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About Steven Lava
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Steven Lava
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I started informal piano lessons when i was four years old. my teacher would always get mad because i would always put my own melodies into the song. That compulsiveness has now resulted in my jazz on the piano... i can play jazz on the drums too... i got into a band and the closest thing to a piano i could get was the organ.. it was a ska jazz band... there was too much ska... i want to have a jazz band... my love for music is a Great love... let's share it... -stevie boy-
About Greg Murphy
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Greg Murphy
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Chicago native Greg Murphy has been a major contributor to the New York City jazz scene since the 1980s and he’s probably best known for his twenty-two year association with John Coltrane’s multidirectional drummer, Rashied Ali. Greg began his musical adventures in 1971 when he joined the Ray-Fisk Grammar School Band in Chicago. His classical studies began later that year with Lucia Santini at Roosevelt University. Between 1980 and 1984, he played with the jazz/funk band Lightning Flash Thunder Roar, The University of Illinois at Chicago Big Band, The Northern Illinois University Big Band, and other local Chicago bands. A jazz study grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984 gave Greg the opportunity to go to New Orleans and study with the eminent pianist and jazz educator, Ellis Marsalis
About Vardan Ovsepian
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Vardan Ovsepian
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Vardan Ovsepian is an Armenia-born pianist/composer and a Fresh Sound New Talent recording artist. Born in 1975, Vardan started playing piano at the age of five. After completing his basic piano training, he went on to study at the Melikyan Music College, majoring in Music Theory, and in 1992, entered the Yerevan State Conservatory majoring in Classical Composition. Inspired by the music of Chopin, Liszt, Bach and solo piano works of Keith Jarrett, Vardan strived to compose and perform solo piano music. In 1994, he was presented an opportunity to focus on his piano work when he was accepted to the Estonian Music Academy to study Contemporary Composition. In 1995, following his strong interest and passion for jazz and improvised music Vardan moved to Finland, to attend the Helsinki Jazz Conservatory
About James Armstrong
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James Armstrong
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James Armstrong has explored concurrent paths in improvisation and modern classical music since his 1979 graduation from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past projects include trios, quartets, and inventions for small ensembles - volatile, labor-intensive music with a marked pantonal focus. Now working on original repertoire for solo performance.
“...He has a firm grasp of the sheer power of Monk, often slamming the keys to create a shattering dissonance...he understands the rhythmic complexities of Cecil Taylor and the intellectualism of Andrew Hill. He has used these strong influences to create a personal style, always saving room for the purity of his own fingers on the keys
About Anat Fort
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Anat Fort
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For Anat Fort, Music is a colorful mosaic of sounds. Having grown up in Israel where she studied classical piano, listened to 80's pop and soaked up the diverse sounds of the Middle East, it is no wonder that this rich kaleidoscope of sounds and influences would eventually become her stylistic signature. A natural improviser from a very young age, it was not until her late teens that she discovered the depth of jazz. The next step was coming to the United States to study with people who were part of shaping up this music like Harold Mabern, Rufus Reid and Norman Simmons. It was then that Anat started writing music, developing that aspect of her creative talent through the study of classical and jazz composition
About David Chesky
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David Chesky
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David Chesky is without doubt a modern-day Renaissance man. He has earned indisputable respect for his unique, eclectic musical compositions spanning both Jazz and Classical idioms in addition to his prominence in the audiophile community for the development of new recording technologies. Born in Miami, Florida, David Chesky came to New York in 1974 and began his career in music as the composer, arranger and pianist in his own Jazz big band in 1978. With this big band, David performed at every major Jazz club and festival (Storyville, The Village Vanguard, The Newport, JVC and Monterey Jazz Festivals to name a few) and released the album Rush Hour on the Columbia label that year
About Anke Helfrich
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Anke Helfrich
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Anke Helfrich studied in Hilversum/Netherland and in New York, where she had lessons with Kenny Barron and Larry Goldings. In 2000 her debutalbum "You'll see" with Johannes Weidenmueller (b), Jochen Rueckert (dr), feat. Mark Turner (ts) was proposed for the award of "German record critics". Anke Helfrich got listed in a new edition of Kunzlers Jazzlexikon. Her CD “Better times ahead” with Martin Gjakonovski (b), Dejan Terzic (dr) and specialguest Roy Hargrove (trp) was released in 2006 and got great reviews all over Europe and the US and was also proposed for the award of “German record critics“. In 2007 she was playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C
About Laurent Coq
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Laurent Coq
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Laurent Coq in 13 dates 1970 Born in Marseille on February 22nd. Grow up around Aix-en-Provence. 1980 Enters Aix-en-Provence National Music Conservatory in Ms Courtin (also Hélène Grimaud's teacher). Gets First Prize in 1988 and moves to Paris to devote himself to Jazz. 1994 Obtains a Grant from the French Government for a six months stay in New York. He took lessons from piano players Mulgrew Miller and John Hicks, but most notably from Bruce Barth who will soon become his mentor and a true friend, which he remains to this day. 1997 Records Jaywalker in New York, his first album as a leader
About Glyn MacDonald
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Glyn MacDonald
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Since his first gig at age 16, Glyn has performed in Canada, England, Scotland and Wales and throughout Australia. In 1994, Glyn began a 3-year Diploma of Performing Arts in Classical Trombone at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Within the time spent in this course, Glyn was resident pianist at Savannah's Restaurant, Radisson Observation City Hotel. He also toured England, Scotland and Wales with the Kalamunda Youth Swing Band where he played such venues as Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham and festivals such as the Wigan and Glasgow Jazz Festivals. Glyn then went on to complete a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano at WAAPA
About Bob Davis
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Bob Davis
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Bob Davis was born in Cosmos, Minnesota in 1927. By the age of 18, Davis was playing improvisational jazz with some of the greats. His styles were ahead of his time. Jazz greats such as Stan Kenton & Count Basie had looked at Davis as one of the greatest jazz pianists of the time. He recorded 3 great albums. Bob Davis played & recorded with such artists as Sarah Vaughn, Al Hirt, Dizzy Gillespie... He also was musical director for Playboy Clubs, taught as a music college & high school professor,and was a promoter and agent for music giants such as the Jacksons and Tina Turner. He then continued playing jazz and ballads in concerts and clubs into his older years. He lived most of his life in Miami, Florida
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