Results for "mandolin"

August Watters

August Watters is a multi-stylistic, improvising mandolinist, composer/arranger, and teacher in the Boston area. He has performed with some of the leading figures in today’s revival of this most elegant instrument, and the advancement of its musical traditions. His work as an interpreter, improviser, composer and arranger bridges contemporary classical music, jazz, folk music traditions, and the historical concert mandolin repertoire. As an international clinician and soloist, Watters has performed in Italy, Germany, England, the Czech Republic, England, Canada, and the United States. He is also an Emmy award-winning arranger, with dozens of studio credits as arranger, orchestrator and conductor for television and film music

Snehasish Mozumder

Made in Italy

Born: June 22, 1961

Live Italian Music and Latin Jazz

Rob McMaken

Born: February 12, 1973

Rob McMaken has been writing and playing music with folk, jazz, and world music in Athens Georgia for the last 10 years. He co-founded the innovative instrumental duo Dromedary in 1998, and since has co-written and recorded 4 albums with Dromedary, touring extensively in the Southeast, Northeast, Rockies, and West Coast. He also was an original member of the international jazz collective known as Kenosha Kid (ala Dan Nettles), and continues to play with this group, as well as Jonathan Byrd and the McMaken Brothers.

Liam Fromm

Born: September 9, 1965

I started with a pencil, drumming everything swing, then I had an urge to play viola which was a classical setting for 10 years. While playing classical I heard all things swingand jazz, Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore playing on Austin City Limits-"how high the moon"-really sent me. So I switched to Mandolin after high school and have been playing melody ever since.

Jamie Masefield

Since 1993, Jamie Masefield's Jazz Mandolin Project has been offering an entirely new concept of what the mandolin can do. Pushing the boundaries with a new innovative sound, "JMP" has toured throughout the US and internationally with a unique approach that has changed the mind of many as to the instruments potential. In its latest ambitious chapter, it's exploring the realm of working in multiple mediums. The name itself, The Jazz Mandolin Project suggests an ongoing experiment, and so it is that Masefield is currently steering his group away from the concert stage and moving it in front of a movie screen to shed light on classic literature and the ethics of Leo Tolstoy, (who has often received the title as the greatest storyteller in modern history)

Steven Clarkson

Born: September 15, 1967

Steven started his musical career at the age of 7 playing jazz alto sax. His first stringed instrument was a classical guitar. In 1997, he purchased his first acoustic mandolin. You can learn more about Steven and his unique style of playing at http://www.chocteemusic.com !

Hamilton de Holanda

Born: March 30, 1976

Virtuosic, brilliant and unique – those are some of the adjectives used to describe this musician who sets world audiences ablaze, developing a career studded with awards.

Hamilton de Holanda uses the past 14 years to establish a technique for reinventing the 10 string Mandolin. He compose 24 Caprices for the mandolin and disentangled this emblematic Brazilian instrument from the legacy of some of its influences and styles, to make it a global instrument. In the US, the press soon dubbed him the “Jimi Hendrix of bandolim”.

At the age of 38, 33 years as a professional musician, de Holanda has evolved a characteristic way of playing, a character. His phrasing, the extra strings and his powerful sound, combined to the speed of the solo passages and improvisations, are inspiring a new generation and a new sound.

Rodrigo Simoes

Born: January 5, 1979

Rodrigo Simões is a Brazilian composer with a distinctive style that oscillates between Brazilian music and jazz improvisation. His international career has taken him through China, South Korea, Australia, Paraguay and the United States, in addition to his native country – Brazil – and his adopted country – Canada. The guitarist has already collaborated with great artists in Brazil (Elza Soares, Carlos Malta, Paulinho da Viola, Dominguinhos, Zeca Baleiro and Paulo Moska) and in Canada (Bill McBirnie, Joel Miller, Flavia Nascimento, Sienna Dahlen, Alex Lefaivre, Sonia Jonhson, Carl Mayotte, Mark Nelson and Jean-Pierre Zanella)

Tom Bekeny

Born: March 12, 1954

For the last 40 years, Tom Bekeny, has been primarily known to people as a Bluegrass mandolinist and fiddler (The Kathy Kallick Band, High Country, Bangers and Grass, Laurie Lewis). But, for the last 15 years he has focussed his energy on playing Jazz mandolin with his trio The Missing Man Quartet. In August of 2013, he released a cd of straight ahead Jazz entitled "Jazzolin" which has garnered some very positive reviews by Jazzmando.com, Jazz Weekly, and Mandolin Cafe. Jazzolin will also be reviewed in the upcoming Winter 2014 issue of Mandolin Magazine. In addition to performing and recording Tom also teaches mandolin.