Results for "French Horn"

Chet Chwalik

Born: May 12, 1965

Chet is Director and playing trumpet with his sextet, the Sacramento Classic Jazz Messengers, playing some of his favorites from the Art Blakey group of the mid-60's, as well as a number of original compositions. Additionally Chet plays with drummer Mat Marucci in the Classic Jazz Organ Trio, which plays the music of Jimmy Smith and others. Chet continues to work with his music business, The Tuning Note Music Studio. In addition to having over 70 students studying piano, trumpet, baritone horn, French horn, and jazz improv, Chet continues to do audio transcription/chart creation, and piano tuning.

Gary Cactus

Gacus returns to jazz on his new album.

Juan Carlos Jimenez borges

Music,latinjazz,fusion,cuba,wo rld The Cuban Music Composition man.. JuanCarlos has played at several Festival all over Europe and also in Cuba He has arranged, composed and recorded a classic music and latin jazz. In 1997 he has created a group in Stockholm named "Cuba ritmo jazz"/CubajazzJuanquy playing a blend of jazz, cuban-latin rythms, contemporary music and traditional cuban music, in which we can admire the brilliant and spontaneous improvisation. "CubaJazzJuanquy" have played on the Swedish National tv channel, composed music for a Swedish Radio Tv advertisement, Radio Sörmlands and have played in many jazz clubs in Stockholm such as Klubben Village, Fasching, Stampen, Nalen, Mosebacken, Glenn Miller Bildösound and many others all over Scandinavia. For any informations please do not hesitate to call me or write to me. Sincerely, [email protected]

Morris Kliphuis

Born: December 27, 1986

French hornist/composer/arranger Morris Kliphuis (1986) has played classical horn since the age of eight, but started to play jazz in his teens. After a year of studying composition in The Hague he enrolled at the Amsterdam Conservatory to study jazz horn with saxophonist Ferdinand Povel. In 2006 he won first prize and the press award of the Dutch Prinses Christina Jazz Concours. At the moment Morris is working with different groups. The Antiphon Trio is a chordless setting with fretless bass guitar and drums that experiments with the fusion of jazz, funk, classical, and world music, and seeks to discover the musical possibilities of this rarely seen line-up

Jeffrey Agrell

Born: February 25, 1948

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell retired from the University of Iowa School of Music after teaching horn and creative music there 2000-2021. Before that he was Associate Principal Horn in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) 1975-2000. He has won awards as both a composer and a writer, with well over one hundred published articles to his credit and many compositions published, recorded, and performed worldwide on TV & radio, concert stages, festivals and competitions. He frequently gives concerts, lectures, and workshops nationally and internationally. He did two terms on the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society and taught at the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp 2005-2020

Alex Brofsky

Born: June 21, 1960

AB+ has performed and recorded with many of the world's finest musicians including: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Lenny Kravitz, Quincy Jones, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner and many others. He was one of the top artists on mp3.com throughout its history, and is now one of the top selling artists on eMusic.com. He has produced for many top Acid Jazz, Pop and R&B / Hip Hop artists with major radio airplay. Currently he is working on a new album with singer Michael Slattery. AB+ is constantly putting out new music so keep checking his pages for the latest jointz!!

Julius Watkins

Born: October 10, 1921

Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician, and one of the first jazz French horn players. He won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for "miscellaneous instrument" with French horn named as the instrument. Watkins was born in Detroit, Michigan. He started playing French horn when he was nine years old, having played the trumpet, the recognized jazz instrument, for the Ernie Fields Orchestra in the mid-1940s. By the late 1940s, however, he had played some French horn solos on Kenny Clarke and Babs Gonzales' records. After moving to New York City, Watkins studied for three years at the Manhattan School of Music

John Graas

Born: March 14, 1917

John Graas was an American jazz French horn player, composer and arranger from the 1940s through 1962. He had a short but busy career on the West Coast, and became known as a pioneer of the French horn in jazz.

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Adam Unsworth

Born: December 29, 1968

The highly disciplined, truck driving, pavement pounding, nail banging, Civil War buff (His self-renovated fixer-upper even dates back to 1865), and proud papa of three debunks popular music mythology: classical musician does not equal jazz artist. Adam Unsworth, French hornist with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1998 embraces the jazz idiom with the same guile and gusto as he does everything else in life. At age 10, Unsworth confided in his first horn instructor, a professor at the local University, “I’m going to be principal horn of The Philadelphia Orchestra.” Well, almost, but the fall of 2005 is where the story takes an alternate route. His ride began in 1968