Results for "Multi-instrumentalist"

Simbawani Anad

Born: March 18, 1971

I A. M. M. that I am Artist - Musician - Magician In the Summer of 89' at just 18 yrs old, a day trip down to Marina del Rey with some friends and "Steps Ahead NYC" in the cassette deck blossomed an already aspiring young musician. Southern California born "Simba" was bit by what he calls the "Fusion Bug" and it has ever since been his passion in the Jazz scene. From Trane to Kenny Garrett to Everette Harp, all have inspired him to just play. Playing the Alto Saxophone and Drums and developing into a fine Percussionist he recently added Vibraphone to his repertoire in expanding his voice. He quotes: I no longer deal with labeling the music, I just see the beauty in it all and where ever the contributions fill the chalices I let the other cats place it in the appropriate archives for a label/title. Taking on new ventures as a multi-instrumentalist the Alto Sax will always remain as his main ax

Prince

Born: June 7, 1958

Prince Rogers Nelson, known by his mononym Prince, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, and has been a major figure in popular music for over three decades. Prince is renowned as an innovator and is widely known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, and wide vocal range. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of Minneapolis sound. His music combines rock, R&B, soul, funk, hip hop, disco, psychedelia, jazz, and pop.

Prince was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, 19-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album For You in 1978, under the guidance of manager Owen Husney. His 1979 album Prince went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records—Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982)—continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance, and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name. A prolific songwriter, Prince in the 1980s wrote songs for and produced work by many other acts, often under pseudonyms.

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck

Chick Corea and Bela Fleck - banjo meets piano in a historic duet tour 2015-2016

Leap of Faith Orchestra

Born: August 31, 1964

Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone

PEK

Born: August 31, 1964

Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone

Russ Eidson

Born: April 2, 1960

Compose and play music to maintain and keep my sanity. Self taught guitarist, songwriter/poet, singer, gardener and keeper of bees.

Chris Trinidad

Born: October 30, 1979

Filipino-Canadian and San Francisco Bay Area-based musician, teacher, and scholar Chris Trinidad has fallen into the place where everything is music. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, his relationship with music grew through exploring various instruments beginning with the voice, then the piano, followed by the bass guitar, and finally the drum set with little detours in the world of percussion and forays with the guitar.

Chris's formal education includes undergraduate training in Jazz Studies and Secondary Education, graduate study in the fields of Philosophy and Sociology of Music Education and Theological and Liturgical Studies, and doctoral work in Educational and Interdisciplinary Leadership. All of these seemingly disparate disciplines and interests help to inform the music that he makes.

Takuya Hirao

Born: December 1, 1977

Takuya Hirao was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1977. His carrier started in 2004, he performed Jazz Tap Dance at Jazz Club, Hotel’s lounge, Dance club and Halls based on Tokyo until 2010. His organized Japan Tour succeeded in 2006 and 2007. Since 2006, He started to learn Jazz arrangement and jazz saxophone, and arranged a lot of Jazz tunes for tap dance stage. This experience made my performance varied and gorgeous. Other tap dance team and organization accept these tap dancing ability and music arrangement ability. He started to provide arranged tunes and tap dance choreography for them

Armstrong

Born: January 1, 1970

Skuja Armstrong is the elder' respectfull pseudo we've chose to build our new own label to auto produce our work SKUJA (art in progress) our first production has just been released ! Stream It ! 
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/i-stream-it-!/id984719650 we are Guilhem André, saxophone and Emmanuel Massarotti from Paris, France we play the music we love we love a lot

Lategreenmusic

Born: April 24, 1978

LATEGREEN ON TOUR 2015 DIGGING UP THE GROOVES FROM THE 70 ties. JACOB BROHOLM: piano, Wurlitzer, synth NIELS RYDE: Red Precision bass effects NIKOLAJ Bundvig: drums, perc. NEW CD: THE RIOT PUBLISHED ON GATEWAY IN MARCH 2015 LATE GREEN PLAYS COMPOSITIONS BY NIELS RYDE / JACOB BROHOLM & NIKOLAJ Bundvig. MUSIC INSPIRED BY JAZZ / FUNK MUSIC FROM 70 TO, ALIAS: MILES DAVIS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CREAM, BOB MARLEY & WEATHER REPORT TO OWN ARRANGMENTER. LATEGREEN breaks the conventional boundaries down and creating an original, fresh and powerful sound with a deep musical and emotional squalid kind of force, a great experience for body and soul