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Myles Away Jazz

His vision was clear: Tim Quick wanted to reintroduce Jazz and its culture to a younger generation who could take it into the next era, and give Jazz Fans around the world a new way to enjoy it. As the young manager of his father’s Supper Club, The Main Event Bar & Lounge in Los Angeles, he was given the flexibility to run things the way he desired. He was taught all aspects of running a club, and how to anticipate the needs of the audience so that they enjoyed their evening. He later dropped his managerial role to become the primary booking and entertainment promoter for The Main Event. This is where it all started

The Wall Of Jazz

Born: January

The Wall Of Jazz is a brand new, unique, and exciting Dallas-based Jazz music ensemble that gets underway this coming Summer (2009). The ensemble will perform both 1970s-era Jazz/Funk "cover" selections as well as its own original compositions within its repertoire. Check out some of the powerful "cover" selections that you can expect to both experience and enjoy immensely at this link! Just a few of the 1970s Jazz/Funk pioneers that you can expect to discover The Wall Of Jazz paying homage to include; Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour, Lenny White, Dr. Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, The Crusaders, and many more such Jazz luminaries. If you are someone who enjoys this era of Jazz, but who has been missing hearing it for far too long and feel that your musical taste has been overlooked, don't miss this powerful ensemble that presents some of the finest musical talent, not only in the DFW Metroplex, but also some of the finest talent in the world. The ensemble's future includes both recording and performance projects that will involve international travel as well. As an extensive alternate roster is maintained for this musical group, Dallas area Jazz musicians and Jazz vocalists are encouraged to contact us and register their complete information for possible inclusion in upcoming performances. FROM: TWOJ Founder & Lead Director Kenny Love "We all have favorite songs and music eras that are most dear to our hearts, minds, and spirits

Original Hurricane Brass Band

Traditional New Orleans brass band music for all occasions The Original Hurricane Brass Band consists of some of New Orleans' finest musicians and is sure to spice up any event - festivals, weddings, conventions, birthday parties, crawfish boils, picnics, Mardi Gras parties, parades, dances, funerals... Leroy Jones - trumpet, leader
Alonzo Bowens - saxophone
Freddie Lonzo - trombone
Rob Espino - sousaphone
Gerald French - snare drum
Katja Toivola - bass drum

New Orleans Helsinki Connection

New Orleans Helsinki Connection is a group of New Orleans and Helsinki based musicians that play traditional New Orleans jazz with a youthful 21st century touch. Its members represent the very best of this style in their homelands and have been playing together in various bands for years.

In the summer of 2002, a long time dream of a joint band finally became reality. The band had a successful three-week tour in Finland. In the fall of 2003, New Orleans Helsinki Connection headed in to the studio, and the new, aptly titled CD "At Last" came out in April 2004.

Since then, the NOHC has been often heard on the WWOZ jazz station (also live from Satchmo Fest 2008) and the CD is available again after being out of print for some time. In August 2004, the NOHC performed very successfully at Sildajazz Festival in Haugesund, Norway, at Lahden Jazztori Festival in Lahti, Finland and at Storyville Jazz Club in Helsinki, Finland. The band has been seen in New Orleans for example at the French Quarter Festival (2005-2007), Satchmo Fest (2008), Columns Hotel, National Historical Park, and at Donna's Bar & Grill.

Spirit Of New Orleans

Helsinki based Spirit Of New Orleans a.k.a. SONO was founded in the fall of 2001. The band's goal is to play New Orleans jazz as it is played in jazz's birthplace today. The music scene in New Orleans is still very vibrant - even after Katrina - and the city has numerous jazz bands playing in different styles. These bands like the Leroy Jones Quintet, Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers, Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band and others are the inspiration for SONO. The aim is to play hip, funky, hard-swinging, yet traditional jazz that will get the people dancing and feeling good - not forgetting the artistic standards. During its first years Spirit Of New Orleans has been working with Leroy Jones, one of New Orleans' finest trumpeters, with the very fine vocalists Tricia Boutté and Yolanda Windsay from New Orleans and Miriam Aïda from Sweden, and with Finnish singers Eeppi Ursin and Susanna Mesiä

Edoardo Marraffa - Tonino Miano

Edoardo Marraffa Degree in Musicology from the University of Bologna (1995). Discography (among others): “Solo, Edoardo Marraffa”, Bassesfere c 005, 2000. “Porcyville”, Una Barca , Vakki Plakkula, ida 012, 1998. Specchio Ensemble, ida 017, 2003. “La terra di giubba”, Mrafi, raitrade 2006. “Graffi”, Giovanni Maier-Edoardo Marraffa, Palomarecords 2006. Old Red City, Live at Crash, Setola di maiale 2008. Some performance venues: Angelica Music Festival, Controindicazioni, Ai confini tra Sardegna e jazz, European Trytone Festival, Clusone Jazz, Artacts, Konfrontationen, Vision Festival. Collaborations: Tristan Honsinger, Eugenio Sanna, Mike Cooper, Edoardo Ricci, Giovanni Maier, Han Bennink, Tim Berne, Joe Williamson, Alessandro Bosetti, Clayton Thomas, Edoardo Ricci, Luca Venitucci, Filippo Monico Fabrizio Spera, Amiri Baraka, Alberto Braida, Alan Wilkinson, Aleksander Kolkowski, John Edwards, William Parker, Hamid Drake. Lives and teaches in Bologna (ITA). Tonino Miano Graduated with maximum honors from the Conservatorio V

Frantz Loriot and Tonino Miano

Frantz Loriot Begins his music studies on the violin with teachers such as M. Yasuda- Raclot, the brothers A. & C. Pons, N. Dupin, I. Gitlis, Y. Tate, and P. Robault. He studies improvisation with R. Huby, Joelle Leandre, Barre Phillips, David S. Ware and Marc Ducret, and later approaches the viola. Studies Musicology at the University of Paris 8/Saint-Denis, ENM of Creteil (Ecole Nationale de Musique), and Analysis and Theory at the Conservatoire Georges Bizet (Paris). Discography (among others): “Frohn”, EPM 2008 (FRA); “Alexei Borisov & HEC/Live in Paris”, Sickcore 2008 (Russia); “Collectif Insit-U improvise! Aux Voûtes” 2006 (FRA); “ Ouroboros chante Mansour ”, EPM 2003 (FRA)

Lama

Lama is Nils Martin Larsen. Nils Martin Larsen is Lama. A band that has evolved into its present form over the last 2 years. That is two years of intense song-writing and studiowork to figure out what the thoughts in Larsen's head sound like. And here it is! More powerful than ever, more pure than ever and music with roots all over the place! The last 7 months have gone towards perfecting the live-portion of Larsen's beautiful Lama-land.

Live , Lama is an explosion. Six people on stage, and enough instruments to make the most eager musician blush. Lama is six people playing their hands, throats and feet till they swell up.

Nils Martin Larsen is a unique talent that up to now primarily has been famous for playing the keys in electronica jazz collective Jaga Jazzist, into which he was inducted at the age of eighteen

SMF-Sacramento Improvisers

Born: August 19, 1977

SMF is a reference to the jazz and creative music scene in and around Sacramento, CA. SMF is normally the airport code of Sacramento. Musically, it’s simply a simple acronym for the area’s improvising musicians. Here you will find information on upcoming performances, recordings, musicians and links to the players in the region.

David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez With speech, sound, mime, dance and above all, inspired imagination, nationally acclaimed master storyteller/performer David Gonzalez is keeping the ancient art of storytelling alive. From London’s Royal National Theater to Broadway to hundreds of schools across North America, Gonzalez has performed to more than 5,000 audiences worldwide. A winner of the Helen Hayes Performing Artist of the Year Award, Gonzalez is applauded for his vocal, physical and narrative talents and gift for mimicry, comic timing, and wordplay. Relying on the majesty and variety of language, the limitless landscape of imagination, the pulse of music and the beauty of art, he creates and performs multimedia productions that capture audiences of all ages and cultures. Described as “a New York Puerto Rican version of Bill Cosby,” Gonzalez tells ages-old world myths and stories, tales from his Puerto Rican and Cuban culture, and from his childhood experiences in the Bronx