Results for "Trumpet"

Matt Lawson

Born: December 6, 1974

BIOGRAPHY Matt Lawson is from the tiny but beautiful Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine. He is the son of a lobster fisherman, and grew up far away from the world of jazz and its urban sensibility. Matt gained success early in his musical life when he was chosen as Outstanding Soloist in 1993 at the Maine State Jazz Festival. After high school Matt joined the United States Navy Band and traveled most of the globe performing in jazz, rock, and ceremonial ensembles. Upon his honorable discharge from the Navy he took the job as lead singer and trumpeter with the Portland based blues band Red Light Revue, which was named outstanding blues act by the Portland Phoenix magazine in 1999. In 2000 Matt moved to Louisville Kentucky to further his education, and in 2003 he won the National Trumpet Competitions Jazz Division

Kirk Knuffke

Reflecting on his guiding artistic impulse, Kirk Knuffke says: “I’m concerned with making beautiful music. Even when the music is free and avant-garde, I want it to reach into people’s hearts. I like to play fast and loud and high, but beauty is always first, though not in a precious way. It can be in a rough way, too.” A prolific, lauded record-maker, the cornetist-composer has made some 20 albums as a leader or co-leader over the past two decades. Knuffke’s 2022 release as a leader — Gravity Without Airs (TAO Forms/AUM Fidelity), featuring pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Michael Bisio — fulfilled his poetic aims as well as any recording he has made to date, earning a review of 4 ½ stars from DownBeat magazine as well as a critic’s playlist pick in The New York Times. As an in-demand sideman, Knuffke also records and tours the world with some of today’s leading jazz musicians, from vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and guitarist Mary Halvorson to drummer Matt Wilson and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. Knuffke was a standout front-line foil for Lewis on the tenor man’s hit Red Lily Quintet disc Jesup Wagon, which JazzTimes named the top album of 2021. All About Jazz has aptly extolled Knuffke as “one of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside, freedom and swing.”

Luke Elderkin

Born: February 20, 1991

Stephen Frost

...a graduate of DePaul University's School of Music, with a Bachelor of Music Performance. From Classical to Jazz, he has proven himself as a versatile player, with a broad range of performance experience. Steve performs regularly with The Mike Frost Project at some of Chicago's most well known venues, including a regular stay at Andy's Jazz Club. He has performed with blues legend Otis Rush, including opening for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at Chicago's United Center during their world tour. Steve has also performed on recording sessions for a number of local artists as well as national artists like blues man Eddie Clearwater, and Chicago's own #1 hit legends, "The Buckinghams"

Taylor Haskins

Born: November 7, 1971

Taylor is a member of Nels Cline's "Lovers" orchestra, which released an album on Blue Note Records in 2016. He is also a founding member of Guillermo Klein's "Los Guachos" and has toured & recorded with many world-class ensembles, including the Richard Bona Group and the Dave Holland Big Band, with whom Taylor won a Grammy award in 2005 for his contributions to the album "Overtime". Taylor has also been composing and producing music for media for over 20 years. He worked full-time for 6 years as an in-house composer for the cutting-edge music production house tomandandy, composing & producing music & sound design for numerous major commercial campaigns, films, & art installations

Ted Daniel

Born: June 4, 1943

Mr. Daniel began studying trumpet in elementary school. He began his professional career playing local gigs with his childhood friend, the legendary guitarist, Sonny Sharrock. Mr. Daniel briefly attended Berklee School of music and Southern Illinois University before a tour of duty will U.S. Army Bands. After his discharge from the Army, Mr. Daniel attended Central State College, in Ohio, on a full music scholarship where he met and studied with Dr. Ken Makanda McIntyre. After a year, Mr. Daniel returned to NYC and eventually received a bachelor of music degree in theory and composition from the City College of New York

Hugo Alves

Born: June 19, 1973

Born in Lagos - Portugal, being an autodidactic musician, initiated his musical studies at about the age of seven in the city's philharmonic. In 1991 in Faro he finds a small jazz community made up of local musicians, remnant of a former jazz club. In 1994 he begins private harmony, composition and Jazz classes with Zé Eduardo, participating in several workshops throughout the country. The first Big band appears in his career through Zé Eduardo in the ..Big Band Jazz in the Philharmonic... He studies in several workshops such as the Algarve Jazz Workshop (1996), or courses given by diverse musicians such as John Nugent, Doug Weiss and Dawn Thompson, Randy Brecker, Frank Tiberi, Scott Wendholt, among many others

Cassius White

Born: December 11, 1955

The title of my CD is "From the Inside Out," featuring my title track, Cora Lee. The title track is the key to my success because it has motivated my music, like listening to Rick Braun, Chuck Mangione and Miles Davis. Consider me as an authentic artist because there are no samples in my work. No one really knows where music is going; sooner or later it all comes back to creativity. So far the reaction to my new CD has been great! I hope you like it too.

Herb Robertson

Born: February 21, 1951

Herb Robertson is an avant-garde jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and music producer. He combines a thorough command of traditional and extended techniques with a prodigious imagination.

Born in New Jersey, he began to play trumpet in school during the fifth grade. He was introduced to jazz two years later by his junior high music teacher including Miles Davis. Robertson began collecting jazz records, listening to all styles from Louis Armstrong to the avant-garde and especially the era’s hard bop. In high school he led a quintet that played dances. During 1969-73 he attended the Berklee School Of Music as an instrumental performance major, a period in which his improvisational skills became highly developed

Maurice Brown

Born: January 6, 1981

Maurice “Mobetta” Brown’s talent orbits him simultaneously through three worlds: contemporary jazz, blues-rock and cutting edge hip hop. He’s a mastermind as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and producer. When Maurice picks up his horn, his soulful melodies soar into a rarefied space that uniquely marries be-bop to hip-hop and rock, producing his own distinctive sound. Brown displayed an affinity for the trumpet at a young age as he won the national Miles Davis Trumpet Competition and studied under legendary clarinetist Alvin Batiste. His critically acclaimed debut album “HIP TO BOP”, recorded in New Orleans, foreshadowed Brown’s unique talent for creating fresh bop-inflected jazz