Results for "Blues"

Matt Hayden

Paul Tafoya

Born: June 3, 1990

Award winning trumpeter, composer, band-leader, and arranger.

Paul Tafoya is a talented trumpeter, composer, and bandleader with a decade of professional experience in the music industry. He developed a passion for music in his pre-teen years, later being awarded "Marine Musician of The Year" in the MARFORPAC band in the Marine Corps, where he honed his skills while travelling abroad performing. After his time in the military, Paul attended college and studied with some of the most renowned musicians in the industry, including Lew Soloff, Jeremy Pelt, Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Jensen, Jon-Erik Kellso, and more. 

Tea Cup Gin

The members of Tea Cup Gin share a passion for crafting original musical cocktails under the influence of an eclectic blend of early 20th century genres (deco era jazz standards, tin pan alley classics, ragtime & delta blues, torch, chanson, cabaret, bossa, tango, & show tunes). The band takes an authentic yet unconventional approach to the great American jazz tradition, stirring together original melodies and lyrics, served up via two blazing acoustic guitars, impassioned vocals, dynamic upright bass & percussion, with occasional guests on trombone, trumpet, violin, sax, & more

The Jazz Kings

Active since: August 11, 1953

Nicole Parker Brown and The Jazz Kings are an eclectic band that produces a blend of beautiful Jazz, Blues and Latin music that enlivens audiences. These inspiring artists all have an exceptional background in music production as performers and entertainers that create tunes that come straight from the heart. They are masters of improvisation and individually have provided a vast contribution to the music industry.

Biography     

The Jazz Kings have come to be recognized as one of the most sought-after jazz bands on the Gold Coast and beyond. They released their first CD ‘Out of Nowhere’ in December 2020, and this musical masterpiece has had airplay on both local, interstate and international radio stations. Formed in 2017, each member of this prolific band has decades of professional experience in all aspects of the music industry as performers, entertainers, recording artists, teachers, backing/support to local, national, and major stars, floorshows, and also in television, radio and media. Their second album, Blue Jazz, is due to be released January 2024 and already has had extensive interest from radio stations. This album will be a unique fusion of blues and jazz arrangements, combining popular standards with some outstanding originals.

Jamie Taylor

Born: November 9, 1977

Between 2007 and 2009 Jamie was Course Leader for Jazz at Leeds Conservatoire (then Leeds College of Music), where he remains a Principal Lecturer on the jazz faculty. He has worked with leading jazz musicians like Baptiste Herbin, Sheryl Bailey, John Stowell, Judy Carmichael, Roni Ben-Hur, John Goldsby, Wayne Escoffery, Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Sebastiaan DeKrom, Andrea DiBiase, Steve Watts, Matt Fishwick, Steve Fishwick, Richard Iles, Steve Brown, Pete Whittaker, Gary Potter, Tom Harrison, David Lyttle, Laura Jurd, and Tori Freestone. In the field of popular music he has contributed to projects involving Mercury Music Prize nominee Richard Hawley, CANDID recording artist Sarah Mitchell, and Leeds-based indie band "The Pigeon Detectives". Jamie's current project is "Trio JDM" - a contemporary organ trio led by drummer Dave Walsh. Jamie toured the UK in September 2017 with six-piece jazz/rock project "Perpetual Motion Machine". Scroll down to the "Videos" section to see this exciting band in action! Jamie's previous group "Outside Line" was formed in 2013, and the following year released its debut album on GLP Records "Introducing Outside Line" to considerable critical acclaim.

David Jones

Born: May 28, 1948

As a jazz musician I have performed in the New England area, the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as in Mississippi. I’ve played with Mississippi musicians Eden Brent, John Horton, Knight Bruce, Raphael Semmes, Donnie Brown and many others. My major influences as a saxophonist have been Dexter Gordon, Charlie Rouse, Stan Getz, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane and Gene Ammons. I have lectured on jazz and the lives and times of jazz musicians for both young people and adults.

Bob Sunda

    Bob Sunda was an incredible jazz musician and teacher. He was an upright bass player, piano player, and band leader whose music took him all the way to Tokyo. Born in Ohio, he played in Asia, New Orleans, Alaska, and eventually Memphis. He was a highly charismatic individual who made a positive impact on society. He especially made a positive impact on his students' lives when he began a teaching career in Memphis at Rhodes College.

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Matt Peterson

Matt Peterson is a multi award-winning composer and pianist from Seattle, WA.  He is an accompanist at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, a piano and composition teacher at the Bellas Artes School of Music in Glen Ellyn, IL,, as well as an in-demand classical and jazz performer in the greater Chicago area.   He has taught class piano at Wheaton College and currently has a studio of 35 weekly private students.  He also records classical, jazz, and pop albums for Player Piano Premier.   He is the in-house pianist at Suzette's Creperie in Wheaton, playing every Saturday night from September to May.  

Joe Wittman

Born: June 26, 1990

Joe Wittman has been an active member in the NYC jazz scene for over 10 years. In searching for the tone of Kenny Burrell, the feel of Grant Green and the phasing of Jim Hall, Wittman hopes to find something altogether different- himself. He enjoys a raw and earthy approach to guitar, with a maturity beyond his years (to quote what was allegedly on Jim Hall’s business card: “can’t play fast, won’t play loud”). You can catch Joe playing nightly around New York City, playing well thought out sets containing a mixture of songbook standards and original compositions

Yver Sorród

Born: September 7

Yver Sorród is a bilingual Performer (Fluent in Spanish and English and with a basic level of French, Italian and Portuguese) with a Degree in Theater from the UCV (Central University of Venezuela), originally from Venezuela, born into a family of artists, who debuted in the Show Business at the early age of 8 and with more than 30 years of experience, more than a half of them in Mexico, where he resided from October of 2000 to March 2019 and currently based in Albany, Louisiana (New Orleans area) established as a permanent resident of the United States of America. He has worked in a countless number of Theater plays, Music shows, Contemporary Dance shows and a bit in the Film and TV Industry.