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Take Five With Nicky Schrire

by AAJ Staff
August 14, 2012

Meet Nicky Schrire: London-born, South African-raised, New York-based vocalist/composer Nicky Schrire has been been praised for her abilit: to use her voice as “a dispensary of emotional power." (Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz).A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Schrire has performed in New York, South Africa and London. Her debut ...

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Take Five With Dan Meinhardt

by AAJ Staff
August 13, 2012

Meet Dan Meinhardt: Dan Meinhardt is a young saxophonist quickly making a name for himself. He has made appearances with some of the Northwest's finest musicians and has been a first-call player for touring groups and pits.In June 2012, Dan released his first album, Gone West. It contains eight original compositions and ...

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Take Five With Jasmine Lovell-Smith

by AAJ Staff
July 29, 2012

Meet Jasmine Lovell-Smith: Jasmine Lovell-Smith is a composer and saxophonist from New Zealand, currently based in New York City. Born to an American mother, a trained opera vocalist, and a Kiwi father, the voice was her first instrument. After discovering jazz in high school, Jasmine took up the saxophone and went on to graduate ...

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Take Five With JB Baretsky

by AAJ Staff
July 28, 2012

Meet JB Baretsky: At only 25-years-old, JB Baretsky is wise beyond his years. From packed out performances all over New York (including two dates at Lincoln Center) to write-ups in The Huffington Post, Pulse Magazine, JazzTimes, and more. JB is bringing a vintage sound, style, and culture to new audiences, young and old. He ...

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Take Five With Jared C. Balogh

by AAJ Staff
July 27, 2012

Meet Jared C. Balogh: My name is Jared C. Balogh and I am a musician/composer from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania U.S.A.. I am also a member of the American Composers Forum. I formed this project back in July of 2010 with the intent to maintain an ideology that this project will push boundaries of myself and ...

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Take Five With Roman Stolyar

by AAJ Staff
July 19, 2012

Meet Roman Stolyar: Born in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia. Raised in a family of engineers. Started studying piano at the age of five but rejected to continue it at the age of twelve. Went back to music being a student of Novosibirsk Technical University; ultimately, decided to quit nuclear physics. Graduated from Novosibirsk College of ...

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Take Five With Steve Montgomery

by AAJ Staff
July 18, 2012

Meet Steve Montgomery: In about 1980, I started to try to think about how to expand what the guitar could do harmonically and with its range (the bar has been set pretty high by all those great piano players out there). The two trend setters at the time (if you include ...

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Take Five With Ludmil Krumov

by AAJ Staff
July 17, 2012

Meet Ludmil Krumov: “Ludmil was one of my best students, and I have to say that I learned as much from him as he did form me! Brilliant, creative, soulful, intellectually probing--Ludmil has it all. The work he's doing with integrating Bulgarian rhythmic and melodic concepts into today's jazz, as well as the way ...

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Take Five With Jussi Reijonen

by AAJ Staff
July 16, 2012

Meet Jussi Reijonen: Born in Rovaniemi, a small town on the Arctic Circle in northern Finland, fretted/fretless guitarist and oudist Jussi Reijonen is truly the product of a world with few frontiers. Having grown up moving back and forth between Finnish Lapland, the Middle East, and East Africa, and currently living in Boston MA, ...

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Take Five With Jens Larsen

by AAJ Staff
June 17, 2012

Meet Jens Larsen: Danish Guitarist Jens Larsen took up playing guitar at the age of 12. Fascinated by jazz, he decided to first study in Copenhagen and later to leave for the Netherlands to study and later graduate cum laude from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He is now active working as a ...