Results for "jazz"

Siwon Lee

Born: January 21, 1995

Siwon Lee is a distinguished jazz pianist, arranger and composer based in New York and South Korea. Having established a strong foundation, playing classical piano since the age of four, her work spans genres. Her artistic influence includes classical, jazz, funk, pop and latin music.

Her jazz journey began in South Korea, where she won first prize at the 2014 Kyung-Hee University Jazz Competition, a significant milestone that set the stage for her pursuit of jazz at an international level. Moving to New York, she immersed herself in rigorous study and performance at SUNY Purchase, earning both acclaim and accolades, including the 2024 SUNY Purchase Outstanding Graduate Award, which recognized her exceptional leadership and musicianship.

Ashia Ackov

Born: August 10

Singer/Songwriter Ashia Ackov is a rising star of the Jazz Genre with her hit "Blame it on Me". She has a unique style that blends traditional jazz elements with modern influences, creating a fresh and original sound. She sings Lounge, Smooth Jazz, Noire-Era, and Bossa Nova. Ashia is a self-proclaimed SoCal girl who enjoys writing poetry comparing love and nature. She credits that as an inspiration when it comes to writing her music. Because she suffers from Vocal Dysphonia, she has a unique, quiet, lush, vocal tone that is very intimate. 

Mellow Blues

Born: April 2, 1987

Mellow Blues
Jazz Pop ​Artist & Guitar Teacher

Performing as Mellow Blues, Yat Hamzah is a jazz pop guitarist, singer, songwriter and guitar teacher from Singapore, based in Phuket, Thailand

Dré Matsumoto

Born: June 21, 1972

Dré Matsumoto (aka André Marcel Ajamu Akinyele) is an American-Canadian residing in Yokohama. The bassist and multi-instrumentalist is known for his jazz-fusion-funk. His inspirations include Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, and Ron Carter, to name a few. He was born in San Pablo, California as André Marcel Wilson, and changed his name to André Marcel Ajamu Akinyele in 2004. Why the name Dré Matsumoto? He stated that “Dré is half my name André, and Matsumoto is a Japanese name that I love the sound of.” A native of the San Francisco bay area, he currently resides in Toronto, Ontario Canada and Yokohama, Kanagawa Japan

Lawrence Welk

Born: March 11, 1903

Before he became a household name as the host of his own self-titled television show, Lawrence Welk was a hardworking bandleader shaped by the rural Midwest, European folk traditions, and the rhythms of early American dance music. Born in 1903 in North Dakota to German-Russian immigrants, Welk’s first musical instrument was the button accordion, and his early gigs were steeped in polka, waltz, and regional styles that prioritized rhythm and melody for the dance floor.

By the 1920s and '30s, Welk was leading bands across the Midwest, developing a style that would eventually be dubbed "champagne music" - smooth, tightly arranged, and bouyant. Beneath its polished surface, however, his orchestras absorbed the styles of the jazz music that was evolving around them. While his band didn't swing in the way that Goodman or Basie's did, they found great success in foxtrots, rumbas and even jazz standards, bended to match their smoothness.

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Toby Wren

Born: April 3, 1975

Toby Wren plays jazz guitar and writes music. He was trained at the QCMGU in composition and contemporary improvisation. He won the 1997 DIGF composers competition for his guitar piece 'nebbish' and was twice selected for the Australian Composers Orchestral Forum. He has been performed by most of Australia's orchestras, written arrangements for rock bands, given lectures on Australian music, written instructional materials and essays and recorded two CDs of original compositions. Toby also plays with the Trevor Hart Quartet.

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Stolen Moments - Jazz Music of the American Songbook

Active since: 2024

Stolen Moments champions the timeless jazz music of the American Songbook for the Hopewell Valley i n Mercer County, New Jersey.

VOODOO DRUMMER

Born: February 28, 1970

>The Afro-Dionysian VOODOO DRUMMER duo    

Weird Cello and Balafon melodies on top of original odd rhythms and African percussion, inspired by the Greek Drama, especially by Dionysus!

For more than 30 years he has appeared at festivals, theaters and venues all over the world, such as the Rouge Cabaret Festival (Paris), Villa Celimontana Jazz Fest (Rome), Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Athens), Secret Garden Fest (U.K.), and the Doha Jazz Festival (Qatar) - his own highlights, though, are gigs in New Orleans and jamming at a funeral in Benin, West Africa!

He had performed and recorded with the cult British trio The Tiger Lillies, New Orleans singer Meschyia Lake, Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, the great American Jazz saxophonist Alex Foster (Miles Davis, Charles Mingus), the Balafon master Mamadou Diabate (Burkina Faso), Blaine L. Reininger from Tuxedomoon (U.S.), Marc Collin from Nouvelle Vague (FR) and Xavi Turull from Ojos de Brujo (SP).

Will Bradley

Born: July 12, 1912

Wilbur Schwichtenberg, born on July 12, 1912, was a popular American trombonist and bandleader who rose to fame in World War II, at the height of the swing era. After playing trombone in New York for various dance orchestras during the 1930s, in 1939 he changed his name to Will Bradley and co-founded his own big band with drummer and singer Ray McKinley. Their orchestra became renowned for popularising African-American boogie woogie rhythms and incorporating them into hits like "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" and  "Scrub Me Mama, with a Boogie Beat." Despite his personal preference for ballads, Bradley's collaborations with McKinley and pianist Freddie Slack helped his band briefly become known as one of the most distinctive hard-swinging outifts in the country