Results for "Woodwind"

Chip Wickham

Chip Wickham started out in the highly influential UK breakbeat, hip-hop and drum & bass scene that was Manchester’s Grand Central Records, working and playing with the likes of Rae & Christian, Fingathing, The Pharcyde, Jimpster, Nightmares On Wax, Jenna G and Graham Massey. It wasn’t long before he found himself touring all over the world, and began working with more mainstream artists like Badly Drawn Boy and Roy Ayers. He also played on the soundtrack to the Guy Ritchie’s Snatch. The following years were spent writing, producing and remixing tracks for a wide range of artists, including his own electro-Latin project Malena, releasing the Fried Samba album on Freestyle in 2007. However, jazz has always been his first love, and soon he found himself working with award winning UK trumpeter Matthew Halsall, playing live and eventually appearing on Halsall’s critically acclaimed breakthrough album Sending My Love

Mike Vaccaro

Born: January 26, 1947

Mike Vaccaro is a freelance musician in greater Los Angeles, California. He is active in the fields of motion pictures, television, jingles, live theater, and classical, jazz, and pop concerts. Performing on a multitude of woodwind instruments including the clarinet, flute, saxophone, and oboe families his background and current performance activities are varied. After studies at Cerritos College and Cal State University Long Beach (where he premiered the Scaramouche for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra by Darius Milhaud) in classical music he served his professional apprenticeship on tours with Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Paul Horn, and the American Folk Ballet. A four year stint in Las Vegas had him performing for production shows and celebrities and various hotels

Jasper Dutz

Multi-instrumentalist, gamer, and composer Jasper Dütz was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and is currently based in NYC. He began playing music at the age of seven after receiving his father’s $20 yard-sale purchased clarinet. Coming from an artistic family, he was exposed to the music of Copland, Ives, Dolphy, and Coleman(Ornette) very early on which may or may not have led to his low-key erraticism. His interest in gaming also began around this time when his friend gave him Pokémon Sapphire and a used gameboy for his 9th birthday. He began playing jazz in middle school after convincing his band teacher to let him try a baritone saxophone in exchange for singing the muppet show theme song to his classmates

Georg Wissel

Born: February 27, 1964

Georg Wissel, (prepared) saxophones, clarinet refers to himself also as Sculptor of compressed air via (prepared) saxophones He made his first important experiences in Improvised music recording and touring in the late 80ies in Germany, France and Southamerica as guest musician of 'Pöhlmusik' along with Jon Rose. Inspired by collaborations with electronic musicians, he began also (beside working on instrumental playing-technics) searching for new sounds by preparations, which by the time has become an integral part of his playing. He is working internationally, performing solo under the title 'The Arte Of Navigation' and together with numerous exponents in Improvised music whilst he maintains long term collaborations with his duos along with Paul Lytton, Joker Nies and Tim O'Dwyer, 'the WISSELTANGCAMATTA', 'CAJLAN-WISSEL-NILLESEN', 'Broken Ghost Consort' with Matthew Goodheart and George Cremaschi, 'BlankDisk Trio' and 'Canaries on the Pole'. collaborations with ..

Bud Leeds

Former Vice President of Middlebury College (VT), Bud Leeds’ career has spanned decades in extraordinary service to culture and education. He was instrumental, with Steven Rockefeller and Bill Moyers in establishing the Spirit and Nature, Earth Ministry, with other countless accomplishments of visionary organization and collaboration. In addition, Bud has been acclaimed as “a 21st Century Renaissance Man” in a recent international jazz publication. Bud is president emeritus and vice-chairman of the Jefferson Legacy Foundation. He has participated in White House ceremonies and played his clarinet in venues throughout the U.S., India, Nepal and several European countries, while serving as Director of the International Development Council and Chair of the World Congress on Philanthropy.

Jack Malmstrom

Born: August 16, 1910

Based in Los Angeles, Jack’s Cats delivers swing standards, forgotten jazz classics, and new original compositions performed live in an authentic period style by bandleader Jack Malmstrom. The band is comprised of the hottest young lions in LA's thriving vintage jazz scene. Jack's Cats: The State of Swing In 2019 Jack’s Cats released its second album, The State of Swing Swing, consisting of 14 tracks of all new, original compositions delivered in Jack's Cats hybrid new/pld "Pre-Bop" style.

Raymond Moore

Born: May 21, 1957

Ralph Miles Jones

Composer, educator, and multi-diasporic aerophonist, Ralph Jones has been active as a performing artist in the African American Spontaneous Compositional Tradition for over 35 years. He holds a Master's degree in African American Studies (Ethnomusicology Emphasis) and a B.A. in Ethnomusicology, both from UCLA. He is currently Faculty-in-Residence in the African American Studies Department at Oberlin College. As an internationally recognized performing soloist, he has recorded and or performed throughout the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Europe, with Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Wadada Leo Smith, Charles Moore, Kenn Cox, The MC5, Adam Rudolph 's Moving Pictures, and Go Organic Orchestra to name a few

Allen Price

Born: 1954

Allen Price Musician Clarinets, Flutes, Saxophones, Classical Recorders, Allen Price is a Wood Wind, Multi –Instrumentalist, Concert Piano Tuner Technician, and Music Educator. Retired from government service. Is now a Self employed free lance artist. American Federation of Musicians Union Boston Local 9-535 The National Theater Musicians Association The Boston Musicians Association The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing arts. The National Association of Pastoral and Liturgical Musicians The National Association of Military Musicians The National Association of Retired Army Officers General education and experience; …..Military consolidated transcripts College and Conservatory Education, Degrees, and Certifications. • Classical Performance …………(Clarinet and Flute) • Jazz Performance, and Popular American Music , Composition , Arranging , improvisation, and Ethnomusicology • Music Education • US Navy School of Music……(basic thru band master courses) • O.C.S

Jack Cooper

Born: May 14, 1963

Jack Cooper is an American jazz composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. Most notably he has written music for well-known and Grammy winning pop, jazz, and classical artists to include Aaron Neville, Joyce Cobb, Donald Brown, Alexis Cole, Tony Campise, Bobby Shew, Christian McBride, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. His catalogue of music is extensive ranging from jazz through contemporary classical; he has worked for Columbia Pictures Publishing, Warner Brothers, and Alfred Music as a staff arranger since 1993