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The Allnighters
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During a time of crazy Karaoke wanna-be superstars. It's hard to find people that actually play live music in a real band setting. The Allnighters are one of those hard working groups and do it well. From Omaha, NE the band brings a fresh blast of old to the new millennium. The bands dedication to the long lost sounds... |
| Artist Biography by Travis |
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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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Rodney Taylor
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Recording artist Rodney Taylor is by far one of the most soulful saxophonists to come along in a long time. His solo CD releases on Equity Records entitled “Blow By Blow” and “Unwrapped For Christmas” are true testimonies to that fact.
His resume includes such artists as Brian McKnight, Doc Powell, and Chaka Chan to name a few. ... |
| Artist Biography by Melody McCloud |
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Laura Welland
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Her name is Laura Welland, and if you’ve listened to jazz in Seattle in the last decade, you may have heard her playing bass—at Tula’s, the Seattle Art Museum, or Benaroya Hall. She’s played with Jay Thomas, Hadley Caliman, Julian Priester, Dawn Clement and other Seattle jazz greats; she’s studied under Chuck Deardorf, John Clayton and the late Ray... |
| Artist Biography by Rhonah Harvey |
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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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Ron Korb
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The innovative style of Ron Korb, flutist and composer of jazz and Japanese music, is garnering a buzz around the world. For example, his newly released DVD and CD, Ron Korb Live, feature a broad range of Jazz and World Music styles with the different influences seamlessly complementing each other. Ron and his band have know each other for... |
| Artist Biography by Anne Thornley-Brown |
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Alexandre Huber
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Originally a student of classical piano playing at the Conservatory of Lausanne (Switzerland), Alexandre Huber developed his preference for jazz and continued his studies with pianist François Lindemann. Discovering the formidable use of the organ by some of the great US-jazz organists made him change his mind and switch to the Hammond B-3. He has become an articulate melodist;... |
| Artist Biography by Alexandre Huber |
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Adam Rafferty Trio
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Adam Rafferty is not only one of New York City's most-respected jazz guitarists, but he also is a leader in the field of "new traditionalism" in jazz. On his latest album with his trio, THREE SOULS, he demonstrates his deep affection for a classic, mainstream jazz sound, but for the first time he applies his technique to all-original... |
| Artist Biography by Ruthe Forbriger |
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Frank Rosaly
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Frank resides in Chicago where he has been heavily involved in the improvised music scene since 2001. He has become an active member in many groups including Ken Vandermark's Crisis Ensemble, Rob Mazurek's Mandarin Movie, The Thread Quintet, Indoor/Outdoor, Design Flaw as well as his own octet, Kite Ensemble. He is also involved in many other projects such as... |
| Artist Biography by Frank Rosaly |
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Melissa Stott
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Melissa Stott was born in England in 1972 to a Singaporean-Chinese mother and an English father. Her formal piano training began at the age of 6 and she went on to receive a diploma when she was 18, but it was in the years prior to this that her informal ear training started, thanks to her father, a... |
| Artist Biography by Nancy Low |
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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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Ronald Turner and the Fashion Statement
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Ronald Turner and The Fashion Statement is a 2003 Smoothie award winner from Smoothjazz.com. They are a professional, clean-cut group of musicians that give their musical best to put joy in the minds and hearts of listeners through our deeply felt creativity. Our group was established in 1990 as a jazz/funk ensemble. We consist of musically well-educated instrumentalists utilizing... |
| Artist Biography by Ronald Turner |
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Jason Gaines
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“His ability and application is of the highest order.”
-Justin DiCioccio, Manhattan School of Music
Jason Gaines was born in 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Sacramento, California shortly thereafter and was soon introduced to music. Jason began playing trumpet at the age of eight. He had aspired to play the alto saxophone, but only trumpets were left in the... |
| Artist Biography by Jason Gaines |
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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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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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David Hughes
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The title track of David Hughes’ debut CD release begins with the escalating sound of an arctic windstorm, and it is like a windstorm this Scandinavian virtuoso bassist and talented composer will sweep through the music world. His self-produced album offers some delightfully melodic tunes and showcases how beautiful the sound of the bass guitar can be.
Although his list... |
| Artist Biography by Shirley To |
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John Jorgenson
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Born in Madison, WI to an orchestra conductor and a piano instructor, John was surrounded by music from birth. Before John's first birthday, his family moved to southern California, where John's youth was spent studying music -- first on the piano at age 5 and then on the clarinet at age 8. When as a 10-year-old he first discovered... |
| Artist Biography by Paul Riggins |
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Jason Shand
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Ask newcomer Jason Shand what his musical influences are and he’ll answer with a single word, “broad.” The singer/songwriter’s smooth vocals and sophisticated songwriting make him an heir apparent to the adult contemporary throne formerly occupied by the likes of Seal and Annie Lennox. Yet, Jason is also quick to point out what makes him different,... |
| Artist Biography by Eva Dilmanian |
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Chris Ho
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The City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Music Week recently honored Chris Ho with an award signed by Mayor James Hahn that reads, "through your profound inspiration, creative expression, and extraordinary musical talent, you have helped to enhance the beauty of our culture and enrich the lives of those in our community and the city of Los Angeles".
"...an... |
| Artist Biography by Chris Ho |
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Ronald Muldrow
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In his teens Ronald heard Wes Montgomery playing "Canadian Sunset" on the radio, He was determined to follow in the footsteps of his idol. Subsequent influences on the guitar include Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, George Benson, Phil Upchurch and Roland Faulkner. Ronald has toured with the Staple Singers. 'Along the way he has had the opportunity to associate with... |
| Artist Biography by Ronal Muldrow |
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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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Donn Wyatt
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Donn Wyatt
In everything, there is a season……for joy, triumph and victory. There are releases of the Spirit which transcend time, and there are musical compositions that are not bound by season – but are enriched by the passage of seconds. Donn Wyatt has the good fortune to be one of those artists who can create a work... |
| Artist Biography by DONN WYATT |
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G. F. Mlely
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Pianist-composer G. F. Mlely has been featured artist and composer in concert, festival, and club venues throughout Europe and the United States. In the article, “G. F. Mlely, A Trail Of Endurance” - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/artists/gfmlely.htm - I wrote how in 1983 the jazz pianist-composer was on a solo piano concert tour of Europe, when midway along he received information... |
| Artist Biography by Nathan Gold |
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Horace Silver
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Looking back over the last fifty years of jazz it is clear that few musicians have had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had yet to be... |
| Artist Biography by Katie Alvarez |
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Taylor Eigsti
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Listening to the opening moments of Resonance, the Bop City debut of piano whirlwind Taylor Eigsti, is scary enough -- those incendiary octaves that ignite "Got a Match" into a postbop firestorm.
Imagine, though, what it was like to experience this intensity first-hand when this surreally gifted player, all of ten or eleven years old, blew me off the bandstand.
I... |
| Artist Biography by Katie Alvarez |
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