Results for "Improvised Music"

Gabe Terracciano

A native of Portland, Maine, Gabriel Terracciano has been playing the violin since the age of three. After eight years of strictly classical training, he discovered the jazz violin playing of Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, and, later on, Zbigniew Seifert, who all changed his musical life (and life in general!) forever. Since then, Gabe has developed into a versatile multi-instrumentalist and a musician who has been recognized for playing the violin “in a way that’s unlike anyone else” (Sam Pfeifle, Portland Phoenix), while “proving himself as an improviser, never overplaying or imitating his predecessors on his instrument” (iTunes official album review for Crunch Time with Ron McClure). As an improvising string player, Gabe has delved into the fields of modern jazz, Gypsy and hot jazz, Middle Eastern, electronic, pop, bluegrass, and Latin styles, just to name a few! He has played for many years throughout the United States as both a leader and sideman, including multiple performances at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (NYC), part of Jazz at Lincoln Center

Augusto Baschera

Born in Brazil, from an early age he lives in a musical environment for being from a family of musicians. He holds a degree in classical guitar from the University of Passo-Fundo with maximum value and a Master's degree in guitar from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa/Portugal. He was a guest soloist by the ESML Symphony Orchestra in 2016 in Portugal. Augusto is a member of the MEDINEA group, founded and directed by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France).

Four albums in his own name, “Palavra de Fantoche”, 'Grey City', 'Tempos e Lugares ' and the most recent work 'APÓCRIFO'.

Manel Fortia

Barcelona/NYC based upright bassist Manel Fortià lives a very prolific moment. His melodic sense, rhythmic precision and creativity have made him one of the most unique and original musicians of the new generation, who has become a versatile sideman in high demand and who also leads his own projects. His recent albums as a leader include: “Despertar” (2022, Microscopi) playing fresh own compositions inspired in New York alongside his new European Trio featuring Spanish pianist Marco Mezquida and French drummer Raphaël Pannier. “Arrels” (2021, Microscopi), the debut recording of his new free-flamenco-jazz Libérica project, featuring the multi-awarded singer and saxophonist Antonio Lizana

David Cain

Born: March 2, 1955

David Cain. An acclaimed revolutionary of “unbroken media and art”, David Cain is a composer, musician, vocalist, filmmaker, author, artist… in a class with music’s most forward-reaching innovators because of his groundbreaking multimedia explorations using old and new tech. David Cain’s musical journey includes studies with international award-winning composer, Dr. Roque Cordero (Arnold Schoenberg), writing for symphony, movies and the Stan Kenton Big Band, and making radio music while on roster of Geffen Records in the '80s with his band, Bux da Hoota.

David's decade-long collaboration, Wertico Cain & Gray, with 7-time Grammy winner Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny Group), and bassist/cellist/composer, Larry Gray, has led to new music and art, winning a prestigious "Best Album - Live Performance" award along the way, and gathering audiences in search of new worlds of sound-making and digital cinema

Rex Shepherd

Guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd has been writing and performing music for more than 30 years. Initially a rock and blues player, Shepherd became entranced by the playing of guitarist Jim Hall on the first listen. He began learning the jazz language on guitar, studying at the University of Akron in Ohio, growing toward becoming a known performer and composer in the Cleveland area. His musical journey began with an affinity for the more "outside" music of Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, and Anthony Braxton. His current style, which is grown from the jazz tradition, employs a liberal application of melody and suggestive harmonies enabling free expression of musical ideas in a context he refers to as conceptual improvisation

Brendan McGrath

Born: October 27, 1995

Brendan McGrath is a professional pianist, composer, and teacher from Amiskwaciwâskahikan, so- called Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty 6 territory. As a player McGrath focuses on improvisation, primarily performing and recording as a solo improvising pianist, leader of a jazz piano trio, and interpreter of J.S. Bach. McGrath sees iconoclasm as a way to honour tradition, and strives to record and perform challenging interpretations of classical works, Jazz standards, and contemporary pieces. McGrath earned his BMus from MacEwan University in Jazz and Pop Performance in 2017, studying with musicians like Chris Andrew, Kent Sangster, and Jim Head

Constantin Krahmer

Constantin Krahmer studied jazz piano at the Musikhochschule in Cologne from 2006-2011. He plays piano, synthesizer and composes, i.e. for his bands Close Up and Offshore. With Offshore he has released three albums from 2013-2019. The band was in the finals of the Burghausen Jazz Competition and played at the WDR Jazzfest Cologne, Achtbrücken Festival, Jazzfestival Saarbrücken and many more. The debut album of his band Close Up will be released in February 2022. He is also very active as a sideman in various ensembles, e.g. Maik Krahl Quartett, Radius, Filán Quartett, Alexander Bühl Sextett, Synthimania, Ampair:e, Zuzana Leharova Quartett, and many more

Érick d'Orion

Born: February 10, 1975

Interdisciplinary audio artist, composer for the performing arts and cinema, musician/improviser and audio curator residing in Montreal since 2015, previously in Quebec City since 1993. As curator, he has organized more than a dozen events focusing on audio art and advanced sound creation. He was co-curator of the artist-run center Avatar from October 2008 to June 2010. He is also curator for the sound installations component of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville since 2010. Concentrating much of his audio research on digital maximalism, d'Orion performs a work that closely resembles noise, musique concrète, free jazz and electroacoustic. In parallel or jointly, he develops installations projects where audio and new technologies are assembled to create works in continuous movements, becoming sources as well as audio broadcasters

Bruno Tocanne

Born: March 19, 1955

"For the past 30 years , musician, teacher and activist Bruno Tocanne has been a catalyst for improvised music, bringing together some of the most creative musicians on the French and International scenes. Bruno's travels around the globe have resulted in musical encounters with Dave Burell (USA) Steve Potts (USA), Yuri Kusnetsov (Ukraine), Vladimir Volkov (Russia), Russ Johnson (USA), Jean Vanasse (Canada),Quinsin Nachoff (Canada), Itaru Oki(Japan), Tom Walsh (Canada), Michael Bates (USA), Louis Sclavis (France), Daniel Erdmann, Robin Fincker, Russ Lossing (USA) Current Projects (2021) . Bruno Tocanne - Didier Freboeuf "Ca n'empêche pas le vacarme" . Bruno Tocanne - Alain Blesing "L'impermanence du doute", Christiane Bopp - Bernard Santacruz - Bruno Tocanne "What about"..

Phil Hargreaves

Born: November 7, 1959

phil hargreaves is a Liverpool-based instrumentalist and composer working in the field of improvised and experimental music. I began playing as a guitarist in a punk band in the West Midlands, where i grew up, before moving to Liverpool at the age of twenty and buying a tenor sax, both decisions that would radically shape the rest of my life. Initially i was involved in Liverpool's pop scene, recording John Peel sessions with Personal Column, but eventually i moved via streetband work into the jazz field. After stints playing fusion and dinner jazz, i finally found the area where i could fully combine my talents, interests and influences, in improvised music, an area first stimulated by work with Peshkar theatre, and my subsequent study of Indian music with Aziz Zeria in Manchester. I played with guitarist Phil Morton in the duo Bonehouse, and also helped establish the Frakture club in Liverpool, a club space for improvised and experimental music