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Ramon Alexander

Born: January 3, 1980

The jazz-pianist and composer Ramon Hector Alexander hails from Mamre. His latest album release – his second solo album – is entitled Echoes from Louwskloof. In one sense, this album is an homage to his musical forefathers; in another, it is an homage to the forefathers of his birthplace. “Louwskloof was a place close to home where a Khoi captain, Klapmuts, and his people roamed when the German missionaries set up shop in Groenekloof [today it’s known as Mamre] at the turn of the 1800s.” This historical titbit reveals an artist who has a special connection to place, and how the past resonates in the present

Witold Janiak

Matt Piet

Born: April 7, 1986

Matt Piet is an improvising pianist and composer based in Chicago, IL. He is co-leader of the trio Four Letter Words and the "Piet" of the trio Rempis/Piet/Daisy. After his studies in straight-ahead jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA, Piet shifted gears and began playing mostly improvised music. An active participant in Chicago's vibrant jazz and improvised music scene, Piet has recorded in trio, duo, and solo contexts, which can all be found via his website: mattpietmusic.com.

George A. Jones

Born: May 9, 1954

Connie Han

Pianist and provocateur Connie Han has created an edgy blend of modern and traditional jazz with her incendiary Mack Avenue Records debut Crime Zone. Han explains, “This record is meant to be a statement about being rebellious but within the tradition.” At 23, Ms. Han is a young lioness on a fast-climbing trajectory to jazz stardom with rave reviews from The New York Times, Jazziz Magazine, Downbeat Magazine, and more. According to Downbeat Magazine, Han has “already absorbed the post-bop piano masters” with “all the technical mastery she’ll ever need.” The New York Times describes her as “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops, a breadth of historical knowledge and enough originality to write tunes that absorb your ear easily.” Influenced by post-bop masters Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, and Kenny Kirkland, Han brings a fire, passion, and maturity that belies her youth

Sinan Alimanovich

Born: February 11, 1954

Sinan Alimanovich is multi-award winning pianist, organist, composer, arranger, conductor and educator from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jazz critics describe him as a very strong jazz player, not only in Bosnia and Herzegovina: "... Alimanovich is the one of the main European pianistic figures especially by his unique approach to American jazz and it's interpretation and perception in Europe..." (D. H. Sansky) Sinan Alimanovich has performed and collaborated with the best European and American jazz musicians including: Aladar Pege, Jim Mullen, Harvie S, Randy Brecker, Barbara Hendricks, Vaclav Zahradnik, Alex Blake, Erich Kleinschuster, Gianni Basso, Ladislav Fidri, Dusko Goykovich, Bobby Sanabria, Stjepko Gut, Lee Harper, Csaba Deseo, Robert Balzar, Jože Privšek, Miljenko Prohaska, Tony Lakatos, Petar Ugrin, Robert Balzar and many others

Jose Carra

Born: October 15, 1983

El compositor y pianista Jose Carra es uno de los pianistas más creativos de la nueva generación de músicos de jazz españoles. Su música, fuertemente influenciada por la música clásica y el jazz, hace referencia a muchos otros estilos como el rock, el pop, la electrónica o la música popular. La poesía también juega un papel fundamental en su música, creando un universo totalmente personal y reconocible. El sello discográfico Taghrid Records lanza el nuevo disco de Jose Carra, titulado Diario de vuelo en septiembre de 2018. En él se recogen 12 nuevas composiciones de Carra que interpreta junto al contrabajista Bori Albero y al batería Dani Domínguez

Alejandro Vargas Rodriguez

Born: February 4, 1980

AlejaNdrO VaRgAs Rodríguez (Cuba, 1980) Pianist and composer graduated in the University of Arts in Cuba. He started his musical studies at the early age of 6, reciving lessons from great musicians having as teachers great music masters such as Joel Rodríguez Milord, Ulises Hernández or Harold Gramatges, till he graduated as piano concertist at the University ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte) in La Habana. He completed his studies with different seminars with musicians like Herbie Hancock, Chucho Valdés, Danilo Pérez or Jorge Luis Prats. He has participated in various projects and albums as a jazz pianist and composer

Alex Posmontier

Alexis Alonso

Born: January 31, 1974

The Story of pianist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Alexis Alonso is one of the most unusual in the landscape of contemporary music and jazz. He began his career in the field of rock (May Day, Siglo XXI) and jazz (Nine Seconds Quartet) then moving to develop his work as composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist in Estudios Ignis (Tenerife, Spain). Composed numerous soundtracks for cinema and advertising emphasizing by its elegance and extreme beauty... In 2012 Alexis Alonso's life takes a turn marked by the tragedy, his son Adrian died unexpectedly at the age of three years marking a before and an after for the trajectory of the Spanish musician