Results for "composer/conductor"

Miguel Sacristán Muñoz

Born: July 23, 1961

Profesor de Dirección, Piano y Composición por el Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid. Ha estudiado con Agust

James Porter

Born: September 19, 1960

James Porter writes, plays and sings jazz songs: vehicles for jazz music-making, rather than self-standing songs with a set arrangement. A song is about meaning while jazz is about music-making (and rock about attitude). James Porter writes songs that are meant to be improvised on from the start, so that he hardly ever sings them as he wrote them, and his writing process focuses on the pleasure a musician would derive from improvising on them. He started learning the guitar when his sister dated a prog-rock guitarist back in the late seventies, playing by ear as much as from charts, writing down the music the piano or the guitar dictated

Bogdanovic

Born: February 11, 1955

Described as a composer of masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision (Guitar Review, 2002), Dusan Bogdanovic has developed a personal synthesis of contemporary classical, jazz and ethnic music. As a soloist and in collaboration with various artists, Dusan has toured extensively throughout Europe, United States and Japan. Early in his career, he received the only First Prize at the Geneva Competition and gave a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1977. Dusan’s has written music for solo guitar, various types of chamber ensembles, orchestra, as well as multimedia and dance

Wardell Quezergue

Born: March 12, 1930

Wardell Quezergue Sr., was the bandleader, producer, composer, arranger and educator whose contributions to a plethora of New Orleans rhythm & blues classics earned him the moniker "the Creole Beethoven." As an arranger and, occasionally, as a producer, Mr. Quezergue (pronounced ka-ZAIR) dressed up recordings with horns and other embellishments. His credits include Jean Knight's smash "Mr. Big Stuff," the Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko" and "Chapel of Love," Professor Longhair's recording of "Big Chief," Robert Parker's "Barefootin,'" King Floyd's "Groove Me," Dorothy Moore's "Misty Blue" and Dr

Silke Matzpohl-filmcomposer

Born: May 6

Silke Matzpohl is an international award-winning composer and multi-instrumental performer based in Los Angeles and Munich. Her music blends melodic symphony writing with modern ethnic textures �" from European to American raga. The result has been described as "a unique and very deep going. " Beside that she started studying piano and composition at the university. In 2002 she was invited for the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring program. In November 2007 her work was honored with the Film & TV Music Award in the category outstanding female composer. Her scores for "Life with mountainview " and "Awakening Arthur" (starring Robert Miano) were honored with a gold medal at the Park City Film Music Festival in 2008 and 2011

Ashby Anderson

Composer, Pianist , Educator,Entrepreneur

Terry Ayers

Born: January 15, 1952

A veteran of the 80's LA rock scene, Terry has performed and recorded with Laura Branigan, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, and Melissa Etheridge, just to mention a few. After migrating to Nashville in the 90's Terry had the honor to record with several country music legends including Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph and Floyd Cramer. As a founding member of the jazz vocal trio, Triad, Terry, Patricia Lee and Frederic Boyle have performed worldwide.

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.

Tappin-Tommy

Born: August 5, 1941

I own B.& L. Productions Recording Studio. I do it all including sweeping the floor! My home is a cabin in the forest, looking out upon LAKE SUPERIOR in the UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN. I spent most my life in south Florida. I love to compose, arrange and record music. I do musical shows in the area. I sing and Tap-Dance, .a vaudeville variety show.! As a photographer, I have worked with /for -Aretha Franklin,Leon Russel,War, Rare Earth,Quick Silver Messenger Service,DR. John, Wolf-Man Jack,Harry James,Chuck Berry ,Sha-Na- Na,B.B.King,Howlin' Wolf,Muddy Watters,Guy Lambardo,Yes,Cheach and Chong,Larry Gatlin,and others!

Why I Must Be Careful

Two men from Portland, Oregon playing white-knuckle, umami-jazz for the post-1st world. ]ohn Niekrasz: drums & voice 5eth Brown: rhodes & voice