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Joan Cartwright

Born: December 7

Joan Cartwright has toured five continents and 16 countries including the U.S.A., eight European countries, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Ghana, Gambia, South Africa, China, and Japan, with her swinging brand of jazz and blues. She is a composer and her book, IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY contains 40 songs and lyrics to standard songs: "A Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie, "Blue Bossa" by Kenny Dorham, "Tune Up" by Miles Davis and "Bessie's Blues" by John Coltrane. Joan's book also contains two lectures that she's given to over 5,000 children and college students, in U.S., Switzerland, Sicily, China and Japan: WOMEN IN JAZZ and SO, YOU WANT TO BE A SINGER? Her workshops are dynamic and educational, highlighting the pitfalls and benefits of the music business

Kam Falk

Born: August 16, 1963

A native of Chicago, Kam began learning music at an early age under the tutelage of his mother, a classical pianist, and the great concert pianist, Erna Salm. In the midst of his piano studies, he was recruited by his Grade-school orchestra to play cello - an instrument he continued to study throughout his college years. Kam comments, "This was significant because it gave me experience working in all sorts of ensembles playing chamber music and orchestral music and it introduced me to the music of the great composers." At age eleven, tragedy struck his family. His parents divorced, and his father returned to his native country, Jordan

Rick Moore

Born: May 10, 1954

RICK MOORE (Birthplace; Plainfield, NJ - 1954) Rick played the organ, clarinet and drums as child. He began playing the piano professionally in his teens. Rick studied classical piano with Keith McDonald and Jazz piano with Sal Mosca in Mount Vernon, NY (1975–85). While living in NJ, Rick worked in Jazz groups with Vinnie Burke, Vic Juris, Judy Niemack, Don Messina, Fred Amend & Joshua Breakstone. In 1986, Rick relocated to WPB, FL and played long-term engagements @ the International Polo Club, Bear Lakes, Jupiter Island Club, Sailfish Club, Mar-a- Lago, Everglades Club, Club Colette, Mariner Sands, Loblolly, Breakers West, Bath & Tennis Club, Turtle Creek and many other venues throughout South Florida

Bobby Rodriguez

Antonio Adolfo

Born: February 10, 1947

Antonio Adolfo is an important composer, having written songs recorded by many Brazilian and International artists. He also had a noted role in the process of making important music available through independent production, through the creation of the pioneer independent label Artezanal.

As an arranger, he worked for several musicians and singers.

The son of Yolanda Maurity, a music teacher and violinist of the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Antonio Adolfo began to study music very early. At seven, he began his violin studies with Paulina D'Ambrozzio

Nicole Henry: The Vocalist Who Sings Rainbows

April 25, 2016

By Maria Cabeza I happened to be in West Palm Beach when Nicole Henry was giving a show, so without hesitating I went with my eleven-year-old son and my friend and PR specialist Scott Thompson. What you surely know: Nicole Henry is a North American internationally acclaimed jazz soul vocalist whose career started in 2004. Her ...

Tenor Saxophonist/Composer Matt Parker Debuts New Trio On His CD "Present Time," Due For Feb. 12 Release By BYNK Records

January 11, 2016

Tenor and soprano saxophone virtuoso and visionary composer Matt Parker made a vivid impression with his 2013 debut recording, Worlds Put Together. “Restlessly inventive” (Down Beat), Parker is “a fully formed artist with his own unique voice [who] sounds comfortable promenading down multiple paths” (All About Jazz). For his new recording Present Time, Parker pared down ...

Weather Report: The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981

by John Kelman
November 22, 2015

While live documents from Weather Report's 16-year run continue to be unearthed, and while live albums have previously documented the group's 1978 tour, there's been precious little from its final tours of 1980/81, when the group returned more decidedly to its jazz roots with one of the best albums in its discography, 1980's Night Passage. Only ...

Jaco: Original Soundtrack

by John Kelman
November 22, 2015

With so many compilations already out there, it might be easy to question why a soundtrack to JACO is even necessary. But one look at the track listing renders its raison d'être clear: JACO: Original Soundtrack is, in some ways, the most comprehensive document of the bassist's career, even if it doesn't contain as much music ...

JACO (The Film)

by John Kelman
November 22, 2015

Jaco Pastorius JACO (The Film) Slang East/West 2015With author Bill Milkowksi's extraordinarily detailed and honest accounting of Pastorius' life in his biography--first published in 1996 but reissued nearly a decade later as Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: Deluxe Edition (Backbeat Books, 2005), with a hundred pages of ...