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David Amram

Born: November 17, 1930

A pioneer player of jazz French horn, David Amram is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966, Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, E. G. Marshall, and Tito Puente. Amram's most recent work "Giants of the Night" is a flute concerto dedicated to the memory Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie, three American artists Amram knew and worked with. It was commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway.

Nuevo Tango Ensamble

Born: May 10, 1999

GIANNI IORIO – bandoneón PASQUALE STAFANO – piano PIERLUIGI BALDUCCI – bass The NUEVO TANGO ENSAMBLE was born in 1999 starting from a deep admiration for music from Argentina. The trio has established its own identity well recognizable, into which the lesson of classical music, tango nuevo, an Italian melodic sensibility and a conception of authentic jazz performance. The music of the great composer Astor Piazzolla, who had grandparents from Puglia as the three musicians, was therefore assimilated and converted into a new synthesis between the classical music, tango nuevo and jazz that the three musicians have always loved, between the discipline of written and structured music the recognizable Italian character of their melodies and improvisation that makes their every concert a unique event

Geoffrey Armes

Born: May 19, 1957

Geoffrey has honed a musical approach that walks a knife-edge between the singer-songwriter and ambient club or world fusion approach to music making. Improvising is an important process in Geoffrey's intuitive composing style. The UK born multi-instrumentalist (guitars, keys, percussion), composer and singer- songwriter has built a career for himself in New York City on the back of six CD releases, a steady stream of work with Theatre and Modern Dance Companies, and a reputation as a stellar solo performer. Early influences included Gordon Lightfoot, Celtic harpist Allan Stivell, Ravi Shankar, and Umm Kulthum

Kelvin Roy

Kelvin grew up in Flint, Michigan. His father was from New Zealand and relocated to the United States after travelling there as a Fulbright scholar. Kelvin had copious lessons on piano and trombone, plus some voice training from an early age. He attended Flint Central High School, playing in many school bands and he was active in drama as well. He also taught himself how to play other brass instruments like baritone and bass trumpet. The latter—also called a marching valve trombone—became his main instrument. Since his father was an arts critic, he was able to see many first class acts as a child. Later, he went on the road with a couple popular funk and jazz bands playing clubs after attending Michigan State University. Then he moved to South Lousiana and had some amazing musical experiences, sometimes literally out in the swamps

Chase Foster

Born: August 31, 1990

Written Prisms

Six innovative musicians combine skilled lyricism and a tight jam band to create a progressive definition of Hip Hop that has the “universatility” to appeal to all audiences. Written Prisms are influenced greatly by the music of The Roots, Santana, Outkast, Herbie Hancock, De La Soul, Miles Davis, The Meters, Jimi Hendrix, A Tribe Called Quest, Muddy Waters, and Soulive just to name a few. They only need your interest for one moment • the present • and will fill that moment with a fusion of meaningful music that is guaranteed to make you shake your groove thang. On July 1st, Written Prisms released their new album, Ellipsis, to an audience of over 500 people at the East Coast's newest music venue, the Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD

Matthew Earle

Reinhardt martinho

Born: May 21, 1962

Hello , i,m Reinhardt ( No, not the Django ) A new breed in the jazz-fusion world . Old styles , new sounds , mixed and shaked well . A little of this , a few of that . The result is a flavour of textures and styles Just listen and you'll will see ( hear ) . Summer Breeze ( Compilation Album ) The first release from a talented jazz-fusion artist from the netherlands . Smooth and beautiful music with influences of different styles and textures in jazz (rock),latin and fusion . Based on his fuchija® concept . Quiet Storm describes a mood of music and is not really a style as such, although some artists produce their music specifically for this market. Drawing from soul, jazz-latin fusion and smooth jazz styles, Quiet Storm's seductive appeal surfaced in the 80s and like rare groove is not restricted to any particular era. Some tracks are soul structured songs, but others have no strong or catchy melody lines, relying instead on a subtle ongoing groove with solos fading in and out. Always slick, polished and lush sounding, it has remained popular.

Gavin Jones

Born: February 17, 1976

An eclectic singer who can perform in a range of styles from Big Band to Pop to Soul and Rock. Powerful vocalist with a fabulous stage presence.

Scrooge

hi-energy grooves ::: xtatic solos ::: jazzy atmospheres these words describe the leipzig / germany-based band SCROOGE best. the band played / plays several concerts all over germany. they were also invited to play in paris and at the "european jazzfestival" in poitiers / france. scrooge's line-up: oli schmidt - guitar friedrich kienle - bass alexander beyer - drums grosskopf - sax