Results for "Multi-instrumentalist"

David Edward Williams

Born: January 1, 1954

Bach. Degree in Music Composition Unv. of Md 1991 BFA Corcoran College of Art Wash DC 2007 Art Peformance/ Meat Market Gallery Wash DC 2007 Free Jazz Improv Performance/Solo Piano/ Corcoran College of Art Poetry Reading/Corcoran College of Art/Gallery 31/ 2007 Guitar Peformance/Installation/Senior Thesis/ Corcoran College of Art/Gallery 31/Wash DC Poetry Reading/Performance/Transformer Gallery Wash DC/ 2008

Alan Steward

Born: April 30, 1961

"Electronic World Fusion", an exotic mix of funk, jazz, world music and electronica" Alan Steward is a producer, songwriter and recording artist who produced hits for Grammy-winning and Platinum-selling artists like the multi-platinum selling Baha Men and five-time Grammy winners Dennis Edwards and Eddie Kendricks, both original members of the The Temptations. Their single, "Get It While It's Hot," co-written by Jermaine Jackson, became a club hit and went on to spawn four remixes.

Steward is credited by many as one of the early pioneers for electronic dance music, touring with an elaborate setup of 13 or more keyboards, synthesizers and rhythm boxes (at a time when the drum machine wasn't even invented yet). Unlike the other pioneers of electronica like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, Alan's music was always very danceable, full of R&B and soul influences and indeed the forerunner of what is now termed House Music. Alan's musical style today is best described as electronic world fusion, as it combines exotic instruments and voices with jazz and funk grooves and electronica.

As a producer, Steward recorded hits for David Black (Capitol/EMI Records), who went on a world tour opening for Mc Hammer and also appeared on his album Too Legit to Qui; Isaac Adams (former vocalist for both the Bar Kays and Cameo)

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Meeting at a studio in 1997, veteran noise bassist Tony Gordon (Zandosis) takes the young and spirited drummer Dale W Miller (Palomar) under his wing and shows him the ways of truely playing free. Over years of playing together in various combos including the massive ensemble CHARLIE PARKER to spoken word artist the Mikel K band to various free improv combos they come together strictly as a duo.

Jon Goforth

Born: September 25, 1955

Jon Goforth Jon Goforth is known as a captivating musical storyteller with many voices. His music career spans thirty years during which he has performed live and been recorded many thousands of times. Yet every time Jon picks up an instrument he creates a new listening experience; his technical proficiency and incredible feel for the music crosses genres from classical to funk, jazz to soul, R&B to pop. A native of Seattle, Jon studied saxophone, clarinet, and flute with Johnny Jessen through his Lakeside High School years then immediately began his practical music education, touring internationally with the soul band Exit 122

Octavia

Born: November 21

Oktawia Kawecka, born in Radom, Poland, is a vocalist, flute player, arranger, and also the leader of her own band. She performs her own arrangements- different shades of jazz, worldwide standards of classical music which she arranges combining fresh and modern sounds at the same time keeping her attitude and devotion towards the mainstream jazz music. Her reportoire includes songs in Polish, English, French, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Italian. She is currently studying at F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, Poland. Oktawia Kawecka has been performing since her childhood, winning many acclaimed awards at Polish and international music festivals, including for example Polish TV channel 1 award at the International Music and Dance Festival in Konin

Marc Constant

Marc Constant - Multi-Instrumentalist & Composer. Marc Constant is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Haiti. Marc started his music education by taking private lessons from his cousin Marcelin Denis. He continued his music studies at both Queens college and Hunter College. While at Queens College he earned a degree in economics and during that time he also met Donald Byrd and Jimmy Heath. Subsequently, the two jazz giants and educators shared their knowledge of music with him. After completing the music program at Hunter College, Marc began a freelance career playing music. Marc is well regarded as a bass player with a superb tone that has his own voice on both the electric and upright bass

EL's MystERy

Born: November 14, 1966

EL's MystERy (BMI) is the trade name of progressive jazz rock fusion recording artist and composer, Tony Belcastro. Tony is a high functioning autistic savant who plays guitar, bass, percussion, drums, piano/keyboards, and various other instruments, although his primary instrument has always been guitar. He is also a highly skilled recording engineer, graphic artist, application developer, and a reclusive poet. As a result of blending multiple genres, the music of EL’s MystERy is best described as progressive alternative improvisational jazz rock fusion. Tony first began showing an interest in music before he was one year old, when he was humming notes of familiar songs in key; by one year of age he was twanging rhythms on spring doorstops

Jeff Brent

Born: March 12, 1955

Piano lessons, guitar lessons, sax lessons, fiddle lessons, flute lessons, harmonica lessons, mandolin lessons. Styles taught: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, Latin, C&W, R&B, and more!

Jeff Brent has traveled the world as a professional musician.

He is the author of:

"MODALOGY - scales, modes & chords: the primordial building blocks of music"
(Hal Leonard publisher)

"Jazz Saxophone Arpeggios"
"This book [Jazz Saxophone Arpeggios] is the most progressive educational device I have ever seen.... it will be on my list this semester!"
Professor Wessell Anderson
Head of the Jazz Saxophone Department
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, USA
(toured and recorded with Wynton Marsalis for over twenty years).

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut

Born: December 2, 1967

The NAXOS Library Presents: "Creative Music for Creative Listening" comes to us after a decade of uncompromising work by one of the first relevant artists of the 21st Century.  A champion of his generation, and most prolific among his peers, CMCL brings you the next chapter in Jeffrey H. Shurdut's long legacy. JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT is the first living artist celebrated by Ayler Records with a Box Set (2007), and only figure today with three documentaries;  NorthCountry (2002-2007), Ayler Records (2007-2011), and JaZt Tapes (2011- present). "Visionary" WNUR, Chicago; "Talent and Vision to Spare", AllMusicGuide; "This Music Lives Up to Its Name", The Village Voice; "Viscerally Thrilling, Ethereal, Evoking", Cadence Magazine;  "Incendiary", Time Out New York; Columbia University, Annual Art Instillation Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (1994); The University of Pennsylvania, Guest Artist, Ars Nova (2006); MM&A Foundation Grant Award (2014), "Top 10" Todd McComb (2012), "Top 10" The Village Voice (2008)

The Barber Brothers

Born: April 2, 1980

Twins Rahsaan and Roland Barber, saxophonist and trombonist, respectively, are committed to continuing the legacy of jazz through their efforts as composers, performers, bandleaders and educators. Though still in their early twenties, the Barber Brothers have learned their craft both in the classroom and in the informal sessions, shoulder to shoulder with the veterans of the music such as Al Grey and Stanley Turrentine. The Barber Brothers’ training includes virtually every significant resource in modern jazz education. Their experiences include the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Camps, the Essentially Ellington Festival (where both were named Outstanding Soloists), the All-American Grammy High School Jazz Bands, the Ravinia Steans Young Artists Program, the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, and the Jazz Aspen Program