Results for "Contemporary Jazz"

Emmanuel Cremer

Born: March 1, 1975

Emmanuel Cremer is a French cellist, composer, improviser and educator based in Brussels.

For more than two decades, he has developed a personal artistic language at the crossroads of jazz, free improvisation, contemporary music and interdisciplinary performance. His work explores the cello as a complete sound world, moving between melody, rhythm, texture and spontaneous composition.

Influenced by artists such as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Frisell, John Zorn and Barre Phillips, Cremer has shaped an approach rooted in deep listening, exploration and the dialogue between structure and improvisation.

Joshua Moshe

Joshua Moshe is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, and educator based in Melbourne. Born in South Africa and raised in New Zealand, he spent his formative years immersed in the musical cultures of both countries before relocating to Melbourne in 2010. Over the past 15 years, Joshua has emerged as a leading figure in Australia’s contemporary jazz scene, recognised for a distinctive artistic voice that blends the traditional musics of his upbringing with contemporary expressive forms.

Rooted in jazz, his work draws on diverse influences, from hip-hop and electronica to the folk traditions of his ancestry. Joshua synthesises and transforms these elements, embracing the improvisatory and expressive qualities of jazz to create music that is both innovative and deeply connected to tradition.

Tokyo Skinny Boys

Tokyo Skinny Boys is a Japan-based jazz fusion project founded by guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tom Ishizuka.

Blending jazz fusion, funk, soul, blues, and city-pop influences, the project creates a distinctive sound that combines sophisticated musicianship with contemporary urban grooves inspired by modern Tokyo.

Tokyo Skinny Boys has collaborated with internationally acclaimed musicians, including Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Bob Mintzer of Yellowjackets. The project's recordings feature rich harmonic textures, memorable melodies, and a fusion of traditional jazz sensibilities with modern production approaches.

Keith Flint

Born: June 4, 1961

Keith Flint has devoted nearly five decades to the study and practice of polyrhythmic percussion, working extensively with a variety of rhythm instruments and sound sources including congas, djembe, cajón, shekere, maracas, cabasa, cencerro, güira, güiro, claves, and bells, as well as unconventional percussive materials such as hooves, rebar, and hubcaps. His broader artistic and scholarly interests include music history, composition, arrangement, performance, and recording.

Flint is currently engaged in a period of independent artistic exploration, pursuing solo projects alongside collaborations with other musicians. His practice integrates formal training in music theory, composition, and performance—including brass, strings, percussion, and voice—with a sustained interest in improvisational approaches to music-making.

Nils Berg

Born: October 9, 1977

There is a particular quality to the music Nils Berg makes — something that feels simultaneously ancient and restless, rooted and searching. It is a quality that places him in a long line of Scandinavian artists who have found a way to distill the Nordic landscape and temperament into sound: the lyrical economy of Jan Johansson, the melancholy warmth of Lars Gullin, the way Grieg could make a simple folk melody feel like it carried the weight of an entire geography.

Berg, a saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer based in Stockholm, works in the space where jazz meets that broader Nordic sensibility — music that breathes slowly, that favors atmosphere and silence as much as notes, and that treats emotion as something to be approached with patience rather than force. Dubbed "the Fellini of Swedish jazz" by Dagens Nyheter and described as "mysterious and irresistible" by Rolling Stone, he has spent two decades building a body of work that is genuinely hard to categorize, and all the more compelling for it.

Unpil Baek

Unpil Baek is an improvisational musician based in Berkeley, CA. Rooted in classical piano and shaped by jazz, his music draws from a wide field of traditions, including classical, sacred, experimental, and global improvisational practices.

A lover of all kinds of music, Unpil approaches improvisation as a space where different languages can meet: between traditions, between people, and between inherited forms and new possibilities. His work seeks to honor the diversity of musical expression while shaping these encounters into a coherent musical whole.

Unpil is also a research scientist in quantum computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence

Tilde Berrio Garcia

Born: September 1, 2000

Tilde Berrio García (2000) is a jazz guitarist and composer from Sweden and has quickly made an impression on the Swedish jazz scene. Her heartfelt, personal and creative expression is full of presence and her music invites the listener into a harmonius world where scandinavian jazz blends with spanish influences with a rich emotional spectrum. 

Tilde draws her inspiration from many different sources, which is evident in her music. Her colorful compositions include beautiful, simple, dissonant and unpredictable melodies and the varying temprament in her music is woven together by Tilde's characteristic sound and language.

David Mitcham

After many years writing film scores, double Emmy winning film composer David Mitcham returns to his jazz roots with a suite of pieces for his Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra. Featuring long-term collaborators John Parricelli, Ianto Thomas, Andy Wood, Louis Dowdeswell, Gareth Williams, and others such as Tori Freestone, Mark lockheart and Phil Meadows, The Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra is just that, a glorious assembly. David adds extra woodwind to the standard big band line up ranging from flute and piccolo to contrabass clarinet.  

EMP Project

William Ellis, Joseph Patrick Moore and Shawn Perkinson first met while attending the University of Tennessee in Knoxville between the years of 1989-1994.

While attending U.T.K., William Ellis, Joseph Patrick Moore and Shawn Perkinson would play regularly together in a variety of settings. Upon graduating U.T.K. their opportunities and talents would lead each of them to different parts of the United States and abroad. While they would keep in touch, they wouldn't play together again for many years. That all changed in 2002, when EMP Project assembled together for the first time in more than a decade. They captured this magical meeting on their self-titled debut CD,"E.M.P. Project" released in 2003.

Amine Dhouibi

Born: October 17, 1990

Amine Dhouibi is an independent musician and composer dedicated to exploring and shaping a personal voice within the expansive world of contemporary music. Born in Sousse, Tunisia, he developed an early connection to music and the guitar during a period of introspection, using sound as a medium to translate his inner perceptions and imaginative visions. This search for expression continues to define his artistic path. His work reflects a deeply personal perspective, engaging with the evolving language of contemporary and experimental music while pushing beyond conventional boundaries. Drawing from a wide range of musical influences, Dhouibi’s approach is both exploratory and transformative, contributing to new directions in modern sound