Results for "Keyboard"

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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Robert Liberman

Robert Liberman was born in Charleston, South Carolina, where he attended the Charleston County School System from first through twelfth grade. Robert became interested in music at an early age; often sitting at the piano for hours, picking out the notes to favorite songs. Eventually, his mother had enough of the noise and found him a piano teacher. Although he took lessons for several years, he was more interested in playing rock and roll than practicing scales and arpeggios. In 1969, at the age of thirteen, he finally convinced his father to purchase him a Farfisa portable organ and, as they say, the rest is history. At that time, Robert's older brother, Jack, was a drummer and in high school he formed a band with some friends

Matt Cusson

Matt Cusson has people talking.

He's a star in the making, a singer/songwriter, with a Voice- sexy, soulful, rich and poetic. He can play anything from the classics to his own originals and blow listeners away.

Those are just a few things being said about Matt. People are not only singing the praises of this incredible young musician, but are quickly becoming devoted fans, ready to tell everyone they know about Matt.

Thousands of fans are waiting breathlessly for Matt's debut solo CD as he continues to perform around the world. It holds true for people like James Taylor, Brian McKnight, Today host Meredith Vierra and American Idol judge Randy Jackson - all of whom say the same thing: Matt Cusson is an extraordinary musician, a remarkable singer, a gifted pianist and a star on the rise.

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