Results for "piano"

Paul Nagel

Born: December 4, 1951

Paul Nagel has been playing piano professionally for over 40 years. He has performed and/or recorded with many artists including, Robben Ford, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bobby McFerrin, Boz Scaggs, Madeline Peyroux, Cornelius Bumpus, Eddie Marshall, Steve Smith, Dave Liebman, Eddie Harris, Eddie Henderson, Ray Brown, Ray Drummond, Joe Henderson, Sonny Stitt, Bobby Hutcherson, and Greg Abate. He has played festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe including Montreux, North Sea, Monterey, Istanbul, Madrid and Vienna. Venues include the Blue Note NYC & Japan, Davies Hall, Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, Town Hall NYC and Kuumbwa Jazz Center.

Michael Gallant

Born: October 16, 1980

Described by one critic as “an artist unafraid and bending the tradition,” keyboardist/composer Michael Gallant has never been one to play as written —and with his new augmented trio release Live Plus One, Gallant reintroduces his disruptive musical tendencies within the context of a lush and powerful live album. Live Plus One is the Michael Gallant Trio’s follow-up to the widely acclaimed 2013 debut Completely (Gallant Music). Combining a rich orchestral sensibility with assertive grooves, flowing energy with studio-quality performances and production, Live Plus One centers around Gallant’s stylistically omnivorous, post-fusion, and often simultaneous improvisations on both acoustic piano and overdriven electric keyboard

Emily Bear

At age 15, Pianist/Composer/Songwriter Emily Bear is one of the most astonishing and prolific musical talents of our time – arranging, orchestrating, and performing in an astonishingly (remarkable) diverse collection of styles. Having made her professional debut at the Ravinia Festival at 5 years old, she has since performed at many of the worlds’ most well-known venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Ravinia, and the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Her concerts have taken her to concert halls across the U.S. and Europe and Asia and her love for all musical styles ranges from pop, classical, jazz, and everything in between

Yuko Mabuchi

Born: June

In the world of music, there are artists who follow trends and those who create them. Yuko Mabuchi firmly belongs in the latter category. Hailing from Japan, she is currently taking the global music scene by storm, showcasing her awe-inspiring talent as a pianist while staying true to her roots.

At the tender age of four, Yuko found her rhythm in the world of classical piano in her hometown of Fukui. However, she didn't stay confined to just one genre. Growing up, she was drawn towards American R&B, Hip-Hop, and Blues, but it was jazz that struck a chord deep within her.

In fact, jazz captivated her so much that she dedicated her post-high school years to studying jazz piano. This early initiation into a multitude of genres fueled her music into an exotic mix, making it as unique as the artist herself.

Tico Pierhagen & Aguabajo

Tico Pierhagen, born in 1975 at Pasto, Colombia. was adopted by a Dutch family at the age of 1,5 years old. When he was 8 he started taking piano lessons and it soon became clear that he was very much attracted to all kinds of jazz. After having finished grammar school he went to college in Utrecht and followed an education in composition and music technology. Later he graduated at the university of Portsmouth (European Media Master of Arts). Back in The Netherlands he decided to visit the Rotterdam Conservatory to study the piano for four more years . In 2008 he returned to his native country Colombia for the first time

Yoshino Nakahara

Born: May 23

Yoshino Nakahara is a multi-talented professional pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader who has performed internationally, and with highly acclaimed musicians such as Gregory Hutchinson, Gilad Hekselman, E.J. Strickland, George Garzone, Lenny Stallworth, Darren Barret, Tim Mayer, Nori Shiota, Cesar Joaniquet, Leon Boykins, Jeff Miles and Evan Sherman. She is an accomplished musician and a brilliantly skilled pianist described as having beautiful tone, rich harmonies, incredible rhythmic control and great influence from various musical genres. After hearing and playing with Ms

Jennifer Karlis

Born: January 18, 1993

Nachum Pereferkovich

Born: December 25, 1945

From the very beginning became interested in improvisation, popular and country music, which led to his natural purpose - jazz. Already in the music school began playing jazz at the piano in ensembles at holiday parties. At that time, in the Soviet Union there was no education in the field of jazz, and pupils playing with one another, often in the breaks between lessons , also learned as one another. The first notes for his jazz repertoire Nachum took to copying from your neighbor, restaurant pianist, which gradually began to replace some of his restaurant. History of jazz in the Soviet Union is quite different from its history in the West

Dahveed Behroozi

Pianist and Composer Dahveed Behroozi is a San Francisco Bay Area based musician. His focus is in jazz, classical, and new music. He is an active player both as a leader and sideman in the Bay Area, nationally and also internationally.

Behroozi’s expansive musical palette comes from a wide array of places that almost seem endless. His musical frame of reference ranges from Bach, Brahms, Schoenberg, Alban Berg, 20th century jazz luminaries, as well as the rock and ambient worlds.

His main focus in music is improvisation. Behroozi approaches improvisation as a form of musical composition. It is within the improvisation, that over time, compositions begin to appear, take shape, and ultimately form. He’s constantly striving to find new sounds and feelings in his work, and hopefully take the listener on a multi-sensory landscape, rather than just a sonic one.

Nitai Hershkovits

Call on the Old Wise is Nitai Hershkovits’ first record for ECM, presenting his powerful pianistic ingenuity in a largely improvised solo setting. Nitai’s improvisations unfold like compositions being created in real-time: “It’s like I’m playing with several periods of music at once, but in a sort of augmented-reality-environment,” states Nitai. “To me the album is like a journey taking you through multiple varying experiences in the blink of an eye. Like jumping through frames holding different pictures or looking through windows to different worlds.” Call on the Old Wise follows Isabela and Here Be Dragons, where Nitai has been heard as a member of Oded Tzur’s quartet.