Artist Biographies (225)
Read about the in-depth lives of your favorite jazz musician and what inspires their music.
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…
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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…
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Mark Taylor is one of a handful of talented young performers carrying on the improvisational tradition pioneered by the great (french) hornist, Julius Watkins. Taylor's sound has been described as "rapturous" and "golden" (Coda Magazine); "as fluid and limpid as (the) flute, and as gnarly as (the) alto." (JazzTimes). His…
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Martin Traynor Releases Self-Titled CD Canadian nu-jazz artist Martin Traynor has been described as one of the most uniquely talented jazz musicians Canada has produced. His unique style blends sultry jazz vocals with world and pop music into a sophisticated and sensual masterpiece. A versatile vocalist, multi instrumentalist and composer,…
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Maria Johnston is poised to become one of the most impressive artists to arise during the 21st century; but a diversely talented individual in her own right. She's praised for her elastic ability to move easily from Jazz to Ambient genres of music while often composing her own material. She's…
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Manfred Hausleitner has performed all over Europe with many Jazz greats. Born in May 1957 in Tulln, Austria to Josef and Erna Hausleitner, Manfred began studying drums at an early age of 6 with his father. He began learning about jazz when he signed up for the jazz institute at…
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Born in Brooklyn in 1959 and raised in Jamaica, New York, Marcus Miller came from a musical family. He was influenced early on by his father, a church organist and choir director, as well as his musical extended family (which included the extraordinary Wynton Kelly, jazz pianist for Miles Davis…
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She, like the child in Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child", has got her own. ~ Kymyarda Croomes/Okinawa, Japan Powerful. Riveting. Sultry. Mere words can only capture the refrain of her awesome talent. Maria Howell is much more. She is the ballad of beauty and elegance. The melodies flowing from…
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We are pleased to introduce Luca Luciano, clarinetist and composer, who is a "classically trained Italian virtuoso resident in London" ("Jazz UK"). He is also Professor of both jazz and classical Clarinet at the Leeds College of Music and is very much appreciated in the UK and overseas for his…
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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…
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When you think of that certain style of classic jazz guitar that is smooth, soulful, melodic, flowing and immediately likeable, you think of names like Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Earl Klugh and Larry Carlton. Now Lloyd Gregory has taken his place on that list of illustrious…
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If you grew up listening to Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, and your mother was once a singer who fronted local big bands around Los Angeles, what else? You just gotta do it; especially if you’re given the rare, textured voice that belongs to LM Pagano. On Azalea,…
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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…
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Luca Jurman (born on 28 February 1967, in Milan, Italy) is an Italian singer, musician, vocalist, arranger, producer, actor, and vocal coach. He began studying piano at the age of 4 and then makes his debut as a child prodigy at 13 as a jazz pianist at Capolinea and the…
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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…
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Kevin James is a remarkably talented smooth jazz/r&b keyboard player originally from St. Louis, Missouri now producing music out of Alexandria, Virginia. His new CD entitled, "The Awakening" has been received with rave reviews in both jazz and rhythm and blues markets. Kevin James is a veteran keyboard player having…
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Cornet-player Joe "King" Oliver was born in 1885, joining Kid Ory's Brownskin Babies in about 1914 or 1915, and developing great expressive skills in the use of mutes. Oliver, like many New Orleans musicians, left for Chicago after the closure of Storyville in 1918, forming his own band, King Oliver's…
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Soul music has been around for a very long time and has won the hearts of many, as have twin brothers Kelvis and Kendall Duffie AKA Kloud 9. Originally performing together as part of a 4-member contemporary gospel outfit, the twins have now established themselves as in the words of…
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SEXY, SASSY, FUNKY, CLASSY, BLUESY, JAZZY, VOCALIST Lady Laranah Phipps (affectionately known as LaLa) is a jazz soulstress with a touch of world music influence. She is one of the hottest new jewels in the East Coast jazz crown. Lady Laranah Phipps comes to the jazz arena naturally, as she…
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For the last twelve years Larry Kimpel has been one of the most in demand bassists and vocalists in Los Angeles. The spirit and energy in his playing has helped propel many of the world’s top artists to gold and platinum sales in all genres of music from rock to…
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