Results for "piano"

Christina Blalock

A short biography of CHRISTINA BLALOCK A graduate of Rutgers University, NJ, Christina has a solid command of many piano playing styles and interpretations, from Chopin to Brubeck. Her musical development started very early, and after years of training in the classical piano tradition, she became an Army Band Pianist. She attended the Mannes College of Music. At Rutgers’ Mason Gross School, Christina studied under renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron. The Kenny Barron Trio selected some of her compositions, released them on CD, and performed them live in NYC and around the world. Christina is both a solo performer and the pianist of the newly-formed Straight Ahead Jazz Quartet

iliana Rose

Iliana Rose is nothing short of a fantastic musician. As an accomplished piano player, percussionist, clarinetist and vocalist, she performs with her band and sits in with some of the finest session players in Los Angeles and Miami. As a percussionist her timing is phenomenal and impeccable. She never misses a beat. As a singer her voice is pure, warm, sensual and beautiful to listen to. Iliana captivates an audience in English, Spanish and even a little Portuguese and has a unique ability to phrase that is given only to natural born jazz singers. Born in Miami, and raised by Cuban parents and grandparents, Iliana is steeped in Cuban rhythms and culture

Paul Kirby

Born: August 17, 1981

Paul Kirby (born 1981) is currently living in New York City (USA) where he is studying for his masters in jazz performance at Rutgers with distinguished pianist Stanley Cowell. He has also studied privately with Jason Moran, George Colligan and Kenny Werner, and performed at venues such as "The Blue Note", "Iridium", “Garage” and “Smalls” in NYC. Paul is originally from Edinburgh (UK) where he was an integral part of the scene, playing with top local and international players including Herb Geller, Valery Ponomarev, Billy Hart, Peter King, Sunny Kim, Tim Armacost, Colin Steele, Ferdinand Povel, Bruce Adams and Johannes Enders

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Eric Plaks

Born: June 17, 1974

Eric Plaks - pianist - has lived his entire adult life in Harlem, where he has split his time between teaching music in the New York City public school system and his own performing and recording projects. Eric can be heard live regularly throughout the NYC area, including in his monthly engagement at The Shrine in Harlem, where he directs one of the city's top innovative large ensembles, the 14-member Shrine Big Band. Eric's discography to date includes two discs on Cadence/CIMP, Live at Bronx Community College (2013, recorded in 2009), and The Eric Plaks Five (2015, recorded in 2008)

JooZz

Born: July 18

Growing up in the harbour city of Rotterdam, JooZz developed an ‘international’ taste for life at an early age. The mixture of different cultures, races and their visible footprint gave him his first inspiration for loving all facets of rhythm, rhyme and music. From his teens he played in a number of bands, mostly performing with his friends from school to create a new musical experience to inspire the world. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Rotterdam School of Arts, where his musical talents and experience would be further developed. Adding a classical education to his self-learned abilities, he rapidly developed a never ending taste for Jazz. His main inspiration came from the likes of Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and many, many other highlights of the musical arena. As a composer, writer, piano artist and sound innovator, JooZz still manages to captivate his world-wide audience with his creative compositions and never ending enthusiasm for playing the right ‘tune’ at the right time.

Alexander Hawkins

Born: May 3, 1981

Alexander Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader who is ‘unlike anything else in modern creative music’ (Ni Kantu) and whose recent work has reached a ‘dazzling new apex’ (Downbeat). A largely self-taught improviser, he works in a vast array of creative contexts. His own highly distinctive soundworld is forged through the search to reconcile both his love of free improvisation and profound fascination with composition and structure. His writing has been said to represent ‘a fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music’ (Point of Departure), and his voice one of the ‘most vividly distinctive...in modern jazz’ (The Jazzmann). As a pianist, he has been described as ‘remarkable...possessing staggering technical ability and a fecund imagination as both player and composer.’ Concerning his organ playing, critic Brian Morton recently commented that ‘[t]he most interesting Hammond player of the last decade and more, [Hawkins] has already extended what can be done on the instrument.’ He is a frequent solo performer, and also appears in groupings ranging from duo (with the likes of Evan Parker, John Surman, Han Bennink and Sofia Jernberg), via his co-led quartet with the vocalist Elaine Mitchener ('probably a new standard for improvised music with song', Jazzism), through to large ensembles ('Unit[e]...is a free-jazz masterpiece', Free Jazz). An in-demand sideman, Hawkins continues to be heard live and on record with vast array of contemporary leaders of all generations, including the likes of Evan Parker, John Surman, Joe McPhee, Mulatu Astatke, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Marshall Allen, Han Bennink, Hamid Drake, Rob Mazurek, Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt, Matana Roberts, and Shabaka Hutchings, amongst many others

Elizabeth Doyle

Singer/pianist/composer, ELIZABETH DOYLE, recently a featured guest on legendary Marian McPartland’s National Public Radio show, “Piano Jazz, was the magnet for many years at Chicago’s famed Pump Room, the Drake Hotel, Convito Italiano, the Palmer House, the Swiss Hotel, Catch 35, the Whitehall and the Fairmont Metropole. As a composer, she is an award-winning ASCAP member with musicals "Fat Tuesday," "Alice In Analysis", "The Virginian" and "Sleepy Hollow" produced in California and the Midwest. Her chamber work was performed in Amsterdam and heard on Dutch radio. She has performed in two ASCAP new music showcases in New York, and had her material featured in the Chicago Humanities Festival, at Park West, Drury Lane Water Tower, Bailiwick, Maxim’s, Victory Gardens and in a Preston Bradley program honoring Chicago songwriters. A 2007 After Dark Award recipient for cabaret performance, her solo shows have included “Hot Jazz Euro Style” at Davenport’s, “Hollywood Blondes” at New York’s Metropolitan Room, and “Dakota Blonde: The Lyrics of Peggy Lee” at Skokie Theatre

Tseng Tseng-Yi

Jazz Pianist, who studied in Brussels Royal Conservatory.

Dan Cahn

Born: July 28, 1960

Composer, Arranger and Jazz Pianist Dan Cahn completed both his Masters Degree in Jazz Performance and Doctorate in Music Education at the University of North Texas. Dan serves as musical director and jazz pianist of the Open University Jazz Concert Series. The series that started in 2011 has hosted some of Israels most noted jazz artists which have included names such as Albert Beger, Gasper Bertoncelj, Dror Bar Israel, Erez Bar Noy, Vered Dekel, Gilad Dobrecky, Amit Freidman, Assaf Hakimi, Jonathan Kozlovsky, Chen Levi, Gideon Paschov, Albert Piamenta, Salit Lahav, Mamelo Gaitanopoulos, Ofer Ganor, Rony Holan, Mattan Klein, Gil Ladin, Ilan Salem, Rami Shuler, Peter Wertheim and Shay Zalman. Dan has performed both as a soloist and as pianists with several jazz groups