Results for "Big Band"

Tatum Langley

Danny Jonokuchi

Danny Jonokuchi is a multi-talented jazz artist based in New York City and Los Angeles. As a jazz trumpeter, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, few artists are as diversely involved in their craft. He has been recognized for his performance on two GRAMMY Award-Winning projects, his signature “world-class arrangements” (Broadway World), and albums he has performed on and produced. He is also a recipient of several awards including the 2024 ISJAC Wayne Shorter Jazz Arranging Prize, the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Award, and he was unanimously named the winner of the 2020 Count Basie Great American Swing Contest.

Andrew Robertson

Andrew is one of the most in demand jazz/commercial arrangers in Australia. He has been the Jazz Harmony & Arranging Lecturer at Sydney Conservatorium of Music since 2016 and has written for innumerable artists for live performance and recordings; US Superbowl 2021; Australian Idol; Eurovision Song Contest; many television ads on Australian TV and every year for the NSW Schools Spectacular. Specialising in Big Band and orchestral arranging, Andrew writes for a diverse range of musical groups from Choirs to 800 recorders + 250 strings for the NSW Primary Instrumental Festival!

In 2021 during the Sydney COVID lockdown Andrew completed a 3 movement, 30 minute work: “Symphony For Big Band” featuring Tenor Sax and Viola. The 1st Movement received grant funding to record in a virtual ‘Big Band @Home’ and can be seen here on YouTube.

Paul De Castro

Paul De Castro, pianist, suona player, composer, arranger, and producer. Dr. De Castro started his musical studies at age 5. His initial interest in music led him to start piano studies and vocal performance in Lima, Peru. These activities led to his acceptance into the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, pre-college studies. Immigrating to the USA at age 20, to continue his musical studies, earning a B.A. and M.A. for Cal State Los Angeles and a D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Texas in Austin.

His areas of expertise include Latin Jazz, Cuban music, Suona performance in both Cuban and Chinese styles, Jazz, and World Music. In his capacity of lecturer/performer, he has worked in many countries such as Australia, Canada, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Spain, Romania, Hungary, and Cuba.

Ryan Truesdell

A world-renowned, GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, composer, arranger, and educator, Ryan Truesdell was voted “Best New Artist” in the 2012 JazzTimes Critic’s Poll and is best known for his award-winning Gil Evans Project, a large ensemble devoted to the performance and preservation of the music of the famed arranger and Miles Davis collaborator, Gil Evans. This extensive project to unearth and bring to light some of the lesser-known music of Evans’ has resulted in two critically acclaimed albums: CENTENNIAL: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare, 2012) which debuted ten never-before-recorded works of Evans’ in honor of his 100th birthday, and LINES OF COLOR: Live at Jazz Standard (Blue Note/ArtistShare, 2015), recorded live during the band’s annual residency at Jazz Standard in New York City. Both albums were unanimously praised by the critics, receiving a total of four GRAMMY® nominations and a posthumous GRAMMY® Award for “Best Instrumental Arrangement” for Evans, in addition to two Jazz Journalist Association Jazz Awards for ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Large Ensemble of the Year,’ UK JazzFM Awards Nomination for ‘Album of the Year’ and the "Les Coups De Coeur" from France's Académie Charles Cros.

JohnnyG

Born: June 21

Saxophonist, Producer, and Arranger from metro Atlanta. Performing in SoCal, Atlanta and elsewhere. Berklee College of Music graduate and leader of JohnnyG & The Dynamites and The JohnnyG Jazz Orchestra, a high energy Swing Big Band. Specializes in Jazz!

Linda Lee Michelet

Linda has received rave reviews from the Oregonian, and The Portland Tribune. She was also featured in MORE Magazine. Her TV appearances include OPB’s ArtBeat, nationally syndicated Better TV, and AM Northwest. Linda Lee Michelet is well known in the Portland jazz scene for her shows created with Joe Millward focused on a performer or style of music including: “An Evening with Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra”, “A Tribute to the Icon - George Shearing”, “Latin ala Lee”, “Peggy Lee”, and “What’s New Pussycat: the Music of Burt Bacharach”.

Thiago de Mello

Born: 1933

Gaudencio Thiago de Mello (Barreirinha, state of Amazonas, 1933 - New York, 2013) was a NY-based Brazilian composer, arranger, conductor, band leader (founder of the Amazon big band which performed all Sunday nights at Sweet Basil-NY during the 1980s) and multi-instrumentalist (piano, acoustic guitar, percussion). He was brother of poet Amadeu Thiago de Mello.

Thiago got Grammy nominations for albums he recorded with Paul Winter and Sharon Isbin. He also recorded several albums with Brazilian jazz singer Ithamara Koorax (with whom he also toured in both Brazil and USA) as well as with Luiz Bonfa, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Dexter Payne, Susannah McCorcle, Claudio Roditi, Carlos Pingarilho, Jorge Pescara, Anna Ly and many others

Mark J Miller

Mark grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and attended nearby Carthage College. In 1992 he moved toMinneapolis to study at the University of Minnesota with Tom Ashworth and Ron McCurdy. An ever-present sound on the Twin Cities music scene in the 1990s, he played with and composed for MotionPoets, Slide Huxtable, Happy Apple, and Jeanay Say Qua. Mark also performed with the Latin SoundsOrchestra, Salsa Del Soul, and the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble.

Mark was a founding member of the jazz sextet Motion Poets, in which he and the other members eachcomposed an eclectic repertoire of hundreds of pieces during their eight-year tenure (1993-2000).They recorded three albums: “Truth And Consequence”, “Standard Of Living”, and “Lose Your Mind AndCome To Your Senses”. Motion Poets also traveled extensively, performing in 37 states and werefeatured at many jazz festivals, including: San Jose Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, Discover JazzFestival, and the BYU Jazz Festival.

Avinoam Ettun

Born: April 25, 1996

Avinoam Ettun is an Israeli composer and guitar player. living in New York. An alumnus of the Jerusalem Music Academy and the New School, Ettun has played and recorded with important figures in the Israeli/European/American: Hans-Peter Salentin, Boris Gammer, Milena Jancuric, Jason Rigby, Nadav Assaf, Allina Zalozna ,Jason Rosenblatt's country band, and more. Ettun's work also includes collaborations with artists from other practices: Working with poets and painters and playing in an improvisation ensemble with dancers.The latest release of Ettun, "Searching for Colors," includes his compositions forstring quartet and jazz ensemble, featuring improvised sections and well-orchestrated colorful moments