Results for "Keyboard"

Dave Posmontier

Dave Posmontier has been playing keyboard since the age of seven and has played professionally for the past 40 years. In 1980, Dave and his brother Rich formed the Posmontier Brothers Quintet, performing extensively at concerts, clubs, radio and television appearances in the Philadelphia area and producing an album, "PBQ'" of Dave's original music in 1985. Dave has performed and recorded with many jazz artists including Christian McBride, James Moody, Chris Potter, Duane Eubanks, Mickey Roker, Bobbie Durham, John Blake, John Swana, Mike Richmond, Bootsie Barnes, Tony Williams (sax), Bob Howell, Chico Huff, Larry McKenna, Steve Giordano, Grover Washington Jr., David "Fathead" Newman, and Johnny Hartman

Joel Fairstein

Born: October 6, 1954

Hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, Joel Fairstein has earned critical praise as jazz pianist, composer, producer, and studio musician. His first album, Umbra, an LP recorded at age 24 with eighteen sidemen has since become a sought- after collectors item. Joel graduated from Berklee college in 1983 and freelanced regularly in Boston before performing cruise ship gigs in the Bahamas and Hawaii. Returning to Knoxville in 1985, Joel began an extended period of engagements with his piano trio and earned his Masters in Music in 1992 at the University Of Tennessee, where he studied with Donald Brown. He has appeared with Monica Mancini and the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra, Eddie Henderson, Ray Anderson, Oteil Burbridge, R.B

Hill Briggs

Born: December 6, 1955

HILL BRIGGS PRODUCER History: Born in South Africa. He started playing music when he was 6 years old. He moved to England when he was 9 years old and was taught classical theory and modern music to the age of 16. He started playing semi professionally at 14, playing with some of London's top Jazz musicians and started playing professionally at 16 as a session musician. Instruments played: Keyboards, piano, Hammond organ, drums, percussion, bass, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, harmonica and saxophone. Songwriter: He is a songwriter and has a catalogue of songs that have been released commercially including film and TV music IE

Osaru

Meet Osaru:
Osaru is an incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer. He owns and runs a production house in the Winston-Salem area of North Carolina, where he is working on a variety of Smooth Jazz and R&B projects.

His second CD, Home With The Keys, is smooth jazz at its best. From silky soprano phrases in "Last Night..." to funky tenor sax lines in "Let's Begin," he expresses himself to the fullest, using his keyboards, a breath controller and his wind controller. His background training as a physician is many a time evident in the meticulous craftsmanship of his songs and bedside manner in which he delivers his message.

Some of his music has been compared to Kenny G., Paul Hardcastle and Norman Brown

Stephen McQuarry

Stephen McQuarry: Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator and Keyboardist

Stephen McQuarry, has studied at the Eastman School of Music, University of Colorado at Denver, Berklee School Of Music, University Of California San Diego and Alexander University. He is an active member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the performance rights organization, Broadcast Musicians, Inc.(BMI), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC), the Society For Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) and Chamber Music America (CMA).

Stephen has performed with distinguished artists such as the late Dizzy Gillespie, Clare Fischer, Louie Bellson, Red Rodney (Charlie Parker), Tom Scott, the late John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Vinnie Colaiuta (Sting, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa), Nathan East (Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Bob James) and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

Michael Sokolowski

Born: September 25, 1960

Michael has been performing and composing music for over 40 years (classical piano and violin throughout childhood and music composition studies with avant-gardist Robert Stewart in college). A former philosophy graduate student, he abandoned that path to study jazz improvisation both academically and by playing with the leading lights of the Virginia jazz scene in the 1980s. Appeared with the Tim Eddy Trio in legendary French film director Frederic Rossif's, Coeur des Musiciens in 1985. Since then, he has performed and recorded with DMB saxophonist, LeRoi Moore's Basics, Offering (with multi-instrumentalists TIm Reynolds and Worth Proffitt), Chapman Stick master Greg Howard, bassist Lenny Martin, trumpeter John D'earth, Dave Matthews Band, guitar virtuoso Tim Reynolds, among many others

Lao Tizer

Born: October 1, 1978

Driven by an explosive mix of jazz, rock, classical , jam band influences and Afro Cuban and world rhythms, Downbeat—the first studio album by TIZER, a multi-cultural band led by Boulder, CO native, keyboardist/composer Lao Tizer—throws down a high powered collection of 12 brand-new originals on this scintillating release of fresh instrumental music from one of today’s rising stars of the world-fusion genre. Establishing themselves in the contemporary jazz world over the past few years, TIZER has spurred comparisons of a modern twist to the 70s and early 80s heyday of jazz fusion, when trailblazing ensembles like Return To Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report set the aesthetic standard. Truly embodying the title and spirit of his 2007 solo album Diversify, Lao assembled a group of veteran world-class musicians to create a dynamic rich with new melodic, harmonic and improvisational possibilities

Mark Knox

Born: October 29, 1953

It all started by being exposed to his father’s record collection that ranged from Homer & Jethro to Ahmad Jamal to Dick Schory. Not that it was all jazz, but it WAS all good music. The part that intrigued him the most was the swing stuff . . . that walking bass part and that rhythmic ride cymbal just did something. Dick Schory’s swinging tune “Runnin’ Wild” really did it. For a pre-teen to hear such stuff . . . well, it was euphoria. And then . . . from playing a Farfisa organ in a junior-high school rock band to composing and performing on many widely-released albums and projects, Mark's capabilities for music branched out into audio technology and production

Kevin Morrissette

Born: April 17, 1959

Kevin's interest in music started at a very early stage of life, and he began playing piano by ear at age 4. By seven, Kevin was performing professionally.

Throughout Kevin's music career he has warmed and shared stages with many noted performers including Ronnie Laws, B.B. King, and the Pointer Sisters to name a few. He has been retained to perform for President Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Mayor Richard Daley, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and Ambassador Carol Mosley Braun; and the list goes on.

Kevin is the proud Father of Nicole and Kevin Jr. and he simply adores his four grandchildren Timothy, Kevin, Amari and Nadia. Kevin is also the youngest of six.

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