Results for "Instrumental Jazz"

Roberto Moreno

Born: March 12, 1964

Perfil Profesional

Bajista eléctrico, contrabajista, docente, compositor y arreglador con amplia trayectoria en música latinoamericana, jazz y fusión. Ha integrado grupos destacados en Argentina y el exterior, lidera el Cuarteto Roberto Moreno y combina la actividad artística con la docencia y la investigación musical.

Formación Académica

• Licenciatura en Música – Universidad de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF)
• Tecnicatura en Música (Contrabajo) – Conservatorio Carlos Giraudo (Marcos Juárez, Córdoba)
• Escuela Superior de Guitarra y Jazz Walter Malosetti – Bajo eléctrico, armonía, teoría, ensamble
• Cursos de armonía y composición – SADAIC, con Sebastián Piana
• Estudios particulares con Bucky Arcella, Matías González, Alejandro Herrera, César Franov, entre otros
• Piano complementario con Luis Sirimarco y Rubén Mónaco

Reconocimientos

• Premio “Satchmo” al Mejor Instrumentista no Guitarrista (1986)
• Premio “Coca Cola en las Artes y las Ciencias”, categoría folklore (1992)
• Reconocimiento de la revista El Ojo del Músico como “Mejor Bajista del Año” (2001)
• Inclusión de composiciones en Real Book Argentina (2011)
• Premio “Búho” a la promoción de las Artes y Comunicación (2013)
• Tema “Candomateando” ganador en la 7ª Feria de la Música (La Rioja, 2021)

Experiencia Artística (Selección)

• Integrante de agrupaciones de Tango, Candombe, Jazz, Folklore,Rock y Fusión (Luis Saltos, Canario Luna, Canturbe, La Baldosa, Silvia Gers, entre otros)
• Fundador y líder del Roberto Moreno Cuarteto (desde 2001 hasta la actualidad)
• Participación en festivales internacionales : Jazz Libélula (Colombia), Festival de Jazz de Guayaquil (Ecuador), Fiesta de la Cultura Iberoamericana (Cuba)
• Nacionales : Festival de Cosquín, Carnaval de Corrientes (Jurado), Festivales de Jazz de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires y Santa Fe, entre otros
• Presentaciones en escenarios destacados : Café Tortoni, Teatro General San Martín, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Teatro Presidente Alvear, Universidad del Litoral, entre otros
• Colaboraciones con artistas como Lalo Fransen, Luis Saltos, Inma Gomes (Cantante Española), Lucciano Pizzichini, Bill Molenhof (EEUU), Verónica Condomi, Pablo Fraguela, Gabriela Guala, Yabor, Washington Canario Luna, Lagrima Ríos, Martha Gularte, Ruben Ferrero, entre otros
• Experiencia en Teatro Musical : Cabello (Teatro Astros) Viva La Vida (Teatro Lola Membrives)

Bradley Leighton

Born: April 29, 1961

Bradley Leighton brings a distinctive voice to contemporary jazz flute, combining the energy of big-band swing with the deep grooves of funk, soul, and R&B. His musical style was shaped by the high-powered bands of Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, and Maynard Ferguson, along with the infectious rhythms of Tower of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire, and the Brecker Brothers. The result is a bold, expressive sound filled with fire, finesse, and a rhythmic intensity not often associated with the flute.

A longtime Yamaha Performing Artist, Bradley has performed throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe as both a bandleader and sideman. His career has included festival appearances, performances alongside acclaimed jazz artists, and decades of work as a recording artist, educator, and clinician.

Gavriel Micah

I play trumpet in Denver. Most of what I write is instrumental and built around Jewish diaspora melodies, some traditional and some my own. I treat them the way a jazz group treats standards: the tune stays as it came to me, and the harmony and the solos do the work.

I record, mix and master at home, in a room I call the Shack, in Centennial, Colorado. My first album, Songs I Found, comes out 4 December 2026.

The Seven Ups

Australian instrumental combo The Seven Ups exist between groove and atmosphere. Expansive guitar and warm synth layers stretch outward, grounded by bass and percussion, with horns shifting between restraint and impact.

Led by multi-instrumentalist Trent Sterling, the group has carved out its own space across five studio albums, developing a sound that balances locked-in rhythm with immersive texture and long-form explorations. Their latest release, Fight Night (2024), leans further into analogue synth territory, layering lush pads and rolling arpeggiators over the band’s signature brass and driving rhythm section.

Ayumi Kobayashi

Francois Bourassa

François Bourassa—now with eleven albums of original music under his belt—has become an ambassador for Canada’s thriving jazz community at an international level. A paragon of both consistency and evolution, he continues to seek out new challenges for himself, his colleagues, and his growing community of listeners. On July 7, 2023, he released « Swirl », a new live album by the François Bourassa Quartet recorded in 2022 at Studio Piccolo in Montreal (QC), and on April 16, 2021, Bourassa finally released his first solo piano album L’Impact du silence, recorded at La Buissonne in the southeast of France.
Bourassa’s talent was initially recognized by the Festival international de jazz de Montréal in 1985, kickstarting his trio’s recording and performing career throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 1996, Bourassa’s trio joined forces with André Leroux, a saxophonist and flutist who is equally at home with a contemporary saxophone quartet as with a jazz orchestra as the featured soloist. Bourassa’s eponymous quartet has been a staple of Montreal’s artistic landscape for 30 years and celebrates this anniversary with a Canadian tour in June/July 2026 and a European tour in November 2026. The band features founding bassist Guy Boisvert, longtime saxophonist André Leroux, and Guillaume Pilote as the most recent addition in Bourassa’s mentorship of young drummers. Their 2001 Live album recorded at Toronto’s Top O’ the Senator received a Juno award. In celebration of his compositional output, Bourassa was also the recipient of SOCAN’s Hagood Hardy Award in 2011. Number 9 (2017) chronicles his discography while also providing a subtle namecheck to the Beatles’ psychedelic oeuvre “Revolution #9” and The White Album. One highlight of the album, “Carla und Karlheinz” salutes two more of Bourassa’s guiding influences: Carla Bley (to whom he paid tribute at the Festival international de jazz de Montréal with the Orchestre national de Jazz) and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Number 9 was heralded as one of the best Canadian jazz albums of 2017 (Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen) and praised by Bley herself and Steve Swallow as a “wondrous piece of work.” Over the past decades, the quartet has garnered multiple Félix and Opus awards for their recordings and live performances, respectively.

Josh Cohen

Born: August 28, 1987

Josh Cohen is a Toronto-based composer, electric bassist, bandleader, author, and professor of music at Humber Polytechnic. His work has expanded from solo electric bass performance into composition, improvisation, and ensemble writing, drawing from jazz, counterpoint, groove, odd-meter writing, and electronic music.

Cohen has performed on two JUNO Award-nominated albums. He earned first place in the 2020 NAMM Phil Jones Bass Solo Bass Competition and second place in the competition’s 2016 edition. He was also named a 2018 Madison Magazine honoree for Innovation in the Arts and received No Treble’s No. 1 Bass Video of the Year in 2015. In 2022, he was included in Titans of Bass, a book profiling 130 bassists from around the world.

Ronny Smith

Ronny Smith is a contemporary jazz guitarist, composer, and recording artist whose warm tone, melodic sophistication, and deep sense of groove have made him a distinctive voice in contemporary jazz. Influenced by masters such as Wes Montgomery and George Benson, Smith blends contemporary jazz with soul, funk, blues, gospel, and Brazilian influences to create music that is both emotionally engaging and musically refined.

A veteran ensemble musician with decades of experience, Smith creates sophisticated, groove-driven instrumental music that balances memorable melodies with rich harmonic textures. His compositions function equally well as engaging listening experiences, atmospheric soundscapes, and emotionally resonant musical storytelling, making them appealing to both jazz audiences and visual media.

Jonas Larsson Band

Jonas Larsson Band is a high-energy jazz-fusion group drawing strong inspiration from 1970s and 1980s jazz, rock, and blues. Their music blends the era’s powerful grooves—driven by pronounced guitar and keyboard riffs and heavy, dynamic bass lines—with complex, virtuosic improvised solos that push the sound into bold, modern territory.

Jonas Larsson is a Swedish musician, composer, and visual artist based in the UK. His work spans music, visual art, and literature. He has composed music for stage productions and television, exhibited visual artwork in London and Paris, and published books in both Swedish and English

The Inter Section

Active since: 2024

The Inter Section is a collective of musicians from around the world recording contemporary jazz that is melodic and easily approachable. The songs meld the sounds and rhythms of Pop, R&B, Soul, Latin and World music and presents them in a jazz context.

The Inter Section's music is written and produced by Steve Ehrlich from his (necessary) sofa as he suffers from Chronic Lyme Disease. He offers an example for others with similar limitations of what is possible even when their everyday lives have been turned upside down.

Proceeds from the sale of The Inter Section's music are donated to lymedisease.org and Bay Area Lyme Foundation.