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Dan Karlsberg

From Cincinnati, Dan Karlsberg is an active performer, composer, and teacher. He currently has 5 albums under his own name, and has worked with such artists as Donald Harrison, Tim Warfield, JD Allen, Greg Tardy, Ignacio Berroa, Carl Allen, Terell Stafford, Jeremy Pelt, Sean Jones, Ted Nash, among many others. Karlsberg is currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. In July 2007, the Dan Karlsberg Group released their first album, The Adventures of the Dan Karlsberg Group, for which Marc Medwin in Cadence Magazine comments: “This is a group functioning on the highest level of communication and commitment… they tackle freedom and restraint with equal vigor, convincing on whatever musical front they choose.” Karlsberg has since released four more albums as leader, Mission to Mars and Other Short Stories (2010), The ‘Nati 6 (2015), Tales from the Winter Solstice (2018), and All In (2021)

Trioism

Trioism is an acoustic jazz piano trio. It was formed on 1999 in Athens, Greece, by the drummer and music journalist Zak Samouil and pianist Spyros Manesis. After a couple of years with discussions and trials with various bass players, the group started playing in Athens in 2003 with the double bassist Petros Klampanis. During that period the band inspired and directed mainly by Zak Samouil, started having a musical approach, based on the simultaneous improvisation and the lyrical treatment of the melodic lines. After a winter full of concerts, Spyros Manesis and Petros Klampanis moved to Amsterdam, Holland, where they continued the same concept in a different cultural environment

Tor E Bekken

Born: May 14, 1964

Pianist Tor E 'Dr' Bekken is a musician who is interested in the whole history of jazz. A lifelong dedication to the art of traditional blues driven piano has given him a mastery of that idiom which few players can grasp, much less deliver. He has a monster left hand which is the mandatory driving force for this type of piano playing, and his right hand soloing and clean technical dexterity present the whole package. At the same time, Bekken works within the field of modern, free improvisation, citing pianists like Don Pullen, Bobby Few and Charles Gayle as central sources of inspiration. Tor E Bekken was born in Drammen, Norway.He has played jazz and blues piano since childhood, and has absorbed all the nuances in the process. He completed a Master's degree in music in 1996, with a thesis on James Booker (shows in his approach) and New Orleans piano traditions. Bekken has worked for US artists such as Eddie Bo, Marva Wright, Benny Turner, Big Al Carson,etc

Simonoviez

Born: December

Born in 1966 from a music lover father who adore Bach's music and a mother, pianist amateur playing Chopin's work. At home, one of his brothers, also pianist, studies Debussy but plays also all kind of music: from Scott Joplin to Dave Brubeck..... Jean-Sebastien is fascinated by his brother's easiness to transcribe any melody and improvise on it. At 5 years old, he starts studying classic piano with an "old school" teacher that puts him on the piano. At 7 years old, he integrates a music school where he is asked to choose a second instrument. Stunned by Louis Armstrong's recording, he sets his heart on the trumpet which will develop his sense of melody and breathing. Until 14 years old, he assimilates base techniques of music (reading, writing, theory). From 16 years old, he starts to play with other musicians and each encounters contribute to enrich his vocabulary. The drummer of his first band, Soma, owns a club well stocked

Ricardo Gallo

Born: May 9, 1978

Colombian pianist and composer Ricardo Gallo has written for acoustic and electro-acoustic formats, for short films, videos, dance, installations and multimedia stage productions, and has performed and written for improvisatory groups. He has published twelve albums as a leader, his music has appeared in several compilations in Colombia, USA, and Europe, and has participated in recordings of several other groups. Among his main projects is the quartet he leads since 2005 with some of the best musicians from Bogotá’s scene: drummer Jorge Sepúlveda, bassist Juan Manuel Toro, and percussionist Juan David Castaño, developing repertoire and an improvisational approach that integrates an avant-garde and free language with rhythmic and melodic elements from folkloric musical traditions

Jerry Lee Lewis

Born: September 29, 1935

Though he had only three Top 10 hits in the first, purely rock & roll phase of his career, many critics believe Jerry Lee Lewis was as talented a '50s rocker as Sun labelmate Elvis Presley. Some also believe that Jerry lee Lewis could have made it just as big commercially if his piano-slamming musical style was not so relentlessly wild, his persona not so threateningly hard-edged. Lewis' first musical influences were eclectic. His parents, who were poor, spun swing and Al Jolson records. But his earliest big influence was country star Jimmie Rodgers. In his early teens he absorbed both the softer country style of Gene Autry and the more rocking music of local black clubs, along with the gospel hymns of the local Assembly of God church

Jimmy Durante

Born: February 10, 1893

Before Jimmy Durante became one of the most famous and lovable entertainers of the Twentieth Century, he was a hot piano player and bandleader. Durante was greatly influenced by Scott Joplin and had his first success in show business as a Ragtime piano player starting around 1911. He was billed as "Ragtime Jimmy" and played in New York City and Coney Island. Durante was part of the same wild crowd of early White jazz musicians as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Johnny Stein. When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band Durante was part of the audience at Reisenweber's on Columbus Circle

Rosco Gordon

Born: April 10, 1928

Rosco Gordon not only placed many a hit on the rhythm & blues charts in the 1950s, he is also remembered as one of rock and roll's founding fathers and a key figure in the formation of Jamaican ska. Hailed for his unique sense of timing and off-beat shuffle on the 88s, something Sam Phillips( Sun Studios) called "Rosco's Rhythm," the gifted R&B veteran is now considered a seminal early rock piano player alongside Ike Turner and few others, Rosco Gordon was an influential performer-composer, whose contributions to contemporary music will forever endure. A native of Memphis, born April 10, 1928, Rosco Gordon skyrocketed to fame in the early fifties with a string of hits for the Chess, RPM and Duke labels, including originals like Booted" and "No More Doggin'." Many of his early recordings were made at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service, alongside friends and fellow musicians Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, B.B

Tom Fahy

‘Tom Fahy’ was an assemblage of musicians headed by pseudonymous author and composer Tom Fahy. Core members included Jiang Dan, Rachael Eisley, Zhang Li, Liu Kaige, and Emer Mulholland, while other players, including Alvaro Macaya, Thomas Byrne, Vicente Labarca, and Marco Falabella, were drafted for the requirements of particular pieces.

Irio Jr.

Owner of a particular style that congregates the technique of an erudite inheritance to the freedom of Brazilian and Jazz Music, Írio has impacted the audiences wherever he performs. Pianist, composer and arranger, Irio Jr. was born in Lavras (southeast of Brazil) and began his career in the Ball Orchestra of the city, together with his father, also a musician and a conductor. In his mid twenties he studied classical music and performed in piano competitions all around Brazil. Irio was accepted at the College of Music of MG, but he didn’t stay there for long. After that, he started to study Jazz and to teach the piano