Results for "Woodwind"

Steven Lugerner

Born: May 20, 1988

A Bay Area transplant to the NYC scene, multi-reedist Steven Lugerner maintains an active bi-costal performance schedule - as both a leader and sidemen. Since his relocation to New York City, Lugerner has fostered contacts, study and collaboration with such artists as: Grammy nominated pianist Fred Hersch; soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom; flutist/composer Jamie Baum; trumpeter Ralph Alessi; pianist Myra Melford; percussionist Matt Wilson; percussionist/composer John Hollenbeck, bassist John Hebert, pianist Jason Moran, trumpeter Darren Johnston; saxophonist Dayna Stephens & SFJAZZ Collective member Miguel Zenon

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Aaron Heick

Aaron Heick is a saxophonist and woodwind player, based in New York City, who has worked with everyone under the sun, . from Chaka Khan to Barbra Streisand, and from Sting to Frank Sinatra.

You might also know him from his work as a member of Adam Holzman’s band Brave New World, K.J. Denhert’s group The New York Unit, or from his eight-year stint as a member of Richard Bona’s band.

Aaron has finally released his own CD after years of being the perennial sideman. He has taken his years of experience backing up people like Chaka, Babs, and ‘ol Blue Eyes (not to mention Sting, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Carly Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Aretha Franklin, Suzanne Vega), and poured it into this new CD

Peter and Will Anderson

”Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone,” (New York Times) Washington, D.C. natives Peter and Will Anderson were drawn to jazz at a very young age. While still teenagers, they toured The United Kingdom, performed on Capitol Hill, and were featured on television. Endorsees of D’Addario woodwind products, Peter and Will attended Juilliard in New York City, where they currently reside. They’ve performed with jazz greats James Moody, Hank Jones, Clark Terry, Frank Wess and Benny Golson. Peter and Will have headlined at The Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Sarasota Florida Jazz Festival, South Carolina’s Jazz Corner, Seattle’s Triple Door, Iowa’s Bix Beiderbecke Festival, Miami-Dade’s Cultural Arts Center, and the Arizona Music Festival

Steve Norton

Boston-based saxophonist Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 30 years, with a bunch of folks to whom he is deeply and forever in debt. His recent work has taken a turn toward more sound-based concerns and investigations into performance gestalt. His focus is on improvisation, which is filtered through a strongly compositional sensibility. Current projects include Duck That, Grizzler, Symptomatic, Kilter, Metal & Glass Ensemble, Spam and solo performance as well as ad hoc groupings. Norton was a member of Debris, the Great Circle Saxophone Quartet and Either/Orchestra and has also performed and/or recorded with Gino Robair, Tom Plsek, Joe Morris, Laurence Cook, Herb Robertson, Steve Adams, Dave Gross, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Matt Samolis, Gregory Damien Grinnell, Greg Kelley, Ken Vandermark, Andrea Parkins and Tim Berne

Steve Peckman

Born: February 23, 1963

Steve Peckman is one of the co-founders of Monkeyworks, and at some point, was appointed "The Colonel" by Smit. An eager student of the world & its music, Steve has never been known to turn down an opportunity to push the musical envelope further; infusing new flavors into a unique swirl of woodwind output. Served on a bed of Monkeyworks accompaniment, what Steve can bring, is an intriguing musical cocktail brewed fresh each time, and that can be enjoyed steaming or chilled. Steve earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami (FL).

Ben Kono

Born: September 20, 1967

Since moving to New York City in 1999, woodwind performer and saxophonist Ben Kono has been attracting attention as a singular emerging voice in cutting-edge groups like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Now, with the release of his debut recording CROSSING on Nineteen-Eight Records, he has come into his own light as a leader and composer of note. While growing up in bucolic southern Vermont, a deep love of classical music was fostered by his parent's strong advocacy of the arts and spurred on by a community rich in culture, live music, and arts awareness

Jean-Francois Bonnel

Jean-François Bonnel , né le 5 juin 1959 à Gien Loiret Instruments : clarinette, saxophones, cornet à pistons, guitare, piano... Etudie le piano puis la clarinette au conservatoire de Montpellier puis Aix en Provence. Médaille d'or de clarinette en 1985. Dipl�'me d'état de professeur de jazz en 1990. Dès 1977, participe à des groupes de jazz à Montpellier : Fox Troc, Hot Cévennes, Fanfare Bolchevique, Cossi Anatz. De 1979 à 1989 avec le Hot Antic Jazz Band : nombreux concerts et tournées à l'étranger (Edimbourg, Breda, Sacramento, Denver, Carnegie Hall de New-York.). Prix Sidney Bechet de l'Académie du Jazz en 1984. Parution de plusieurs disques sont deux avec Jabbo Smith et Benny Watters. Parallèlement au H.A.J.B : Tournées en Angleterre avec des musiciens anglais (deux disques + deux CD avec Ken Coyler). Tournée en Allemagne avec le Harlem Blues & Jazz Band

Michael McKeon

Introducing the LET'S DANCE Big Band. The Bands History The Big Band was originally formed in 1981 and played a number of "gigs", weddings, balls, dinner dances and concerts. After a few years we decided to form an Octet from the band as a Big Band was not financially attractive for the times. However over recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the music of the 30’s and 40’s thanks to the broadcasting of our kind of music by many public and community radio stations. We reformed the bigger band to successfully audition for the Lilydale International venue for dinner dances in 1994 and in the years since we have played for extended seasons at various suburban Hotels as well as special functions at some of Melbourne's elite Hotels including the Palladium Room in the Crown Casino

Vlady Bystrov

Born: June 19, 1967

The unashamedly Romantic and Consummate Artist is a Woodwind Player and Experienced Educator, Composer and Innovator. All with an intended deep sincerity, conviction, energy and a passionate humanity. He always strives for having "a message" as an Artist. He and his instruments "are one". He is fundamentally a composer and creator of concepts who utilizes his role as- some proclaim- Premier Musician, to express the final musical conclusion. His horns, self-founded live electronic setup with effects, pedals, loop station, computer and other variety of instruments (wooden flutes, duduk, ocarinas, keyboards, etc.) are the vehicles of expressing his compositional and conceptual ideas he feels free to use for "whatever works and music calls for" to serve the purpose of the concept, music and "message".