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Julian Arguelles

Born: January 28, 1966

Award-winning saxophonist and composer Julian Argüelles plays a unique mix of exciting British contemporary jazz infused with Spanish rhythms, South African grooves, brass band and classical influences. An exceptionally gifted musician, he has been compared to sax legends Wayne Shorter and Charles Lloyd, while his on-stage chemistry with the Julian Argüelles Quartet has been likened to Keith Jarett’s renowned 1970s line-up. Argüelles’ rapidly growing audience, built over the past 30 years, has an extraordinary reach for a jazz artist. His concerts attract a wide ranging age from early 20s upwards

Fleur Stevenson

Described by her mentor Claire Martin OBE as “A wonderful singer with a great musical ear and natural jazz feel.'', Fleur Stevenson is one of the new breed of jazz singers, known for her velvet tone, imaginative improvisation and sparkling presentation. She enjoys collaborations with many of the UKs top musicians including Gareth Williams, David Newton, Brandon Allen, Frank Harrison to name a few. She performs at many prestigious venues across the UK, including the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, 606 Club and Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho. Fleur's forthcoming album ''Follow Me'' features arrangements of well known standards, as well as jazz arrangements of some lesser known vintage pop songs

Jimmy Bennington

Born: May 22, 1970

Jimmy Bennington (born May 22, 1970; Columbus, Ohio) is a self-taught artist who began playing professionally in Texas, 1990. Mentored by late John Coltrane drummer Elvin Jones during the last decade of his life, Bennington was eventually hired as Jones' band manager/drum tech, touring the world as part of the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine (2000-2002). Since then, Bennington lived on the West Coast for several years (1997-2006), and has made Chicago his home base (2006-Present). Jimmy has performed and recorded with artists such as Julian Priester, Perry Robinson, John Stowell, Ed Schuller, Bert Wilson, Ken Filiano, Steve Cohn, John Blum, John Gross, Daniel Carter, and French bassist Benjamin Duboc

Rodrigo Recabarren

Born: October 20, 1982

About Rodrigo.

Originally from Santiago de Chile, Rodrigo Recabarren is a drummer/composer that has crafted a sound that integrates his Latin American roots with the tradition of Jazz improvisation and Indie Rock. Over the past decade, Recabarren has recorded and toured around the world with artists including Guillermo Klein, Claudia Acuña, Perico Sambeat, Brad Shepik, Melissa Aldana, Camila Meza and Jeff Miles among manty others and with his own groups, Beekman, MURAL and Novas Trio.

Rodrigo proudly endorses Grestch Drums, Vic Firth Sticks, Zildjian Cymbals, and Overtone Labs.

Tuur Moens

Born: April 17, 1985

EARLY INFLUENCES

Born in 1985 in Duffel, Belgium, music has been a pervasive presence in Tuur’s upbringing, during which his father, passionate for the blues, played the guitar and drums while his mother was immersed in her love for world music. She would take Tuur as a child to an annual world music festival, Sfinks, where Tuur could admire big names like Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita, Youssou N’Dour, Mori Kanté, Baba Maal, Goran Bregovic, Buena Vista Social Club, Rubén Gonzáles… Tuur reminisces about laying on the couch as a child, listening to Miles Davis, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Salif Keita, Paul Simon, Gilberto Gil, Tower of Power, Wayne Shorter, and such varied influences. After hitting improvised paper boxes, mother's pans and "Fisher Price" drum sets at the age of 3, and later taking over daddy’s drum set on the attic, Tuur’s formal musical journey began at age 8, when his parents subscribed him for classical percussion at the music academy of Mechelen (BE).

Giuseppe Paradiso

Giuseppe Paradiso is a drummer, recording artist and composer active both as a bandleader of MERIDIAN 71, a world-jazz music project based in Boston, as well as a freelance recording and live musician across different music genres. As a leader, Giuseppe has released three albums: Otherness Collection (2012), Metropolitan Sketches (2020), and the latest Parallel Dimensions (2022) under the UBUNTU MUSIC record label (UK). All albums feature his original compositions. Since 2021, Giuseppe is a voting member of the prestigious Recording Academy (Grammy- Awards). Born in Santeramo in Colle (Bari, Italy) in 1983, Giuseppe started his musical studies on drums at the age of five years old

All About Jazz is looking for jazz musicians to tell their story

August 26, 2018

Do you entertain your jazz and non-jazz-loving friends with wild stories of life on the road, or a fellow band member you were forced to spend some time with? That moment when you met one of your jazz heroes? When you first gigged, or got to play with a great band? What's the worst gig you ...

How To Create or Update Your All About Jazz Musician Page

January 15, 2020

Home to over 120,000 musician pages and representing the largest database of its kind on the internet, All About Jazz is uniquely positioned to support jazz professionals worldwide. In an effort to help our musician community maximize the benefits of our growing platform, we've published a how-to guide outlining our various services. The document below explains ...

Erkan Sonmez

Born: November 1, 1989

Erkan Sonmez, musician who was born in 1989 in Istanbul. His musical journey started by playing darbuka in his childhood, continued when he met drums at the age of 14. He took his first music lessons at the age of 15 from Mustafa Yılgor. In 2008, he studied in Modern Music Academy for a year, he trained by Berke Ozgumus in drum, by Guc Basar Gulle and Sevket Akinci in harmony, ear training and piano, by Serdar Oztop in production, by Mert Medeni in sound and music technologies; after a year for training, he started to be a part of some popular singer’s stage performances and long playing recordings

Professional? Maximize Your Presence at All About Jazz & Jazz Near You

July 17, 2017

Leverage All About Jazz—the Internet's most technically advanced jazz platform—to reach our vast network of fans and industry professionals locally or worldwide. From establishing a presence at All About Jazz and Jazz Near You to contacting a staff writer about a review, it's all presented on our new and improved Professionals Toolkit Page. The toolkit is ...