Results for "Multi-instrumentalist"

Kit Watkins

Born: 1953

BORN TO CLASSICAL PIANO TEACHERS in 1953 in Virginia, Kit Watkins studied piano at home from ages 5 through 13. During his teen years, Kit was drawn to rock music and became a driving force behind a series of local bands, playing organ, synthesizer, and flute, as well as singing lead. By age 18, he was discovering his own writing abilities. He soon joined up with the band Happy The Man (HTM) which was forming at the local university. It was with HTM that Kit honed his skills in composing, performing, arranging, and producing. During its original six years, the band recorded five albums, including two produced by Ken Scott and released on Arista Records

Ras Moshe

Born: March 22, 1968

1.What brought you to music?

I always loved music.Jazz especially,but many kinds ofmusic. Its hard to describe why. It was just always there..itsstill like that!

I heard Jazz everyday in the house..that's not too uniquebecause lots of young black children grew up around Jazz,butmaybe they didn't like it for themselves even though they knowabout it.

2. Describe your role models, muses and mentors.

Hmmm...one good model for me was/is John Coltrane. Heovercame certain personal issues and because he devoted somuch time to the music he was able to make a living fromit...and playing some very creative music as you knowalready!Politically some of my role models are Malcolm X and AmiriBaraka..they had/have the ability to move forward andrecognize that Things Have Got To Change.

Gina Leishman

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Gina Leishman was born in England, studied music at the Vienna Conservatory and Edinburgh University (B.Mus.Hons.), and made her home in the U.S., first on the west coast and since the early ‘90s in New York City. She has written for theater, opera, dance, film, TV and the concert stage. She is co-founder of the septet Kamikaze Ground Crew. Together for over 30 years, their recordings, on New World, Koch Jazz and Busmeat Records, include Postcards from the Highwire (2007), Covers (2000), Madam Marie’s Temple of Knowledge (1993) and The Scenic Route (1990)

Sabir Mateen

Born: April 16, 1951

Sabir Mateen - Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Flute, Piccolo, Bb & Alto Clarinets Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Poet The name Sabir Mateen has been one to deal with and listen to. Originally from Philadelphia (b. April 16th 1951), he moved to Los Angeles and played with Horace Tapscott and his Pan- Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and other bands. He moved back to Philadelphia in the '80's and played with two musicians he still collaborates with today, Sunny Murray and Raymond A. King, and also with Monette Sudler, Bill Lewis and many others. He also pursued studies with Byard Lancaster. Having moved to New York in 1989, Sabir became a world renowned artist and has performed with the greats such as Cecil Taylor, William Parker Ensembles (Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra & The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield), Alan Silva, Wilber Morris, Jemeel Moondoc, Charles Downs (Rashid Bakr), Marc Edwards, Mark Whitecage, Raphe Malik, Dave Burrell, Butch Morris, Henry Grimes, Kali Z

Paolo Lazazzara

Born: July 22, 1956

Born in 1956, start playng percussion and flutes in '73, some very important encounters (Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, Nana Vasconcelos, pandit Pran Nath)made me grow up musically. Years of travels in Europe, Africa, Central America and Middle East made me meet incredible masters and find amazing instruments. Collaboration and interaction with them are the basis of my music.

Zeki Caglar Namli

Born: January 17, 1981

ZEKI CAGLAR NAMLI Born in Trabzon in the year of 1981. He got acquainted with music by starting to play Bağlama (Three double stringed Turkish instrumet) during his tender ages. His student years started in State Conservatory in the year of 1998. Again, during these years, he formed his unique way of playing with his Bağlama consisting of silver threaded strings. He composed many instrumental compositions with his own developed unique playing technique. In the year of 2002, he invented the first natural stereo instrument of the world and he named this instrument as ‘’Double Boxed Bağlama’’

Max Vasquez

Born: October 1, 1963

An Award Winning Composer(Los Angeles Music Awards Best Jazz Album and Best Lounge Artist 2006), since 1978, Max embraces all styles of music with a keen instinct for the nuances of each genre he excels in. At the age of nine, he performed with choirs, in musicals and plays, taught himself how to read and write music by the time he was 13, and by age 14 he worked professionally playing trumpet in horn sections of bands all over L.A. and bass with members of punk band Verbal Abuse, which was a favorite of Rodney Bingenheimer. He also played with Black Flag members Sam and Henry and met and hung out with The Doors Ray Manzarek and John Doe of X and many others at the Whiskey Agogo

MuthaWit

{{m: MUTHAWIT = 19873}} featuring BOSTON FIELDER There's a difference between being immersed in music and getting lost in it. If the former is protective and predictable, the latter revels in chance and the unexpected. MuthaWit? Definitely the latter. MuthaWit is a furiously evolving multi-cultural outfit whose musical performances marry a soulful rock dynamic with free jazz experimentation, classical sensitivity and avant-garde electronics/visuals. Established in by award-winning nomadic composer, designer, filmmaker and URB ALT founder Boston Fielder, members of MuthaWit's 5-24 piece orchestra have worked with Parliament/Funkadelic, Sting, TV On The Radio, Curtis Mayfield, The Family Stand, Olu Dara, Herbie Hancock, Jay Z and Organized Noize among others

Stephan Earl

Born: November 28, 1970

Embodying elements of Jazz, Rock, Down-tempo and New Age, composer / producer Stephan Earl’s music flows across stylistic boundaries yet is focused on the principals of melody, harmony and rhythm. Enchanting and thought-provoking, Stephan composes music that is harmonically interesting and complex, yet accessible to the average listener. His music is the perfect fit for a “Nu-Jazz” world, something Stephan eagerly embraces. “There are so many styles of music that I enjoy,” said Stephan. “Yet I wanted to create a body of work focused around Jazz with ambient textures that capture your imagination and melodies that touch your soul.” Stephan Earl’s debut album Origins released November 2009 aims to accomplish just that

Lajos Ishibashi-Brons

Born: September 12, 1972

Lajos Ishibashi-Brons was born in the Netherlands in the early 1970s, but moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2008. He has been making music since the 1980s, but rarely professionally. Most of his projects mix(ed) influences from jazz, noise, drone, traditional Asian music, and various other genres. His current main project is |˟˟| (pronounce 'gate'), originally an experiment in solo improvisation on multiple instruments simultaneously, but since late 2009 a duo with a wood wind player as the second member.