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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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Betty Bryant
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During a recent recording session for her new CD, "No Regrets" in Hollywood, singer/pianist Betty Bryant and co-producer Robert Kyle were discussing the tempo for a medium swing tune.
After coming up with a groove that suited them both, Robert said, "I think that is a good tempo for your generation."
"Which generation is that?", asked Betty.
Robert paused a moment, then said, "All... |
| Artist Biography by Mark Miller |
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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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Terry Burrus
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Terry Burrus, Pianist a native New Yorker started touring with sultry jazz soul singer, Jean Carne at the age of sixteen.At eighteen he was already playing and recording with Jazz fusion violinist, Michael Urbaniak, Jazz Fusion drummer pioneer, Lenny White, Tom Browne, Stanley Turrentine, Melba Moore, Phyllis Hyman, Lena Horne, Noel Pointer,Bobbi Humphrey, George Benson, Bill Withers, Gato Barbieri,... |
| Artist Biography by David Coke |
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John Butcher
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John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s.
His playing ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and work with live electronics, amplification and feedback. He has toured and broadcast throughout Europe, Japan and North America, and was featured, playing solo, in the BBC TV programme Date with... |
| Artist Biography by John Butcher |
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Kerry Campbell
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KERRY CAMPBELL: Performed recorded and wrote for the popular soul group "THE DRAMATICS", from 1975 to 1983. Later Kerry joined and toured with the famed band WAR, for over 5 years, and recorded several CD's the latest being "PEACE SIGN". Kerry received his jazz training from such noted jazz giants as Yuseff Latiff, Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Marcus... |
| Artist Biography by Kerry Campbell |
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Judi Marie Canterino
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Judi Marie brings to the stage a unique jazz style that is steeped in a rich musical history. Beginning her musical training at the age of seven with the classical piano (she performed at the Julliard School of Music through her thirteenth year), she then turned her studies to voice, training classically through high school.
At the age of 19,... |
| Artist Biography by Judi Marie Canterino |
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Oskar Cartaya
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Oskar Cartaya, during the course of a full career playing bass, composing, arranging and acting as musical director for an amazing array of Artists has soaked up the influences of his homes in Puerto Rico, New York and Los Angeles. Now with his debut solo release on OYE Records My Music, My Friends, My Time Oskar brings it all... |
| Artist Biography by Kevin Rock |
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James Carter
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The first time I heard James Carter, he was performing at Yoshi's for the Eddie Moore festival in August, 1995 with the New York Organ ensemble. The group included Lester Bowie on trumpet, Amina Claudine Myers on organ, Frank Lacy on trombone, Kelvyn Bell on guitar, Don Moye on drums and Carter on all saxophones.
Carter's performance was high... |
| Artist Biography by Beatrice Richardson |
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Changamire
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Washington -- Let me begin with those rave reviews:
It's difficult to nail down just what makes her voice so darn compelling. Maybe it's the comfort and familiarity, maybe the confiding honesty. Whatever the case, it works exceptionally well.
-- Todd S. Jenkins, AllAboutJazz.com
A jazzy chanteuse with the pop sensibilities in the vein of Cassandra Wilson and Anita Baker, Changamiré has... |
| Artist Biography by K. R. Fletcher |
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Corey Christiansen
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Cutting edge, jazz guitarist Corey Christiansen is still in his early thirties but musically he has been a long time in the making. Growing up in a home filled with music, Corey began to play at the early age of five receiving excellent instruction and inspiration from his father, Mike Christiansen, Chairman of Guitar Studies and professor at... |
| Artist Biography by Bryan Leonard |
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Gerald Clayton Trio
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Two Shade, the debut release from pianist Gerald Clayton features interactive, dynamic trio playing. This week, we'll meet the band which consists of Joe Sanders on bass, and Justin Brown on drums. Joseph Sanders, was raised with the sound of the Church, and he showed interest at an early age in the bass. In middle school, since there was... |
| Artist Biography by Saori Oya |
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Freddy Cole
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Lionel Frederick Cole was born October 15, 1931, the youngest of Edward and Paulina Nancy Cole’s five children. His three elder brothers, Eddie, Ike, and Nat (12 years Freddy’s senior), were all musicians. “I started playing music at five or six,” Freddy remembers. “Music was all around me.” In the Chicago home of his youth, visitors... |
| Artist Biography by Kimberley Cullins |
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Colin Colin D'Cruz
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A little under two hundred years ago, a bunch of American musicians discovered the joy of improvising and called it jazz. Meanwhile over two thousand years ago, Indian classical musicians were busy setting the rules for those American musician's joy. If jazz is improvised music, Indian classical music is jazz! Now that we've discovered who really discovered jazz, it's...
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| Artist Biography by Jazz Goa |
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Composers
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The purpose of Composers is to share information concerning those composers who have influenced American and international music, whose musical creations continue to have an influence on jazz as well as other modes of music. Composers is designed as a biographical reference work and each entry will relate pertinent information about the composer. It is the hope... |
| Artist Biography by Lee Prosser |
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Michael Cooke
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The multi-instrumentalist Michael Cooke is a composer of Jazz and Classical music. This two time Emmy and Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner plays a variety of instruments, you will hear him play soprano, alto & tenor sax, flute, soprano & bass clarinet, bassoon and percussion. Michael started playing jazz in High school where he played for homeless shelters in... |
| Artist Biography by Black Hat Records |
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Chick Corea
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Thanks to the proliferation of jazz programs in high schools and Universities, the number of jazz pianists continues to grow at unprecedented rates. This growing population has a vast reservoir of musical devices from which to draw, and the ability to execute ideas with technique to spare. The one factor which seems to be much more difficult to acquire... |
| Artist Biography by Lee Prosser |
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Jamie Craig
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JAMIE CRAIG
The albums by keyboardist and composer Jamie Craig occupy a unique position in the musical world because they create a new fusion that blends the soft emotionalism of new age music with the fiery progressive edginess of jazz-rock. He follows his Top 10 instrumental-music debut recording The Lost Dream with a new CD, Illumination.
“I grew up listening to... |
| Artist Biography by Ruthe Forbriger |
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Bing Crosby
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Despite his long-standing identification with Christmas, Bing Crosby was a jazz performer at his core. Brought into a high school jazz-dance band because he was a drummer, his vocal stylings quickly emerged as the best in the group. When the group disbanded, Crosby continued singing. His earliest experience was singing in a duo in his hometown of Spokane, WA,... |
| Artist Biography by Susan Frances |
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Eric Darius
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There is a new sound of jazz being heard around Florida that is quickly blossoming. That sound emanates from 16 year old Eric Darius. It’s hard to believe such silky sounds come from an artist too young to vote.
Darius, a resident of Lutz, Florida attends Blake performing Arts High School where he plays with the Marching Band, a... |
| Artist Biography by Beatrice Richardson |
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Miles Davis
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MILES DAVIS. When you hear his name, what do you think of first? Of course he was forefront in the jazz world, but what comes to mind? He did live in the fast lane, and he did make fantastic news for the media, and he was a ladies man, and he was controversial many times.......but again, what comes to... |
| Artist Biography by Lee Prosser |
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Adrian Davison
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World renowned Bass virtuoso Adrian Davison emerged into the spotlight in 1990 with the release of his debut CD, Bass Symphony. This talented musician displayed a technical and compositional ability that must be heard to be believed. The most stunning feature of his work, is that everything is recorded live without overdubs. To date, Davison has released a total... |
| Artist Biography by lyn best |
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Brian Derek
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Brian studied Arranging,Composition,Orchestration and Performance at Berklee College of Music. He has been a professional Bassist/Composer for many years and has worked with Mike Stern, Peter Erskine, Pat Metheny, Ali Ryerson, Joe Beck, Jay McShann,Stephen Stills,5th Dimension,Neil Sedaka etc and has performed on various records and CD`s as well as gigs on cruise ships, club dates, off-Broadway shows, concerts... |
| Artist Biography by Brian Derek |
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Donna Deussen
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Vocalist DONNA DEUSSEN is an exciting new artist on L.A.'s jazz scene. Donna is a California native, but spent much of her childhood on the east coast (New Hampshire and Virginia). She graduated magna cum laude in 1989 from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston with a B.A. in Songwriting, and moved to Los Angeles... |
| Artist Biography by Donna Deussen |
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Sandro Dominelli
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Sandro Dominelli is one of Canada`s most creative, talented and tasteful drummers. Through his continuing success’ as a much sought-after composer, bandleader, side man, and producer he has proven to be an established luminary in the Canadian music scene.
Sandro’s musical sensibilities have caught the attention of international and local jazz icons alike, who have been... |
| Artist Biography by Brandy Jensen |
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