Results for "piano"

Kevin Bales

Kevin’s initial career move was to the University of North Florida and a budding if little-known jazz program. There he met and performed with, and went on to record and tour with, a number of monumental artists who had settled into that burgeoning North Florida jazz scene. Giants like Wynton Marsalis, Louie Bellson, Eddie Daniels, James Moody, Ben Tucker, Ira Sullivan, Sam Rivers, and Nat Adderley. He counts among his mentors bassist Ben Tucker, multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, guitar legends Nathen Page and Jack Petersen, and the fiercely individual saxophonist Bunky Green. His meeting with Bunky Green led to five years of tours

Pascal Mohy

Pascal Mohy, 31 years old in the year 2011, could have lived 75 years ago. Or even more. His romantic air echoes the spirit of freedom of a young Berlioz or Hugo with an added flash of humour in his eye and a breezy smile. His music, however, is directly linked to the racy elegance of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Count Basie. It’s no accident that his 2008 album “Automne 08” features a version of “Prelude to a Kiss” by the Duke. But Pascal is not stuck in the sophisticated thirties. His piano playing also embraces musical touches from Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane and he readily listens to Jarrett and Mehldau

Francois Tusques

Born: 1938

Born in 1938 in Paris and raised in Brittany, Tusques was among the first to bring together French musicians to explore a new musical language in the 1960’s. He also formed connections with all the significant American avant garde players who came to Paris at that time.

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