Results for "modern jazz"

Nadav Peled

Born: January 17, 1988

Nadav Peled is a guitarist and composer whose music blends elements of jazz, soul, R&B, funk, and various other styles. He has carefully crafted his musical style and curated his artistic exploration into a successful music career.

His debut album- Anbessa Orchestra was dedicated to combining elements of Ethiopian music with a dose of American jazz. Anbessa Orchestra is an innovative project with a high acclaim and an integral part of New York’s groove scene.

His music has been featured in commercial campaigns for Coca-Cola and United Airlines, he has also contributed and recorded music for Apple TV’s, Lady in The Lake working with acclaimed musical producer Bekon (Kendrick Lamar/ Hozier).

Sarah Politte

Born: June 8, 2007

With a voice described as "chocolate melting," Sarah Politte breathes new life into the timeless classics of the Great American Songbook. Her artistry is deeply inspired by the mastery of Sarah Vaughan, Julie London, and Chet Baker. This two-time All-State Jazz Vocalist masterfully blends a modern charm with the technical precision and classic style of a seasoned jazz Vocalist.

Sarah is currently preparing for the September 18, 2026 release of her highly anticipated debut EP: In Wonderland. Recorded at Marigny Studios, the project was produced by Grammy-winning producer and sound engineer Justin Armstrong. 

Shoketta

Shoketta is a vocalist and composer from Okinawa, Japan, whose music is rooted in jazz, soul, R&B and gospel. She began singing at the age of 13 in a church on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, where she first encountered gospel and soul and discovered how music could connect people across languages and cultures.

As a young adult, Shoketta began performing professionally as a pianist in hotel lounges in Okinawa. Over time, she made a defining decision to make her voice her primary instrument. At 25, she moved to Tokyo on her own to pursue formal vocal training. Those years of study eventually led to a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Sébastien Hugue

Born: November 4, 1996

Sébastien Hugue is both an electric and an acoustic bass player. Born in France in 1996, he started to play the bass at the age of thirteen. He first practiced rock n’ roll music in Dijon, his hometown in France where he met Michel Thévenard, a bass teacher that taught him a « proper » technique to play the electric bass. Within this program of three years, he discovered Jaco Pastorius, Mark King, Richard Bona, Cliff Burton (first bass player of Metallica) and his taste was of course mainly orientated into rock and metal music. In the meantime in highschool, he started a rock/fusion band called Muphin

Clemens Köhler

Born: October 8, 2002

Clemens Köhler – Saxophonist, Flutist, Composer

Clemens Köhler (born 2002 in Kandel, Germany) is a New York based Jazz musician. He began playing piano at age 6. In 2013, he also started playing saxophone. He was a member of the Landesjugendjazzorchester RLP (Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Jazz Orchestra), the Bundesjazzorchester (German Federal Jazz Orchestra), as well as the Orchestre des Jeunes de l'Orchestre National de Jazz.

After graduating from high school (Abitur), he completed a Bachelor's degree in Jazz/Pop from 2022 to 2026 at the HfMT Köln (Cologne University of Music and Dance) under Claudius Valk and Hubert Nuss, graduating with top honors.

Sebastian Zawadzki

Born: October 14, 1991

Sebastian Zawadzki is a Polish-born pianist and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work moves between contemporary European and Nordic jazz, contemporary classical composition and film music, with a musical language centred on melody, space, improvisation and cinematic form.

Based in Denmark since 2010, Zawadzki has developed a distinctive approach to the piano that combines Scandinavian spaciousness and restraint with contemporary composition, lyrical improvisation and a strong sense of narrative. His projects range from acoustic piano trio and solo piano to chamber ensembles, electronics and symphony orchestra.

Michael Jenner

Born: August 6, 1979

Michael Jenner’s music builds on a foundation of hard bop and classic soul, brimming with a joyful, playful spirit; his deceptively simple tunes reveal hidden wrinkles that give way to exhilarating, free-flowing improvisations that have been described as "intense" (OffBeat) and "graceful"(N.O. Times-Picayune).  

Raised in Pittsburgh, New Orleans has been Jenner’s adopted hometown since 1997. The city’s deep musical roots, warm community and inspiring music scene have all deeply shaped his music and personal philosophy.  

AMPHITRIO

Active since: 2023

AMPHITRIO is an award winning contemporary jazz project based in Bucharest, Romania, initiated in 2023, featuring pianist and composer Andrei Petrache, bassist Mike Alex and percussionist Philip Goron, all of them having a solid background in classical and alternative music.

Denny Zeitlin

Born: April 10, 1938

Denny Zeitlin has recorded over forty critically acclaimed albums; twice won first place in the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll; written original music for Sesame Street; and appeared on network TV, including repeats on the Tonight Show, and CBS Sunday Morning. Zeitlin's lecture-demonstration "Unlocking the Creative Impulse: The Psychology of Improvisation" has been presented across the U.S. and in Europe.

He has concertized throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Europe, at colleges, jazz clubs, and major festivals; appearing with jazz greats such as Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Tony Williams, Bobby Hutcherson, John Patitucci, John Abercrombie, Marian McPartland, Charlie Haden, David Grisman, Kronos Quartet, Paul Winter, David Friesen, Matt Wilson, Buster Williams, George Marsh, and many others.

Francois Bourassa

François Bourassa—now with eleven albums of original music under his belt—has become an ambassador for Canada’s thriving jazz community at an international level. A paragon of both consistency and evolution, he continues to seek out new challenges for himself, his colleagues, and his growing community of listeners. On July 7, 2023, he released « Swirl », a new live album by the François Bourassa Quartet recorded in 2022 at Studio Piccolo in Montreal (QC), and on April 16, 2021, Bourassa finally released his first solo piano album L’Impact du silence, recorded at La Buissonne in the southeast of France.
Bourassa’s talent was initially recognized by the Festival international de jazz de Montréal in 1985, kickstarting his trio’s recording and performing career throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In 1996, Bourassa’s trio joined forces with André Leroux, a saxophonist and flutist who is equally at home with a contemporary saxophone quartet as with a jazz orchestra as the featured soloist. Bourassa’s eponymous quartet has been a staple of Montreal’s artistic landscape for 30 years and celebrates this anniversary with a Canadian tour in June/July 2026 and a European tour in November 2026. The band features founding bassist Guy Boisvert, longtime saxophonist André Leroux, and Guillaume Pilote as the most recent addition in Bourassa’s mentorship of young drummers. Their 2001 Live album recorded at Toronto’s Top O’ the Senator received a Juno award. In celebration of his compositional output, Bourassa was also the recipient of SOCAN’s Hagood Hardy Award in 2011. Number 9 (2017) chronicles his discography while also providing a subtle namecheck to the Beatles’ psychedelic oeuvre “Revolution #9” and The White Album. One highlight of the album, “Carla und Karlheinz” salutes two more of Bourassa’s guiding influences: Carla Bley (to whom he paid tribute at the Festival international de jazz de Montréal with the Orchestre national de Jazz) and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Number 9 was heralded as one of the best Canadian jazz albums of 2017 (Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen) and praised by Bley herself and Steve Swallow as a “wondrous piece of work.” Over the past decades, the quartet has garnered multiple Félix and Opus awards for their recordings and live performances, respectively.