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Take Five With Billie Davies
by AAJ Staff
Meet Billie Davies:Drummer and band leader Billie Davies is mostly an autodidact whose natural talent, relentless, explorative spirit, and multifaceted experiences have led to an innovative approach to jazz. With a background in classical and jazz along with a lifetime of musical experiences in jams, performances, recordings, and music production, the listener is treated ...
Take Five With Sarpay Ozcagatay
by AAJ Staff
Meet Sarpay Özçağatay:Sarpay Özçağatay born in Ankara, Turkey, is a talented flutist, EWI player, composer, performer, and bandleader. Sarpay has performed with many jazz musicians and legends such as Ron Carter, Kevin Eubanks, David Fiuczynski. Terri Lyne Carrington, Eric Gould, Greg Osby, Steve Turre, and many more. He studied classical ...
Take Five With Jon LaTona
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jon LaTona:Born and raised in Buffalo, NY. I loved jazz so much that I wanted to go to school for it. Now I have a debut record that I am extremely proud of. It was so thrilling to record because I was working with musicians that I grew up watching and listening to.
Take Five With Mike Davis
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Davis:Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day ...
Take Five With Felix Langford
by AAJ Staff
Meet Felix Langford:At 13, I fell in love with the art of percussion and I credit my brother, John (Doc), as the one responsible for teaching me basic beats and exposing my ears to some of the hippest and most innovative cats on the jazz scene. He exposed me to trendsetters like John Coltrane, ...
Take Five With Roger Aldridge
by AAJ Staff
Meet Roger Aldridge:I am primarily a jazz composer. A wide range of influences are found in my music including jazz, tango, blues, samba, fusion, new music, and back to American roots music.My exploration of the jazz family tree does not stop at New Orleans. I've gone further back to old fiddle styles--especially, ...
Take Five With Clay Grossman
by AAJ Staff
Meet Clay Grossman:Clay Grossman, a mainstay on the Chicago jazz scene for almost four decades, began his professional career at the age of the 19. He has been passing on his sage drum knowledge and wisdom to aspiring students of the drum- set over 20 years. He studied drums with Marshall Thompson and Ian ...
Take Five With Armen Nalbandian
by AAJ Staff
Meet Armen Nalbandian:Armen Nalbandian (b.1978 in Manchester, England) is a jazz pianist, composer and humanitarian.In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz, improvised and experimental music in California. Nalbandian is the composer of over 1200 works in ...
Take Five With Simon Spang-Hanssen
by AAJ Staff
Meet Simon Spang-Hanssen:First concerts in 1976 with John Tchicai and Strange Brothers, later also with Ben Besiakov, Jesper Lundgaard, Alex Riel, New Jungle Orchestra, Jan Kaspersen, Mozar Terra, Doug Raney.In Paris, from 1985-98: Orchestra National de Jazz, Denis Badault, Andy Emler, Nguyên Lê, Quintet Moutin, Ramuntcho Matta, Edouard Ferlet.Since 1998, ...
Take Five With Mike Skory
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Skory:I play Hammond/piano for the regional soul/blues/original band, Root Doctor Featuring Freddie Cunningham. I also have a unique rock trio call Suzi & the Love Brothers. Both acts are out of Lansing, MI. Instrument(s):Piano, Hammond organ.Teachers and/or influences?The two musicians who helped me in ...
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