Results for "piano"

Frederick E Scott

Born: August 6, 1949

I'm a percussionist and pianist and have been studying music for many years. God has given me the gift to sing a little bit. And the compassion to learn. I,am setting up a page to share my music with you. I hope you will enjoy, and appreciate it. I have payed a lot of dues over the years playing music. Q:Tell us about your act, music style, and brief history, including band members and what instruments they play. A: Mostly I perform Jazz and Blues standards, and songs I have written. I play piano and sing. My son is on drums (his name is the same as mine). Fred Is pretty sharp at learning rhythms

William Stanley Parton

Born: March 7, 1988

Bill Parton Trio are recognised as one of the most successful and happening bands in on the Adelaide live scene today. The ensemble features William Parton (Piano Vocals), Benjamin Harrison (Bass) and Andrew Partington (Drums/Percussion), together forming Bill Parton Trio. Regularly performing at Pubs, Clubs, Entertainment Venues and Private functions, the boys play a prominent part in the Australian live entertainment industry. The Trio performs both originals and covers from a range of genres including Funk, Jazz and Lounge. They take after the influences of Harry Connick JR, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Ray Charles, Jeff Buckley, Freddie Mercury (Queen), Frou Frou, Groove Armada, Zero 7, The Beatles and even Radiohead. Their configuration allows easy adaptation to many different settings and can be utalised as background atmospheric cocktail music purely to create an ambience or alternatively the featured entertainment of the night that everyone’s up and dancing to! Whether it's for your wedding, party, dance night or function, Bill Parton Trio would be very glad to be of service and endeavor to make you’re occasion that extra bit more special and memorable.

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Dan Furman

Born: July 23, 1964

Pianist Dan Furman doesn't want jazz to have to imitate the past. "We all grew up listening to rock and roll, pop, funk and whatever else made it on the radio. When I play a standard, I try to bring something from today's world into the interpretation." Furman began playing piano and writing music at the age of 6 in Old Hickory, Tennessee (just outside of Nashville). He went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. At Oberlin he fronted and wrote for the "Skymonks," an original "free" jazz group. Following school, he spent a year in South America studying Latin music and playing with bands in Lima, Peru

Nial Djuliarso

Born: February 5, 1981

Nial was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 05, 1981. He played and had classical piano lessons since the age 5. In the house he heard a lot of jazz from his father's jazz collection. And he also heard his father playing bass in the local clubs. Nial was not into jazz until 1996, when he heard the Pat Metheny Group playing at a concert in Jakarta. Since then, at the age of 14 yrs he was bitten by the jazz bug. The rest is history. He went to the USA and graduated from a US high school in Chattanooga, TN. In Chattanooga he played frequently in the Jazz Junction, a local jazz club and where he became a well-known pianist before he graduated in 1999

Andy McWain

Boston-born improvising pianist/composer Andy McWain has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Assif Tsahar, Karl Berger, Tiger Okoshi, Santi Debriano, Brian Melvin, Joe Giardullo, Royal Hartigan, John Dirac, Hafez Modirzadeh, Albey Balgochian, Laurence Cook, Dino Govoni, Luther Gray, Daniel Levin, David Bindman, Wes Brown, Jim Robitaille, Brooke Sofferman, Bruno Raberg, Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble, and the Zen Bastards, among others. He studied at UMass and the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M., composition), and participated in artist residencies at Yaddo (NY), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL) with Butch Morris, and the Akiyoshidai International Art Village (JPN)

Sebastien Paindestre

Born: July 6, 1973

Pianist, composer, teacher and co-organizer of jazz concerts in Malakoff ( La Fabrica'son, France, near Paris). Member of Artists Recording Collective, jazz label (N.Y, Kansas City, U.S.A) DEBUT: He started playing music rather late. Indeed he took his first piano lessons in 1988. Following the advice of Alain Béguin, percussionist and teacher (artistic co-director of the 'Nuits des musiciens'), he joined the ENMD in Montreuil in 1990 and attended sylvie Irla and Olivier Chauzu's classical piano lessons. He was then deeply touched by the beauty of musical pieces by Bach, Chopin, ravel and Debussy. In this school he got acquainted with the saxophonist Jean-Claude Fohrenbach's students and found jazz most appealing through them

Gaea Schell

Born: June 16, 1975

"One of the West Coast's best kept secrets" -Andrea Canter, Jazzpolice.com "Subtle romanticism" combined with a "distinctive, swinging touch" are words that come to mind when describing jazz artist Gaea Schell's style. Accomplished and versatile, she - as drummer Albert 'Tootie' Heath says, "plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands". Known among her peers for swinging every note, subtle phrasing, and lyrical writing, this Los Angeles-based pianist/ composer is a native of Alberta, Canada where she grew up playing music from an early age. During pursuit of a classical harp degree in college, Gaea began listening to piano greats Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Red Garland among others

David Haney

Born: May 7, 1955

David Haney, born in Fresno, California, grew up in Calgary, Canada. He began classical piano studies at age eight, adding guitar at age 15. He studied jazz piano with Eddie Wied in Portland Oregon , and composition with Czech American composer Tomas Svoboda. His early works were performed by the Society of Oregon Composers. David has received numerous commissions from private individuals as well as for ballet and film. He has performed in concert with many of the world's greatest improvisers including Obo Addy, Bud Shank, Roswell Rudd, Han Bennink, Julian Priester, Andrew Cyrille, John Tchicai, Gerry Hemingway, Wolter Weirbos, and many others

Mala Waldron

Born: May 30

Jazz/Soul Vocalist, pianist and composer, Mala Waldron is a native of New York. Mala's musical approach reflects the many varied styles of music she was exposed to as a youngster. She credits her parents, both jazz pianists, with giving her a strong and varied foundation in the jazz culture. Her maternal grandmother, also a pianist, was from the caribbean islands and introduced young Mala to Calypso. Of her earlier influences, she also credits her older brother with introducing her to the best of R&B. At the age of 7, Mala began formal piano lessons. Later, she joined her first band, a local R&B group. This marked the beginning of her career as a full-fledged gigging musician — she was only 15