Results for "piano"

Xavier Peres

Born: January 1, 1970

Xavier is definitely Goa's most accomplished jazz talent. His brilliant improvisation skills was noticed by the Fundacao Oriente in Goa who offered him a scholarship to study jazz in Portugal. Armed with degree in jazz studies and a portuguese passport, he headed to the UK and promptly got absorbed into the local jazz circuit there. He currently divides the year between London and Goa.

Joshua Costa

Born: January 1, 1990

Joshua is one of Goa's most promising jazz talents. He is one of the few young musicians in Goa who has taken to jazz and is now an established pianist. He uses jazz standards as well as contemprory jazz compostions as his vehicles for improvisation.

Ron Hart

Born: May 21, 1947

Ron Hart received his BFA in Music Composition from Ohio University and continued his post-graduate work in Composition and Film Scoring at UCLA in 1978. Ron has played and recorded with a variety of music artists, beginning at age 19 with Dionne Warwick. His work as a jazz pianist continued with saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Richie Cole, bebop guitarist Bill deArango (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker), trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison (Count Basie), bassist/producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), Jorge Strunz (Strunz & Farah), South Indian violinist L. Subramaniam, and many others. In 1981 ShadowLight Records released the Landress/Hart Group’s LP, “Dancing Moments,” a jazz/fusion album featuring Ron on piano and keyboards

Yago Vazquez

Yago Vazquez is a pianist from Spain based in New York City. He studied at the Music Conservatory of Vigo, SPJ Pontevedra and Estudio, Escola de Musica (Spain). He moved to NYC in 2008 to study at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where he graduated with honors in 2010. He has toured extensively playing in jazz festivals in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chile, among others, and has performed at some of the most prestigious jazz clubs in New York City (Blue Note, Smalls Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard, Cornelia Street Cafe, etc). Yago Vazquez has been featured in over a dozen albums and has performed with musicians like Reggie Workman, Billy Harper, Jesse Davis, Gilad Hekselman, Joe Martin and Ingrid Jensen, among many others

Antonis Tsikandilakis

Born: July 18, 1979

Antonis Tsikandilakis was born in Heraklion (Crete-Greece) in 1979. What is characteristic of his relation to the piano is free improvisationing. In this field of improvisation he co-exists with Dimitris Neonakis,guitarist, and Yannis Iliakis,drummer, working altogether on compositions of the band

Nathan Aronow

Nathan Aronow: Band leader and keyboard player and composer Nate earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music, and studied piano for several years with Boston’s own “jazz guru”, Charlie Banacos. A veteran of the Boston club circuit, Nate started and led the horn/funk band Landlords of Soul, for whom he wrote, arranged and played, as well as the Jazz Avengers. He has also played with Lois Lane and the Daily Planets, Xanna Don’t, Liz English, Nixie Ray and Backtalk and the G-Clefs. Over the last ten years, Nate has lead a number of original and cover bands called the Companions, the Nate Aronow Quintet, and the Nate Aronow Nextet

Ben Waters

Ben Waters is well known British Boogie Woogie/Rock N Roll Piano players. Although only 35 he has entertained in Festivals, Theatres, and clubs for over 20 years, with over 3000 gigs under his belt. Together with his band he has toured the UK , Europe , Scandinavia , Canada , USA , the Middle East , Japan , Australia , and the West Indies . Ben’s energetic piano driven rock n roll shows have to be seen to be believed Ben Waters has a no nonsense approach to playing gigs. This is hard hitting music at its best. Combining the music of his heroes (Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis Amos Milburn etc) with cutting edge original material

Steve Newcomb

Born: August 2, 1976

Australian pianist and composer Steve Newcomb completed his doctoral study in composition with Jim McNeely at the Manhattan School of Music in 2013. As a Masters student at MSM from 1999-2001 in Jazz piano performance, Newcomb had Kenny Barron, Garry Dial, John Riley, Mike Abene and the late Manny Albam as mentors. Steve’s recent projects in Australia include the duo with the distinctive and creative vocalist/lyricist Hannah Macklin, with whom he released “Paper Cranes” in 2010, and the 10-piece West End Composers Collective, which has released two highly acclaimed studio albums “Downstream” and “Driving Hat”

Kevin Harris

A distinctive trait of internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Kevin Harris is his desire to constantly grow, evolve, improve, and advance. His interest to interweave traditional and contemporary music styles, visual arts, electronic media, science, and language, is what distinguishes his music and what renders his performances unique experiences, meant to activate the audience’s senses and personal curiosity.

"Participation,” Harris says, "is what keeps our souls alive.” Both live and recorded performances reflect Harris’s determination to capture his audience through explorative interactions that Terri Lyne Carrington describes as "an exciting commitment to quality."

J. Michael McIver

Born: December 17, 1955

Jazz/gospel/sacred musician for over 30 years. Music degree from North Carolina Central University. Studied arranging and improv with Jerry Copland. Study piano with the late Dr. Charles Gilchrist and Syn Programming with the late Dr. Paul Kopke. Performed at World Saxophone conference, played in NY, Wisc.,Ok, among other places. Wrote and perform with youth group New Vibes, accompanist for Mrs. Marsha Walker. Studied with Allan Youngblood.