Results for "piano"

Kuni Mikami

Born: December 19, 1954

I was born in Tokyo,Japan and came to New York in 1975. I am the last pianist for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, from 1991 till 2002, I toured all over U.S. and Europe with Hamp. Also I have toured with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet Orchestra, Cab Calloway Orchestra and George Gee Swing Orchestra. I am performing at major jazz clubs such as Birdland, Bluenote with my own group (Bryce Sebastien/bass, Richard Allen/drums,Stephanie Clark/vocal).In 2003 I started performing with a mime artist, Haruka as "iMIMEnation" and toured in South Asia, South America and Japan.

Kevin McHugh

Born: October 8, 1982

Pianist and composer Kevin McHugh likes all kinds of music. He has performed in a variety of groups and with notable jazz musicians including the drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Gary Bartz, Marcus Belgrave, Jovino Santos-Neto (flutist and pianist for Hermeto Pascoal), Robin Eubanks, Peter Evans, Salah Ragab (Egyptian drummer for Sun Ra), Andy Hunter, Ze de Riba, and Coco, the Chinese jazz diva. But he also enjoys working on solo electronic music, blues, ballet accompaniment, salsa, musical improv, whiny emo stuff, and even experimental metal. Kevin has lived around the world in cities including Seattle, New York, Shanghai, Berlin, São Paulo, and Cairo, performing as a leader or sideman in venues including Benaroya Hall, The Bop Stop, a few venues in New York, and a three month engagement at The House of Blues and Jazz in Shanghai

Ken Watts

Born: June 11, 1956

Keith Javors

Born: October 15, 1971

Never compromising a strong dedication to excellence, critically-acclaimed artist, producer, educator, and entrepreneur Dr. Keith Javors has seen success in nearly every facet of the modern music industry. From his unmatched multiple, consecutive Downbeat magazine awards as a teacher and bandleader to the cutting edge leadership behind his global imprint Inarhyme Records to his natural aptitudes as a profound and soulful player and composer, Javors does it all, and he does it all at an undisputed high level. Not by his own admittance, Jazz Times says "The degree of hard work, patience, study, blood, sweat and tears necessary to produce a band of this quality is phenomenal." Keith is President and CEO of Inarhyme Records LLC, a top-shelf Indie record label and music production company which produces critically-acclaimed and cutting-edge releases and produces concert collaborations throughout North America and abroad

Karel Roessingh

Born: December 22, 1952

Karel Roessingh is a composer, arranger, producer and musician who has written scores for over five hundred television episodes, and many award-winning films, documentaries, and promotional videos.  He has recorded and produced more than fifteen of his own CDs, including several for the Canadian Naturescapes series distributed world-wide, two jazz trio CDs and many solo piano CDs.  His latest solo project, Birdsong in the Parkade, was recorded with a Steinway grand piano in a Victoria parkade, with original music based on birdsongs collected across Canada.  He has performed with symphony orchestras and rock, jazz, folk, show and country bands throughout the world.  He’s recently recorded with Edie Daponte, Garnett Betts, Maureen Washington and many others

Jose-Miguel Yamal

Born: January 7, 1978

Jose-Miguel Yamal, born in Santiago, Chile, started learning jazz piano at the reknown High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and has since performed throughout Texas, Chile, Switzerland, and Brazil. He has been a clinician at different campuses including the College of the Mainland and one of the most sought after pianists in Houston. He has also performed with salsa singers Rey De la Paz, Luisito Carrio, Choco Orta, Rafu Warner, among others, and jazz greats including Tom Harrell, Milt Hinton, Bob Mintzer, Hubert Laws, Carlos Garnett, and Marcus Miller. He has performed in the internationally acclaimed 2001 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and many other festivals in the Texas area including the Kemah Jazz Festival, Houston International Festival, Corpus Christi Texas Jazz Festival, and the Puerto Rican Festival

Jon Weber

Born: March 18, 1961

My new CD, Simple Complex, features Roy Hargrove, Gary Burton, Eric Alexander, Mark Walker, Avishai Cohen, Diego Urcola, Niels-Henning �rsted Pedersen, Matt Clohesy, Paul McCandless and many others performing 10 of my original pieces; mostly in a jazz sextet format. A self-taught pianist/arranger, I recorded almost all of Simple Complex at Deaf Dog Studio in Chicago with producer John Ovnik. My sextet performed for a full house at Carnegie Hall in November 2003 with guests Joe Farnsworth and Yosvany Terry, and my quintet headlined at the Melbourne International Jazz Fest earlier in the year. BET showcased us on a NYC gig on January 24, 2004. I also enjoy playing 1920s stride piano at NYC's 92nd Street "Y" with Dick Hyman which I will do on Saturday April 10, 2004

Jon Weiss

Born: May 8, 1948

Jon Weiss has been performing professionally as a pianist, keyboardist, acompanist, and pianist/vocalist in the New York area and overseas since 1979. Jon has performed in Europe, the Carribean, Turkey, and Mexico.

He plays all styles of jazz, pop, Latin music (salsa, merengue and other styles), R&B and commerical dance music. He sings in several languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish, French and Russian. 

Jon has performed with famous jazz and pop musicians including Dexter Gordon, Flip Phillips, Eddie Henderson, Percy France, Tisziji Munoz, Houston Person, Carmen Lundy, Gale Winters, Vanessa Rubin, Arthur Prysock, Rochelle Thompson, the Four Tops, the Drifters, The Platters and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Joel Clemons

Born: October 20, 1976

Jof Lee

Jazz pianist Jof Lee has developed a unique improvisational style. He first began exploring the many puzzles and mysteries of music as a child in Colorado through the mid 1950's and during the post-bop era of the early 1960's. Two separate but equally profound encounters with the New York jazz scene in the late 70's found him within the musical sphere of jazz tenor giant Stan Getz. It was due to Stans' urging and inspiration that Jof was able to continue along the path. After further private studies in New York City, he began traveling and performing with many world class musicians, appearing in venues throughout Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. As well as a performing pianist, Jof is also very active as a composer and arranger