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Jacky Naylor

Born: February 9, 1994

Jacky Naylor is a jazz pianist, composer and educator based in London. He leads his own trio Meraki, alongside Nick Jurd and Jonathan Silk, who are releasing their debut album in September 2020 on Ubuntu Music. In addition, he leads his Sextet, formed in 2019 for a commission from Lancaster Jazz Festival titled ‘Industrial’. A dynamic composer, Naylor’s debut release was ‘Rough Boundaries’ - a suite of original big band music written about five contrasting cities - which he recorded with Birmingham Jazz Orchestra in 2016. Whilst growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, the worlds of jazz and professional music were remote

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Alexander Boynton Jr

Born: October 21, 1967

If silky smooth is your preferred musical texture, then Alexander Boynton Jr.’s got just the audio flow. An established American/Canadian smooth jazz artist, Boynton Jr. is a bassist, composer and producer who has played with some of the most well-known musicians around the world. And with his first solo album Doo Bee Doo Bop, he is primed to take listeners on a jazz-filled journey where fresh melodies lead to intimate connections. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Boynton Jr. spent his formative years moving church-goers in Los Angeles to the spirit of gospel music before migrating to Vancouver’s milder climes and joining forces with iconic Canadian rocker and producer Bob Rock and The Payola$ in the 1980s

Philippe Cote

Born: May 23, 1979

Composer, saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and improviser, Montreal-based Philippe Côté is a musical explorer at the crossroads of jazz and classical. Lungta, his first album of original compositions for jazz quintet and wind orchestra, was produced by world-acclaimed American saxophonist David Binney. Philippe Côté spent over ten years crafting the album’s intriguing jazz and classical perspective, culminating in a body of work already earning critical appraisal: I LOVE your record. What wonderful writing, orchestrating and playing all around. It’s a tremendous work. -Donny McCaslin, Grammy Awards nominated jazz saxophonist On April 2nd, 2016 at the mythical Montreal venue L’Astral, Philippe and David Binney were joined on stage by the National Jazz Orchestra of Montreal (Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal) for Lungta’s official release. Philippe Côté is no newcomer to the musical scene

Devin Reilly

Devin Reilly is a guitarist, composer, and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. His background in jazz and contemporary music has yielded original work in a wide range of styles and genres. With a compositional style drawing from acoustic and electronic media, Reilly’s pieces are characterized by their methodical, intricate structures, and rich, vivid orchestration. Reilly has worked extensively with The Jim Knapp Orchestra, as well as with San Francisco’s Friction Quartet, and members of the Seattle Symphony, the Corigliano Quartet, and the Saint Helens String Quartet. In April 2019, Reilly was one of three composers commissioned to write new works for the New York Youth Symphony Jazz Band

Joe Bongiovi

Born: August 24, 1976

Joe Bongiovi is the Director/Owner of the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra (PJO). PJO is an All Star Big Band comprised of the best college and high school musicians in the Philadelphia and New Jersey region of the United States. The Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra has performed all over the world and will be touring Europe once again this summer with performances at La Spezia International Jazz Festival and at the 50th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. In addition to The Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, Joe Bongiovi is the band director at Princeton High School and the conductor of the Princeton Studio Band

Ennio Morricone

Born: November 10, 1928

Ennio Morricone was born in Rome on 10 November 1928. His long artistic career includes a wide range of composition genres, from absolute concert music to applied music, working as orchestrator, conductor and composer for theatre, radio and cinema. In 1946, Ennio received his trumpet diploma and in 1954 he received his diploma in Composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia under the guidance of Goffredo Petrassi. He wrote his first concert works at the end of the 1950s, then worked as arranger for RAI (the Italian broadcasting company) and RCA-Italy. He started his career as a film music composer in 1961 with the film Il Federale directed by Luciano Salce

Fredrik Uhlmann

Born: October 3, 1972

Born in 1972. The music of Fredrik stretches in a wide range through several genres but has a common basic structure mainly in tonal music. He has composed, produced and released several albums with his own material. Fredrik has also written music for short movies and radio theatre. Throughout the years, Fredrik has been writing music for and collaborated with ensembles such as the Kreutzer quartet, the BBC Singers, the Gothenburg Chamber soloists and the vocal ensemble VOX. For more than 20 years, he has also been a performing musician (guitarist).

DanHila

DANHILA – Album WHITE FLY Cd Digital & Physical Label Plaza Mayor Company ltd Danhila's artistic style is a mixture of sounds that together represent the foundation of her musical personality, while supporting the depth of her lyrics. The colors of her voice are so full of atmosphere that we cannot label, enclose or cage the musical spectrum of the project in one genre. Although the entire album genre is Soul Soul/Blues, it often revisits the many worlds of jazz, smooth jazz. Her music keeps a consistency of the American music in general and at times sounds a bit more British

Liberte-Anne Lymberiou

Born: December 25, 1991

Liberté-Anne Lymberiou is a composer, arranger, pianist, and vocalist from Montréal, Canada. She began her formal musical education there, studying classical piano and voice, as well as popular genres. She attended the three year program of Professional Song and Music Techniques at Vanier College, with a concentration in composition and arranging. In 2012, she moved to New York City and in 2015 obtained a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Vocal Jazz Performance from the City College of New York. However, she never limited herself to just one path. While at school, she pursued the study of classical voice with well established singer Janet Steele