Results for "Latin"

Ronald Rodriguez Herrera

Born: June 16, 1997

Ronald Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed classical and jazz pianist, recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Piano at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. A native of Cartagena, Colombia, he started playing the piano at the age of eight. At the age of eleven, Ronald began performing with local jazz groups in Cartagena and was a member of the Cartagena Caribe Big Band. Currently, he has emerged as a top-choice professional player in the competitive New Orleans and Baton Rouge music scenes, primarily due to his ability to adapt to various musical styles effortlessly. He has gained vast experience by performing in renowned music festivals, such as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Music Festival in 2022 and 2025, alongside Alexey Marti. He has also performed with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, as well as the Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet. As a classical musician, he has performed with various ensembles, including the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, and has served as a collaborative pianist for other instrumentalists and choirs. His most recent projects include the recording of two albums, Mosaico Quinteto and Desde La Raiz in New Orleans, including original works and arrangements.

AJ Weibe

Born: November 10, 1986

Guitarist for Maritzaida on SideHustle Records

Neff Irizarry

Born: December 10, 1973

A highly talented composer, guitarist, author and educator specializing in Latin and contemporary jazz, Neff Irizarry follows in the footsteps of Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, and Steve Khan. His unique blend of progressive Latin Jazz displays Puerto Rican “Sabor” and a Nordic cool called “Sisu.”

Featured in The European Real Book (Sher Music Co., 2007), Neff has joined the ranks of the most esteemed European composers of jazz. And, with his works, Contemporary Latin Jazz Guitar Vol. 1 and Vol. 2: Solos (Sher Music Co., 2021 & 2024), Neff has provided the most comprehensive books on Latin
Jazz Guitar ever written.

Luis Rojas

Luis Rojas has been active in the Northern California music scene as bandleader, sideman, and guitar instructor since moving to the Bay Area from Los Angeles. He loves to combine jazz, blues, and latin influences to create a unique and personal sound. Luis studied at the Dick Grove School of Music in LA. and at The Jazz School in Berkeley (now the California Jazz Conservatory). He also studied with Mimi Fox, Warren Nunes, Jeff Massanari, and Rick Vandivier. He has played with Equinox, Caribe, The Bruce Wells Quartet, Darrell Harris Band, Déjà vu, Flashpoint, Fusion Blue, The Luis Rojas Quintet, and Spectrum

Wesley Montaigne

Milton Arias

Born: September 6, 1982

I was born in 1982 in Córdoba, Argentina, and I play bass since age 15. Recently, I edited two live-in-studio CDs and DVDs. You can download both of them freely from my website: www.miltonarias.com.ar

John Patrick Douglas

Born: September 11, 1966

I play saxophone, clarinet, and flute. I play various genres - jazz, big band, funk/rock/pop, Brazilian, and others.

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, studied with Ben Meltzer and Mary Fettig. I'm currently teaching music in public schools, taking woodwind students in my private studio, and working as a freelance musician around the Bay Area. I've recorded on projects with Marcie Brown, Carrie Lyn Souza, and on True Vibes Records.

Look out for a quartet project as a leader - coming soon!

Rubim de Toledo

Born: November 2, 1972

Award-winning bassist and composer, Rubim de Toledo combines the influences of his Brazilian heritage and his dedication to the jazz tradition, to create an approach to music that is refreshing and uplifting. Boasting a diverse rhythmic palette inspired by world music, jazz, and contemporary music, a lure towards improvisation and a forward-looking traditionalism, Rubim nurtures a commanding sound and style as a bassist, soloist, and composer.

Rubim began his professional career in Edmonton at seventeen, performing with Albertan Jazz legends Tommy Banks, PJ Perry and Clarence “Big” Miller

Sebastian Spanache

Born: November 24, 1984

Romanian jazz pianist and composer Sebastian Spanache started his musical journey in his home town Timisoara, where he began playing the piano at age 5, and then took up the study of jazz in ninth grade while attending the National College of Arts ‘Ion Vidu’. While still studying classical piano in high-school, Sebastian founded his first jazz/funk ensemble at age 14, later to have toured all over Romania and win numerous prizes at student competitions. 

After college, Sebastian shifted his playing and compositional directions towards a more modern edge- leading and composing for several student latin-jazz and funk ensembles

Gardyn Jazz Orchestra

Composed of world-class musicians from across the Philadelphia region, the Gardyn Jazz Orchestra has an unmistakable style and ability to inspire people - with enthusiasm, virtuosity and incredible sounds from each chart played. Experiencing the band live is always a trip! Each show is juiced with hip arrangements, strong musical soloists, and unkempt hard groovin’ swing provided by the rhythm section. Derived from the Saxon words GAR, meaning "a weapon", and DYN meaning "sound or alarm", combined with the termination ER gives the name "Gair-den-er", which means "a warrior"