saturday night at the historic Minton's Playhouse they invite any musician of every level to come create America's greatest art form together.

Jack Cortner

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Isaac

Born: January 10, 1905

Paul Vesco

A musician and entertainer for most of his life, Paul Vesco started accordion lessons at the age of 3. As a teenager taking up the popular instrument of the day, guitar, and eventually moving to organ, Paul gained local notoriety as a bandleader of groups in the Pennsylvania/Ohio area. He was always interested in the "entertainment" side of the business and eventually formed a show band that traveled nationwide for over 8 years. After several months of bookings at the Harrah's Hotel & Casino and the Sands Hotel & Casino, Paul decided to get off the road and settle there. He became a supplier of groups to many of the casinos and became a licensed talent agent with Productions Unlimited, Inc. After several more years, he became the Bandleader and Musician Contractor for the Sands Hotel & Casino, eventually gaining the same position at the Trump Castle Hotel & Casino, and finally became the first person in that position at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel & Casino. Eventually, Paul moved to Florida, but maintained a presence in casinos across the country as he conducted or arranged for various shows