Results for "Multi-instrumentalist"

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

Jessica Fichot

Armed with four languages and an array of instruments, Jessica Fichot is making world music that's truly universal. Drawing from her multinational background, Jessica has created a fusion of French chanson, gypsy jazz, vocal jazz and cabaret. The result is a unique sound that bridges past and present styles, evoking an ageless quality accentuated by Jessica's soft, pure vocals. Composed primarily in French and English, but adding Chinese and Spanish covers to her live repertoire, Jessica's multilingual music pays tribute to her international influences. Born in upstate New York to a French father and Chinese mother, Jessica was raised in France, where she started performing in local Parisian venues at age 14, chasing her dream through coffeehouses and into music school

Bobby Carcasses

Born: August 29, 1938

Bobby Carcassés New Album "De La Habana a Nueva York" 9 songs...featuring Dafnis Prieto: drums, Yosvany Terry: saxophone & chekere, Osmany Paredes: piano, Yunior Terry: bass, Marvin Diz: percussion, special guest Andrea Bratchfeld: flute. Whereas in the past he has been popularly known as the perfect “Showman” and Entertainer, Bobby is now considered the ultimate Guru of Afrocuban Jazz, offering inspiration to the up and coming generation of new Cuban Jazz musicians as many of the Best new talents have started their careers playing with Bobby’s band. He was born on August 29th 1938 in Kingston Jamaica, where his Cuban grandfather worked as a Diplomat

Don Thompson

Born: January 18, 1940

Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist,vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recordingengineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940.After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bassand the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taughton all instruments. In Vancouver 1960-5 he was sideman toChris Gage (playing bass or vibraphone) and Dave Robbins(bass) and accompanied the visiting US jazzmen BarneyKessel, John Handy, and others in local nightclubs. With thedrummer Terry Clarke he joined Handy's quintet in the USAin 1965, touring widely and making two LPs, one of which,Live at Monterey, was among the most popular jazzrecordings of the 1960s.

James Hurt

Born: May 8, 1967

James Hurt, born on May 8, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee in the historic Orange Mound Community, credits his mom for his early exposure to blues, jazz, and soul music. James became dedicated to the drums by age twelve. At age fifteen, James auditioned as a percussionist and was accepted into Watkins Overton High School of the Creative and Performing Arts. At age sixteen James did his first session as a recording engineer. Musically, James is genre bender who approaches music as a journey in sound. Though James studied percussion while attending TSU, his harmony, counterpoint, form and analysis and applied piano instructor Dr

Victor Feldman

Born: April 7, 1934

Victor Feldman was born in Edgware, Middlesex in 1934. He caused a sensation as a musical prodigy when he was "discovered" at age 7. His family were all musical and his father founded the Feldman Swing Club in London in 1942 to showcase his talented son. His first professional appearance was playing drums at No 1 Rhythm Club as a member of the Feldman Trio with brothers Robert on clarinet and Monty on piano accordion. In 1944 he was featured at a concert with Glenn Miller's AAAF band, featured inevitably as "Kid Krupa". Carlo Krahmer encouraged Feldman to play the vibes which he did first in the Ralph Sharon Sextet and later in the Roy Fox band

Hugo Fattoruso

Born: July 29, 1943

Hugo Fattoruso was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1943. Fattoruso is a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.[1] As well as developing a career as a soloist, he has participated and performed in many different genres: Trio Fattoruso, Hot Blowers, Los Shakers, Opa, Eduardo Mateo, etc. He has collaborated also with such renounned artists as : Airto Moreira, Abraham Laboriel, Manolo Badrena, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, Ruben Rada, Djavan ETC.

Kali Z. Fasteau

Born: March 9, 1947

From a musical family, Kali. Z. Fasteau played piano, cello, flute, and sang since early childhood in Paris and New York. Specializing in spontaneous composition, she performs on nai, kaval and shakuhachi flutes, voice, piano, drum set, viola, mizmar, soprano sax, sanza, and cello. She studied the music of Asia, Africa, 20th Century Europe and Jazz, and traveled for 14 years, living in India (2 years), Turkey (1 year), Nepal, Morocco, Senegal, Congo, Italy, Holland (3 years), France (many years), Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Zimbabwe, Mali, Niger, Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, Haiti and America, performing in music festivals, concerts, national radio, TV, and film soundtracks