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About Joe Baione
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Joe Baione
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BiographyThe relative rarity of vibraphonists in the history of jazz remains one of the musical genre’s true mysteries. Despite the natural beauty of the instrument’s sound and the historical importance and celebrated popularity of its most famous players " Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson " comparatively few artists have chosen to make the vibraphone their primary means of expression. Fortunately, Joe Baione has and on Oh Yeah!!! - his second outing as a leader and impressive successor to his distinguished debut The Superhero " he shows that the vibes and the mallets with which he plays them are in very good hands.
About Kym Ambrose
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Kym Ambrose
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Kym's prpofessional career began at 16 when he started playing vibes. He'd already been playing drums with his father's jazz ensemble for a few years before this. After studying with Jim Bailey in Adelaide, Kym moved to Sydney in the early 80's to undertake a Diploma in Jazz at the N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music, with teachers such as the legendary Don Burrows. Kym's work on kit and vibes continued predominantly in the jazz and blues scene, backing international artists in between doing resident gigs at clubs throughout Sydney in the 80's and early 90's. His passion for, and focus on, the vibraphone deepened when he moved to the less manic city of Brisbane, and met his now wife Anje West, with whom he founded The View From Madeleine's Couch, considered one of Australia's best, and certainly most distinctive Brazilian music ensembles. His first trip to Brazil took place in 2004, where he studied under the great pianist/composer/arranger Alberto Farah, who was a huge influence on Kym's composing and arranging style
About Joe Locke
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Joe Locke
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Joe Locke is widely considered to be one of the major voices of his instrument. He has performed and recorded with a diverse range of notable musicians, including Grover Washington Jr, Kenny Barron, Eddie Henderson, Cecil Taylor, Dianne Reeves, Ron Carter, The Beastie Boys, the Münster Symphony Orchestra and the Lincoln, Nebraska Symphony. Long known to be a soloist capable of stunning physical power and broad emotional range, it was not until the last decade that he emerged as the composer, bandleader and conceptualist that he is considered today. This is in no small part due to his solo projects of the last decade
About Chie Suzuki
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Chie Suzuki
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Chie Suzuki: Mallet Keyboard player (Marimba/Vibraphone/Mallet KAT), Arranger CHIE SUZUKI, originally from Japan, studied at Nagoya College of Music in Aichi, Japan. She worked extensively doing live performances before moving to the United States. From 1999, Chie resided in the United States. While studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, she was active not only in Jazz and classical music but also in various kinds of music, such as Latin and World Music. Chie's recent awards include: The Third place at the Memorial NACO Percussion International Challenge in1999, The Most Active Mallet Player Award at Berklee College of Music, Diploma d'onore at the TIM Corneo Internazionale di musica. She has performed with Victor Mendoza, Casey Scheuerell, Ernest Diaz, Joe Galeota, Bernardo Hernandez, Fred Lipsius, Vic Firth, Rafael Alcala, Akiko Fujimoto, and Pedro Ito, Luis Valle. Presently she has been actively involved in studio recording projects and live performances around Boston.
About Ed Saindon
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Ed Saindon
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Coming from the “four mallet school,” Ed Saindon has developed and continues to refine a pianistic approach to mallet playing which involves a consistent utilization of all four mallets along with a variety of dampening techniques. Saindon has absorbed and transferred the influences from the piano lineage that stretches from Waller and Tatum up to the present. Originally a drummer, Saindon began playing the vibraphone along with piano while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1972-1976. As a concert artist, Saindon has traveled throughout the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Mexico and Japan
About Mark Sherman
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Mark Sherman
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After nearly 30 years of recording, composing, and performing with countless orchestras, jazz artists, and vocal artists, vibraphonist /composer Mark Sherman a Yamaha performing artist and a Vic Firth artist, has a beautiful quintet featuring Joe Magnarelli on trumpet, Allen Farnham on piano, Dean Johnson on bass, and Tim Horner on drums. Winner of Rising Vibes in 2007 and 2008 by Down Beat magazine, Sherman’s recording in 2005 “One Step Closer” featuring Joe Lovano was in the top ten on jazz radio for 12 weeks in the United States. The recording in 2007 “Family First” was the most spun CD in the United States in it’s opening week on the charts, and his most recent recording done live at the Bird’s Eye Jazz Club in Basel, Switzerland at the close of a 2 week European tour, is entitled Mark Sherman Quartet “Live at The Bird’s Eye” and continues to get rave reviews and big radio response. Tied in with most of Sherman's live performances (clubs, and festivals) is a 2 hour master-class on language skills for improvisation, usually done at the local music school or university music department, and sponsored by Yamaha and Vic Firth Co." These master-classes have been extremely successful at the high school and college level
About Jerry Tachoir
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Jerry Tachoir
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Contemporary jazz recording artist. Leader of the Group Tachoir, has performed at most of the major concert halls and jazz festivals throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Most in demand artist/clinician for the Tama/Bergerault company. Jazz Duo with guitarist, Van Manakas also the Duo Tachoir with pianist, Marlene Tachoir Author Contemporary Mallet Method - an Approach to the Vibraphone and Marimba published by Riohcat Music and distributed by Mel-Bay First to release educational videos for the vibraphone - www.masterstudyseries.com
About Christian Tamburr
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Christian Tamburr
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Christian Tamburr is a multi-instrumentalist, accomplished on the piano and trapset as well as world and orchestral percussion. However, his true talent is exhibited on his instrument of choice, the vibraphone. Confirmed in May of 2001 when in their annual poll of collegiate age musicians, Downbeat Magazine awarded him "Outstanding Solo Jazz Performance". Christian is currently a member of the critically acclaimed Noel Freidline Quintet, a five-piece acoustic jazz group as well as the Grammy Award winning group The Dazz Band. Now 23, Christian first started performing jazz at the age of 14 and has since had the opportunity to work with many jazz legends including, Ira Sullivan, Clark Terry, James Moody, Benny Green, Bucky Pizarelli, Kevin Mahogany, Nicolas Payton, Art Van Damm, Slide Hampton, Bob Mintzer, Tom Kubis, Milt Hilton, Dick Hyman, Bob Haggart, Mark Murphy, Eric Marienthal, Marcus Printup, and Bunky Green to name a few. While attending the University of North Florida, Christian performed with the One O'clock Band at Holland's prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival
About Robert John Mathies
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Robert John Mathies
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Robert Mathies was born and raised in Indianapolis , Indiana . He graduated from Thomas Carr Howe high school in 1976 . Principle musical activities in high school included Band and Orchestra at Howe as principle percussionist . During that time , Robert was active with All City and All State orchestras as Principle percussionist and with the Butler Youth Symphony where he also held principle position . During that time he began to broaden his percussion skills with other instruments including Vibes and Piano and Tympani . As an active volunteer for Public Radio in Indianapolis , he was able to hear jazz music and met many local jazz musicians
About Tommy Vig
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Tommy Vig
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As an award-winning jazz vibraharpist/drummer/film, television and classical concert music composer/jazz arranger/big band leader/percussionist/inventor/author, I have worked with Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Rod Stewart, John Williams, Diana Ross, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Dean Martin, Stan Kenton, Michel Legrand, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Judy Garland, Lalo Schifrin, Jerry Goldsmith, Sammy Davis Jr., Don Ellis, Joe Pass, Alan Silvestri, Burt Bacharach, Gil Evans/Miles Davis big band, Johnny Mathis, Jimmy Webb, Jack Benny, Freddy Hubbard, Manhattan Transfer, Robben Ford, Art Pepper, Benny Golson, Ralph Martieri, Billy May, Bruce Broughton, Cat Anderson, Chappy, Natalie Cole, Nelson Riddle, Don Costa, Jimmy Durante, Earle Hagen, Buddy Hackett, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Florence Henderson, Fred Karlin, Ben Lanzarone, Bob Rozario, John Elizalde, Anthony Marinelli, Charles Fox, George Romanes, Gil Melle, Jack Hayes, John Addison, John Barry, John Collins, Jesse Barish, Jim Cregan, Bob Hughes, Bruce Roberts, Johnny Mann, Lajos Dudas, Lawrence Rosenthal, Lennie Niehaus, Lionel Newman, Marlena Shaw, Martin Denny, Maurice Jarre, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Paul Jabara, Pete Rugolo, The Kim Sisters, Randy Edelman, Ray Anthony, Red Rodney, Red Skelton, Shorty Rogers, Steve and Edye Gourmet, Sid Caesar, Terry Gibbs, Tony Curtis, Van Alexander, Milcho Leviev, Aladar Pege, Billy Byers, Danny Thomas, and Vic Damone, just to name a few, and produced, directed and conducted the official Olympic Jazz Festival for the LAOOC in Los Angeles, 1984. My list of credits as film composer, big band leader and studio percussionist is very long
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