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Sergio Corbini

Born: March 5, 1960

Pianist, keyboards' player and composer of Siena, he began his jazz studies under the guidance of Luca Flores. In the middle eighty he attends to the "Jazz Music Seminars" in Siena with the teacher Franco D'Andrea and then with Enrico Pieranunzi and Stefano Battaglia. After some studies in the field of musical science and concert experiences of jazz and fusion, he makes part of the group "Lares", founded by Daniele Fusi (Sergio Gistri, Dario Cecchini, Stefano Scalzi, Mauro Grossi, Nico Vernuccio, Daniele Fusi), with whom he records a collection of original songs dedicated to Mandela. For the "Lares", in a new formation with Bruno Tommaso and Eugenio Colombo, he embarked on a project inspired to italian and french polyphonies of XIV century, reviewed and rearranged in a jazz key. He also recorded a CD with the group "Il Volo di Lindbergh" (Raffaele Brancati, Mariano Di Nunzio, Amedeo Ronga and Daniele Fusi) about music of Kurt Weill; the CD has been reviewed by the american "All about Jazz". He partecipated with different formations to several national and international festival: Umbria Jazz, Palermo, Siena Jazz, Doetinchem (Olanda), Anversa (Belgio) ect. He collaborated for the theatre with actors like Sergio Castellitto, Margaret Mazzantini, Marco Messeri. Beyond many records and concert activity, he took part to television programs dedicated to jazz music. In the years 2001-2002 he partecipated to the shows of "Notturno Etrusco", with Ilaria Occhini and Alessandro Haber; for this series of shows he also arranged and composed a part of the soundtrack. It came out in 2002 the CD "Antologia Italiana", recorded in duo with the violin player Rino Adamo, with whom he collaborates to a project about compositions of italian contemporary jazz. With his quintet ("CORBINI-FRANCESCHINI Quintet" with Stefano Franceschini, Mariano Di Nunzio, Bruno Tommaso and Paolo Corsi) he recorded the CD "Amazing", came out in June 2003 for the Splasc(h) Records, inspired to the music of Steve Swallow. In the 2003 he founded with Rino Adamo and the bassist Giovanni Maier the trio " Adamo-Corbini-Maier Trio" based on Eric Dolphy music (the cd "Playing With Eric" is been realized on June 2004). He's a piano and ensemble music teacher to the Musical Improvisation Courses of Siena Jazz. Some records:  CPM DI SIENA '91-'92, Siena Jazz Records ;  Non ce ne volere, Mandela, se cos

John Gentry Tennyson

Born: February 25, 1965

A native Texan, John Gentry Tennyson made his professional debut with the University Of Houston Symphony at the age of eleven and started doing regular gigs at fourteen. Seeing Oscar Peterson perform soon after helped Tennyson realize the wonders of traditional jazz as well, and he majored in Jazz Studies and Piano Performance while attending North Texas State University. His successes began quickly after moving to New York City and landing the gig with guitar legend, Al Di Meola. Once the door was opened, he began composing and recording his own music culminating in his first CD, John Tennyson's, "Real World Trio", featuring guest artists, Randy Brecker and Dewey Redman

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Alix Noel

Born: October 10, 1977

Montreal Jazz, classical, latin and world-music pianist and acordionist of haitian background. Alix studied in Fortaleza, Brazil, in Berklee, Boston and Vincent d'Indy, Canada. He is now playing for the brazilianized group Bombolesse and the Mexican group Banda de Gaza. He did two CD's : Comunidade da rima (in Brazil) and Pucha-pucha (in Canada). Alix is also an important member of the Haitian classsical music association.

Lynne Arriale

Born: May 29, 1957

Pianist/composer Lynne Arriale’s career is graced by a love of melody and a joy of musical discovery. Arriale has performed on international concert and festival stages over the past 25 years. The consummate storyteller, she immediately connects with her listeners. JazzTimes wrote, "She achieves a special, deep connection with her audience, and the energy flows both ways. Arriale’s emotional authenticity allows her audience to feel and think along with her… Lynne Arriale’s music lies at the synaptic intersection where brain meets heart, where body meets soul. She is one of jazzdom’s most intensely unique voices." At the core of Arriale’s appeal is her ability to communicate with her band and listeners

Tony Vella

Born: April 4, 1937

Tony Vella, pianist, organist, composer, arranger and orchestra director , been born to Terrasini (Palermo), in activity from 1957, have acquired immense experience working, to the foreign country with big and small formations and in Italy like main arranger, for some important record houses. In Palermo from the 1972, beyond that to the concert's activity, he has dedicated to cultural activities and the formation of young talents holding theory course, practical instrumental and ensemble music applied to the jazz music. In ` the '75 it has participated to "Pescara the Jazz Festival" with the New Jazz Society of Palermo, the only Italian group, united to Zoot Sims quartet, Antony Braxton, Elvin Jones quintet, Red Norvo trio, Chet Baker quartet, Charles Mingus Group, Roland Kirk quintet and Don Cherry Organic Music Theatre. In ` the '77 it has taken part to the artistic activity introduced from the Reinhardt center to the Politeama Theatre for the Independent Agency the Maximum Theatre of Palermo. In ` the '78 it has constituted and directed "l' Orchestra" in collaboration with the Reinhardt center for the concerts season organized from the "Associazione Siciliana Amici della Musica" introduced to Auditorium SS

Alex Brown

Born: April 7, 1987

GRAMMY Award winning pianist and composer Alex Brown is at the forefront of a new generation of artists.  The New York Times says he plays “with a crystalline touch and a worldly approach.”  Brown frequently performs with his own group, and Downbeat Magazine described his 2010 album Pianist as “a really fine record that leaves you wanting more.”  In 2021, he released his second album as a leader, The Dark Fire Sessions.  Brown has been a member of Paquito D’Rivera’s ensemble since 2007, performing on and contributing arrangements to their Latin GRAMMY award-winning album Jazz Meets the Classics.  In 2021, he received a GRAMMY nomination as a part of Dafnis Prieto’s album Transparency.  In 2019, he was the pianist on trumpeter Brian Lynch’s GRAMMY award-winning album The Omni-American Book Club.  Brown also collaborates frequently with artists that include Warren Wolf, Sean Jones, Christian McBride, Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, Miho Hazama, Cho-Liang Lin, David Shifrin, and has performed with Chris Thile on the American variety show Live From Here (formally known as Prairie Home Companion)

Kyle Bronsdon

Born: June 2, 1969

[From The Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians, Editor: Lewis Porter]

Bronsdon studied piano from a young age, and then percussion and finally drum kit with Tom Tedrahn, who introduced him to jazz, in high school. Studied music at Northern Illinois University for two years before transferring to Columbia College, Chicago, where he studied composition with William Russo (in the last course taught by the composer) and Hans Wurman. Shortly after completing his BA, in 1993, he worked with cruiseline showbands for a few years before moving to Tucson, Arizona to join swing band the Kings of Pleasure during the peak of the Swing Renaissance, in the spring of 1998. Bronsdon left the group to form Kearney, Grams and Bronsdon (a/k/a the KGB Trio) with pianist Brenden Kearney and bassist Steve Grams. The group toured regionally, becoming popular in the underground swing scene, until the drummer moved to Los Angeles in June of 2002 to form a trio under his name, and complete his first solo album.

D.D. Jackson

Born: January 25, 1967

D.D. Jackson is an award-winning jazz pianist/composer whose work spans 12 CD’s as leader or co-leader (including two for the major label RCA Victor/BMG) featuring almost entirely original material. His most recent CDs are Serenity Song (2006 Justin Time), Suite for New York (2003 Justin Time) (a meditation on the events of 9/11), and Sigame, a Latin-tinged work featuring drummer extraordinaire Dafnis Prieto

Michael L

Born: December 23, 1959

italian jazz pianist/composer, studied with Kenny Barron and Barry Harris played with Larry Nocella, Massimo Urbani, Flavio Boltro, Avishai Cohen, Bruno de Filippi, Gianni Basso, Enzo Scoppa, Florian Bramb