Results for "Original Music"

Lucas Martinez

Born: October 22, 1994

Lucas Martínez (Blanes, 1994) is a saxophonist and composer active between Spain and Mexico. Having performed in 27 countries and contributed to more than 50 recordings, he has established himself as an internationally active artist within the contemporary jazz scene. In 2025, he was recognized as Young Talent of the Year by the AMJM (Catalan Jazz Musicians Association).

For Martínez, the saxophone is more than an instrument—it is a medium to explore emotions and human connection, a voice of courage: to speak, to be heard, and to stand for one’s beliefs. His music balances lyricism with intensity, moving naturally between intimacy and openness. With four albums as a leader and two as a co-leader, he has developed a personal artistic language while remaining an active collaborator across a wide range of projects.

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Adrian Varady

Born: December 8, 2001

Born on December 8, 2001, into a Hungarian Roma family in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, Adrian Varady has emerged as a powerful and distinctive voice in contemporary jazz. Raised in a deeply musical environment, his artistic journey began at the age of eight when his father gifted him a keyboard. While this marked his first step into music, it was the drums that soon became his true voice.

Largely self-taught and driven by curiosity and instinct, Adrian developed his craft on a small blue sparkle drum kit, immersing himself in listening, imitation, and experimentation from an early age. His exceptional musical awareness quickly became evident, and at just nine years old, he won his first concert performance at a jazz festival in Frankfurt — an early sign of the remarkable path ahead.

Bjarke Falgren

Born: January 3, 1979

Many highlight the award-winning and 4-time Danish Music Award winner Bjarke Falgren as a fiddler who, like few others, can make his 300-year old gypsy violin almost speak. And like few can bring out smiles and emotions with his expressive
playing. 

Falgren is an artist with a tone entirely his own and a truly original expression. He is now ready with his second album under his own name: “Turkis”—a color that symbolizes connectedness, which is exactly what Bjarke is seeking: to bring people together across borders and cultures. Music is something we share and experience together.

Nikola Spasojevic

Born: May 17, 1999

Nikola Spasojevic (US, RS) is a saxophonist and composer based in New York. Spasojevic brings an eclectic combination of influences to his improvisations and compositions expressed through the language of contemporary jazz. Nikola began playing classical saxophone when he was just 9 years old in Subotica (RS). Later, he moved to Rotterdam (NL) to pursue his undergraduate degree at Codarts University of the Arts. In 2022 he came to New York City to continue his studies with a master’s at New York University. While at NYU, he has had the opportunity to perform at well-known venues like the Blue Note with the Dezron Douglas ensemble, the Frederick Loewe Theater with the NYU Jazz Orchestra and the Provincetown Playhouse with the David Liebman ensemble

Dan DeChellis

Born: October 14, 1970

Dan DeChellis has been immersed in music from listening, improvising, playing classical, rock and jazz and collecting records for as long as he can remember. His first job was a paperboy, his second was in a record store where his collection and interests grew. He focused on Classical Music in college for knowledge and technique and continued to improvise and discover Jazz, which he loved. He studied Jazz Piano with Laurie Altman and was in jazz bands during his undergraduate and graduate college years. Dan also attended The New England Conservatory in Boston for a period to study with Ran Blake and Paul Bley in the Contemporary Improvisation Department

Ryan Cohan

Born: June 6, 1971

Throughout his critically acclaimed recordings as a leader and as a collaborator with numerous leading jazz figures and world-class ensembles, Ryan Cohan has masterfully walked the line of writer and player, proving himself time and again to be a composer of rare vision as well as a highly versatile, powerfully expressive pianist

Recognized for his “ingenuity and virtuosity” (Chicago Tribune), Cohan’s expansive oeuvre ranges from solo piano pieces to works for symphony orchestra and scores for independent films. He has produced six albums of original compositions: Real World (Real World Music); Here and Now (Sirocco Jazz); One Sky (Motéma), named one of the year’s best recordings by the Chicago Tribune and a number of jazz publications; Another Look (Motéma), hailed as “a model for modern jazz piano albums” by ICON magazine; and The River (Motéma) which features Ryan’s sixty-minute suite inspired by his travels in Africa.

Joaquín Lombardo

Born: March 12, 2002

Joaquín Lombardo es un guitarrista y compositor de jazz argentino. Nacido en Buenos Aires en 2002, comenzó a tocar la guitarra a los 6 años y a tomar clases formales a los 7. A los 16, decidió dedicarse seriamente al jazz. En 2021, se matriculó en el programa de Técnico Superior de Jazz del Conservatorio Juan Manuel de Falla, donde continuó su formación musical.

En 2024, se unió a la banda del contrabajista y al compositor Flavio Romero