Results for "piano"

Daniel Lantz

Born: March 26, 1976

Swedish piano player Daniel Lantz is today active as a freelance musician, composer and arranger in Sweden and overseas. With studies in Germany, the UK and Sweden behind him and musical roots in genres as diverse as jazz, classical, folk music and pop he has developed a vast range in his musical expression. Alongside his live performance schedule with various constellations, he composes music for orchestras, choirs, film and the theatre. Below is a detailed year-by-year biography of Daniel Lantz' career, concluded with a list of performers that Daniel Lantz plays/has played with over the years. For detailed biography, please see official website: www.daniellantz.com

Kenny MacKenzie

Born: May 15, 1966

Kenny MacKenzie Trio have been playing together since 2000. Kenny spent most of his life on Long Island but now lives in FL. Most of the other players live in NYC. In 2001 they began playing live in a quintet format in the heart of NYC's West Village at Café Creole every Monday from May 2001 to Sept 2003. Shortly after the start of this gig they performed as a trio in Louis Bar (now Louis 649) every Thursday from August 01 to August 04. Beginning in November 2002 the trio also began month long fill-ins for Eri Yamamoto at famed Arthur's Tavern and continued to do so semi-annually through Nov. 2004

Dennis Mellen

Born: June 28, 1956

Duncan Haynes

Born: May 12, 1971

New Zealand born jazz pianist, currently resident in London, UK.

Rick Gallagher

Born: October 8, 1970

Jazz pianist/composer Rick Gallagher has been a part of the Pittsburgh music scene since the late 1980's. Over the years Rick has done solo and group work in a wide range of contemporary styles but has found a voice as a player and composer in classic jazz. He has worked with many of the region’s top jazz musicians, singers and bands ranging from the Boilermaker Jazz Band to the Orchard Hill Church Worship Team, and has done solo piano work at such diverse venues such as the historic Grand Concourse; the Gandy Dancer Saloon piano bar; and the PPG Holiday Series. Currently Rick can be seen regularly at the critically acclaimed Pines Tavern restaurant, the Northway Christian Community worship team, as well as his long-standing spotlight as the pianist with the US Steel Tower and One Oxford Center downtown

Ray Reach

Born: August 3, 1948

RAY REACH - Pianist / Vocalist / Guitarist / Arranger / Composer / Producer / Educator

CHECK OUT RAY'S NEW WEBSITE AT:

http://www.rayreach.com

A NEW RECORDING IN THE WORKS BY RAY REACH !

Ray Reach recently announced (July 2021) that he is nearing completion of a new recording titled "Rhythm and Salvation" The recording features legendary drummer Steve Gadd, saxophonist Lou Marini, Jr, trumpeter and director of the Count Basie Orchestra Scotty Barnhart, noted film composer and pianist Misha Segal and a host of other fine musicians.

As a practicing professional musician of some 49+ years, Raymond E. Reach (or just plain Ray, as he prefers to be called) lives an unusually diverse musical life. Ray has kept both feet firmly planted in two musical worlds - always having one foot in academia and the other in what he calls the "real world" of professional music. He is one of the premier in-demand jazz pianist / vocalists in the Southeast, having carved himself a niche, doing straight ahead jazz piano coupled with "Sinatra- style" vocals. As an educator, he is equally adept. From September 1998 until August 2005, Ray was Instructor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he taught music technology and directed the UAB Jazz Ensemble. After leaving UAB hhe was, 15 years, Director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (www.jazzhall.com), where he created and directed of the "Fun With Jazz" educational program, which originated through the auspices of the Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts, and is now offered by the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. In addition, Ray produces jazz and classical recordings and directs the Magic City Jazz Orchestra, a recording and concert Big Band composed of some of the best jazz players Alabama has to offer. Ray has performed with and arranged for numerous notable musicians, including Clark Terry, Leonard Candelaria, Ken Watters, Lou Marini, Ernie Watts, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellis Marsalis, Cleveland Eaton, Chuck Redd, Mundell Lowe, Bill Goodwin, Lew Soloff and Chaka Khan with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. He has been a regular featured musician at the annual W. C. Handy Festival in Florence, Alabama (www.wchandyfest.com) since 2003, and has also served as a faculty member of the W.C. Handy Jazz Camp.

Bradley Sowash

Born: March 9, 1960

Bradley Sowash is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator known for his innovative online group jazz piano classes, widely-acclaimed keyboard improvisation books, and as the co-founder of 88 Creative Keys workshops and webinars for music teachers. Learn more at https://bradleysowash.com/

Olivia Revueltas

Born: July 17, 1951

Olivia Revueltas born in Mexico City and came to the U.S.A. in 1988. Olivia has her own style in Jazz, her arrangements bring new light to Mainstream pieces.

Fred Hughes

Born: March 19, 1961

From concerts, recordings and military service in Seoul, Korea to jazz festivals as a Jazz Ambassador; conducting orchestras across the United States as a musical director to recording and producing records as a pianist and leader of his own group; Fred Hughes has had a long and varied musical journey.   

Fred began studying keyboards and low brass at the age of 8 and by age 12 was a member of Local 294 of the American Federation of Musicians in his hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  He performed alongside his father in the New Holland and Bainbridge Bands on tuba and in his dad’s jazz group on organ.  Professional performances continued with his own organ trio until graduating from high school. 

Dan Knight

Born: September 26

From “The Encyclopedia of Jazz,” Rutgers University: Composer, pianist, educator and Steinway Artist Dan Knight has built a worldwide reputation as, according to Claude Nobs, Artistic Director of the Montreux Jazz Festival, "one of the finest solo pianists in the world." His early studies were in the classical tradition. He began piano lessons in 1958, just before his fifth birthday. His teacher was Tillie Maither, a former student of Paderewski. She discovered his interest in jazz after he heard Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" for the first time, when he ran to her house to ask if it was possible to have five counts in a measure