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Blake Aaron
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Guitarist Blake Aaron
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Blake Aaron has come a long way from the kid who played rock shows on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood and toured with R&B acts like The Drifters, The Coasters, Little Anthony, Mary Wells, and Bobby Womack. Aaron, who, even from the beginning and through it all, always loved, played and studied jazz, is a guitarist who... |
| Artist Biography by Cheryl Hughey |
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Cannonball Adderley
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Julian Cannonball Adderley was born in 1928 in Florida, moving to New York and emphatically into the big league in 1955. Basically a Charlie Parker disciple, the altoist had plenty of bite and a rhythmic directness that became more pronounced in his later work. The meeting with Miles Davis Somethin' Else proved something of a comeuppance, for the trumpeter... |
| Artist Biography by Yasir Agha |
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Anthony J. Agostinelli
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Tony Agostinelli will offer a course at the Brown Learning Community about the Newport Jazz Festival. The course will take place on Tuesdays, from 7-9 pm on April 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2005.
This past summer the Newport Jazz Festival celebrated its fiftieth birthday. Although now recognized as an institution of immeasurable influence and international reach... |
| Artist Biography by Anthony J. Agostinelli |
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Ahn Trio
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From the moment the Ahn Trio stepped onto the international music scene stage, they have defied categorization, broken musical barriers and revolutionized perceptions of classical music. With their fifth recording, Lullaby for my Favorite Insomniac, their debut CD on SONY BMG Masterworks (RCA Red Seal), they perform all contemporary compositions and stretch well beyond traditional classical music to the... |
| Artist Biography by Ruthe Forbriger |
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Airborne
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Their High-Energy Contemporary Jazz sound is in perfect tune with today's new Smooth Jazz and Vocals radio formats. Packed with intensity and complexity their smooth and expert performance, vocal, and composition skills are respected in all the jazz markets, (college, public, and commercial).
Sounds of passion and emotion, a multi-cultural product of the band's hometown of New Haven, CT.... |
| Artist Biography by Airborne |
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Robert Anchipolovsky
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Born 1974 in Kiev (Ukraine). In 1982 started to practice at music college in Kiev. In 1991 immigrated to Israel. In 1992-1996 Studied in New York under direction of Mr. Phil Woods.
Based in Israel and active on a local jazz scene, he has performed with Phil Woods, Valery Ponomarev, Randy Brecker and Brian Linch. While in Europe, he... |
| Artist Biography by Robert Anchipolovsky |
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Andrea Celeste
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Andrea Celeste was born in Pontedera on the 31st of August 1986. When only 11 years old, she starts studying piano and classical singing with M. Vittorio Scali and debuts performing on stage. Her talent doesn't pass unnoticed and she's immediately asked to participate to many concerts, festivals and events with some of the most important international Gospel projects... |
| Artist Biography by Leonardo Morgia |
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Andreas Baer Trio Plus One
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Pure energy, brilliant precision work and intoxicating joy of playing – an encounter with The Andreas Baer Trio Plus One is a far cry from any boring or even superficial experience. The man on the keyboard constantly challenges his instrument’s ultimate capacities and commands the best of himself as well as from his fellow musicians. After dedicating more than... |
| Artist Biography by Andreas Baer |
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Ken Ard
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Ken Ard
Ken was cast in his first professional musical at the age of 16 in Berkeley California. ‘Look what a Wonder’ starring the legendary folk singer Odetta.
Less then one year later, he became the youngest cast member in a show called’ Evolution of the Blues’ written and occasionally performed by Mr. Jon Hendricks.
It was a celebration of the history... |
| Artist Biography by erwin van der spek |
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Louis Armstrong
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The auditorium was packed...standing room only. The people were ready. There was an aura of splendor hovering over the audience excitement, allied with love as they waited to hear the inimitable, and, paramount musician, singer, and entertainer the world over..."Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong"
When the band kicked off the intro to "Hello Dolly," the audience went into an emotion-packed uproar... |
| Artist Biography by Lee Prosser |
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Scott August
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Throughout the western United States, there still are remote, uninhabited wilderness areas of serenity and great beauty, especially forsaken canyons where native tribes once lived, some of them thousands of years ago. Musician Scott August, a multi-instrumentalist best-known for his artistry in playing Native American wood flutes, has crafted a recording, Lost Canyons, that captures the experience of spending... |
| Artist Biography by Ruthe Forbriger |
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Steve Barta
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Pianist Steve Barta is a composer, author, producer and recording artist. Lending his talent to symphonic orchestras, film scores, jazz ensembles, and classically influenced solo piano, his original compositions reflect a great diversity of style. Steve is perhaps best known for fusing Classical, Jazz and Brazilian influences to create a sound that is distinctly BARTA.
Steve's orchestral works include:... |
| Artist Biography by Steve Barta |
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Walter Beasley
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Reedman Walter Beasley has become one of contemporary jazz extraordinary
saxman. Walter is an accomplished solo artist with eight-recorded CD's. Five
under the Mercury label, in addition to a solo project "Live and More". Walter
made his debut for Shanachie records April, 1997 with the CD entitled "Tonight
we love". This sultry saxophonist is not a newcomer to jazz, his earlier
influences has played... |
| Artist Biography by Jewel Shears |
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Bebop Cowboys Western Swing Orchestra
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This 6-piece Western Swing posse, based in Toronto, is aptly summarized by these lyrics from the Roger Miller song: “They swing like a pendulum do.” Authentic to the core and thoroughly versed in the timeless tradiation, it would be very easy to figure the Bebop Cowboys originate from Tulsa, Austin, Santa Fe, or Bakersfield, rather than the Great White... |
| Artist Biography by Gary Tate |
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Azo Bell
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Australian ukulele legend AzoBell is in the US for some live shows.His performances in Providence and Portland ME were spellbinding and you can catch him this week-Fri 25 October at the Living Room in New York and on 26 Oct at the International Ukulele Expo in Montclair New Jersey.
Azo's extraordinary Australian trio- The Old Spice Boys-have just released an... |
| Artist Biography by Big Frank |
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Ed Blackwell
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One of the greatest pioneers of free drumming in company with Sonny Murray and Milford Graves. Ed Blackwell's main body of work remains within the group context Ornette Coleman's Quartet and Don Cherry's units. Born in New Orleans, his drum concept fitted perfectly the needs of the new collective music-indeed, traditional New Orleans march rhythms combined with an African... |
| Artist Biography by Yasir Agha |
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Art Blakey
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Born Pittsburgh, 1919, drummer Art Blakey remains one of the greatest jazz players and combo leaders in the history of jazz.
Blakey is known for his furious commitment, that soloists playing with him had to exert all their might to keep along with him. Generations of young players have learned their craft in Blakey's groups, left to lead... |
| Artist Biography by Yasir Agha |
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Art Blakey
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Art Blakey (Abdullah Ibn Buhaina) worked with Fletcher Henderson 1939; Billy Eckstine 1944-7, Buddy DeFranco Quartet 1951-3. He started working as a leader at Birdland in 1954. His group evolved into the Jazz Messengers, who came to prominence in 1955 and toured the US and Europe during the next five years.
Despite changes in personnel, Blakey continued to dominate... |
| Artist Biography by Beatrice Richardson |
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Juewett Bostick
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In his 25 years in the recording industry Juewett Bostick, (pronounced Ju wet, and affectionately called “JU” by family and close friends) has recorded, composed, produced and/or performed with such industry luminaries as Bobby Brown, Vanessa Williams, Barry White, Johnny Gill, Gary Bartz, Norman Connors, The Temptations, Sister Sledge, Grover Washington, Hubert Laws, Nancy Wilson, Norman Brown, Thelma Houston,... |
| Artist Biography by Katie Alvarez |
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Ruby Braff
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A marvelously eloquent, always mellifluous player, Reuben 'Ruby' Braff (born Boston, Mass., 1927) is something of throwback to jazz of pre - World War II except that where Braff is concerned his music sounds fresh and despite strong influences is Armstrong, Berigan, Hackett, James, he does not slavishly copy any of the great trumpeters / cornettists of the past.... |
| Artist Biography by Yasir Agha |
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Matteo Brancaleoni
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Matteo Brancaleoni was born in 1981. Young artist with versatile and original personality: actor, singer, journalist, musician.
In 2006, he released his critic acclaimed debut album “Just Smile” with pianist Renato Sellani, featuring first rate Italian musicians guests like Gianni Basso, Franco Cerri, Fabrizio Bosso, Stefano Bagnoli, Massimo Moriconi.
By the time he was 16, he began singing and performing in jazz... |
| Artist Biography by John Boardman |
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Eric Brazier Trio
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Guitarist Eric Brazier has been on the local scene in Toledo Ohio, laying it down weekly at Rusty's jazz cafe for more than two decades now. Tuesdays, for the most part are slow compared to the weekends yet at Rusty's seats are hard to find.With an affinity towards straightahead standards, Eric a bassist and a drummer make a whole... |
| Artist Biography by Eric Brazier |
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Allen Brown
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Guitarist, composer, and producer Allen Brown is one of the San Francisco Bay Areas most promising players. Allen was born and raised in San Francisco, California when the musical culture was rich and alive. He spent years studying with legendary guitar players such as Joe Satriani & Marc Bonilla.
Since the mid 90s Allen's instrumental song "Rush Hour" (produced... |
| Artist Biography by B. B. P. |
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Ray Brown
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Though he was a different kind of musician Ray Brown’s type of music signaled that a new kind of musician was beginning to appear. Brown was a scholar and a theorist of music, he wasn’t just a performer, but someone that set no limits on what his music might be.
Reviewing the lives of jazzmen, there are certain recurrent features,... |
| Artist Biography by Beatrice Richardson |
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Chris Burnett
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Kansas City USA - Chris Burnett is a woodwind instrumentalist and composer. He is based in the Kansas City area. Already a veteran musician and skilled composer, with a substantial body of work and a noted career performing with various military music bands, his profile is somewhat different than the typical demographic of most emerging jazz artists in this... |
| Artist Biography by Webmaster, BurnettMusic.com |
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