Results for "piano"

Mark d'Inverno

Born: August 29, 1965

Mark d’Inverno was born in 1965 and started playing piano around the age of 5 and jazz piano from the age of 13. Whilst studying at St Catherine’s College Oxford he co-founded the Oxford Jazz Club in 1983, where he played weekly with his trio and other guest musicians. He also led a number of bands in Oxford in the mid-1980s and featured regularly in the music of town and university life. After touring Japan for several months as a drummer in a pop trio in 1989 he moved to London and immediately started to play with some of the leading musicians on the jazz scene there. As a graduate student at UCL in London he led and conducted the UCL big band, which went on several European tours and appeared several times at the London Jazz Festival

Ben Wilcock

Born: April 2, 1981

Ben Wilcock is a New Zealand pianist and composer. After years of working as a session musician Ben dedicated his musical output to jazz. Forming Thick Records NZ with John Rae in 2014, he released ‘Sneaky Weasel’.

Since then he has released five albums as a leader. The lastest release is Splendid Isolation, a 14 song collaboration of original material with John Rae.

With his 2021 release ‘The River Tethys’, Wilcock broke away from conventionality through an eclectic mix of harmonic centres and brave improvisation The album is based on the characters and worlds from the sci-fi novel series 'Hyperion Cantos' by Dan Simmons. Each track on ‘The River Tethys’ is based on different unique worlds explored by protagonists within the sci-novel.

Vladan

Born: July 17, 1984

New York City-based jazz pianist and composer VLADAN began playing the piano at age 7, as the latest incarnation of a generations-long dynasty steeped in the unique Balkan musical tradition. After completing music school in his hometown, VLADAN continued his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich (Jazz Piano), studying with world-renowned Russian jazz pianist Leonid Chizhik and graduating with honors. In 2010 he received a prestigious scholarship from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since 2006 VLADAN has recorded and performed extensively, most often as part of a trio or as soloist

Max Holm

Born: July 25, 1996

www.MaxHolm.com for most current information and musical resume

Eric Hirsh

Born: February, 1984

Eric Hirsh is a restless and ambitious musician whose growing, genre-crossing body of work is finally being showcased in “Distillation,” his debut album as a bandleader. For the past 12 years, Hirsh has lived in Durham, NC where he co-creates as a founding member of progressive hip hop quartet The Beast and as a director of Orquesta GarDel, a large-format salsa band. Increasingly, he has focused on writing and performing with a jazz quartet comprising longtime friends and Beast rhythm section Pete Kimosh (bass), Stephen Coffman (drums), and Aaron Hill (saxophone). Hirsh is a 2012 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Composer Fellowship, and a four-time winner of the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award

Derel Monteith

Derel Monteith is a pianist, keyboardist, and composer based in Illinois. After focusing on classical piano during his childhood in North Carolina, Derel developed an affinity for improvised music and earned a degree in jazz studies from the University of Miami. Among others, he has performed with Nnenna Freelon, Vanessa Rubin, Frank Foster, and the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and studied with the Grammy-winning composer Maria Schneider. In 2015, Derel formed the Derel Monteith Trio, which focuses on his original compositions and instrumental covers of rock songs. His other primary outlet is fully improvised solo piano

Juan Oskar Maynes

Born: September 17, 1953

Discography: 1979 45 rpm “A Kick in the Brass” 1981 45 rpm “Cowboy Strut” 1983 45 rpm “Christmas is For Grownups Too” *note: These records received extensive air-play on Arizona radio Stations. 1986 “Laser Lips Project” (unpublished) Featuring... Drummer: Hal Blaine & Trumpeter: John Eth 1989-1990 “Groovin’ High” Cassette Album w/Jazz vocal ensemble “Mayneswing” 1998 “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” (Fifth Edition) Paul C. Krouse/Publisher 2001 CD “Baile Buffet” (amazon.com) 2004 CD “Jazz Pizzazz and Latino” (cdbaby.com) (amazon.com) 2005 CD “Christmas is For Grownups Too” (cdbaby.com) (amazon.com) 2005 Received an official "Artist Endorsement" from the Yamaha Corporation of America

James C. Williams

Born: September, 1942

Played semi-professionally since 1960 with three or four swing/jazz ensembles, dixieland groups, and solo piano bars, etc. in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2013 played with a country/rock group in Matlache, a country trio in Venice, and formed All That Jazz, a quintet that has played in Venice since 2015.

Gordon Beeferman

Born: August 23, 1976

Gordon Beeferman, composer and pianist, has created a diverse body of adventurous work spanning opera, orchestral, chamber, and vocal music, jazz and free improvisation, and collaborations with dance and other arts. His chamber opera “The Rat Land,” written with librettist Charlotte Jackson, was hailed by The New York Times as "complex and daringly modern...gritty, fidgety and intriguing.” Beeferman leads two groups which perform his compositions: Other Life Forms, a quartet, and Music for an Imaginary Band, a septet, described by Time Out New York as a "commanding avant-jazz ensemble." A "fully liberated pianist" (Cadence Magazine), Beeferman has performed extensively in New York as well as across the US and Canada; highlights include appearances at Roulette, ISSUE Project Room, the Vision Festival, MATA Festival, Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY), and the Music Gallery (Toronto), and on tour with the Philip Glass Ensemble in Einstein on the Beach

Norman Delaney

I am a one man band who plays all of the instruments, and does all of the recording and mixing by myself in my small home studio.