Results for "Keyboard"

George Johnson

Born: October 11, 1948

George is a true professional rocksolid musician. Just listen to some of his original instrumentals and will hear a mean musical stew of Funk/Rock/R&B/Latin & more accented by thick slices of jazz. His years of experience and commitment to variety speaks of itself. Geoge plays keys for his top Colorado Band (Mother Pearl Band) He's also a Pro Nas songwriter. A song he wrote entitled "SHE LOVES MY COWOBY WAYS" was aired in a Colorado made motion picture "Top of the World". Enjoy a taste of just some of George's original works. Enjoy! Enjoy a taste of just some of his oringal works.

Elliot Levine

Born: September 30, 1963

Elliot Levine has toured with Wilson Pickett and Heatwave (Always & Forever/Boogie Nights) and has opened for Brian McKnight, Freddie Jackson, and McCoy Tyner. He has had the #1 song on mp3.com, the world's largest Internet music site with over 700,000 downloads. This amazing feat was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. Elliot has three internationally released CD's which have received extensive airplay and distribution. He has headlined at Blues Alley and the Kennedy Center. His playing has been described by Jazz Times as "showing remarkable talent."

Dustin Cottrell

Born: September 10, 1981

Dick Metcalf

Born: September 21, 1946

Rotcod Zzaj (aka Dick Metcalf) is the "King of Collab". His label catalog has over 65 releases, some 55 of which were with other artists, using the U.S. Postal Service (in other words, he's never met more than 2 or 3 of the people he's played with. Zzaj music is "different"... it is NOT what you're used to hearing, so if you shy away from adventure, you'll go elsewhere; BUT, if your ears hunger for music that's TRULY INDIE, you'll WANT to check out the Zzaj Productions catalog.... SOON!

Darrell Diaz

Born: March 15, 1969

Benjamin Munevar

Born: September 20, 1962

Born in COlombia South America. Grew up in El Centro a town 40 miles from Barrancabermeja. Grew up listenting to all the grooves from Colombia's north coast from Vallenato to Bullerengue, from Cumbia to Fandango, from Porro to Salsa. I fell in love with our afro-musical roots which is Barranca's local folclore. Ever since I was a kid my favorite music was not colombian actually brazilian. I love Bossanova and used to play guitar duets with my brother Alejandro who is a guitar virtuoso.At age 10 I was a part of a trio call "the rockets" where we played pop music from the time. My Dad used to play Jazz records often at home, great ones like Dizzy Guillespie. In 1975 we moved to the great city of Bogota were my love for Brazilian music grew stronger, I used to run and grab a cassette when I heard a Bossanova tune starting to play on the radio. In 1976 my dad suprissed me for my birthday and got me a home organ popular at the time

Alan Blake

Born: August 13, 1951

Alan & Lita Blake, are an exciting live vocal and keyboard duo easily manipulating their hi-tech instruments. They produce an authentic big band or a small combo sound with background vocals with a technique called sequencing! They have great credentials, having toured and/or recorded with the likes of Rachelle Ferrell, the late Grover Washington and George Howard, along with Jean Carne, Gerald Veasley, Omar Hakim, Kevin Eubanks, Bob Thompson, and John Blake Jr.

Alan and Lita Blake

Born: August 13, 1951

Keyboard/vocalists Alan and Lita Blake have toured and recorded with artists such as the late Grover Washington Jr., the late George Howard, Jean Carne, Kevin Eubanks, and Rachelle Ferrell. Lita studied under Dr. Donald Byrd at Howard University and performed with jazz pianist Billy Taylor and bassist Ron Carter during a Settlement Music School event in Philadelphia. They have performed at the Saratoga Springs Jazz Festival, Baltimore Harbor Jazz series, and several national venues with the late George Howard, Fairmount Park Philadelphia with jazz saxophonist the late Grover Washington Jr., the Hampton University Jazz Festival, Trinity College Workshop, Penn’s Landing jazz series, as well as the famous Blue Note jazz club in New York with jazz violinist John Blake, University of Pennsylvania Medical School Jazz events, "Music@Noon" and “Wednesday WindDown” Concert series (Centennial Park- Atlanta), “Chastain at the Cascades” Jazz concert series, Third World Festival at Centennial Park (2003), Swarthmore College Student Union Jazz concert series, “Jazz by the Lake” concert series in Stone Mountain, GA., St

Wolfgang Dauner

Born: December 30, 1935

Wolfgang Dauner was a German jazz fusion pianist who worked in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble and with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen. He was the father of German drummer Florian Dauner, a member of the German hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier. Dauner attended the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, where he concentrated on composition, piano, and trumpet. In the 1960s he belonged to a sextet led by Joki Freund. As the leader of his trio, he recorded for the first time in 1964, an early session in the history of European free jazz. In 1969, he was leader and composer for Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart

Thollem McDonas

Born: 1967

Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He's spent most of his life living on the road throughout North America and Europe. His work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of artists across idioms and disciplines. Thollem's known internationally as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post- classical worlds, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Thollem began playing the piano, composing and improvising as a child, absorbing the sounds of his culturally diverse upbringing