Results for "Jazz piano"

Jill McManus

Tony Marino Music

Tony Marino is a Latin jazz pianist, composer, and recording engineer presently based in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

In 1975, while a freshman in high school, Marino joined the Philadelphia Italian-American band called Idea '71. The band played popular Philadelphia and Tri-State area venues. While Marino was with Idea '71 (1975-1982), they recorded the album Supersano, at Virtue Recording Studios and a record (Medley Records) with the songs Sweet Hometown & We Were Happy (B side) at Alpha International Recording Studios.

Dariusz Petera

DARIUSZ PETERA - musician, pianist, composer. Team leader: Petera Sextet and jazz-rock band Fusion Generation Project. He has two albums in his discography: signed with his name "Flashover" (Lydian Series / Requiem Records, 2019), recorded with the team of Petera Sextet and "No Fusion" (Allegro Records, 2013), registered with the Fusion Generation Project team, which featured the American trumpeter Michael "Patches" Stewart. He is a graduate of the Original School of Popular Music and Jazz K. Komeda in Warsaw in the arrangement class of prof. Lucjan Kaszycki and piano by Wojciech Kamiński. He also studied at the excellent jazz pianist Janusz Skowron. Laureate of the 3rd Place in the 5th International Competition for Jazz Composition 2018 as part of the 13th edition of the Silesian Jazz Festival (Katowice 2018)

Andrea Domenici

Born: June 19, 1992

Born and raised in Lecco (Italy), Andrea Domenici is a jazz pianist and composer who has been living in New York since 2012. At the beginning of his career he won the first edition of the “Premio Gianni Basso” as best soloist and the first prize of the La Spezia Jazz Competition as the best piano player. A 2016 graduate from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Domenici studied with great piano players such as Benny Green, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron, Dado Moroni, Rossano Sportiello and Mario Rusca. Since Domenici has moved to New York, he collaborated and shared the stage with: Harry Allen, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Bartz, Louis Hayes, Kenny Washington, James Morrison, Etienne Charles, Eddie Henderson, Billy Drummond, Peter Washington, Roy Hargrove, Carol Fredette, Billy Harper, Dave Glasser, Charles Tolliver, Jimmy Owens, Wayne Escoffery, Dave Kikoski, Dave Douglas, James Carter and many more

Take Five with Marcio Garcia

by AAJ Staff
April 10, 2019

About Marcio Garcia Marcio Garcia is a Dominican pianist, composer and educator. From a very young age Marcio showed passion for music and began formal studies in classical piano at age seven in his hometown Santo Domingo. After finishing high school and early musical studies in the Dominican Republic, Garcia went to ...

Vlad West

Born: April 5, 1937

Vlad West, known in Russia as Vladimir Sermakashev, was a child prodigy. Born in Baku (Russia) he studied piano from age three, composition from age five. At that early age he was playing solo piano concerts at Baku Conservatory and was taking composing and arranging lessons with well known professors. Mr. West has technique and knowledge of classical and jazz music well beyond ordinary piano player. As Mr. Starr (president of Oberlin College, Jazz Study) said about West in one of his books on jazz: "In his combination of grittiness and lyricism, blues feeling and sheer drive, he has few equals, in Europe certainly and even in America."

Blake Handler

Joel Holmes

Born: December 6, 1982

Joel Holmes began teaching himself tunes by ear at age 10. He grew up playing with local bands and primarily in church. His family soon moved from Virginia to Baltimore so that he could attend the Baltimore School for the Performing Arts. Later, Joel Holmes became the Director of Jazz at his alma mater. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music at John Hopkins University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Performance. Over the years, Joel has received numerous honors including 2 Grammy Nominations, a gold medal in the Act-so competition of the NAACP, and honorable mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, a finalist in the fifth annual Independent Music Awards and an honorable mention in the VH1 Song of the Year Awards

Konstantin Glouzman

Larry Brown

Born: January 1, 1954

Pianist Larry Brown leads one of the most accomplished straight-ahead jazz groups in the Mid-Atlantic area, having performed at An Die Musik, Blues Alley, the Meyerhoff, the Kennedy Center, the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, East Coast Jazz Festival, Baltimore-Washington Jazz Fest, Alexandria Jazz Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Jazz Festival, Twins Jazz, Bohemian Caverns, the King Of France Tavern, Montpelier Arts Center, Chris’ Café, the New Haven Lounge, Caton Castle, Strathmore Mansion, and the Black Rock Center for the Arts. JazzReview.com describes The Larry Brown Quintet as "Straight-ahead jazz at its best, with a forthright approach to well chosen material, supported by first rate soloists and a rock-solid rhythm section." The group’s four CDs receive airplay all over the country, as well as in Brazil, Canada, Russia, and Japan