Results for "guitar"

Odin Scherer

Born: November 20, 1998

Odin Scherer is a Brooklyn, NY based guitarist, composer, improviser, and mixing engineer from Katonah, NY. Since moving to NYC in 2017 to attend The New School on scholarship, he has performed at venues including The Jazz Gallery, Bar Next Door, Smalls Jazz Club, Williamsburg Music Center, ShapeShifter Lab, Green Lung Studio, Tishman Auditorium at The New School, Julian’s NYC, and WBGO radio station in New Jersey. His diverse research interests include Black American music, folkloric music from around the globe, wildlife and ecosystems, fossils, and Impressionist classical music and visual art. 

Emil And The Detectives

Active since: 2016

Rastko Zager (bass) and Dejan Pecenko (keyboards) in year 2016 decided to start with music production project, to record and present their own music on CDs. It started with 6 members in the band. In year 2023 band presented their third CD with title Remote Proximity. Other members are: Boris Majcen on trumpet and flugelhorn, Igor Bezget on guitar, Joze Zadravec on drums and Zdravko Zimic on sax. All musicians are experienced in their several years long musical activity.

Don Vappie

Born: January 30, 1956

Don Vappie, musician/composer/educator, is the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner and the Banjo Hall of Fame inductee, in September 2022. In addition, he has received awards for his contributions to the preservation of New Orleans Creole Culture through music and film. He has produced 7 of his own albums, co-produced and starred in a PBS documentary, performed as a featured artist with orchestras on movie and television soundtracks, and at concerts and festivals worldwide. Vappie's highly regarded unique and original tenor banjo style is equal only to his love of his Creole heritage and tradition.

Tim Fitzgerald

Tim Fitzgerald is a Chicago based jazz guitarist, bandleader, educator and author. Named “Wes Montgomery scholar and visionary” by DownBeat Magazine, he is also the recipient of Chicago's 2021 Individual Artist Program Grant, a grant provided by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts.

As a performer, Tim has played the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Woodstock Jazz Festival, the Gene Harris Jazz Festival, and the Chi-Town Jazz Festival, among others. Tim has played clubs across the country from New York City's Mezzrow to Memphis' Crosstown Arts to Chicago's Green Mill to Seattle's Tula's to Alice's in Homer, Alaska. 

Martin Gioani

Born: September 17, 1987

Martin Gioani is a guitar player, pedagogue and content creator with a community of more than 200K subscribers. Since 2005 he teaches guitar, creates pedagogical content and full courses on his website guitare-improvisation.com, and shares tutorials and backing tracks on his Youtube channel Guitare Improvisation.

A vast experience in jazz, gypsy jazz and Brazilian music led Martin to teach in different seminars, including the most prestigious Django in June in 2019 in Massachusetts. His interest towards different cultures, music genres and languages can be felt in his approach to teaching as much as in his playing.

Jonathan Crossley

It began at the age of five, lying flat on the floor, just outside Belfast, with an old set of (loud) Rotel headphones on, completely immersed in a smorgasbord of vinyl. Tangerine Dream & Vangelis, Bach to early Genesis …. this variety an early indicator of what was to come. After emigrating to South Africa at the age of six a family acoustic guitar led to classical guitar lessons, and the instrument of choice.

Yet while classical guitar was the instrument, a secret love of diversity never faltered. Music studies were paralleled with a continued love for electronic music, indie rock like the Pixies and Sonic Youth, stronger fare like Metallica and inevitably grunge were interwoven into a musical fabric, often to the disdain of music tutors.

Billy Adamson

Billy Adamson is a session musician from London, England.

He has played with a wide variety of artists around the world including Ella Henderson, Ward Thomas, Foxes, Cassadee Pope, Brandy Clarke, TAYC, Izzy Bizu, All Saints and Ady Sullaiman.

His guitar recording credits also include Elton John’s Grammy nominated and Golden Globe winning song “I’m Gonna Love You Again’, MOBO nominated, Atlantic recording artist ‘Kwabs’, and for the Grammy nominated album ‘Cheers To The Fall’ by US artist Andra Day.

Grant Gordy

For several years Brooklyn-based guitarist Grant Gordy has been a major voice on the American "acoustic music" scene, and one of the most highly regarded young instrumentalists of his generation. Having held the guitar chair in the legendary David Grisman Quintet for six years, he's also worked alongside such musical luminaries as Edgar Meyer, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka and Darol Anger. Grant has performed all over North America and Europe, everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Montreal Jazz Festival; Jazz at Lincoln Center to Bonnaroo.

His music has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts, and he's received attention from international music periodicals such as The Fretboard Journal, Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Japanese bluegrass publication Moonshiner, Just Jazz Guitar and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine.

Tat the Musician

"Tat", Tatsuya is an award winning, accomplished multi-instrumentalist in the America, who is originally from Japan. He plays and teaches piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion, drums, key-drums (the newest drum-tech on keys), and many more instruments. He is also a music theorist throughout the Boston area as well as in Japan, a member of the American Federation of Musicians/Boston Musicians' Association. Being an alumnus of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Tatsuya is a spectacular drummer and a recipient of the Zildjian awards and several scholarships. Through Yoshinaga Music and XTY Music Lessons, Tatsuya has been able to give back to the community through music

Tomer Cohen

Born: October 15, 1996

Tomer Cohen (American-Israeli guitar player) was born in the US, but spent his
childhood in the countryside in Israel. He picked up the guitar at a young age and
from that moment on, he knew that music was his pursuit in life. He studied jazz at
the Israeli Conservatory of Music at Tel Aviv; after that, he was granted a scholarship
from The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, and then moved to New
York, where he graduated from the BFA Jazz Program.
 
Over the years, Tomer has steadily become a promising talent in NYC’s jazz scene.
He has performed in numerous gigs as a band leader both locally and internationally.
He has gained a large amount of performance experience by playing with his trio
ensemble at a wide array of venues, from small locations to large festivals