Results for "guitar"

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

Beledo

Beledo gained guitar-hero status in his teens, playing every theatre in his hometown of Montevideo, and captivating audiences in Uruguay and Argentina.

Today living in the US he belongs to the Moonjune Records family with the second album on that label called Seriously Deep featuring the legendary Tony Levin on bass and and the amazing Kenny Grohowski on drums known for his work with John Zorn, Felix Pastorius, Brand X and many others. His previous album on Moonjune called Dreamland Mechanism featured legendary Gary Husband on drums and Lincoln Goines on bass.

Bele Beledo

Biography

Beledo gained guitar-hero status in his teens, playing every theatre in his hometown of Montevideo, and captivating audiences in Uruguay and Argentina.

Today living in the US he belongs to the Moonjune Records family with the second album on that label called Seriously Deep featuring the legendary Tony Levin on bass and and the amazing Kenny Grohowski on drums known for his work with John Zorn, Felix Pastorius, Brand X and many others. His previous album on Moonjune called Dreamland Mechanism featured legendary Gary Husband on drums and Lincoln Goines on bass.

Tcha Limberger

Born: June 20, 1977

TCHA LIMBERGER – MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST.. AND VIRTUOSO ON MOST OF THEM.

Since picking up his first instrument the guitar, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger is one of a handful of world class musicians to have become accepted and respected in a style of music culturally not their own. His showcasing on the international stage of his Transylvanian Kalotaszeg Trio and Budapest Gypsy Orchestra, and his nurturing approach to teaching almost forgotten traditional musics has made him one of the most prominent and ‘important figures in folk music of the Carpathian Basin’. For this he has received unparalleled praise worldwide from professionals and public alike. Critics remarking on his achievements have claimed he is ’entirely made of music’, ‘The Polymath king of Gypsy music’, whilst musician colleagues refer to him as ‘the fifth element’. 

Claudio Ragazzi

GRAMMY WINNER, EMMY Winner and EMMY Nominated Film Composer and guitarist Claudio Ragazzi has been writing award winning music for film and television, scoring dozens of projects and performing with some of today's most respected musicians at renowned concert halls in the world.

Claudio attended Berklee College of Music where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, a winner of the prestigious Duke Ellington Master's Award and the Boston Music Awards, Claudio went on to compose music for feature films, documentaries and television commercials as well as undertaking commissioned works for plays and ballets.

Simone Basile

Born: August 9, 1990

Simone Basile is an Italian guitarist born in Taranto on 09/08/1990, Puglia, Italy, and now living in Florence.

In 2017 he was identified among the Italian jazz talents at the national competition "Chicco Bettinardi" in Piacenza.

In 2018 he released "Time," a trio album with the collaboration of Marco Valeri on drums and Francesco Angiuli on double bass.

The album was presented  in festivals such as: “Fara Music Festival”(opening for Enrico Rava's quartet), "Jazz In'It" in Vignola, "JazzMi" (Milan) 2018, "Strings city" in Florence, "Il jazz italiano per le terre del sisma" (Italian jazz for the earthquake lands) in Amatrice, “JazzMi” (Milan) 2019, Empoli Jazz, Mantova Jazz Young, etc... . .

Alessandro Benvenuti