Results for "Free Jazz"

Richard Davies

Born: March 27, 1974

I am a UK saxophonist experimenting with cinematic sounds and marrying jazz, blues, the electronic and ambient styles. I have been playing tenor and soprano sax for over 30 years and have a dozen albums to my name as well as appearing on many other titles across a number of genres. I also dabble in keyboards and electronics to create soundscapes.

Jacob William

Jacob William is a multifaceted musician, bassist, composer, improviser, and educator whose work spans free jazz, contemporary improvisation, and experimental music. For over a decade, he has led and performed in ensembles dedicated to exploring spontaneous creativity and pushing the boundaries of improvised music. In 2023, Jacob released two major recordings: Degrees of Simultaneity with Para Quintet, featuring Laurence Cook, Jim Hobbs, Forbes Graham, and Steve Lantner, and Through Osmosis and Other Means with TOaOM Trio, alongside Jim Hobbs and Luther Gray.

Renowned for his deep, intuitive approach to the bass, Jacob has been praised for the way he seamlessly anchors and propels an ensemble. Veteran jazz drummer Joe Hunt describes him as “a true breath of fresh air… a special spirit… one of my favorite musicians.” He highlights Jacob’s “formidable bass skills” and calls him “rare and wonderful… inspiring and motivational… one of the most exciting [musicians] I’d ever experienced.”

Born in Chennai and raised in Bangalore, India, Jacob’s upbringing was steeped in cultural diversity and artistic inspiration. Growing up in a family committed to the arts, athletics, and academics, his early musical experiences included choir singing and informal explorations of hybrid musical styles. In his teenage years, he began playing bass guitar and quickly gained recognition, performing at concerts and festivals throughout India with forward-thinking jazz musicians. He attended Christ College, where he studied Finance and Economics, before moving to the United States in 1991 on a music scholarship to further his studies and pursue new creative opportunities.

Jacob holds a Master of Arts in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied under Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, and Alvin Lucier, while training in South Indian Carnatic music with T. Viswanathan and percussion with Ramanad Raghavan and David Nelson. He also studied in the Contemporary Improvisation program at the New England Conservatory under Ran Blake and received advanced training on the bass with Cecil McBee and John Lockwood. Jacob earned his Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music, specializing in Jazz Bass Performance under Bruce Gertz, Whit Browne, and Rich Appleman, and participated in masterclasses by Kenny Werner and Bob Brookmeyer.

Throughout his career, Jacob has collaborated with a wide and distinguished array of musicians, including Maynard Ferguson, Louiz Banks, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ranjit Barot, Omar Sosa, Abraham K. Adzenyah, Len ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe, Badal Roy, Charlie Mariano, T.A.S. Mani, R. A. Ramamani, royal hartigan, and Gustavo Ovalles. His extensive work in the jazz and improvisational scenes has brought him together with Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate Wooley, Laurence Cook, Luther Gray, Jim Hobbs, Forbes Graham, Steve Lantner, Tony Malaby, Francisco Mela, Allan Chase, Neil Leonard, Dave Bryant, Curt Newton, George Garzone, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeff Galindo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Chris Bowman, Tom Hall, Croix Galipault, Joe Hunt, Amit Heri, Jerry Sabatini, Andria Nicodemou, Eric Hofbauer, Eric Rosenthal, Jon Damian, Garrison Fewell, Jason Robinson, Bill Lowe, Charlie Kohlhase, Noah Kaplan, Bob Gullotti, Eric Zinman, Syd Smart, Glynis Lomon, Joe Moffett, and Junko Fujiwara.

Jacob’s performances span continents, with appearances in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including Indian National Television and Radio DRS in Zurich. He has contributed to over 20 recordings, with releases on labels such as Warner, Intuition, Magnasound, Not Two, and Ayler Records.

José Canha

Born: October 26, 1974

José Canha was born in Setúbal, Portugal and began his musical journey as a lead vocalist for various alternative-rock bands during his late teens. He explored a range of musical instruments during this period, developing a strong affinity for those in the lowest register. Working with a diverse range of talented musicians, he gained an eclectic musical background, which ignited a growing passion for blues and jazz music.

After completing his army service, Canha abandoned his earlier academic intentions to dedicate himself to an in-depth study of his newfound passions: the bass and Black American music

Piero Bittolo Bon

Piero Bittolo Bon is one of the busiest and most in demand italian musicians in the italian jazz and avant-garde scene. He mainly plays alto saxophone but is also at ease on baritone saxophone, flutes and clarinets. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind instruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations and chamberesque compositions, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar

Rent Romus

Born: January 6, 1968

Rent Romus is a saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, music producer, and community leader hailed by Downbeat as having "...a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction". A third generation Finnish American born in Hancock Michigan of the Upper Peninsula and growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino. From his very beginnings as a student of jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, as well as Arthur Blythe, Derek Bailey and Merzbow.

He runs the Lords of Outland a free jazz unit since 1994, the Life’s Blood Ensemble a contemporary original ensemble, and works with pianist Thollem McDonas in the Bloom Project, composer bandleader Heikki "Mike" Koskinen, the collective improvisation group The Ruminations and other various projects.

Rent Romus has recorded music exploring improvisation and composition in a wide variety of musical settings both as a leader and sideman which have included Chico Freeman, John Tchicai, Vinny Golia, Thollem McDonas, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen, Stefan Pasborg, James Zitro, Kash Killion, and Jon Bridsong to name a few.

He is the founder of Edgetone Records with over 30 years of independent music production, and performance experience as well as the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Outsound Presents under which curates the bi-weekly music series known as SIMM at the Musicians Union Hall, the weekly Luggage Store Gallery Creative Music Series, as well as annual Outsound New Music Summit, the Bay Area's creative music festival held every summer in San Francisco.

heme japan

Born: February 6, 1971

heme japan is the band managed by OTAKA, jazz pianist.

OTAKA

Born: February 6, 1971

Born in 1971 in Chiba, Japan. In 2001, OTAKA began playing piano at age 30, and met with Norberto Tamburrino, Italian jazz pianist, in NYC. OTAKA was deeply influenced by him and received first musical training from him in Taranto, Italy. In 2004, OTAKA started to perform at clubs in Tokyo and played at "Fill Inn", "Misty", "Smalls Matsudo" e.t.c., and performed with Fabio Morgera(trumpet), Jason Jackson(tromborn), Irwin Hall(alto sax), Raymond McMorrin(tenor sax), Tomoyuki Kameoka(trumpet), Saori Yano(alto sax), Kenny Fujitake(guitar), Ryo Sakuma(drums), Nobuyuki Ito(bass) and so on

João Gato

Born: February 13, 2000

Born in 2000, João Gato started taking Jazz saxophone seriously whilst studying with the altoist Ricardo Toscano, at the Hotclub of Portugal. At age 18, he finished the practical course, after taking 3 years of classes with Toscano.

In 2018, he started his Bachelor Degree in Jazz saxophone in at ESML, where he studied with prestigious portuguese musicians such as Gonçalo Marques, Desidério Lázaro, Pedro Moreira, Afonso Pais and Nelson Cascais. He finished his degree in 2021.

Since August 2023 he has been undertaking the NOCOM (Nordic Master: Composing Musician), a joint master in the RMC (Coppenhagen), NMH (Oslo) and HSM (Gottemburg), where he has studied with Lotte Anker, Peter Bruun, Kasper Tranberg and Torben Snekkestad.

Elias Meister

Born in 1983 in Munich (Germany) guitarist Elias Meister is based in New York city since 2007. His numerous interests in different styles and ways of expression have led him to perform in a broad variety of musical settings. He leads his own groups, such as the Experimental Rock and Groove band Spacepilot with Leo Genovese and Joe Hertenstein, that performed at the Moers Festival and the XJAZZ Festival (Berlin) in 2017 among their shows in three tours to Germany and neighboring countries. They released their debut vinyl 'Exophonia' in 2016 (which the Süddeutsche Zeitung described as 'dancing and floating in zero gravity') and their second vinyl 'Particle Horizon' (feat. Grammy-nominated trumpeter Tim Hagans) in 2018.

Karin Johansson

Swedish pianist, improviser and composer, based in Gothenburg. Educated at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and active since many years in Sweden and internationally. Working with extended techniques and preparations. Playing in several groups and collaborations, among others:

Paul Jarret / Karin Johansson / Donovan von Martens ( https://pauljarret.bandcamp.com/album/h-misph-re-hemisf-r )

Rosanna Gunnarson / Karin Johansson ( https://outerdisk.myshopify.com/ )

ORD ( https://karinjohanssonord.bandcamp.com ),

Karin Johansson / Lisen Rylander Löve duo ( https://johanssonrylanderlove.bandcamp.com ),