Results for "Woodwind"

Will Anderson

             Called a “virtuoso on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times), Washington, D.C. native and Juilliard graduate Will Anderson serves as the lead saxophonist in the Grammy-Winning Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks.  He's performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Wycliffe Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, and Cecile McLorin Salvant.  Anderson can be heard and seen in the films and TV series Boardwalk Empire, The Marvelous Mrs

Francesco Bigoni

Born: October 5, 1982

Born in Ferrara, Italy, 1982. With an early interest injazz, he takes his first clarinet and saxophone lessons in Ferrara. He attends masterclasses held by Steve Lacy (1998) and Andy Sheppard (2000). He attends the international summer jazz workshops in Siena, Italy. After the 2001 edition he has been granteda scholarship for the 13th IASJ meeting in Helsinki (2002).He plays with Enrico Rava's “Under 21” quintet between 2004 and 2005.He attends the Permanent Workshop held by Stefano Battaglia in Siena from 2004 to 2008. He also starts playing in his Theatrum groups, and in the Outvestigation quartet (since 2007).He's a member of El Gallo Rojo (www.elgallorojorecords.com) label/collective since 2005

Yuriy Yaremchuk

Born: June 18, 1951

“Music embraces the whole spectrum of human emotions. We represent the music of certain states, of captured and organized chance incidents, of interplay of forms and structures; music without limits”.
Yuriy Yaremchuk

Yaremchuk Yuriy Grigorevich was born in 1951 in Novokuznetsk (Russia). Today he resides in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1978 he completed the Saxophone Class at Jazz Performance Department at Rostov Institute of Art. He performed in Kim Nazaretov’s big band as an instrumentalist. Yaremchuk is both a composer and an instrumentalist; he plays tenor-sax, soprano-sax, clarinet, percussion, piano; he is a master of voice performance as well

Piero Bittolo Bon

Piero Bittolo Bon is one of the busiest and most in demand italian musicians in the italian jazz and avant-garde scene. He mainly plays alto saxophone but is also at ease on baritone saxophone, flutes and clarinets. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind instruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations and chamberesque compositions, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar

Liudas Mockūnas

Born: May 18, 1976

Liudas Mockunas Lithuanian reed player (born in 1976) during the last years has become an important figure on Lithuanian jazz scene, is a representative of a young Lithuanian jazz generation, he is a mature and experienced musician who has played in many parts of Europe, USA, Israel, Turkey and China. Mockunas graduated from Lithuanian Musical academy in 2002 MA degree and Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen in Denmark in 2005, MA degree. He has won several classical competitions in Lithuania and Latvia. Together with trio M.A.P: Jacob Anderskov (piano) and Stefan music in Poirtiers, France

Pablo Calogero

Born: July 29, 1958

has worked and played with Tito Puente,,Mario Bauza,Carla Bley,,Jaki Byard,Rashid Ali,James Newton,Dwight Trible,John Lindberg,Patato Valdez,,Steven Bernstien,Adam Rogers,Dave Binny,,Bobby Matos,,Theo Saunders,,Adam Roudolph,Yuseff Latif,,Hamiet Blueit,,Chico Ofarril,,Jerry Gonzalez,,Andy Gonzalez,,Woody Jackson,as well as recording for film,,video games[red dead redemption,grand theft auto},,long time associate of fine artist Jean Michel Basqiuat,,now all he needs is some experience!!

Lynn Riley

Lynn Riley enjoys a vibrant career as a jazz musician, composer, and educator, whose primary instruments are saxophone and flute. As the leader of The World-Mix, Lynn has been described more than once as "Superwoman" of the sax. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised outside of Philadelphia, Pa., she received a B. A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii. Her time spent in Hawaii was influential in developing her sensibility to, and awareness of, different musical cultures. She continued her musical studies at the University of Missouri Kansas City, studied privately with Doris Sellers (principal flutist of the Kansas City Symphony), saxophone with Ahmed Alladeen, and immersed in its rich jazz tradition, apprenticed and performed with many of KC's jazz legends

Darius Babazadeh

Tom Ellison

Reed player Tom Ellison is a native of the Rochester NY area and now lives in Venice, FL. He performs with area combos and big bands. As a freelance woodwind artist, Tom has performed with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, John Denver, Henry Mancini, Andy Williams, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Lou Rawls and many other top name artists. Currently Tom leads the modern jazz quintet Hip Pocket and plays in the Naples Jazz Orchestra for their popular Monday Night big band concert series at Cambier Park, Naples, FL.

Michael Art Moss