Results for "Avant Garde"

Makanda Ken McIntyre

Born: September 7, 1931

World-renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, orchestrator and educator Makanda Ken McIntyre was a tireless musical innovator for nearly half a century, with 12 albums and more than 600 compositions and arrangements to his credit. His works include compositions for woodwind quartets, chamber ensembles, jazz bands, and full orchestra, as well as hundreds of lead sheets. He composed ballads, calypsos, bebop, avant-garde and the blues. Makanda was known primarily for leading his own ensembles — performing on alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, oboe and bassoon — and being proficient on more than 16 instruments, including bass, drums and piano

Kjetil Jerve

Born: August 28, 1988

Norwegian piano player, father of triplets. Based in Oslo, working internationally. DUGNAD rec artist and maker of #DailyPiano videos on Facebook and Instagram. Born 1988 in Ålesund. Played in Åse Skolekorps Marching Band. Got a really great Swedish piano teacher at age 10, who encouraged to pursue all music, not just classical. Got heavily into early Elton John, soul, funk, fusion, jazz and avant-garde - still studying George Gershwin & Béla Bartók. Played in the local Big Odd Band, leading to The Middle Norwegian Youth Big Band (Midtnorsk ungdomsstorband), meeting future collaborator Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Kristoffer Eikrem and Dan Peter Sundland. Went to the Sund Folk College's jazz class (check that thing out!) and got to consistently playing piano with other people in bands for the first time

Jorge Sylvester

Born: February 5, 1953

JORGE SYLVESTER: Alto Saxophonist, Composer, Conductor, Arranger, Bandleader, Producer, Educator Born in Colon, Panama Jorge attended the Panama Conservatory of Music and the University of Panama. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music from the State University of New York College at New Paltz in 1981. A unique innovator and impressive composer and arranger in the idiom of creative music, his sound is reminiscent of Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman. Jorge has remained on the cutting edge of the creative NY Jazz scene since his arrival from Spain in 1980. Sylvester’s blend of African-Caribbean rhythms with new music is what gives him his distinguished voice. Beginning his professional career at age 14, Jorge was leading his own Caribbean dance band, writing his own arrangements and compositions

Charles Colizza

Born: October 30, 1994

Born and raised in Montreal, Québec, Charles Colizza is a New York based guitarist rooted in jazz. Established in the city since 2018, he has recorded alongside jazz saxophone legend Billy Drewes and has performed alongside Grammy winning arranger and trombonist Alan Ferber. He has performed in various world-renowned establishments and jazz venues across North America, notably at The Blue Note NYC, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, The Bitter End, Upstairs and the Williamsburg Music Center. He is also the recipient of the Oscar Peterson Jazz Scholarship Competition. Charles draws his musical influences from all styles and genres, from Stravinsky to John Coltrane and from Milton Nascimento to Young Thug

Paco Reinaldet

Paco Reinaldet was born in Campo Grande, and after living for a while in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia, he moved to São Paulo, where he studied music and worked as a gigging musician, playing from blues-jazz to the erudite, as a way of survival. At that time, he was immersed in São Paulo's bohemian music scene, participating in several music projects. ​

In 2000 he went to Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to start an authorial musical career. Been unsuccessful, persisted in his choice of music by going to live in Lima-Peru, and learning Latin music. Years later, he went to Wales-UK to study and play. Paco devoted his time to refining the instrument timbre and embracing “indeterminism” as an integral part of his songwriting process.

Agenor Garcia

A​genor Garcia or "Age Garcia" as his friends call him, is a "sound poet". He Usually prefers the absence of formal structure to evoke aesthetics in his music, in addition to, or in place of the prosaic ostensible meaning.

"Music can express far beyond the verb."

Agenor is fascinated by the idea of transforming the formal structure of music, which serves to stimulate the expressiveness of his performance. He cherishes the wonder and surprise that can occur from a spontaneous idea. He listens as ideas unfold, which inspires him to the next movement, but dislikes the classic concept of "improvisation" as well the term "playing by ear".

Robert C. Ford

Born: August 5, 1967

Robert C. Ford, known as the Wall $treet Poet, is a globe-trotting poet, lyricist and spoken word artist based in New York City. His performances span Europe and the Americas, and he is recognized for blending poetry with music; collaborating with world-class performers across genres including pop, rock, jazz and opera. His words are delivered both in his own voice and interpreted by acclaimed vocalists.

He has released two albums of poetry set to music: The Music Between Us (2021) and Footprints of Steel (2025). These works feature collaborations with notable composers such as Charles Coleman (Paavo Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra), Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson), Mark Kostabi (Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion, Ornette Coleman), Carli Muñoz (Beach Boys, Wilson Pickett), Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) and Jay Rodriguez Sierra (Groove Collective, Wu-Tang Clan).

Ford has also performed alongside other celebrated musicians including: Gerry Brown (drums--Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder), John Clark (horn--Gil Evans), Jane Getter (guitar--SNL Band), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Paul Nowinski (bass--Les Paul, Keith Richards), Harvie S (bass), Dave Soldier (violin--Bo Diddley, John Cale) and David Taylor (bass trombone--Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones).

He has graced the stages of prominent New York City venues such as Birdland Jazz Club, The Bitter End, Joe's Pub, Pianos, Le Poisson Rouge, Chelsea Table + Stage, Nublu, The Stonewall Inn and Theatre 80. Beyond NYC, he has performed at Howland Cultural Center (Beacon, NY), Jazz Club ZWE (Vienna, Austria), Centro Mexicana para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico), NWEAMO Festival (San Diego, CA) and University of Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica). In September 2022, he was featured with Grammy-winner Suzanne Vega at the Players Theatre as part of The Village Trip Festival.

Ford is also the host and curator of Sky Vault, an intimate concert and performance venue in New York City.

Philip Yaeger

Born: 1976

Born in Northern Maine, Philip Yaeger learned to sing as soon as he could talk. Improvisation came naturally to him and by the age of fourteen he was playing engagements with a jazz trio - not an easy thing to accomplish in a town of ten thousand souls.

The stations of his life thus far: William Paterson University: B.A. or B.M. (I can never remember) in Jazz Performance; studied w/Ed Neumeister, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig, Rufus Reid, et al).
New York City: the Lower East Side free scene - often as an apprentice/observer but also occasionally as a participant, also numerous work in soul, pop, rock and Afro-beat.
Philadelphia: that fantastic West Philly do-it-yourself scene, work with Tim Motzer, Ursula Rucker, Elliot Levin et al.
Graz, Austria: Master of Arts from the Arts University of Graz; further studies with Ed Neumeister and others.
Vienna, where he currently lives and happily works with whomever will have him

Jim Goetsch

The music of Jim Goetsch is the product of a widely divergent background that includes extensive jazz experience on saxophone, performance of avant garde classical works on clarinet and bass clarinet, tours with blues legend Albert King and Senegalese griot Mor Thiam, and a long history of performing electronic music in the Los Angeles area. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is primarily engaged in two projects at this time.

Baker’s Brew is an experimental jazz ensemble led by veteran drummer Maury Baker, which features total improvisation as well as the group improvising their parts over four channel electronic compositions by Jim. Their release “New Works” has been hailed as “An Album of the Future” by the Italian magazine JAZZit.

Pedro Martins

Born: June 14, 1993

Brazilian guitarist, vocalist and composer Pedro Martins is the newest addition to LA's thriving creative music scene. Martins has collaborated with everyone from Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jacob Collier, Thundercat, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter and JD Beck, to legendary guitar hero Eric Clapton.

Pedro hit the headlines in 2015, when he won the prestigious Montreux Guitar Competition as a young Brazilian prodigy and made a strong impression on the jury formed by Kurt Rosenwinkel and John McLaughlin. After studying guitar and piano as a child, this eclectic Brazilian musician has become a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter perfectly at ease with typical Brazilian genres like samba and choro, as well as with jazz, fusion, progressive rock, and world music.