Results for "Clarinet"

Andrew Sfiris

Born: July 1, 1988

I am Currently A High School Student at Chatham High School in Chatham, NJ. I plan to double major in Music Education and Jazz Performance (clarinet). I am very active in the music program at school and look to further my music career one step at a time. I also play piano, saxophone (soprano and Alto), and some percussion. I have a good amount of theory down and like to compose. I have not yet recorded anything and am looking for opportunities to learn.

Tale Ognenovski

Born: April 27, 1922

Tale Ognenovski (April 27, 1922 - June 19, 2012) was a Macedonian multi-instrumentalist who played clarinet, recorder, tin whistle, bagpipe, zurna, and drums. He composed or arranged 300 instrumental compositions: Macedonian folk dances, jazz compositions, and classical concerts. Tale Ognenovski is The Greatest Clarinetist of All Time, Composer, Musical Genius, Titan of the Clarinet… On January 27, 1956, he performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a clarinet and reed pipe (recorder – “kavalche”) soloist of the Macedonian State Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs

Steve Barbone

Born: September 21, 1933

I played Jazz in New York City, Paris France and Frankfurt Germany from 1949 through 1962 at Nick's, Melody Lounge, Central Plaza, Cinderella Club, Kit Kat Club, JazKeller, Vieux Colombier, etc., with Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Sidney Bechet, Chuck Traeger, Phil Napoleon, Billy Maxted, Gene Schroeder, Pee Wee Erwin, Johnny Windhurst, Jack Fine, Yank Lawson, Bob Haggart and others. I left music in 1963 for a day gig. Then in 1992 started to play again. Now gig 160 times a year in the Philadelphia area with my own band, The Barbone Street Jazz Band. Some top gigs in 2003 included; West Chester University Jazz Festival, Berks Jazz Festival, Media Jazz Festival, Media Blues Festival, Dover Downs Wine & Jazz Destival, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, Rehoboth Jazz Festival

Russ Reinberg

Born: July 8, 1948

World class clarinetist Russ Reinberg has appeared at Carnegie Hall and other concert venues; on numerous national TV shows including seven appearances on the Tonight Show; a week each on the Mike Douglas Show and Dinah Shore Show; PBS; many national television specials; and at jazz festivals. He has led groups featuring such contemporary stars as Howard Alden and Larry Koonse (guitar) and Concord Jazz All Stars Scott Hamilton (tenor sax), Dave McKenna (piano), Bill Berry (trumpet), Dave Stone (bass), and Jake Hanna (drums). If you don't know who these guys are, you should check them out. In the early 1990s Russ had to retire from music

Joe Licari

Born: January 10, 1934

“There are a number of exceptional clarinetists working in the traditional idioms right now, but none of them cut Joe Licari.” --Robert Levin Joe Licari (b. January 10, 1934, Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz clarinetist. Known as an especially “hot” player with an exuberant and always emotive attack, Licari is considered, by critics and peers alike, to be in the front rank of contemporary “classic” jazz musicians. He is also among the most immediately recognizable. The renowned Bob Wilber, with whom Licari studied for nearly a year, said of him: “You hear the influence of Benny Goodman in his playing…also the Chicago players Frank Teschemacher and Pee Wee Russell, plus the New Orleans clarinetists Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone

Jerry Floor

Born: March 4, 1946

I am the Artistic Director for the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival. As a jazz musician, (clarinet, alto sax, flute, piccolo) I have performed on many jazz festivals to include the Park City Jazz Festival, Snowbird Blues & Jazz Festival, Sun Valley Swingin' Jamboree, and twice in Italy at the Umbria Jazz Festival. I am also the director of the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra. We have backed many jazz greats like Eddie Daniels, Phil Woods, Gary Foster, Jack Jones, Nancy Wilson and dozens more. I go out with everything from a duo to a 17 piece big band. As clarinetist with The Great Basin Street Band, a first class "trad" or dixieland band, I also handle their bookings and business issues.

Harry Goldson Jazz Ensemble

Born: February 27, 1929

Modern Jazz that proves that good jazz can be good music and that good music can be good jazz. Featuring Harry Goldson, clarinet; Larry Gray, bass; Leon Joyce, drums; Jim Cooper, vibes; Dave Hay, piano.

Dr. Michael White

Born: November 29, 1954

Dr. Michael White - clarinet Although he grew up in the jazz-saturated environment of New Orleans and several of his relatives played with early jazz greats King Oliver and Kid Ory, Dr. Michael White's primary musical influence as a youth was his aunt, who played classical clarinet. White played clarinet in the noted St. Augustine's School Marching Band, but at the end of his college days he joined the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band led by Danny Barker, a banjoist and elder statesman of New Orleans traditional jazz. White also played with Doc Paulin's Brass Band, marching in funeral parades and exploring historical recordings of such band leaders as Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, and George Lewis

Oguz Buyukberber

Amsterdam based clarinetist Oğuz Büyükberber's style merges contemporary composition, jazz and influences from his Turkish background. He has performed at major festivals and venues all over the world, and collaborated with an incredibly wide range of master musicians and renown ensembles such as Butch Morris, Craig Harris, John Zorn, Gerry Hemingway, Simon Nabatov, Jim Black, Nils Wogram, Marc Sinan Company, Neue Vocalsolisten, Kairos String Quartet, Dresdner Sinfoniker, and Hüsnü Şenlendirici to name a few. His body of work includes over 50 CDs including releases on ECM and Blue Note, a detailed method book explaining his own improvisational systems titled “Spiral” which is published on Donemus and dozens of commissions he received to compose a wide ranging repertoire

MOSÏK

Active since: 2005

MOSÏK plays world jazz based on the ideas of the forgotten German music philosopher Trude Tulpenthal. In times of increasing acoustic distraction and musical randomness, the project goes on the trail of this fictional character whose lifelong objective was to seek after intersections between established traditions and contemporary experiments in music. Currently, MOSÏK concentrates primarily on the main subject of Thulpenthals’s early research, the so-called »Jazz Manouche« or »Gypsy Jazz«, whose pioneer Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) is also known as the founder of a first distinct jazz genre from Europe