Results for "flute"

Walter Bell

Born: October 31, 1959

Walter is currently carrying on the tradition of Herbie Mann,Hubert Laws,Yusef Lateef and Rhasaan. He is one of the top flutist in the country with 9 cds to his credit .Also ,Walter Bell is a pure Flutist and dosent "double on saxes",only various flutes and plays the entire family from bass to piccolo. He is a jazz and latin virtuoso and works the hell out of ballads etc. Walter is the founder and co owner of his own small label, Reika Records,named after his daughter,Reika Tiana...and that is also one of his earliest compositions. He travels nationally and has over 30 players that he chooses from to fill his group, the Latin Jazz Unit

Kristian Sensini

Born: November 18, 1976

He is a Piano and Flute player with Classical and Jazz Background studies, with credits for Movies and Tv shows, Documentaries, Animation projects. From 2010 Sensini received a total of 9 Nominees for Best Score (categories Feature Film, Documentaries, Promotion, Best Song, Best Short) at the Jerry Goldsmith International Film Music Award. In 2013 he won the Global Music Award for the soundtrack of the horror movie “Hyde’s Secret Nightmare” In 2014 he won the ColonneSonore Award for the soundtrack of the Animation Movie “Rocks in My Pockets”. The movie and his soundtrack were candidates at the 2015 Academy Awards. In 2020 he won the Global Music Award for his solo album “KuartetS” Sensini studied at Conservatory “G

Jim Newsom

Born: February 9

Jazz flutist/guitarist/vocalist based in Norfolk, Virginia, with four CDs so far. Leads the Jim Newsom Quartet and also performs in a duo setting with trumpeter Ron Hallman. Jazz journalist who writes primarily for Port Folio Weekly and has also written extensively for the All Music Guide.

Gabriel Juncos "El Corto"

Born: May 14, 1967

Born in Cordoba, Argentina, Gabriel Juncos he is one of but the great Argentine flute players. At the moment it accompanies to the guitarist Luis Salinas Actually, leading your band, as called "La Banda del Corto"

Al Hodgson

Born: August 3, 1968

Charles Lloyd

Born: March 15, 1938

The critical consensus is that Charles Lloyd has never sounded better. As he enters his 76th year, the depth of his expression reflects a lifetime of experience. Lloyd has a legendary history in the music world, and could certainly be in a position to slow down and rest on his laurels. But looking back has never been of great interest to this tender warrior; this seeker of beauty and truth. “Go forward,” is his motto, as he keeps shifting to a higher, well calibrated gear. His concerts and recordings are events of pristine beauty and elegance, full of intensely felt emotion and passion that touches deep inside the heart

Juan Saiz

Born: February 6, 1986

Born in 1986 in Santander and begins to play the transverse flute at the age of 10 at the Conservatory Jesus de Monasterio de Santander, where he studies flute with Jaime Salas and composition with Emilio Otero. During his last years at the conservatory he focuses on the study of jazz and contemporary composition and, shortly thereafter, moves to Barcelona to study the upper level of Jazz and Modern Music at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). He completed his studies between Barcelona and the Kask-Koninklijk Conservatorium de Ghent (Belgium) with professors such as Bart Defoort, Eladio Reinón, Gary Willis, Agustí Fernández, Gorka Benítez, Julia Gallego

Lori Bell

Brooklyn native Lori Bell is a flutist and composer of admirable depth and broad musical sympathies.  A resident of San Diego, she has contributed to the development of higher standards of performance while earning acclaim from both peers and critics for her artistry on stage and in recordings. 

Bell plays with confidence and taste, with a proclivity toward the more subtle means of emotional expression.  Her playing inherently has a many-layered depth that reveals a more meaningful art.  She renders ballads with exceptional sensitivity while bringing wonderful nuances to swing and be-bop, which she plays with power, agility and a natural élan.  Her phrasing, evocative of birds, shows the strong influence of Eric Dolphy, yet is rendered with such purity of tone and range of timbre that it is clearly of a different ornithology.

Lori Bell is a three time Global Music Award recipient recognized for her recordings, compositions, and arrangements.

In 2016 Lori paid heartfelt tribute to her family and birthplace on her critically acclaimed album Brooklyn Dreaming earning four star ratings from Jazz Journal UK, Jazz Times, the Los Angeles Times (four and a half stars) and Downbeat, which chose it as “Best Albums of 2016.” Huffington Post also chose Brooklyn Dreaming for their “Best of Jazz 2016”.  Bill Milkowski wrote in the March 2016 issue of Downbeat: “Bell flaunts prodigious chops on both C flute and alto flute, though her pen might be mightier than her sword.  Her originals all reveal a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing.” Veteran jazz critic Scott Yanow chose it as one of his Top 25 Best jazz CD’s of 2016.  It also won a Global Music Award for Outstanding Achievement for compositions and arrangements.

Lori has toured throughout the United States playing festivals and clubs such as Birdland NYC, The Blue Note NYC, The Jazz Bakery LA, Catalina’s LA, The Gene Harris Jazz Festival, Jazz Summit 2 LA, and Jazz in the Pines festival

Fred Tompkins

Born: May 26, 1943

Fred Tompkins was born in St. Louis in 1943. After high school he played tenor saxophone in and around his home town for several years before beginning the formal study of music at the St. Louis Insitute of Music, in 1964. By this time his strongest influences were jazz artists such as John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and the Jazz Messengers and the M.J.Q., and classical composers such as Paul Hindemith and Béla Bartók.

His earliest compositions, as originally recorded on the album, Compositions of Fred Tompkins, showed a natural tendency to combine those genres into his own style. Some of the pieces tended to exploit a dramatic contrast between genres, but soon the transitions became smoother and the styles more synthesized. The best of those early pieces and the best pieces from his subsequent and more fully developed album of 1975, Somesville, can now be heard on the compilation CD, FANFARE 8, The Early Works. [NOTE: The videos uploaded on AAJ represent Tompkins' free improv style of performance; to hear samples of his compositions, please visit the CD page on his website: http://www.tompkinsjazz.com/albums/]

Ron Carlson

Born: May 20

Ron Carlson teaches guitar at Garden City Community College in western Kansas. For many years, he was a Kansas City based guitarist who especially enjoyed playing jazz standards. He also played guitar with a popular horn based classic rock band called Hard At Play. Ron's first CD project is titled Kind Folk in memory of the jazz artists Kenny Wheeler and Charlie Haden. Kind Folk is published by the Artists Recording Collective (ARC- 2635) and includes an all star quintet and three vocalists. The second CD project is titled For You and is dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Diane. For You contains standards as well as original compositions