Results for "Trombone"

Philip Yaeger

Born: 1976

Born in Northern Maine, Philip Yaeger learned to sing as soon as he could talk. Improvisation came naturally to him and by the age of fourteen he was playing engagements with a jazz trio - not an easy thing to accomplish in a town of ten thousand souls.

The stations of his life thus far: William Paterson University: B.A. or B.M. (I can never remember) in Jazz Performance; studied w/Ed Neumeister, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig, Rufus Reid, et al).
New York City: the Lower East Side free scene - often as an apprentice/observer but also occasionally as a participant, also numerous work in soul, pop, rock and Afro-beat.
Philadelphia: that fantastic West Philly do-it-yourself scene, work with Tim Motzer, Ursula Rucker, Elliot Levin et al.
Graz, Austria: Master of Arts from the Arts University of Graz; further studies with Ed Neumeister and others.
Vienna, where he currently lives and happily works with whomever will have him

Marco Katz Montiel

Marco Katz composed and performed the soundtrack for the 2000 production of Zoey’s Zoo (Oh Yeah! Cartoons). His recording of Tubby the Tuba Meets a Jazz Band came out on Koch in 2007. Marco has recorded with Charlie Palmieri and other artists. Marco’s compositions and arrangements have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall and published by Bourne, Carl Fischer Music, International Music, and Kendor. His publications also include articles in Popular Music and Society.

Bob Cochran

Bob Cochran started playing the trombone at age 12. His trombone teachers include Jack Harris, Lauren Buslee, Robert Bailey, Edward Huttlin and Tom Ervin. Bob has attended clinics given by Urbie Green, Ralph Sauer and Bob McChesney. Bob competed as a trombone soloist in music contests through junior high and high school. He was selected as first chair in the Minnesota All State High School Band in the summer of 1975. The following summer, he was named principal trombonist with the Minnesota All State High School Orchestra. He was lucky enough to play alongside Bruce Eidem (now a top New York professional trombonist) in the Fargo-Moorhead Youth Symphony, and assumed the principal chair duties when Bruce graduated from high school

Jen Krupa

California native Jennifer Krupa is an active trombonist in the Washington, DC area. A member of the United States Navy Band Commodores Jazz Ensemble since 2004, Jen also performs regularly with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra; Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra; and her own group, JLQ, with saxophonist Leigh Pilzer. Jen has performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, David Berger’s Sultans of Swing, the Wycliffe Gordon Quintet/Sextet, Joe Lovano, Branford Marsalis, Nancy Wilson, Johnny Mandel, Chris Potter, Bill Watrous, Christian McBride, Eddie Daniels, Arturo Sandoval and numerous others

Crossbones

CROSSBONES is made up of some of Ireland’s brightest young talents on the Irish music scene. Boasting the unique line up of trombone & bass trombone, CROSSBONES offer a fresh perspective on jazz music. All of the compositions on the album were composed by the members of the group, as well as two pieces composed especially for the group by IFTA award winning Irish composer Brian Byrne & Bruno Heinen, a leading jazz musician on the UK scene. CROSSBONES members are Eoghan Kelly (trombone), Paul Frost (bass trombone), Phill Collins (piano/rhodes), Deirdre Frost (bass) and Stephen Kelly (drums)

Denis Beuret

Born: July 24, 1965

Denis Beuret was born in Semsales Delemont, Switzerland. He is a composer and trombonist in serveral contemporary music ensembles featuring jazz, improv, electroni music, and specializing in sound research.

Eldon Payne

Born: April 25, 1957

Eldon was born in Morristown, TN and graduated cum laude from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a B.S. in Business Administration in 1979. He moved to Tampa, FL in the spring of 1980 and retired from Delta Air Lines with twenty five years of service on Mar. 1, 2008. Some of the groups which Eldon has performed with are as follows: University of Tennessee Campus Band, Tampa Bay Buccaneer Band, Shades of Blue, Boulevard Jazz Orchestra, The Mostly Pops Orchestra, Helios Jazz Orchestra, Cigar City Big Band, Swing Sound Orchestra, Frankie D

Henrik Munkeby Norstebo

Born: July 29, 1986

Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (born 1986 in Trondheim) is a trombonist working mostly within contemporary fields of music. Educated in improvised music and jazz from the music academies in Gothenburg (BA) and Oslo (MA),he is now based in the Norwegian capital. An ambiguous relationship with the trombone has led him to explore both the boisterous and brassy side of the instrument, as well as it’s counterpoint in microscopic and ‘electronic’ sound possibilities. Utilizing a wide spectrum of playing techniques, from pure long tones to noise and the almost inaudible, he often works balancing the intuitive with the precisely constructed. Nørstebø’s time is divided between his regular projects; trios As deafness increases, Lana trio, Whirl (with Tobias Delius) and Nørstebø/Strid/de Heney, duo BEAM SPLITTER (with Audrey Chen), new music ensemble “Aksiom” and the freejazzpop-band “Skadedyr”. He is also a member of several project based groups, and have appeared in a myriad of ad hoc settings

Freddy Fuego

Born: October 30, 1986

An alum of Berklee College of Music, Freddy currently freelances with numerous bands and ensembles around New York City and Boston, while leading his own band as Freddy Fuego. He has shared the stage with first-class artists such as Brian McKnight, MC Hammer, Buju Banton, Groundation, Collie Buddz, Pato Banton, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Dead Prez, De La Soul, Styles P, Blitz the Ambassador, Cody Chestnut, Bootsy Collins, Fred Wesley, Delfeayo Marsalis, Jason Palmer, Sam Barsh, Maurice Brown, Grace Kelly and Bobby Sanabria. He's also performed at hundreds of festivals, concerts, and venues in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, New Orleans, Florida, and Barcelona

Michal Tomaszczyk

MICHAL TOMASZCZYK – trombone player, composer, arranger, born in 1986 in Poland. Graduated from Jazz Trombone and Jazz Composing and Arranging classes at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. He is a leader and founder of the quartet BIOTONE. Debut album of the group titled „Unspoken Words” came out in 2011. It consist of only the compositions of Michal Tomaszczyk. BIOTONE band is nominated to prestigous Polish musical Fryderyk Award 2012 in the category of Jazz Phonographic Debut of the Year. Besides his own band, works or has worked with formations: Nu Big Band, Kattorna, Salsa Central, Krzysztof Herdzin Big Band, Jose Torres y Salsa Tropical, Zbigniew Namysłowski Big Band, eM Band, Marcin Masecki WOR, Tomasz Stanko/Andrzej Smolik “Peyotl,” Big Ostrava Band, Perfect Girls and Friends, Aukso, Havana Dreams, Big Band AM Katowice, Skauci, Transkapela, Babooshki, Smolik, Big Band Akwarium, Silesian Jazz Orchestra, J4zz PuZone and others. When playing in big bands, performed on the same stage with artists such as Maria Schneider, Ed Partyka, Andrzej Zubek, Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski, Janusz Muniak, Grzegorz Nagorski, Dante Luciani, Urszula Dudziak, Krystyna Pronko, Ewa Uryga and many others. He has played at many festivals in the country and abroad: Jazz nad Odra in Wroclaw, Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Jazz Piano Festival in Kalisz, Jazz Getxo (Spain), Jazzber (Spain), Jazz Camping Kalatówki, Mazurska Noc Jazzowa in Szczytno, Festival Cubano in Krakow, Ostrava Jazz Festival (Czech Republic), Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Jazzowa Jesien (Bielsko Biala), Easy Jazz Festival in Zory, Jazzonalia Jazz Festival in Konin, Tremplin Jazz D’Avignon (France), Film and Art Festival Two Shores (Kazimierz Dolny), Meskie Granie in Warsaw, Silesian Jazz Festival in Katowice, Komeda Jazz Festival in Slupsk, Cieszyński Festival Jazzowy, Film Music Festival in Krakow, Malta Festival in Poznan, Szalone Dni Muzyki Les Titans in Warsaw. As an arranger and composer, in addition to his own bands and individual projects, permanently working with Teatr Rozrywki (Entertainment Theater) in Chorzow and with eM Band. Michal Tomaszczyk is the winner of the scholarship program Minister of Culture and National Heritage “MLODA POLSKA” in 2011.