Results for "jazz"

Alan Dammit

Born: February 25, 1966

Eclectic composer and author, guitarist, singer and producer. He also plays piano and bass.
He started writing in the 80's and is a SIAE member since 1990.
He started the Alan Dammit Group in 1998.
He published the first single in 2000/s and the first album in 2003 with the independent label MaccioSoft Multimedia.

Mitchell Long

Born: August 28, 1962

A vibrant Jazz and Brazilian music artist, Mitchell Long was born in La Jolla CA. to a creative family. His father a writer, mother visual artist and his grandmother a music teacher. His love for many styles of music has shaped him into a unique and original artist. He sings in English and Portuguese, is a great composer and arranger and plays many different stringed instruments as well as percussion. He lives in Los Angeles now since 2003.
Mitchell has toured around the world and recorded with many jazz, pop and world music stars including Melody Gardot, Herb Alpert, Gloria Estefan, Rique Pantoja, Herbie Mann, Maria de Barros, Claudio Roditi, Waldemar Bastos, Dr Lonnie Smith, Vinx, Sergio Mendes, Julia Fordham, Billy Tolles, Rudy Love, Ron Miles and Nelson Rangel among many others

Fernanda Cunha

Born: November 5

Fernanda Cunha is a Brazilian jazz singer from Rio de Janeiro. She grew up with an affinity for both the music of her home country as well as jazz. She has toured Brazil, Europe, and North America, performing at prestigious international jazz festivals.

She has released 10  solo albums in Brazil with worldwide distribution.

Fernanda has been a regular performer in Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast for many years.  

Regular appearances at jazz festivals in Canada have helped to carve out a fan base for Cunha’s post-bossa groove, and in 2019 she moved to Ontario, Canada.  

Joan Watson-Jones

Born: September 24, 1974

The Artistry of Joan Watson-Jones

Jazz is a storytelling art, and vocalist/lyricist/composer Joan Watson-Jones, who calls Derry, New Hampshire and New York City home, has a story to tell.

Armed with a master’s degree in music education from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Watson-Jones had a long and successful teaching career in The Bronx and in New England. But the jazz seed had been growing in her ever since she was a child in Harlem, where she took piano and tap lessons at the age of four. Later, she learned to play guitar and drums, and was coached and mentored by the late singer Joyce Bryant.

Vinny Valentino

Born: June 20, 1964

Guitarist Composer Vinny Valentino continues to redefine musical genres, to the acclaim of audiences worldwide. His international debut recording, The Distance Between Two Lines, shot straight up the charts to #2 and stayed on the national charts for more than 14 weeks-an unprecedented achievement for a first international release. Paul Anthony of Jazz Unlimited called it "one of the top five albums of 1993." Vinny's 1996 international release, Now and Again, extended his critical acclaim. George Benson refers to Vinny as a "young genius with brilliant tone and fresh ideas." Vintage Guitar Magazine writes "wonderful jazz player with killer chops, wonderful compositional skills�"(March 1997)

Fosforo Sequera

Born: October 28, 1967

Fósforo Sequera's versatility as a percussionist has allowed him to assimilate musical genres such as jazz, pop, rock, blues and world music in an original, colorful and passionate way. He was born in Valencia and started playing music during his adolescence, at that time he faced the drums with the intuition and anxiety of exploration of any good beginner, his ear was his best teacher. His curiosity expanded to other percussion instruments, being the conga, timbal, bongo, djembe and cajon the instruments that would complete his path and forge an original and sensitive style, highly influenced by musicians such as Nene Quintero, Jerry Gonzalez, Marlon Simon, Nana Vasconcelos and Steve Berrios, among others. His musical development led him to make music with personalities of the musical world such as Gerardo Rosales, Marlon Simon, Leonardo Lozano, Franco Nasi, Carmelo Medina, Banda Sinfónica 24 de Junio, Jorge Palomo, Luis Gallo, Malicia Rock Band, Tony Velázquez, UC Jazz, Maria Elena Millán, Juan Cristóbal Moreno, Yudith Rodríguez, Ocho Son Suficiente, Omar Lopez, CJ3, Borburata Jazz, Big Montal Band, Kactus, Trabala'o, Soto Blues Band, Omar Herrera, Marianne Mali, Valencia en Ensamble, Henry Arias Inca, Wolfgang Vom Hofe, Raúl Cragg, Orquesta de Cámara de la Universidad de Carabobo, Sonata Disonante, among others.

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Antti Annola

Born: October 11, 1989

Antti Annola (b. 1989) is a Finnish jazz singer. Annola’s voice has been praised for its warm yet rich timbre combined with his captivating endowment for story-telling. His unique scat improvisation abilities play an essential part in his will to discover new territories in the context of unwritten musical communication and the world of vocal jazz improvisation.
 

Will Holshouser

Will Holshouser was given an old accordion when he was young and impressionable and was soon bewitched by its charms. Since then, he has become one of the busiest, most versatile accordionists in the U.S. and a composer of unique, colorful music. He leads several of his own groups and performs all over the globe with leading jazz, world, pop and classical artists. Will’s music relates to multiple music traditions and draws on the deeply expressive and fun-loving aspects of his chosen instrument, incorporating melodies you can whistle, pulsating rhythms, mesmerizing hymn-like tunes, rich jazz harmonies, subtle soundscapes and exciting improvisation.

Will began playing accordion in the late 1980s when a friend gave him an old squeezebox as a surprise. At the time he was studying music in college; the accordion let him branch out to playing in bar bands, learning many kinds of folk music, and doing an eclectic range of work on the New York scene. He has since performed in over 30 countries around the world. In addition to leading his own groups and writing music, Will has played with a wide variety of artists including jazz violinist Regina Carter, modern klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, Dutch trumpet phenomenon Eric Vloeimans, Suzanne Vega, Antony and the Johnsons, Michael Winograd, Han Bennink & Michael Moore, Lisa Gutkin, Guy Klucevsek, Uri Caine, Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, Andy Statman, and many others. Three albums of his own music for trio, featuring trumpeter Ron Horton and bassist Dave Phillips, have been released by the Portuguese label Clean Feed. His group Musette Explosion, a collaboration with Matt Munisteri on guitar and Marcus Rojas on tuba, made it to Billboard’s Jazz Albums chart and was featured in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air. He has been commissioned as a composer by the American Accordionists' Association and Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble. He has also worked on Broadway, in the studio with film composers including Elliot Goldenthal and Rachel Portman, and with classical ensembles including NYC Ballet, NYC Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Ensemble Connect and more.

Karla Bauer

As founder and CEO of SHINE On! Music LLC, I have combined my two loves: creating and performing my original jazz music and giving access to high-quality art programs to youth from the underserved communities where I volunteer weekly and in the rural communities where I grew up. I travel to these targeted areas to bring the SHINE On! Music Workshop and Community Outreach Concert program to their communities.

SHINE On! Music Workshop - The students are taught how to develop their careers in the arts. But unlike any other art program, the primary goal of the workshop is to teach youth how to promote themselves successfully and 'safely' in a digital world and how to protect themselves from opportunists in the industry.