Results for "flute"

John Gibson

Born: May 5, 1966

BM music from Northeastern IL University Attended Berklee College of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performs and records extensively in the LOS Angeles area

Hiroaki Honshuku

Born: November 26

Hiroaki Honshuku, Leader - Flute, EWI Hiroaki Honshuku was first introduced to jazz in 1985 while teaching music at the US Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. A gradute of both Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, he has studied with various jazz luminaries including George Russell, Dave Holland and George Garzone, among others. Later, Honshuku went on to teach at NEC as well as Longy School of Music. Hiro had been an assistant director for late George Russell at the New England Conservatory from 1987 until Russell's retirement. Hiro has been deeply inspired by Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization, which now characterizes Hiro's writing style using Tonal Gravity without any traditional II-V-I resolution. Hiro has played with Mike Stern, Dave Liebman, Mick Goodrick, Dave Weckl, Tiger Okoshi, Maria Schneider, and Tom McKinley, among others, and has appeared on over 25 albums

Tim Weisberg

TIM WEISBERG is back on the radar! In 2010 Tim decided to get out and start performing again. As usual Tim has surrounded his recent performances with world class musicians, such as Barnaby Finch, Lynn Keller, David Derge, David Hughes and his guitar player since 1988, Chuck Alvarez. Tim is one of the pioneers in rock/jazz fusion who’s incredible career includes 20 albums on the biggest record labels in the business including A&M, Columbia, Warner Brothers, and MCA. He has sold over 5 million albums and played some of the largest venues in the world. Two of Tim's albums are collaborations with the gifted singer, songwriter, Dan Fogelberg, which include their platinum album, "Twin Sons Of Different Mothers,” containing the hit “The Power of Gold.” Tim’s bands are legendary and have been known as a proving ground for the likes of David Benoit, Art Johnson and Lynn Blessing.

Kana Miyamoto

Born: January 27, 1987

Kana Miyamoto is a New York based flutist, educator, composer originally from Japan. Kana Recently released her debut album ''Spring Doze'' with her group Kanacept. She started playing flute at age of 13, In 2012 She won first place for Junior High School Solo Flute Division Solo and ensemble competition for Chiba Preference of All Japan Band Association brought her the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan awarded Kana an, "Up-and-Coming Artist Overseas Training System" grant, which allowed her to study abroad to U.S. in 2002. Kana returned to Japan to pursue and graduated a degree in Music at Tokyo College of Music in 2011

Joseph Liberti

Joseph Liberti Joseph Liberti is a jazz flutist and leader of the contemporary jazz group FluteDaddy. Joseph's playing is inspired by great artists like Herbie Mann, Moe Hoffman, Hubert Laws and Ali Ryerson with whom he studied, His style is melodic and articulate with a soulful edge. Joseph,largely self-taught, began a music career late in life and over the last ten years has blossomed into an engaging, inspiring and entertaining performer. A developing composer, he has also composed and performed programs of chamber jazz for arts organizations including the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Julia Price

Born: June 13

Julia Price is a young emerging jazz artist from Greensboro NC. She began her studies at age 15 with Tadeu Coehlo as a classical flute player at North Carolina School of the Arts. While studying classical music, she was featured as 2010’s Concerto Competition winner for Greensboro Symphony, attended many master classes around the east coast and won many awards including the Delta Sigma Theta performing arts award. Once in her late teens, she discovered jazz by engaging in the music of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus and many more. Since her jazz studies, she has performed with legendary bassist Reggie Workman, Frank Tiberi, Greg Osby, Matt Jenson, The O Jays, and was recognized under the CBC performing arts scholarship

Kaoru Watanabe

Kaoru Watanabe is a Brooklyn based composer and musician, specializing on the Japanese taiko drum and shinobue flutes. He has spent decades artfully blending the sounds of Japanese instruments with those from around the world, collaborating with such artists as National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Jason Moran, So Percussion, Adam Rudolph, Kenny Endo, Stefon Harris, Kiyohiko Semba, Alicia Hall Moran, Tatsuya Nakatani, TaikOz, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Imani Uzuri, calligrapher Kakinuma Koji, visual artist Simone Leigh and has performed his compositions at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Kabukiza, Minamiza, Blue Note NYC and has performed in all 47 prefectures in Japan

Mary Rose

Born: April 23, 1949

Mary Rose moved to New York City in 1975 and became immersed in the creative and dynamic Jazz Loft Scene where exploration in jazz improvisation was continued from the legacy of free jazz started in the 1960s. During this rich and exciting musical time, Mary joined the Space Light Band led by former Albert Ayler bassist Steve Tintweiss with Ken Simon, tenor sax and Lou Grassi, drums. After listening to the recordings of Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, she was devoted to playing bebop and standards as well as continuing to play music “outside” the harmonic and rhythmic form of traditional jazz. Mary studied flute and jazz improvisation with multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator Makanda Ken McIntyre, and composer and master flutist Robert Dick who specializes in multiphonics and extended techniques on the flute. After moving from New York City to New Mexico, she formed the jazz duo Deuce with bassist Joseph Salack in 2002 and they performed at various venues in Taos and Santa Fe. In 2007, she joined the Fort Collins jazz group IN THE MOMENT and in 2009, they recorded the CD Straight Ahead

Althea Rene

Born: December 25

Althea Rene was born December 25th in Detroit, Michigan and began her musical journey at age four as a classical flutist. She studied classical music while attending Howard University in Washington D.C. and later gained further musical inspiration from the accomplishments of Yusef Lateef, Ian Anderson, and her father, one of Motown's original Funk Brothers, Dezie McCullers. She has since developed her own creative style. For more than 10 years she was employed as a Wayne County Deputy Sheriff (Detroit, Michigan). Today, she is a full-time performing/recording artist and some regard her as a "master of her craft" and one of the world's most exciting solo improvisational flutists

Mike Chalmers

Born: January 24

Mike's day job with the world's favourite airline has allowed him to meet some great musicians and play salsa in Caracas, funk in Accra, bhangra in Bangladesh, soca in Tobago and highlife in Harare. Originally from the city of Bath in the west of England, he first came to the USA courtesy of a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he played with the Penn Jazz Ensemble. He now divides his time between London, where he plays bari sax with the Cuban dance band Orquesta Estelar, and the Philly/New Jersey area. Mike studied with legendary saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis for several years, and has played big band jazz at the Cool Jazz Festival in Vermont for the last four years with guest artists Chris Vadala, Jerry Bergonzi and Amanda Carr