Results for "vibraphone"

Joseph Doubleday

Mind Open

Active since: December 21, 1983

Forget everything you thought you knew about Jam Bands. One of the freshest, exciting, and unique sounding bands on the scene today is the very talented Mind Open. Instrumental and jazz based, with a touch of rock, Brazilian, and psychedelic grooves, the Mind Open experience is one you have to see to believe. The bulk of the material the band plays is contributed by Vibist Chris Covais, and Guitarist Andrew Ahr. The rest? Rare grooves from obscure groovy jazz-funk, rock, and psych records. Make sure you see Mind Open spread peace, love, and good vibrations through the medium of music, at one of their many shows in New York city.

Greg Carroll

GREG CARROLL is a seasoned arts executive, performer, and educator. He currently serves as the Director of Development with Youth Symphony of Kansas City and founded and operates Midnight Blue Jazz, LLC – A global jazz & executive consultancy providing creative, scholarly, and strategic services to the non-profit, education, and corporate communities. 

Mr. Carroll recently completed an 8-year appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri where he successfully led fund development efforts generating more than $18M through municipal contract negotiations, corporate and foundation sponsorships, contributions and earned revenues. Under his leadership, the Museum has become a viable destination attraction for the City of Kansas City and has garnered numerous awards and recognitions of distinction including its Blue Room Jazz Club being named as one of the world’s top 100 jazz venues by Downbeat Magazine and its Jazz and Blues Festival being selected as Kansas City’s Visitor’s Choice for Best Music Festival by the Convention and Visitors Association. 

Gerard Beaudoin

Andrew Nittoli

Dimitris Angelakis

Greek native vibraphonist Dimitris Angelakis began his music journey from a very early age. A journey that started with his first exposure to music from his father and continued with a Fullbright Scholarship, recording and performing in the US (East Coast), exploring the Asia music scene working for a year in China, and playing at large venues and festivals in Europe.

Influenced mainly by Tony Miceli, Christos Rafalides and Joe Locke, Dimitris immersed himself as a vibraphonist in the international music scene. His high energy performances along with his soulful compositions have made him an in-demand performer at festivals around the world (Project Metamorphosis, 41st International Music Festival, World Percussion Festival, Big Day Bach, ISME), while he has also recorded/performed with acclaimed artists in the US and Europe as a guest performer and session musician, with Diego Rivera, Olivier Gatto, Petros Klampanis, Milcho Leviev, Dimos Dimitriadis, Owen Hart Jr, Paris Strother (Prince), Vasilis Xenopoulos, Matt Home, Nigel Price, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez (George Fakanas group) to name a few

Trevor Williams

As a performer, Trevor Williams has played in a variety of settings over the past 30 years. While his primary focus is jazz vibraphone and marimba, he has also performed and recorded with rock, pop, r&b, ska, electronic and classical musicians. He currently performs with his own group and other jazz artists in the Charlottesville, Virginia area.

Benoit Stasiaczyk

Born: April 21, 1977

Vibraphonist, composer, pianist and percussionist Benoit Stasiaczyk was born in April 1977 in France. He began studying classical music at age 6 and developed an intense interest in jazz and contemporary music at 14. He is a graduate of the National Conservatory of Music in Metz with degrees in jazz and composition. In addition to performing modern jazz and free improvisation, Mr. Stasiaczyk has performed and recorded with many artists spanning genres from the Middle Ages to contemporary music. More recently, his performance activities include conducting orchestras. As a composer, Mr. Stasiaczyk receives many commissions by many institutions and European ensembles

Eric Loken

Joel Ross

For the past several years, Joel Ross has been refining an expression that’s true to his sound and his generation. In 2019, the vibraphonist-composer released his anticipated Blue Note debut KingMaker to eruptive critical acclaim. He’s topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone and in 2017, he became one of the youngest artists to receive a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery. With the release of Who Are You? (Blue Note, 2020), Ross shares the culmination of a year-long exercise in experimenting and risk-taking on and off the bandstand. Inspired by mentor Stefon Harris’ empathetic, whole-self approach to articulation, Ross has adopted an entire ethos dependent on truthful, ongoing communication