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A Troop of Echoes (saxophone)

Muscular bass. Agile saxophone. Propulsive drums. Lithe guitar. In a music scene where many bands claim almost-divine levels of inspiration and originality (while still all sounding curiously alike), A Troop of Echoes shelves the...

Adam Braatz (keyboard)

On a dreary October night in 1984, a freak electrical storm fell upon the quiet township of Bumblescum, Kentucky. One of it's victims was a newly established McDonald's, which burned to the ground. From the flames, ashes, and rapidly...

Adam De Lucia (guitar, electric)

Adam De Lucia is a musician / composer / producer who has forged creative partnerships since founding Hi-Bred Productions in 2004. His network includes stalwart musicians, burgeoning talent and industry...

Adrian Belew (guitar)

A wizard of sonic manipulation and texture, Belew has been the guitarist of choice for the art-rock crowd, playing with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and Nine Inch Nails [see entries]. He has also fronted a...

Agustin Barreto (bass, electric)

Agustin Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. He developed quickly as a bassist playing in many local bands, including the popular “DEFENSA...

Ake Ériksson (drums)

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Ake Eriksson (drums)

All my life i've been drumming and it looks like that's what i'll continue to do until i'm six feet under. I've done every kind of gig you can think of but my heart is with jazz-rock fusion which also means i'm not the wealthies guy...

Al Garcia (bass)

Born in Newark, NJ, Al began playing the bass guitar at the age of 13. He was influenced early on by Jack Bruce and Felix Papalardi, two bass visionaries who helped expand the role of the bass guitar in rock music. His musical horizons...

Alessandro Bottura (bass, electric)

Alessandro Bottura, 03/06/1984, started to get interested in music since he was a child, studying piano for 5 years, then guitar and drums until 2000, when he landed to the bass as self-taught. With the rock band NoLogo he performed in...

Alex Lozupone (guitar)

Alex Lozupone is a mutli-instrumentalist, music producer/engineer, and film director, primarily known as a lead guitarist, and as an avid producer of live music videos. He has over a hundred videos documenting the music scene on his...

Alex Milella (guitar)

Guitarist, arranger and musical programmer, he begins at the age of 6 studying piano; at 13 years old he switches to guitar, in a private school; he continues, afterwards, as self- taught, with various live experiences in the pubs of his...

Alex Skolnick (guitar)

Alex Skolnick, born in 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California. At age nine, a fascination with the rock group Kiss led to a desire to learn guitar. At age sixteen, Alex tried out for a local band called Legacy. Shortly after graduating...

Alex Walker (saxophone)

Alex started his musical career at age 3 while playing the piano and moved on to saxophone at 15, along the way he "dabbled" in trumpet, clarinet and flute. He realized that he could recognize many personalities from the saxophone, sweet...

Alexander Randall (guitar, electric)

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Alexandre A Aoki (guitar)

Born in Sao Paulo - Brazil, Rock Guitar Player since 1982.

Alexey Revenko (guitar)

The composer, singer and guitarist (as well as poet and writer) Alexey Revenko is well known by his approach and experiments in music. He is called a founder of acoustic neoclassical and neoromantic music style in Ukraine and Russia...

Allan Holdsworth (guitar)

Allan Holdsworth is widely regarded by fans and contemporary musicians as one of the 20 th century's most prominent guitarists. He is one of a handful of musicians who has consistently proven himself as an innovator in between and within...

Andrei Krylov (guitar)

Andrei Krylov - guitarist and composer. He plays 6 and 7 string guitar. Original music, Fusion of Flamenco, Folk, Jazz, Gypsy styles, Classical music. He studied guitar, arrangement and composition in Music School and Music College in...

Andrei Marica (guitar)

I compose,I play, you like :) Jackson DKMGT black

Andy Rothstein (guitar)

Blend the styles of Mike Stern, Pat Martino and Stevie Ray Vaughn, plus throw in a little Andy Summers and U2's "The Edge" for good measure you just might end up with a rather unique contemporary jazz guitarist!! Andy Rothstein has played...

Anthony Jackson (bass, electric)

Anthony Jackson (b. 1952) is quite simply a legendary figure in modern music. Although his first steps into music were with the piano and guitar he switched to the electric bass after hearing Motown bassist James Jamerson.

Having played...

Anthony Smyth (drums)

Anthony started playing drums at the age of 13. During the late 1970s, while still at school, Anthony was playing professionally in various bands in Canberra Australia. A move to Sydney in 1979 brought regular work in Fusion, Funk & Pop...

Art 'Spike' Schloemer (keyboard)

Art'Spike'Schloemer ist one of the few musicians who was "born to groove". He began his piano studies at the age of six and starting performing professionally throughout Germany after graduating from Bela Bartok Conservatory in...

Arturo Mora (bass)

Born in 1974 in Madrid (Spain), he studied electric bass with Javier ”Pato” Muñoz and combo with Ramón Paús, Miguel Ángel Blanco and Jacobo Cimadevila at Taller de Músicos de Madrid, with Nicolás Ortiz at Escuela de Música...

Audric Jankauskas (guitar, electric)

2003 - Audric Jankauskas and Rob Lewcun collaborate to create the CD titled Spontageous , published and released by aujanmusic in January 2004 Spontageous is the name of the four piece jazz-rock group that features guitar, keyboards,...

B.D. Lenz (guitar)

B.D. Lenz is a funky/jazz guitarist extraordinaire. He has released 7 highly acclaimed recordings as a leader featuring such guests as Randy Brecker, Will Lee, Mark Egan, and Joel Rosenblatt to name a few. His band has played over a...

BangTower (band/ensemble/orchestra)

BangTower features legendary bassist Percy Jones, Grammy winning guitarist/engineer/producer Neil Citron and LA "Drum Guru" Walter Garces. Their debut release "Casting Shadows" produced by Jon Pomplin (Declassified Records), and Neil...

Barry Cleveland (guitar, electric)

When Barry Cleveland isn’t talking guitar with people like Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Ry Cooder, Tony Iommi, and John Frusciante, he’s busy recording globally acclaimed progressive rock and world fusion music. For more than 25 years,...

Barry Miles (piano)

{{Barry Miles = 9381}} was considered a child prodigy: he began playing drums when he was three, piano at five and joined the Musicians Union when he was nine. Miles played drums professionally from the age of ten, including sitting...

BB Davis (drums)

Multi-instrumentalist BB Davis founded THE RED ORCHIDSTRA with French virtuoso keyboardist Daniel Biro. It has already produced one of the all time groove classics their version of Roy Budd's theme from the seminal '70's gangster movie...

Beck (guitar)

On his first DGC album, 1994's Mellow Gold, Beck demonstrated his ingenious ability to mix old and new styles with ease. The result was music that on one hand sounded familiar, yet surprised at every turn. On Odelay, Beck has...

Bernard Grobman (guitar)

Grammy nominated guitarist, composer and producer Bernard Grobman has toured and/or recorded with some of the biggest names in Jazz , Pop, and R&B including: Maynard Ferguson, Dr. John, Peter Erskine, Michael Brecker, Michelle Camillo, Ray...

Bethany Cosentino (guitar)

Best Coast is an American indie pop trio based in Los Angeles, California. The band is recognizable for their fuzzy, low-fidelity sound in the vein of surf rock formed by songwriter and frontwoman Bethany Cosentino, formerly of...

Bill Chase (trumpet)

William Edward Chiaiese was born on October 20, 1934 to John and Emily Chiaiese(key-ah-tze) in Dorchester , Massachusetts . The family later moved to Squantum , Mass. John changed the family name to Chase, understanding that the Italian...

Bill Connors (guitar)

Jazz guitarist Bill Connors is an accomplished performer whose finely developed musical sense and technical expertise have been honed over years of hard work and experience. Born in southern California in 1949, Connors began to play...

Bill Fulton (composer/conductor/leader)

Bill Fulton is known throughout the Los Angeles area as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, music producer and pianist/keyboardist. Bill has been very active in the Southland vicinity in and around Los Angeles, CA since 1987 when he moved...

Bill Hart (guitar)

Bill Hart was born and raised in Canada and began playing guitar at the young age of nine years old. Hart immediately felt drawn to the instrument and would find every opportunity to covertly rendezvous with his guitar. A lifelong...

Billy Cobham (drums)

The legendary Billy Cobham, with his matchless, dazzling, ambidextrous skills as a drummer, has applied the same insistent fervor to his long list of monumental achievements. He’s an accomplished composer and record producer. It is a...

Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's now legendary Mission Of Burma, Roger Miller and Martin Swope. Miller and Swope joined forces with Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren for what was originally conceived...

Bitches Brew Band (saxophone)

Please check out our web site. Steven went to Univerity of CO, Boulder, Berklee College of Music (summa cum laude), U/Mass Boston (summa cum laude), and Harvard Law School

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Blue Touch Paper (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Colin Towns’ new six piece band released their debut album ‘Stand Well Back’ in Germany on the 13th May 2011. Formed in 2010 with German and UK musicians, the writing/recording took two years to complete. Featuring Mark Lockheart...

Bob Holz (drums)

Thanks for stopping by. As a drummer, I've shared the stage with Peter Tosh, The Outlaws, Mountain, Noel Redding, Robben Ford, Foghat, Molly Hatchet, Head East,Savoy Brown,Tonio K, Benny Mardones,Wolfman Jack, The Winters...

Bombastic Meatbeats (drums)

Remember the good old days, when jazz-fusion wasn't all about showing off your chops, and was more about creating sweeping moods, and the importance of songwriting? Well, the Bombastic Meatbats certainly remember those days. Having...

Brenda Carol (vocal)

A major jazz singer and educator based in Toronto, Brenda Carol has built an important career that has touched the ears and hearts of a countless number of listeners and young singers. Her open-minded approach has found her often...

Brian Baggett (guitar)

Brian Baggett is a professional jazz guitarist, guitar teacher and active jazz educator based in Lawrence, KS. He studied jazz composition and improvisation with Dr. Chuck Tumlinson and guitar masters Reggie Wooten and Danny Embrey. Brian...

Brian Bunker Trio (guitar)

Brian was born in Huntington Beach, an Orange County suburb of Los Angeles, and raised in the Inland Empire town of Moreno Valley. While studying music at the University of California, Riverside, Brian began his performing career at clubs...

Brian Wilson (composer/conductor/leader)

Brain Wilson is one of rock's most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in rock history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Brian Wilson one of the most...

Bunny Brunel (bass)

When CHICK COREA watched BERNARD BUNNY BRUNEL play one night at an upscale London jazz club in 1978, Bunny was unaware of the ultimate significance Corea would play in his future success as a bassist. Few weeks after that visit to...

Burkhard Mahler (composer/conductor/leader)

Burkhard Mahler: Ten years of independent Fusion Burkhard Mahler has been working in Munich, Germany as an independent musician, composer and producer since 10 years, having released about 20 albums. He is playing guitar and...

Cai Marle-Garcia (bass, electric)

UK-based Cai Marle-Garcia, aka 'MR. EARS', is the driving new force on the international bass scene. Adept on both fretted bass and his favoured fretless bass, the 23-year- old has experience of performing and recording jazz, funk, pop,...

Carl Eichman (guitar)

Writer/ musician. Styles include jazz-rock-fusion, blues, film, Latin, symphonic, new age & experimental. Studies in guitar, french horn, music composition, scoring, big band jazz performance & improvisation. In 2001 Carl started...

Carlos Voight (keyboard)

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Carsten Sindvald (saxophone)

Carsten Sindvald ��" saxophones, clarinet, EWI, piano, church organ, teacher, poet. He graduated as a classical saxophone player from the soloist programme at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. He subsequently undertook further studies...

Catrina Daimon Lee (composer/conductor/leader)

Was Domina Catrina Lee. Guitarist & Composer. Born in Singapore. Currently alive in Singapore. While local jazz musicians and the arts community pretend not to know her, Catrina quietly and faithfully goes her own way, creating new worlds...

Cedric Willems (guitar, electric)

Cedric Willems is a belgian guitarist born in Ghent - Belgium. First guitar at ten. First schoolband at 13. After playing in several bands (Graffitti, Electric Rendez Vous, Sundance ...) and jamming with a lot of belgian musicians, he...

Chanan Hanspal (guitar)

I am of Welsh Indian extraction and come from Wales.

My influences are Zappa, Stravinsky, Cannonball Adderley, Anton Webern, and James Brown. At various points in my career, I have worked and performed with, Kylie Minogue,...

Charles Carey (guitar)

Charles Carey, Assistant Professor Contact Information Memorial Hall 006 Phone Number: 308-432-6321 Fax Number: 308-432-6071 ccarey@csc.edu Education/Background MM, Florida International University BM, Florida Atlantic University AA,...

Charles David Stuart (drums)

Jazz/Fusion/Blues/Multi-Style drummer Charles David Stuart has been playing professionally and teaching for over 25 years. He was born in Detroit and began playing drums and percussion in the early 1970's. He was performing by the...

Chieli Minucci (guitar)

Guitarist, composer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is the leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group Special EFX, which he co-founded with the late George Jinda in 1984. A major force on the jazz and world music scene for 25 years,...

Chris Stassinopoulos (drums)

-Chris Stassinopoulos Drummer,pianist,keyboardist,composer of Progressive Rock & Jazz Fusion music. -is composer of album(cd Light in the Dark)(production at 2008). *Drummer- ex axis,zao,clear light(lp -forever blowing bubbles),catherine...

Chris Taylor (guitar)

Guitarist Chris Taylor seemed to burst upon the scene with his release “Nocturnal,” (Abstract Logix) but the truth of the matter is, he is a well seasoned veteran with a lifetime of experience and an artist who is finally getting the...

Christopher Barosky (bass)

I'm a youngin. I have plenty to learn.

Christopher D. Heinmiller (guitar)

Desert Sleep is three multi instrumentalists that bonded together with the goal of creating beautiful, groundbreaking, limitless art straight from the soul. The core of desert sleep is the human spirit, and all the warm imperfect...

Christopher Rizzo (guitar, acoustic)

Hello, and thanks for checking out my info. I have been playing guitar for 32 years. Currently, I am searching for a violinist and an upright bassist to form as acoustic jazz trio. The material includes several songs by the Rite Of...

Christopher Rossi (keyboard)

Born and raised in the Boston, Mass. area, music has always been an important part of Chris’ life and it developed into quite a past-time for him. Growing up as a young boy throughout the seventies, he recalls sitting in his brother Ed...

Chuck Rainey (bass, electric)

At one time tagged as the hardest working bass player in America, Chuck Rainey's bass playing on successful television shows, motion pictures and recordings illustrate his well-known and legendary style, feel and concept for the instrument...

Chun Fung Simon Yu (guitar)

Traditional Chinese and Contemporary Jazz Experimental Fretted/Fretless Guitarist/Composer/Producer. Born and raised in Hong Kong in a Traditional Instrumentalists family (members of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra), now living and playing in...

Claude Pauly (guitar)

Bborn in Luxembourg in 1964, Claude eventually found his way to the guitar via various other school music instruments at the age of 16. Soon the electric guitar became a main focus, and the initial self taught years lead him through...

Clyde Robert Schipke (guitar)

Clyde schipke is the guitarist and main composer for the Australian fusion band INDABA. He also is one of the leading guitar instructors in Brisbane, Australia. Clyde has been a professional guitarist for over twenty years, and has...

Colin Alexander Smith (guitar, electric)

Jazz and rock guitarist based in Bordeaux, France

Connor French (sax, alto)

I am a high school musician who has played the alto sax for 5 years. I have studied jazz for all of these years and am up for any challenge when playing music. I play the electric bass and sax in a heavy metal band, but it doesn't...

Conor Willum Hanna (bass, electric)

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Contemporary Noise Sextet (Quintet , Quartet) (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Contemporary Noise Sextet is the band established by Kapsa brothers, who earlier formed Something Like Elvis the legendary emo-hardcore band. Formerly known as Contemporary Noise Quintet/Quartet. CNS musicians are also: Tomek Glazik,...

Cooper Tisdale (guitar)

BIO Cooper Tisdale has caught the ears of listeners from Canada to the coast of Georgia with his soulfulness and eclectic mix of music. Although this guitarist's music can be described as jazz/rock, his influences encompass many...

D.A. Jones (drums)

D.A. has performed with Sun Ra , Sonny Stitt, Pharoah Sanders, Monette Sulder, Gloria Gaynor, The Orlans, Danny and the Jrs. The Drifters, The Tymes, Bo Diddley, David Amram, Forecast, and White Elephant.

Dan Berglund (bass, acoustic)

Dan Berglund was born in May 1963 and grew up in a small village in Sweden called Pilgrimstad near Ostersund. His father played accordion in an amateur band and his elder brother played guitar. They introduced him at an early age to very...

Dan Paul (piano)

Dan Paul's roots are jazz piano and classical pipe organ - in concert he unites them with the vast tonal arsenal of modern keyboard technology. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a protege of avant-garde guru Dave Burrell...

Dan Pinto (keyboard)

____Dan Pinto is a seasoned composer in instrumental music. As a multi-instrumentalist with most varieties of keyboards, drums and percussion, his writing styles include Jazz-rock Fusion, New Age and Orchestral Rock. He has several CDs and...

Dance of Love Ghosts II (guitar, electric)

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Daniel Alejandro Siles Mendoza (drums)

From a very early age, Daniel was musically influenced by his parents. However, his formal musical education began at the age of 14, when he began taking private drum lessons with Berklee Alumni –and the most renowned drummer in...

Dann Glenn (guitar, electric)

Dann Glenn (born May 30, 1950) is an American jazz fusion electric guitar player and composer, who has published and recorded a catalog of six symphonies, and released numerous jazz and avant garde albums, over the years. Originally a...

Darren Lyons Group/Quartet (drums)

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Daryl B. Harris (saxophone)

I have been playing saxophone since I was seven in New York city. I did my educational training with Nestor Kovell in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania at Duquesne University. Since that time I have learned to play many styles, and have my own style...

Daryl Hayott (bass, electric)

Daryl Hayott is a mainstay in the world of Fusion and Brazilian Jazz. He was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil and raised in New York City. As a teenager, he was a session player on drums and bass for Electric Lady Studios. You will find his...

Dave Bargeron (trombone)

Dave Bargeron is a versatile low-brass jazz artist hailing from Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He won his first lead trombone job playing with Clark Terry's Big Band and from 1968-1970 played Bass Trombone and Tuba with Doc Severinsen's Band....

Dave Weckl (drums)

For more than 20 years, Dave Weckl has developed and maintained a reputation among fans, peers, and the international music community as one of the great living drummers. For this, he has received numerous accolades and honors; Modern...

Dave Ziffer (guitar)

Dave Ziffer completely reinvents tunes by Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Jean-Luc Ponty, Lyle Mays, Russ Freeman, and many other modern jazz performers, using electric and acoustic guitars, a loop station, and a guitar synth. He also...

David Bagsby (guitar)

David Bagsby is a Cherokee musician, film maker, photographer and composer born in Tulsa, OK and now residing in Kansas City, MO. He has studied under Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan. His music encompasses progressive/symphonic...

David Herzhaft (harmonica)

One of today's most original harmonica player, David Herzhaft was born in 1974 and raised between blues and country-music. His father Gerard Herzhaft is a highly regarded specialist on these music (a dozen of books published and translated...

David Joel Quartet (guitar)

The David Joel Quartet is an original contemporary jazz-fusion group steeped in the jazz tradition but with many other musical influences as well. The group's compositions range in style from straight ahead jazz, rock, fusion, funk, and...

David Lockeretz (bass, electric)

David Lockeretz is an honors graduate from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has lived in the Los Angeles area since 1999, where he has appeared on several recordings and performed regularly at a wide variety of functions. He plays...

David Robert Lyon (piano)

Dave "pianodavy" Lyon is a musician/composer. Writing simply to expand the promotion of peaceful, progressive expression.

David Schwartz (guitar)

David Armstrong Schwartz, born December 26th, 1982 in Barrington IL, began playing guitar at the age of 11 and was initially inspired by the early 90's grunge sound of bands such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Sound Garden. During his high...

Dennis Rea (guitar)

Dennis Rea's adventurous guitar playing blends modern jazz, creative rock, experimental music, and world musical traditions into an approach that is uniquely his own, embracing haunting lyricism, enigmatic textures, agile improvisation,...

Deus ex Machina (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Deus ex Machina were formed in 1985 in Bologna (Italy); thus far, D.E.M. have released seven albums, and have also appeared on four compilations with other artists. The artistic development of the group began with the realization of a...

Dev Avidon (vocal)

Dev is a jazz-rock fusion composer, singer, engineer and producer living and operating out of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the front-man for the band he founded with brother and renowned pianist Ben Rosenblum, Wire Spoke Wheels. He regularly...

Dire Straits (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Dire Straits are a British rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals), David Knopfler (guitar), John Illsley (bass) and Pick Withers (drums), and managed by Ed Bicknell. In an era when punk rock reigned, they played...

Dojo (band/ensemble/orchestra)

DOJO Since it’s inception in Lawrence, KS in 2004, the progressive fusion band DOJO has been steadily working their way to the surface by striving to produce technical music that has soul or meaning. Named after the term used in Zen...

Domina Catrina (guitar)

Ambient. Jazz. Rock. Electronica. World. Discover Singapore's undiscovered Asian Transgendered Jazz-Rock Guitarist, Composer, and Self-Sufficient Soloist/Virtual Band. Domina Catrina, has created her debut self-realized, solo album...

Don Caballero (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Some people start bands because they feel they have something to say. Others see band formation as a guaranteed path to free drinks and unprotected sex. When Damon Che formed instrumental crunch-rockers Don Caballero 15 years ago in...

Donald Malloy (trumpet)

Donald Malloy’s eclectic approach to music is one best described as unique. Raised in an environment where music was as much a part of life as breathing, Donald developed his musical identity like a child goes through his...

Drop Trio (band/ensemble/orchestra)

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Ed Guadalupe (guitar)

My name is Ed Guadalupe. I've been playing guitar for 26 years. I first heard jazz when I was 12 years old and i was instantly hooked! I mainly play the guitar for a gospel choir (The Good News Choir) but I also play with the JazzCatz, a...

Eddie Henderson (trumpet)

Eddie Henderson is one of today's top and most original jazz trumpet players. Henderson was born in New York City October 26, 1940. His father sang with the Charioteers, and his mother danced as one of the Brown twins at the...

Eddie Jobson (keyboard)

As recently as 2006, the Editor-in-Chief of Emmy magazine wrote: "The word 'genius' is bandied about a bit too freely these days, but in Jobson's case, the term not only applies, it's been used to describe him since his northern...

Eddie Lap (guitar)

Learning jazz . Would like to be able to tour the world playing at festivals and making money from CD sales .

Elis Casado (keyboard)

Elis receives his first musical lessons from his father. He also receives guitar lessons from a local teacher at age 12. But later becomes interested in the keyboards and piano. After playing in several rock bands, he studies jazz...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (band/ensemble/orchestra)

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EQ (band/ensemble/orchestra)

EQ is a Melbourne-based, jazz-fusion group that has been playing together for over eight years, culminating in the long-awaited release of their self-titled debut album EQ on the Australian label Vorticity in 2007. In 2012 they...

EQUINOX - Tristan Des Pres (keyboard)

Tristan Des Pres - Keyboards and programming Tristan Des Pres, award winning Sound designer and producer, musician, composer, arranger and pioneer in the Multimedia and Video Game Industry, who since 1990 has produced music & sound...

Eric Astor (guitar)

Los Angeles based guitarist Eric Astor is making his mark on the jazz scene with his debut CD, Coolfire. Featuring driving guitars and Latin rhythms, this album has a style like no other. From the country rock vibe of Route 74 to the...

Eric Vloeimans (trumpet)

Eric Vloeimans (1963), born in the Netherlands, is regarded as one of Europe’s best trumpet players. He shows an extraordinary talent for playing original music with an outstanding quality. On his cd's Vloeimans prefers to record...

Erik de Jong (guitar)

Dutch fusion/rock guitarist from Steenwijk, webmaster www.guitar-poll.com

Erik Mongrain (guitar)

- YouTube guitar sensation with over 4 million total views - Developed his signature lap tapping playing style - Has won over a dozen YouTube International viewership awards - Features special guests Michael Manring and Bill Plummer -...

Erik Truffaz (trumpet)

In the next step of his evolution as a pioneering jazz figure, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz continues his exploration of modern dance rhythms informed by drum ‘n’ bass and hip hop as well as gripping rock ‘n’ roll with his quartet...

Esthema

Esthema, a World Fusion ensemble out of Boston, MA (USA) creates their unique sound by fusing elements from the traditional music of the Eastern European Balkan region and the Near & Middle East with Progressive Rock and various styles of...

Eumir Deodato (keyboard)

Brazilian-born Eumir Deodato has racked up 16 platinum records to his credit as artist, arranger or producer with combined sales of well over 25 million records in the USA alone. His discography, including compilations and all his work as...

Exegesis (bass)

Exegesis is the belief that symbols, scientific thought, astronomical ideas, numerical ratios and conceptual art and architecture can be expressed in sound. Indeed, many of the group's compositions were conceived using these influences and...

Fabien Degryse (guitar)

Born in 1960 in Brussels, Fabien Degryse is one of the leading jazz guitarist in Belgium and abroad. He has recorded twenty CD's, played with numerous musicians: Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Claudio Roditi among others. He has...

Federico Miranda (guitar, electric)

Federico Miranda was born in Costa Rica in 1976 and has been playing the guitar since the age of 12. In 1993 he founded the band Gandhi, a vocal rock group that has become one of the most popular acts in the country. Since 1997 the band...

Felle Vega (percussion)

Fellé Vega, is a well respected Dominican artist; percussionist native of Santiago De Los Caballeros who defines himself as an “Imaginary Folklorist.” Percussionist, composer, inventor, instrument designer, who over the course of...

Florida North (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Starting as a band in late February 2007, this quartet brings a breath of fresh air to the jazz fusion starved region of south western Ontario. As an improvisational band, Florida North are talented enough to feel music like crashing waves...

FLYING FISH JUMPS (clarinet)

THE FLYING FISH JUMPS is constantly moving on, probably the best signed band on today's Belgian Jazz scene. ROAD TRIP, the first release of the Belgian modern and mad jazz quartet, FLYING FISH JUMPS is now taking us to another...

Frank A. Stokes (bass, electric)

New York City music with an indigenous twist...

Frank Axtell (guitar)

Frank Axtell 2004 With over two decades in the music industry, Frank Axtell is a renowned guitarist, composer and teacher and is a major contributor to the south Florida jazz-fusion scene. He performs with his own jazz ensemble, The Frank...

Frank Briggs (drums)

Personnel: Frank Briggs: composer, drums, keyboards, programming; Brian Price: guitar (1-7,9); Kit Walker: Fender Rhodes, synths (1, 3, 7, 8); Steve Weingart: piano, Fender Rhodes, synths (2-4, 6, 9); Ric Fierabracci: bass (1-3, 5,...

Frank Gambale (guitar)

Frank began playing guitar at age 7 in Canberra, Australia where he was born and raised. He was influenced by the blues playing of Jimi Hendrix , John Mayall / Eric Clapton, and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia . In his mid-teens he discovered...

Frederic Monino (bass, electric)

Frederic Monino, a self taught musician, took up the electric bass at age 15. In 1988 he began to devote himself entirely to jazz and improvised music, playing with various well known artists in the south of France like "Siegfried Kessler...

Gary Paul Bryant (piano)

Gary grew up in a small mill town in New England, demonstrating early on the eclectic mix of musical tastes and talents reflected in his work today.

By 13, he had taught himself piano, guitar, drums and accordion. He wrote and...

Gary Willis (bass, electric)

Through the years Willis has played with musicians like Wayne Shorter, Allan Holdsworth, Hubert Laws, Simon Phillips, Joe Diorio, Robben Ford, and Pil Upchurch, not to mention Tribal Tech. Bass Player magazine referred to him as "one of...

Genesis (band/ensemble/orchestra)

One of the most successful rock acts of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Genesis enjoyed a longevity exceeded only by the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Kinks, in the process providing a launching pad for the superstardom of members Peter...

Geoff Cleveland (piano)

What is a Hate Camel? HATE CAMEL = CURMUDGEON as described by comedian Bill Hicks in his final performance. (Curmudgeon = “a crusty, ill-tempered and usually old man”-Webster’s) HATE CAMELS = a “Life Metal/Death Comedy/Jazz”...

George Christian (guitar)

George Christian is pro guitarist musician,composer,studio session, all guitars all styles. Fusion -Latin-Smooth Jazz -Jazz Rock. George Christian was born in Greece where he started studying classical guitar at age 10. He was performing...

George Christian Spanopoulos (guitar)

George Christian is a pro guitarist, composer, studio session musician, all guitars all styles: Fusion, Latin, Smooth Jazz, Jazz Rock. George was born in Greece, where he started studying classical guitar at age 10. He has performed in...

George Duke (piano)

George Duke was born in San Rafael, California, and reared in Marin City, a working class section of Marin County. When he was just four years old, his mother took him to see Duke Ellington in concert. "I don't remember it too well," says...

George Lesiw Band (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Thousands of fans of in your face, honest to goodness, rockin' jazz fusion better get ready for an explosive earful now that The George Lesiw Band is exploding from its East Coast cocoon and hitting the national circuit. Over the past...

Ginger Baker (drums)

Peter Edward 'Ginger' Baker found his way into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame by playing the drums with a degree of proficiency and expression matched by few others. He first gained fame in the late 1960s with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce...

Gino Foti (bass, electric)

Born in Messina, Sicily, Gino has been exposed to diverse types of music from an early age. Although not from a musical family, some of his earliest recollections are of his father playing European classical works and folk music from...

Glen Lovell (guitar)

Started playing at seventeen.Hard to promote instrumental Jazz,Funk,Blues at that time.

Glenn Nolle (guitar)

Glenn grew up in the Pittsburgh area and began taking guitar lessons at age 8. It wasn't until his discovery of Jimi Hendrix that Glenn became serious about playing and this set in motion 10 hour+ practice days eventually earning him a...

Godsticks (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Godsticks are a unique progressive-rock band from South Wales, UK. Formed in 2006, their love of various musical styles including prog-rock, fusion, rock, and pop have been melded together to create their own style.

Initially a cover...

Gongzilla

Journalist Bill Milkowski called Gongzilla "simply mind-boggling." Gongzilla first released a series of mostly instrumental jazz/rock albums featuring second guitarists on each one, including jazz fusion legends Allan Holdsworth, David...

Graham Young (guitar)

Graham started off on the violin aged 6 quickly progressing through the grades with little effort. “I found that I could turn up and sight read everything and still be the ahead of everyone else in the lesson. I didn’t really take it...

Guy Hatton (guitar, electric)

Guy Hatton's PANTECHNICON is a suite of compositions for small electric jazz ensemble, and the group gathered to perform them. The first performance took place at the Harrogate International Festival fringe in July 2010, and...

Gwen Mitchell Trio

CHICAGO, IL-In the wake of accusations of releasing allegedly toxic, audio mind-matter, Gwen Mitchell testified Monday that she is inextricably linked to the events. Candid in her confession, she admits, "They caught me holding the...

Gwendolyn Parker (band/ensemble/orchestra)

FELLGUARD BIO Based out of Murrieta, California, Fellguard captures fans who are craving a rock/metal sound reminiscent of past generations. (i.e. Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Dio, Megadeth, Stryper, Bruce Dickinson, ect.) combined with a...

Heavy Metal Jazz Concepts (guitar)

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Hectic Watermelon (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Guitarist-composer, John Czajkowski, founded the critically acclaimed fusion-rock band, Hectic Watermelon in 2004. The 2006 debut Hectic Watermelon album, The Great American Road Trip, features Jerry Goodman (of Mahavishnu Orchestra and...

Hector Rodriguez (guitar, electric)

I had the advantage in that my childhood was in the 1970s, which I believe the best stage in the music's rock history, and was the epoca of the 'super bands' or so-called 'progressive Rock' or 'symphonic Rock.' It was a time of a lot of...

Hiram Bullock (guitar, electric)

Over the course of his career, from his mid ‘70s run with The Brecker Brothers to his various stints as a “hired gun” for everyone from Gil Evans and David Sanborn to Billy Joel and James Brown, Hiram Bullock earned his reputation...

Howard Levy (harmonica)

Howard Levy is a musician without limits. His musical adventures include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, world music, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, theater, and film. He has appeared on hundred of cd’s, won a Grammy (1997), won...

Hugh Ferguson (guitar)

Hugh is originally from the Boston area and moved to California in 1986. Hugh was featured in Guitar Player Magazine and also toured with Graham Nash. Hugh got back to his fusion jazz in 2000 and currently has a fusion jazz trio with Brian...

Hugh Hopper (bass, electric)

Hugh Hopper is perhaps the central figure of the whole Canterbury scene. In a career spanning over thirty years, he has played with literally everyone: Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Richard Sinclair, Elton Dean, Mike Ratledge, Phil Miller,...

Hugo Fattoruso (multi-instrumentalist)

Hugo Fattoruso was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1943. Fattoruso is a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.[1] As well as developing a career as a soloist, he has participated and performed in many different genres: Trio...

Ian Carr (trumpet)

Ian Carr has been at the forefront of British modern jazz for over 40 years. He started playing trumpet in his brother Mike’s band, the EmCee 5 in the very early 1960s. This bebop-influenced band even boasted a young John McLaughlin in...

Ian Rapien (sax, tenor)

“In my travels, I am exposed to hundreds of saxophonists every year. Ian Rapien is by far the most unique saxophonist I have heard in several years”, says Smooth-Jazz best-selling recording artist Walter Beasley. “In addition to his...

Ian Varley (piano)

Ian earned a degree in composition and theory from Skidmore College. His performances have included stints with rock bands, straight jazz combos, a cappella groups, and atonal metal bands. He has worked as an arranger, composer, publisher,...

Innverviewworld (programming)

Innerviewworld produces in-depth interviews with jazz musicians and musicians of all genres

inside//outside (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Borrowing elements from IDM, jazz, and progressive rock, inside//outside is an international power trio for the 21st century. Formed in the Spring of 2012, the band grew out of a collaboration between Belgian keyboardist Wim...

Isotope (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Isotope were one of the major (and earliest) British jazz-rock bands of the 1970s, coming along chronologically only just behind Soft Machine and Nucleus, the two UK pioneer bands in the genre. Isotope was formed by guitarist Gary Boyle in...

Jaco Pastorius (bass, electric)

"Jaco" was born John Francis Pastorius III, the first of three sons born to John Francis Pastorius II and Stephanie Katherine Haapala Pastorius. He had Finnish, German, Swedish, and Irish ancestry. Although "Jaco" was born in...

Jaimoe (drums)

Johanson came up in the R&B world and began drumming at an early age, often accompanied by friend Lamar Williams on bass. Johanson backed soul singers, including a membership in Otis Redding's touring band in 1966, and afterward touring...

James M Gregg (trumpet)

In a tradition stretching from Miles Davis through Jon Hassell, Randy Brecker and contemporary artists such as Christian Scott, Cuong Vu and Dave Douglas, James M. Gregg extends the tonal palette of his trumpet and extends the language of...

James Sudakow (violin)

James Sudakow is a third generation classically trained violinist and started playing at the age of four. Despite the classical upbringing, he has always gravitated to rock, fusion, jazz, and progressive music. During his early...

Jamie Craig (keyboard)

JAMIE CRAIG When musician, composer and keyboardist Jamie Craig decided to create an album of contemporary instrumental music, he wanted it to appeal to audiences who enjoy smooth jazz and a jazz-rock-fusion sound, but he knew his...

Jamie St Clair (guitar)

Singer/lyricist/guitarist Jamie St Clair is getting known for his haunting melodies and stirring lyrics drawn from his 15 year travels in India searching for the answers to a generation's questions on love and meaning in today's world. He...

Jan Esterlis (guitar)

Ukranian born guitar player

Jan Hammer (composer/conductor/leader)

Jan Hammer's musical career is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock as it is committed to the future of electronics, synthesized sound, the possibilities of interactive media, television, film and...

Jan Zehrfeld (guitar)

Studied jazz guitar at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria (with Karl Ratzer), the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (Raul Björkenheim), at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Germany (Peter O’Mara),...

Jay Lou (guitar)

Born in Cameroon, Africa, guitarist Jay Lou first emerged with a spiritual, gospel-influenced sound that was partially inspired by his upbringing. His father often wrote religious songs when he was a child, and the presence of an organ in...

Jazz From Hell (guitar)

Jazz From Hell is a French bass, drum & guitar trio that explores a style at the border between jazz and fusion. Far from the standards, the temptation to create sound pictures. Jazz From Hell is the unlikely encounter between opposing...

Jazz Pistols (band/ensemble/orchestra)

It has only taken the Jazz Pistols a few short years to establish their very own individual sound and to attract the attention of music fans to their "Energy Jazz". Each group member is an accomplished musician with his individual style,...

JC Harris (guitar)

It's been a lonnnnnng time getting here. A long time ago, there was this kid who only wanted to work on fishing boats in Galway, IE but somehow wound up in America--getting most horribly corrupted by that devil rock and roll. My family had...

Jean Lapouge (guitar)

Born in 1953, Jean self-teaches himself guitar from 1966. He puts his first band together and starts composing in 1970. He turns professional in 1972, playing for dance bands in western France. He is the founder of several combos from...

Jean-Luc Ponty (violin)

Jean-Luc Ponty is a pioneer and undisputed master of violin in the arena of jazz and rock. He is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin that has expanded the vocabulary of modern music. Ponty was born in...

Jeff Babko (keyboard)

Jeff Babko's varied musical interests have influenced his diverse endeavors over the years. From fulfilling his duties as keyboardist and arranger at ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," to his innovative orginal groups and supporting work for...

Jeff Beck (guitar)

Jeff Beck isn't your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar. "I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound," says Beck."Finding...

Jeff Berlin (bass)

Jeff Berlin is a legend of the electric bass. Simply put, he is considered by many to be the finest electric bass player in the world. Surprisingly, he is a pioneer of slap bass when he brought this new percussive-style bass playing in...

Jeff Coffin (saxophone)

Jeff Coffin is an internationally recognized saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator and has been traveling the globe since the late 20th Century. He is a 3x Grammy Award winner from Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and played with them...

Jeff Gibble (guitar)

Jeff Gibble (guitarist/composer) has toured numerous nightclubs and taverns on the east coast with the rock band Alaska, jazz-fusioneers The Edgar Myers Trio, his own band The Jeff Gibble Group, and most recently, with the progressive rock...

Jeff Goold (drums)

Jeff lives in the Nashville area.

Jeffrey Cedrone (guitar)

Greylyng Jeff Cedrone and John C. Miller formed Greylyng in the autumn of 2002, with an honest intent of exploring sound. Having completed a BA in Music Performance (Jazz Guitar) from Western CT State University, Cedrone found himself...

Jeremy McCall (guitar)

POSTMODERN FUSION: Musical style that has jazz fusion as its basis, but seeks a higher level of connectivity with the listener. This is achieved by avoiding pretentiousness and getting to the core concept that ALL listeners care...

Jim Morrison (vocal)

James Douglas Morrison was born to George and Clara Morrison in Melbourne, Florida. A Naval officer, George was forced to move his family around a lot when Jim was a child, and some say that fact led to Jim's unique method of speaking...

Jimmy Herring (guitar)

They say, “It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.” Jimmy Herring is too modest to brag, but his guitar does a lot of the talkin’. And with the release of his first solo recording, Lifeboat, people are going to hear what...

Jimmy Robinson (guitar)

If you consider yourself a New Orleans music fan, you may find yourself in love with a never- ending web of music that entangles many genres and recordings over the last several decades produced by an unparalleled collection of...

Joe Albano (sax, soprano)

Joe Albano, a native of Boston, MA, now residing in NYC, began his instrumental studies at 14 with local hometown hero, Saxophonist Ray DeNice. Quickly gravitating to the saxophone, and ignoring all logic and reason, he attended...

Joe Purrenhage (guitar, electric)

Joe Purrenhage grew up outside the Detroit area where he picked up a great interest in music including classic rock and jazz/blues. A short stint in the Air Force allowed him to come in contact with many musicians with different...

Joe Zawinul (keyboard)

It may be a word overused but there isn't truly a more appropriate way to describe keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul.

Austrian born, Joe Zawinul emigrated to the US in 1959 where he played with Maynard Ferguson and the great Dinah...

Joey Ransier (guitar)

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Johannes Zetterberg (bass, electric)

Johannes Zetterberg (a native of Stockholm, Sweden) was born on November 17, 1985. Growing up in a musical family, he was exposed to a lot of different music at an early age. "Well, being that my father's a countertenor with a soft spot...

John Fifield (guitar)

John began his musical career in Connecticut playing in regional rock and Top 40 cover bands and in the jazz circuit throughout the Hartford area. After private study with Bob Kobus, Dave Santoro and Bob Thompson and completing coursework...

John Layne (guitar, electric)

I am an individual who has lived a life of extreme seeking, is there a distance between the soul and God once saved by Christ? are we truly one in him as he is one in God? If so where is the reality he calls us to...ie, the birds of the...

John McLaughlin (guitar)

John McLaughlin, also Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is a jazz fusion guitar player from Doncaster, Yorkshire in England. He came to prominence with the electric group of Miles Davis in the late 1960s, and with other well- known players such...

Jonas Kappel (guitar)

”Competent debut”, ”Danish quintet with international outlook”, ”Refreshing and dynamically disturbing” - those were just some of the words reviewers used to describe guitarist and composer Jonas Kappel’s first CD release...

Jordi Fiol (bass, electric)

Played almost everywhere and everything.

Jorge Pescara (bass)

Discovered by Arnaldo DeSouteiro in 1998, when playing with his pop band Linha Amarela at Rock in Rio Café, Pescara was soon recommended to Ithamara Koorax and Dom Um Romão. Deeply impressed, Dom Um hired Pescara as the new bassist for...

Judy Dyble (vocal)

Born in 1949 when rationing was still part of daily life and Britain was recovering from the greyness and worry of the war years, Judy was the third of four children whose early years were spent in a prefabricated bungalow surrounded...

Judy Lewis (piano)

The Judy Lewis Story by Motti Cohen JMC Promotions UK "Judy lewis enters a room like an electrical storm...quiet, but foreboding of a force to be dealt with." So said Hadara Levin of Judy Lewis in a 2000 interview in The City Voice. I...

Jukka Tolonen (guitar, electric)

Jukka Tolonen - guitar Jukka Tolonen is not only Finland's national guitar hero but also one of the world's most respected guitarists. For the past 4 decades, he has captivated audiences through Scandinavia and Europe with his powerful...

Julie Slick (bass)

Julie Slick began playing bass at eleven years of age. In 1998, at age twelve, she joined the Paul Green School of Rock Music, and soon became the school’s first All-Star bassist. This led to an appearance in the award winning...

Juni Sitaca (piano)

I was born the day my father was born (November 15). When I was young, I didn't know that I was born for music. It was the time when I started to play the piano, I knew there was something for me. But I didn't took that opportunity...

Justin Benz (bass, electric)

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Justin Lewis (multi-instrumentalist)

Has played guitar from mid teens, adding trumpet flute and alto/soprano sax since twenties.

Justin Thyme/Gary Washburn (keyboard)

Gary Washburn(2011) BIOGRAPHY OF GARY WASHBURN Gary Washburn grew up and attended public school in Skiatook, Oklahoma. He was very active in music, taking piano lessons and playing in the school band. However, his original career goal...

Kaartik (guitar)

Kaartik, the phenomenon musician, originally named as Al-Fahmi Kazi Bashar... has worked hard to be the complete musician and now plays several instruments. His principal instrument is Guitar. Though he started learning Tabla at the very...

Kam Falk (bass, electric)

A native of Chicago, Kam began learning music at an early age under the tutelage of his mother, a classical pianist, and the great concert pianist, Erna Salm. In the midst of his piano studies, he was recruited by his...

Keith Owens (guitar)

Freedom Underground was born in 2003, starting primarily as a blues and R&B group. In 2004, the members decided to change their mission to include jazz, fusion, funk, and whatever else happened to sound good. Freedom Underground because...

Keith Waters-Sax (sax, alto)

Keith Waters is a rock guitarist and saxophonist who got his start doing spinouts on Mitt Romney's lawn. Groups have included Dream House and the current Rotten Apples.

Kiko Loureiro (guitar)

It was at 19 years old, after he had studied with master guitarist Mozart Mello, one of Brazil’s leading music educators among others, and had been playing in many bands from São Paulo, that Kiko was invited to become part of the newly...

King Crimson (band/ensemble/orchestra)

"King Crimson is, as always, more a way of doing things. When there is nothing to be done, nothing is done: Crimson disappears. When there is music to be played, Crimson reappears. If all of life were this simple". Robert Fripp King...

Konstantin Ruchadze (guitar)

Konstantin was born in Moscow, into the family of a Soviet-journalist/writer and opera-singer. The head of the Ruchadze family-clan in those days was his grandfather’s brother N. A. Ruchadze, Georgian ministr of State Security and...

Kristian Terzic (keyboard)

Born in Pula, lives in Rovinj. He discovered jazz music at the age of 15 and has been a professional musician since the age of 16. In 1997, together with some fellow musicians, he established a jazz - fusion band "Combinate" with...

Kung Fu

Fusion Music just got cool again! Spawned in November 2009, these guys separately have practiced Kung Fu on their instruments throughout their lives and now join forces for a funk fusion dynamo that leaves brains whirling and feet...

Lefteris Christofis (guitar, electric)

The guitarist Lefteris Christofis (1964) completed his studies in music at the Music Department of the Anglia Polytechnic/University in Cambridge, he collaborated with top rate British musicians giving concerts and he released his first...

Lenny White (drums)

Leonard White III is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever and being one of the forerunners of jazz-rock/funk. White was born in New York City. A self-taught, left- handed drummer on a right-handed kit, he began...

Levon Ichkhanian (guitar)

Contemporary jazz with world beat overtones aptly describes the music of Canadian/Armenian multi-instrumentalist/composer Levon Ichkhanian. A third generation musician and artist of great versatility, Levon is proficient on the fretted and...

Lightsweetcrude (band/ensemble/orchestra)

The ragas of North India are the musical 'fossil fuel' for this cutting edge Toronto-based instrumental project. This ancient fuel has been injected into the modern 'engine' of psychedelic laptop rock, and the group's extended...

Lloyd Lopez (sax, alto)

Biography Of Conspire Little did Lloyd Lopez know when he picked up a set of drumsticks that he had set his destiny. After all, he was just five years old and playing the drums with older brothers Norman and Russell was fun. And even...

Louis de Mieulle (bass, electric)

Born and raised in Paris, France, bassist/composer Louis de Mieulle started his musical education at 7, playing the cello. After switching to the bass guitar, he eventually graduated from the National Conservatory of Paris (classical...

Lucien Nocelli (guitar)

Lucien Nocelli (born April 21, 1965 in Belleville, New Jersey USA)is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He released his first major album December 11, 1986 Open Sky with his jazz fusion trio Lucien Nocelli and the Jazz...

Lukas Loskot (drums)

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Lukather, Steve (guitar)

Versatile musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger Steve Lukather was born in Los Angeles on October 21 in 1957. Before his father bought him a guitar (a simple Kay acoustic) and a copy of Meet the Beatles at the age...

Lyle Mays (keyboard)

Lyle Mays - keyboards Anyone who has seen the Pat Metheny Group in concert knows how the brilliant keyboard artistry of Lyle Mays is integral to their sound. While Mays has made his mark in the jazz idiom, he counts Bartok, Stravinsky,...

Mahavishnu Orchestra (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - progressive jazz/fusion ensemble John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra is considered by many to be the greatest Jazz-fusion group of all time. The group was formed in late 1970-early 1971 by McLaughlin, a...

Marc Wagnon (vibraphone)

Born in Switzerland, Marc studied classical percussion at the Geneva Conservatory and later moved to the United States to study vibraphone and percussion at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Upon moving to New York City, where he...

Marco Iacobini (guitar, electric)

Marco Iacobini: work as an arranger,producer, co-writer and session player are as equally impressive. Marco's co writing and musical arrangements with Cristiano Micalizzi, Stefano Satro, Marco Siniscalco, Roberto Gallinelli, Mario Guarini,...

Marco Oppedisano (guitar, electric)

Marco Oppedisano is an American guitarist, recording artist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. Since 1999, his compositions have utilized multitrack...

Marco Tacchini (bass, electric)

Marco Tacchini and Ocean Band As it is well known, it rarely happens that an Italian Musician is able to arouse interest in other countries. But Jazz Rock bass player Marco Tacchini has succeeded in becoming popular all over the world,...

Marcus Williams (trumpet)

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Maria Wanted (drums)

just ask...

Marianne Hall (bass, electric)

El-bass, gui, key, bandleader f. 45 yrs...

Mario Tomic (guitar, electric)

Mario Tomic is an internationally recognized and award-winning guitarist,composer,songwriter and instrumentalist. Artist play and compose jazz fusion and instrumental progressive rock music for some projects he also...

Marius Amado-Alves (piano)

Composer, computer scientist, linguist from Portugal. Teacher of several subjetcs including music. I teach for a living, I compose for immortality. Number #1 on SoundClick.com charts.

Mark A. Galang (piano)

Sterilium (created 2001) is a solo, home studio recording project of Mark A. Galang, a composer/multi-instrumentalist from the Philippines. Sterilium was created as an avenue for expressing Mark's musical ideas and compositions in a...

Mark Huggett (drums)

Has toured as a drummer extensively in Europe and South Africa. Has also made many TV and radio appearances. Live performance include with Jean Toussiant, Jason Rebello and Annie Whiteheads Quartet and Prince Buster Has produced several...

Mark Lawrence (guitar)

I first started learning to play guitar in 1989, taking classical guitar with Dave King in Cornwall. The Blues was really my first love - Elmore James, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Clapton took me somewhere I'd never heard...

Markus Reuter (various)

Markus Reuter is a producer, musician, composer & sound designer.

Born in 1972, Markus initially trained as a pianist before switching to guitar in the...

Marnix Busstra (guitar)

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Massimo DeAngelis (drums)

Massimo is a completely self-taught drummer and composer who plays and writes in various styles and genres across the musical spectrum, favoring high-energy instrumental jazz fusion. Born and raised in "The Eternal City" - Rome, Italy,...

Matt Roberts (guitar, electric)

Using Jazz as a center point of focus, the MATT ROBERTS GROUP brings together a wide variety of sounds. You'll hear everything from ECM contemporary jazz and Brazilian fusion to pop! The vibe of the group is reminiscent of artists such as...

Matt Stevens (guitar)

Matt Stevens is a musician and composer from North London. An instrumental artist, he uses an acoustic guitar and a sampler to create multi layered tracks live. This is often called Live Looping. His music is compared with artists...

Matt Varela (drums)

I play drums

Mattguitrplaya (guitar, electric)

I don't know what to write!

Matthew Charles Heulitt (guitar)

Guitarist and composer Matthew Charles Heulitt wields an uncanny ability to bridge the worlds of jazz, contemporary pop, and original music into a tapestry of soulful music. His lines on the guitar draw a constant sense of unfolding and...

Matthew Von Doran (guitar)

After 20 years of gradually building his rep as a reliable and versatile sideman on the Orange County, California circuit, guitarist Matthew Von Doran is finally stepping out as a leader in his own right with In This Present...

Mauro Justiniani (drums)

I'm part of a band of young musicians that become in one of most important bands of jazz in Panama. Soy parte de un banda de jovenes musicos que se convertira en una de las mas importante bandas de jazz en Panama.

Mauro Voconi (bass, electric)

Italian musician born in Abruzzo in 1959. His career started at the age of 14 as autodidact. At 18 he began studying Bass with his very first Fender Jazz Bass Vintage CAR and attended a Stage, as well as Courses and Seminaries, Jam and...

Michael Berkowitz (bass, electric)

Mike Berkowitz is a music teacher of guitar and electric bass in the Fresno area and has been teaching since his graduation from Berklee College of Music in 1980. He grew up in Poughkeepsie New York. Mike majored in performance and the...

Michael Eber (guitar)

After forming Zevious in 2006 as a straight ahead jazz trio, guitarist Mike Eber, drummer Jeff Eber, and bassist John DeBlase immediately broke free of the bonds of tradition. Zevious began combining progressive rock grooves, tech metal,...

Michael Lee Firkins (guitar)

Michael Lee Firkins was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1967. Born to musician parents, his father was a lap steel guitarist and his mother a pianist, he started playing acoustic guitar at the young age of eight. Mostly self taught, he also...

Michael Sokolowski (keyboard)

Michael has been performing and composing music for over 40 years (classical piano and violin throughout childhood and music composition studies with avant-gardist Robert Stewart in college). A former philosophy graduate student, he...

Michal Urbaniak (violin)

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Mick Karn (bass)

Mick Karn first studied wood and wind instruments such as bassoon and clarinet. However, it is his highly distinctive fretless bass voice for which he is most renowned, an accolade placing him next to Jaco Pastorius. According to Karn,...

Miguel Megre (programming)

Free Composer

Mike Brannon (guitar)

Mike Brannon is guitarist/writer for the Synergy Group. Their latest release is Later, with special guests, Bill Evans, Harvie S and 7-time Grammy winner, Paul Wertico was released in Spring 2006 on the Nextep label....

Mike Prigodich (piano)

Mike's jazz fusion compositions have begun attracting attention from many well-known national artists. Becoming a cancer patient in 2008 was the big wake-up call that got him to start writing lots of new music, form a band, start...

Mike Starr (bass, electric)

Michael Christopher Starr born in Honolulu, Hawaii was best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993. In the mid 1980s Jerry Cantrell began a band called Diamond...

Mike Stern (guitar)

One of the premier guitarists of his generation, the three-time Grammy nominee was born on January 10, 1953 in Boston. After growing up in Washington D.C., he returned to Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music and got his start as...

Mikhail Bukhrov (bass, electric)

Back in da Music))

Mikhal Caldwell (guitar, electric)

Detroit native Mikhal Caldwell, multi award winning musician/composer, has been an important figure in the wave of progressive music for over 20 years, and has been voted in the top 100 guitarists of the world multiple...

Miroslav Vitous (bass)

Miroslav Vitous played music with his brother Alan and Jan Hammer while attending the Prague Conservatory, and played in a Dixieland band with trumpeter/singer Jiri Jerinek. Winning first prize in an international music competition in...

Mitch Mitchell (drums)

As the drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell was one of the greatest and most influential rock drummers of the 1960s. Mitchell's style was a blend of the abandon of someone like Keith Moon, with the jazz complexity of an...

Monnette Sudler (guitar)

MONNETTE SUDLER'S earlier recordings on the Danish based jazz record company, Steeplechase Records, showcases Monnette as a dynamite guitarist, writer, composer, and arranger accompanied by bassist Tyrone Brown and vibraphonist Kahn Jamal...

Muruga Booker (drums)

Muruga Booker, also known as Steve Booker, Maruga, and Muruga is an American born, drummer and artist of Serbian decent. Muruga and his wife Shakti, son Aaron, and daughter Rani have lived a drummer's journey. He was born Steven...

Mysteries Of The Revolution (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Formed out of the rhythmic core of his famed Red Orchidstra (whose version of the theme from the seminal '71 Brit gangster movie Get Carter is acknowledged as a groove classic) BB DAVIS' MYSTERIES OF THE REVOLUTION is a...

Nanny Assis (percussion)

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Nashvillerocker® (guitar)

Chris "Nashvillerocker®" DiMella was raised in Miami, Florida. He started playing guitar as a young boy in the 3rd grade. Chris took lessons at local music stores, then played in rock bands and did sessions through out Rockway Jr....

Natasha Shneider (keyboard)

Natasha Shneider’s voice is sultry and hypnotic and her keyboard mastery is represented in her electric piano, organ and Moog bass playing. Alain Johannes’ guitar playing is emotive and textural with a virtuoso’s flair for subtlety....

Neil Sadler (composer/conductor/leader)

Neil Sadler - English-born composer, percussionist/keyboardist's album titled "THEORY OF FORMS" on the BleedingARTs label. Sadler's dark percussion and edgy, jazz/rock compositions create agressive soundscapes featuring guitarist...

Nelson Montana (bass, electric)

Nelson Montana is a multi instrumentalist and composer who performs and records in several genres.

Nenad Gajin (guitar)

Nenad Gajin got his first big break in his early 20s playing in the premier Serbian Director, Emir Kusturica, touring band, No Smoking Orchestra. After working and collaborating with several musicians and even acting in a documentary...

Nguyen Le (guitar)

Born in Paris from vietnamese parents, he began to play drums at the age of 15, then took up guitar & electric bass. After graduating in Visual Arts, he majored in Philosophy, writing a thesis on Exoticism. Then he devoted to...

Nichelodeon (vocal)

A workshop devoted to artisan sound and vision performance, Nichelodeon was born from a nucleus of compositions written around 1997 by the singer and composer, Claudio Milano. His compositions have been presented in Europe and in countries...

Nick Andrew (guitar, electric)

Nick is a remarkably accomplished guitarist whose range encompasses the full spectrum from flamenco and classical to jazz and rock and is not only a dazzling soloist but also an intuitive and creative rhythm player. His playing style is...

Nik Turner (saxophone)

Nik Turner is perhaps best known as the founding saxophone and flute player for pioneering "space rock" band Hawkwind. As well as contributing to the profound influence that this band has had on rock and punk with its focus on community...

Nob Kinukawa (bass, electric)

Born and raised in the land of the rising sun, a Japan native bassist, Nob Kinukawa, first came to the United States in 1986 to attend the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Receiving...

NoName Trio (piano)

NoName Trio fuses a concoction of jazz, traditional Iranian music and other influences to produce new compositions and fresh takes on classic jazz covers. The Trio was formed in 2009 out of a friendship between Ceri Evans, MOBO...

Norman Goodman (guitar, electric)

University educated musician who has toured with a variety of artists.

Okan Ersan (guitar, electric)

Born in 1972 on the Northern part of Cyprus, Okan Ersan had the distinctive opportunity to be influenced by the melodies of the east ethnic beats and roots of the oriental Mediterranean. Following his BA degree in classical music, Okan...

Omar Pazols B. (drums)

Born in Santiago Chili in 1956. started studies of percussion in the Music Conservatory of the University of Chile. It integrated the groups "Largo Camino", "Millant�n" and "Luna llena", with the ones that carried out numerous actions and...

Paolo Ricca (piano)

Paolo Ricca Born in 1963 in Turin, Italy, Paolo began studying classical piano at an early age. He continued his studies, and as a young man, expanded into the realm of jazz Performance and composition at the noted Centro Professione...

Patrice Rushen (keyboard)

Patrice Rushen has broken a lot of barriers in the music business: she's the first woman to be musical director for a major awards show (the Emmys), was musical director for a Janet Jackson world tour, produced movie soundtracks and has...

Patricio Cid (guitar)

Nacido en Talcahuano, recorre Chile mostrando su trabajo musical

Patrick R. Brown (guitar, electric)

Self employed musician, recordist. Home studio. Play most strings except cello. Like many genres: World, Indian(northern and carnatic), jazz, fusion, some rock, good acousitc. Play keys some,,love synths, play fiddle,,,Old Time, Celtic,...

Paul Marangoni (drums)

Paul Marangoni began drumming at the age of 13. Primarily self-taught, he was lucky enough to study privately with some very talented individuals: David Kent (Toronto Symphony Orchestra), Paul DeLong (David Bendeth, Kim Mitchell, The...

Paul Peress (drums)

Latin jazz collaborations: Arturo O'Farrill, Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Michael Mossman, Gabriela Anders, Candido, David Amram, Claudette Sierra, Edsel Gomez, Oriente Lopez, Ruben Rodriguez, Armando Gola, John Benitez... Adult...

Pekka Pohjola (bass)

Jussi Pekka Pohjola was a Finnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Best known as a bass player, Pohjola was also a classically trained pianist and violinist. Originally Pohjola rose to fame as the bass player of the Finnish...

Pertti "Peppe" Jalava (drums)

Pertti Jalava (b. 1960 in Turku , Finland ) has composed numerous works for various chamber ensembles and orchestra, among them three symphonies and a piano concerto. He has also written a considerable volume of music for jazz line-ups and...

Pertti Jalava (drums)

Pertti Jalava (b. 1960 in Turku , Finland ) has composed numerous works for various chamber ensembles and orchestra, among them three symphonies and a piano concerto. He has also written a considerable volume of music for jazz line-ups and...

Pete Cosey (guitar)

Pete Cosey is a guitarist most famous for playing with Miles Davis' band between 1973 and 1975. His fiercely flanged and distorted guitar bore comparisons to Jimi Hendrix. Cosey has kept a low profile for much of his career (he has...

Pete Downes (guitar)

PD3 The Pete Downes Trio Biography by Gordon Moore Pete Downes is one of those incredible talents that only surfaces once in a blue moon. Completely self taught, he is rapidly becoming one of Europe's leading guitarists in the modern...

Peter Cuskey (guitar)

Active guitarist since early sixtys, played all generes at one time or another and has always felt there are only two types of music good and bad. have settled into more of a jazz grove in my latter years and enjoy interpeting all the...

Peter Fairclough (drums)

Since graduating from the City of Leeds College of Music with Distinction in Drums and Percussion, Peter Fairclough has performed and/or recorded with Keith Tippett, Paul Dunmall, Ute Lemper, Huw Warren, Peter Whyman, Steve Berry, John...

Peter Fernandes (trumpet)

Peter Fernandes is a trumpet player and producer from Southeastern Massachusetts. In high school, Peter played in bands both in and out out of school and found a passion for music that eventually led him to jazz, rock, Latin music, and...

Peter Gregory (drums)

Peter is an accomplished professional with nearly four decades’ experience holding down the beat in jazz, rock, R&B and fusion bands. His impeccable timing and feel have earned him accolades in the studio and on the stage. Having...

Peter Kaszas (drums)

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Peter Kienle (guitar)

Born July 23rd 1960 in Metzingen, Germany. Playing guitar since age 13. Two semesters of Jazz School Munich. Founded the band BeebleBrox in 1983 in Albstadt, Germany. Extensive studio work as musician, engineer and...

Peter White (guitar)

Growing up in the sleepy little English town of Letchworth Garden City in the 1960s, I first got interested in music while listening to the Beatles on the radio. My parents bought me an acoustic guitar when I was about 8 and I taught...

Phil Cavalieri (guitar, electric)

Born in 1974, Filippo “Phil” Cavalieri grew up in an era where jazz-rock was at it's peak. His formative musical years took place in Ferrara (Italy) where he played in the clubs with all kinds of bands playing everything from...

Philip de Carlo, Jr (guitar)

Musically speaking; I studied jazz guitar for many years and was fortunate to find a great NJ teacher/guitarist named Harry Leahey who studied with Dennis Sandoli from Philly and taught in the same style. I enjoy playing (and writing) jazz...

Philipp Koltsov (piano)

Philipp Koltsov (synthesizers, piano) - russian pianist & composer, the graduate of the Moscow conservatory, the winner of the international awards, composer of many Russian state ensembles such as "Beriozka" President's of Russia state...

Phillip Lomax Lackey (bass, electric)

Background: Phillip Lackey grew up in a rich musical enviroment. His Mother and Grandmother both played the organ and the piano in a Pentecostal church. His older brother and his cousins played a lot of music so he had exposure to Oscar...

Pink Floyd (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Pink Floyd formed in 1964 from earlier bands whose names included Sigma 6, T-Set, Megadeaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs, and The Abdabs. The band was again renamed The Pink Floyd Sound and then simply The Pink Floyd...

Planeta Imaginario (band/ensemble/orchestra)

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Pop Adrian Mihai (piano)

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R. A. Fish (drums)

R. A Fish started playing drums in 1961 for his Jr. High concert band. By High School he was performing on drumset for his H. S. Jazz Band as well as Drum Captain of his HS Marching Band. He has jammed with Bob Marley, Chet Baker, and...

Randall Hetlage (guitar)

first ,a thing called plurals, A7,C#-7flat 5,E-69,and GMAJ7flat5--are all plural. They can be looked at as coming from D Major, but should be looked at a little more closely. A7 (especially sus4) takes Mixolydian Of course.C#-7flat5,...

Ranjit Barot (drums)

As technology and mass-media continue to shrink the globe, allowing once-disparate traditions to intermingle instantaneously, musicians are given unprecedented access to a range of influences unthinkable mere decades ago. Forging an...

Rare Blend (various)

For over 15 years, Rare Blend’s music resonates with purists as well as those who embrace a progressive multi-genre approach to original instrumental music. Pulling from a variety of influences and musical styles, Rare Blend has gained...

Ray Ferretti (guitar, electric)

Ray Ferretti started playing guitar in his early teens and was first drawn to music by the 70’s rock bands. Moving on to rhythm and blues and funk he started to gravitate toward jazz via Joe Pass. After hearing Wayne Shorter and Tribal...

Ray Riendeau (bass, electric)

Ray Riendeau is a highly sought after bassist whose versatile style and dedication to the instrument has earned him world tours and many major CD recording projects. His musical expertise and knowledge of the instrument keeps him busy as a...

Ray Russell (guitar, electric)

Ray Russell is one of the UK's best and most innovative jazz and jazz fusion guitarists and is also a music producer, composer and session musician. His TV compositions have included A Touch of Frost, Bergerac, Plain Jane and A Bit Of A...

Red Redmond (bass, electric)

"Smooth grooves punctuated with deep trance and jazz fusion textures" is how Red's bass style has been described. With a mind for always playing complimentary textures and accents, Red has taken his 25 years of live and studio experience...

Redrick Sultan

Out of the sub-urbs of Vancouver, BC comes a band whose collective hair once totaled 16 feet. Spoon fed metal as a babe, raised on classic/progressive rock, and schooled in jazz, Redrick Sultan promises to bring a diverse mix of sounds to...

Reinhardt martinho (various)

Hello , i,m Reinhardt ( No, not the Django ) A new breed in the jazz-fusion world . Old styles , new sounds , mixed and shaked well . A little of this , a few of that . The result is a flavour of textures and styles Just listen and you'll...

Rented Mule (various)

Rented Mule is a high energy jazz-rock band with players hailing from Phila. and New York. A group of seasoned jazz players, (who haved performed with Rashid Ali, Sun Ra, David Amram, Billy Bang and Badal Roy,) have come together to create...

Return to Forever (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Miles Davis' electric bands in the late ‘60s (featured on such classic albums as In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew) served as the incubator for several pioneering jazz fusion bands, including Tony Williams’ Lifetime, Herbie Hancock’s...

Ric Fierabracci (bass)

Bassist Ric Fierabracci has performed, recorded and run the gamut for artists like Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl, Bill Evans, Frank Gambale, Tom Coster, Andy Summers (with Sting as a special guest) to Pop artists like Jennifer...

Richard Bailey (drums)

Guyanese-born Richard Bailey started his drumming career in Trinidad at the age of nine, sitting in on percussion, drums and even bass guitar with his elder brother Robert's ( Robert Bailey, keyboard -OSIBISA) group, the top band in...

Richard Martel (guitar, electric)

Guitarist Richard Martel has re-released his debut CD of contemporary jazz entitled Opening Doors on World Alert Records. Richard is an experienced session guitarist and music teacher who has worked with musical notables like...

Rick Drumm (drums)

Rick Drumm is president of D’Addario & Company, manufacturer of D’Addario guitar, bass and violin strings, Evans Drumheads, Pro-Mark Drumsticks, Rico Reeds, Puresound percussion products and Planet Waves accessories, and has spent his...

Rick Lazaroff (bass, electric)

The Beginning Rick Lazaroff began playing professionally when he was 14 years old. His first professional band was called The Snakes, a blues band that featured keyboard whiz Fred Mandel, who later went on to perform and record with Elton...

Rick Richbourg (guitar)

Biography (March 2003) Richbourg, Rick (Richard P.), guitarist, jazz composer; b. Pensacola, FL, April 12, 1955. Rick is married to Jeanne Varley Richbourg and now resides in Orlando FL, the rest of his family still lives in Pensacola....

Robert Denton (guitar, electric)

I am a self taught guitarist. I was raised in the South in the 60s and got my first cheap old guitar from my brother Jim. I learned to play by listening to my brother's records. I would listen for hours to the Beatles, Hendrix, Clapton,...

Robert Irving III (keyboard)

There is a distinguished lineage of post-bop pianists who collaborated with the legendary Miles Davis: Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul. Add to that list of superb artists Robert Irving III, who...

Robert Miller (bass, electric)

Robert Miller plays electric bass and composes. Robert has two CDs as a leader: "Child's Play (Wildcat Records - 1994) and "Prisoners of Love” (32 Records - 1996). Robert's new group is called PROJECT GRAND SLAM. The band also features...

Roberto Badoglio (bass, electric)

Roberto Badoglio, is a young (born 1984) yet very skilled bassist as well as an awesome composer. With a combination of creative and advanced approach to grooving, striking harmonic sense, phenomenal technique, and a strong...

Roberto Cepeda M. (guitar)

Born in Chile, with studies of classic guitar, high experience with finger style in steel chord, original composer in jazz-rock and classic fusion.

Rodney Franklin (keyboard)

Rodney Franklin was something of a child prodigy while growing up in his hometown of Berkeley, Ca. taking piano lessons at the age of 6 at the Washington Elementary School. Upon graduation he worked extensively with John Handy in San...

Roger Quesnell (piano)

Originally from the midwest plains of North Dakota , now settled in the Northwest. Produced 4 CDs , toured with many great known and unknown artists. Played keyboards on many albums in the Northwest, and winner of numerous awards.

Roland Czili (guitar)

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Roman Miroshnichenko (guitar)

Roman Miroshnichenko is one of the most prominent virtuosos in the contemporary instrumental jazz-fusion field of Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. WInner of the "9th Annual Independent Music Awards(USA). Was nominated for and won both...

Ronnie Laws (saxophone)

The younger brother of Hubert Laws, Ronnie Laws has a nice soulful sound on tenor, but has never seriously pursued playing jazz. Throughout his career, which includes early-'70s gigs with Quincy Jones, his brother, Ramsey Lewis, and Earth,...

Roswitha aka Rose Bartu (violin)

“I’m very vulnerable on this album,” says violinist, producer, and singer-songwriter Roswitha. “I want to create a shift from negative to empowering messages and inspire people to live their dreams because I know how much strength...

Rough Ramblers (guitar)

SIMON GOLDING: Simon trained at Berklee in Boston at the beginning of the 90s, came back and played jazz, funk, fusion and not forgetting a whole lot of rock! Simon has been influenced by 70s rock, jazz and fusion artists especially Wayne...

Rui Luis Oliveira Pires (guitar, electric)

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Ruslan Moiseev (drums)

I am musical college graduate and have got both longtime studios practicing as a drummer, composer, arranger, and also onstage experience at professional level. I have authored 5 albums of songs and instrumentals in style of contemporary...

Russell Ferrante (keyboard)

Well known as the keyboardist for the group Yellowjackets, RussellFerrante was born in San Jose, California in 1952,and began studying piano at the age of 9 years old. His early musical experiences revolved around the church where his...

Ryan Shah (drums)

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Ryan Wilson (saxophone)

Ryan Wilson's sound is a jazz saxophone player that has the sound of all his predecessors like John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and Bob Mintzer to name a few. Ryan was born and raised in the...

Sakis Zachariades (guitar, electric)

Sakis Zachariades is one of the current Jazz-fusion guitarists in Greece. He is a masterful jazz improviser whose music generally falls somewhere between rock, fusion, and modern jazz. He started on guitar while at high school in...

Salim Ghazi Saeedi (guitar)

"Rich with Persian rhythms and brooding rock-Shostakovitch shadows" -Human Encounter Review, JazzWax, Marc Myer, Jan 2012 Salim Ghazi Saeedi was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. Despite the inactive rock scene in Iran, he decided to...

Sandy Asirvatham (various)

A 1994 graduate of Columbia University's MFA in fiction writing and a former columnist for Baltimore CityPaper, Sandy was supposed to be working on a novel when she instead got sidetracked by music. Strictly an amateur, music-reading...

Saskia Laroo (trumpet)

Saskia Laroo, hailed by American public and press at large as "Lady Miles of Europe", is one of the few women trumpet stylists, blowing for more than three decades. Born July 31, 1959 in Amsterdam, she began on trumpet at age 8, never...

Scott Jones (guitar)

I'm really fortunate...music (playing, writing, recording, arranging) is all I do for a living... My instrument is guitar, but I compose at the keyboard, play drums and bass (started as a drummer)......and arrange professionally for just...

Sebastien Charlier (harmonica)

1991-2000 PAUL BEUSCHER's MUISC SCHOOL : teacher of harmonica, banjo and modern harmony
1997-2001 YAMAHA MUSIC France : musicien, demonstrator of wind controler MIDI WX5 (electronic sax)
Since 2002 Participant to the...

Sharp Three (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Sharp Three is a fresh new blend of the Oriental and the Western. Main sources of the music are jazz, rock, Balkan rhythms, and Western classical music; however the underlying inspiration of the music comes from soundscapes and reflections...

Shueh-li Ong (synthesizer)

synthesizer performance, theremin, tin whistle, voice, studio production. Shueh-li is best known for the way she melds electronic-pop-rock-jazz, her fav sci-fi instrument (the theremin) with synths, tin-whistle, piano, guqin & sound...

Slav de Hren (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Slav de Hren is a rare mix of two musical personalities - a prominent underground avant-garde guitar player and a sophisticated soft-jazz and rock drummer. The music combines the sharp guitar edge with the pulsating percussion in a cold,...

Soft Machine (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Soft Machine was formed in 1966 by Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers and Daevid Allen. Wyatt had already worked with Allen in the Daevid Allen Trio (which Ratledge occasionally jammed with) in 1963, and with Ayers in the Wilde...

Solar Fire Trio (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Ray Dickaty - tenor sax Ray's musical career has included playing with:- Spiritualized - 5 years, 3 albums & several world tours, Dr. John - played sax & flute and wrote horn arrangements on "Anutha Zone", Moonshake - 2 albums with...

Special Providence (band/ensemble/orchestra)

One of the most specific and powerful band in and around Hungary. The band formed in 2004 from long time friends and musicians of Kobánya Music Studio and Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest. The members of the band play in many well...

Spyn Reset (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Spyn Reset is a fresh and unique instrumental band from Seattle, Washington. When six unique musicians are put together, the sounds are definitely ahead of their time. Not only do they have many variation of tastes but succeeded to...

Stanley Clarke (bass)

Bassist Stanley Clarke was barely out of his teens when he exploded into the jazz world in 1971. Fresh out of the Philadelphia Academy of Music, he arrived in New York City and immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as...

Stanley Jordan (guitar, electric)

One way to attack the daunting task of describing Stanley Jordan is to think of him as a world class guitarist who marches in all aspects of his life to the beat of his own drummer. Never one to be locked into constraints...

Steely Dan (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Steely Dan has been more of a conceptual framework for inventive music-making than a typical rock band. Spearheaded by a pair of resourceful musical auteurs Donald Fagen and Walter Becker - they have done nothing by the books since...

Steve Howe (guitar, electric)

For nearly 35 years, Steve Howe has been at the forefront of guitarists in popular music. Actually, simply referring to Howe as a just a guitarist is limiting. In addition to being a songwriter, he plays more instruments than just the...

Steve Lukather (guitar)

Versatile musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger Steve Lukather was born in Los Angeles on October 21 in 1957. Before his father bought him a guitar (a simple Kay acoustic) and a copy of Meet the Beatles at...

Steve Marcus (sax, tenor)

Steve Marcus, a jazz saxophonist who was an early exponent of the style that came to be known as fusion. A graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Marcus, who played tenor and soprano saxophones, had worked with Stan Kenton,...

Steve Roth (guitar)

studied piano from 1959 till 1963, then switched to guitar & bass played with: pop groups - Manic Depression, Flood, Stratton-Nelson Band, Earl Jam, William-Lewis Group, Flatlanders, Blast From the Past, Fifth Dimension, Cliff Badgers,...

Steve Smith (drums)

Steve Smith was originally drawn to the drums by hearing marching bands in parades as a child in his native Massachusetts. At age nine, in 1963, Smith began studying the instrument in earnest with local Boston area teacher Bill Flanagan,...

Steven A. Branson (sax, soprano)

see www.bitchesbrewband.com AND www.sab-esq.com thank you

Steven Wilson (composer/conductor/leader)

One of the most eclectic and prolific artists in rock music, Steven Wilson has been writing, recording, and producing music continuously since the age of 10. A native of Hemel Hempstead in England, Wilson was first exposed to music at the...

Stormvogel (composer/conductor/leader)

Dutch adventurous keyboardist / composer / bandleader Stormvogel (*1968, Baarn) is mainly active in the field of modern electroacoustic jazz, worldfusion and (progressive) jazzrock. Besides his own groups Alter Ego Jazzbarock Consort,...

Stuart Watson (bass, electric)

Stuart Watson is a bassist from New Haven.

Studio Pagol (keyboard)

Have you already seen a band with as well a virtuoso from Bangladesh, a Castafiora from Tanger, a percussionist from Haiti, a V-Jay from Vietnam, a diva Belgian-Moroccan, an Ethiopian singer of which her Madagascan ancestors are...

Subfive

subfive was formed in the spring of 1999 and has since toured extensively throughout Scandinavia, continental Europe and Japan. The bands debut-CD, "City of dreams" was released in 2003 and has recieved worldwide acclaim among critics and...

Susan Weinert (guitar)

When Mike Mainieri, the musical brains of New York band Steps Ahead, heard Susan Weinert on the guitar for the first time, he found it very hard to believe that a woman could play so powerfully and spontaneously hired her for a tour with...

T2k

Friends and bandmates for years, KevG and StKevin began jamming out Wednesday evening "lab experiments" in StKevin's Connecticut basement to hone their skills and explore new territory on a newly purchased Warr Guitar and Roland...

Tal Wilkenfeld (bass)

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Tamandua

Tamandua is the newest prog-influenced instrumental trio to come out of the Boston scene. Labels are hardly accurate, but the band plays a sort of progressive/avant-garde jazz-rock that is often influenced by various Eastern (Indian, East...

Tassos Spiliotopoulos (guitar)

Originally from Greece, Tassos Spiliotopoulos moved to London in 2000 and has studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Mmus) and Trinity College of Music (Bmus, Hons). During that time Tassos also attended seminars at the School...

tatiana carolina Reif Jacobsz (violin)

I�'m playing the violin about 15 years, i�'m playing in two bands right now, da capo and itzaes. I love jazz and some of my favourite artists are: Marcus Miller, Gino Vannelli, Screaming Headless Torsos, Tom Custer, Tower of Power, George...

Terry Bozzio (drums)

Terry John Bozzio is widely regarded as being one of the finest drummers of the modern era. Having made his name recording and touring with Frank Zappa (most notably in the concert movie Baby Snakes), Terry later went on to form Missing...

The Beaty Brothers Band (band/ensemble/orchestra)

The Beaty Brothers Band is something that has grown out over years of friendships and experiences that can't be described in words. After arriving in New York City in August 2001 The Beaty Brothers (Twins John and Joe originally from...

The Bernd Brothers (guitar)

Mike Varney: Guitar Player Magazine Says," An extremely versatile musician, Steve plays in a variety of styles, and displays an excellent vocabulary of Hot licks in his material that ranges from Fusion to Funk and Rock, with many intricate...

The Coalition (band/ensemble/orchestra)

NYC supergroup The Coalition is Scott Healy-keys, Glenn Alexander-Guitar, Michael Merritt-bass and Shawn Pelton-drums and electronica.

The Kode

The Kode is the only Video Game instrumental group in America that meticulously covers Nintendo and Sega game songs in their original tempos. Arrangements and harmonies are carefully kept intact, accurately detailing every nuance. The Kode...

The Mahavishnu Project (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Back in 1971, when guitar-god John McLaughlin left Miles Davis and (Tony William’s Lifetime) to form the groundbreaking Mahavishnu Orchestra, he was the first to combine the fire of Hendrix-drenched rock with the groove of Coltrane’s...

TheRhythmIsOdd (band/ensemble/orchestra)

therhythmisodd play progressive music filled with energy. The base line for this project is Bjorn Egelius: Bass player and also therhythmisodd groove inventor Leif Fredriksson: a Swedish drum legend with more then 30 years of...

Three-Fifths Compromise (band/ensemble/orchestra)

"...such a unique sound and pure energy...this group is well on its way to great things."
- The Jazz Society of Oregon

"The five musicians are all top-notch players who blend styles in exciting and forward-thinking...

Tiffany Apan (vocal)

Tiffany Apan is a vocalist/songwriter born in the Wilkes-Barre, PA area. She began formal classical vocal training at age 12 and appeared in numerous musical theatre and operatic productions throughout the years including the portraying...

Tim Linthicum (drums)

I have been blessed to have the opportunity to play many styles of music through the years. As far as study, I began playing the drums at the age of 8, in Portland, Maine with the Yankee Brigade, Jr. Drum and Bugle Corp. At the age of 10,...

Todd Mosby (guitar)

Todd Ferris Mosby - Indian & Jazz Guitar Virtuoso Composer/Guitarist/Educator Todd Ferris Mosby is a world class North Indian Guitar and Western Jazz Guitar virtuoso and composer combining searing Jazz Rock with North...

Tom Gullion (sax, tenor)

Saxophonist Tom Gullion brings a deep, soulful performance style, a sophisticated avant-garde sensibility, and a quicksilver technique. Now, at the peak of his musical maturity, he is launching several new projects: a solo CD Catharsis,...

Tony Levin (bass, electric)

Tony Levin was born in Boston on June 6, 1946. He grew up in the suburb of Brookline and began playing upright bass at 10 yrs old. In high school, he picked up tuba, soloing with the concert band. He also started a barbershop quartet. But...

Tony Levin / David Torn / Alan White (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Levin Torn White is sure to be appreciated by fans of King Crimson, David Torn’s wild guitar work and classic Yes. The album, one year in the making, was recorded in Seattle, WA, Woodstock, NY & New Plymouth, New Zealand, and...

Tony Pence (drums)

Born in the metropolitan Atlanta area in June 1977, Tony's drive and passion of the percussive arts was acknowledged early by his mother and father, as he began playing drums at the age of five. Tony was self-taught until he reached the...

Trevor Rabin (guitar)

Trevor Rabin has earned a worldwide reputation for his innovative work as a musician and composer. Born in 1954 in Johannesburg, he is the son of a prominent lawyer Godfrey Rabin, who was also a highly respected violinist. Godfrey...

Trey Gunn (guitar)

In addition to his seven solo recordings, ten-string touch-guitarist, Trey Gunn has toured and recorded with King Crimson, David Sylvian, Vernon Reid, Brian Eno, Azam Ali, John Paul Jones,...

trio.Schmetterling (guitar)

Based upon a jam session in 2007, influenced by all currents of modern music, avant-garde and jazz, the trio consisting of Jan Roth, Keisuke Matsuno and Alexander Binder plays innovative instrumental music which, in spite of the...

Tuner (band/ensemble/orchestra)

TUNER was founded by Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto in April 2005.

Turning Point (band/ensemble/orchestra)

When the combustible four-man force of musical nature known as Turning Point took over the Phoenix club scene in the mid-90s, the desert city's nights truly became as steamy as its days. Establishing itself before packed houses at hotspots...

Ty Showers (keyboard)

Jazz pianist and guitarist inspired by Jean Luc Ponty and Chick Corea adds his own soulful sound to the Jazz, Jazz/Rock genre mixing R&B and Intense Jazz. Ty’s personal vault contains enough music to distribute a new release...

Ukz (band/ensemble/orchestra)

It may be a fitting instance of fortuity that the initials of Aaron, Trey, Eddie, Alex, and Marco happen to spell A-TEAM… because, as rock virtuosos, that's exactly what they are: an A-team of "musicians' musicians," and a likely 2008...

Ulrich Ellison (guitar)

Austrian born Ulrich Ellison grew up in the 80’s listening to the music of artists Mike Oldfield, Peter Gabriel or The Police, but his parents’ LP collection also featured Django Reinhard, T-Bone Walker, SRV, Miles Davis and other jazz...

Ultraviolet Hippopotamus

In an era which seems like everything has been done before, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus has carved themselves a niche sound of its own with genuinely heartfelt lyrics coupled with compelling composition and explosive instrumentation. The...

Umphrey's McGee (band/ensemble/orchestra)

A six-piece progressive rock band from Chicago, IL, Umphrey's McGee has built a rabid fanbase through endless touring that puts them on the road 120+ nights a year. Their constantly evolving sound channels a wide spectrum of influences,...

Vernon Reid (guitar)

Guitarist Vernon Reid is best known as the founder of the groundbreaking African-American rock group Living Colour. But to recognize Reid solely for his Grammy Award-winning work as a rock musician would be to miss a rich and varied body...

Vidroha Jamie St. Clair (guitar)

In 1979, abandoning a promising career in acting, Jamie traveled to India to embark on an exploration of meditation and personal growth. He lived in India for 12 years and began developing his own unique guitar style and melodic...

Vince Tampio (trumpet)

Vince Tampio is a multifaceted musician primarily working as performer and composer/arranger in the Hudson Valley Region and Capital District of New York State and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His primary instrument for the past 14 years is...

Vladimir Vysotsky (keyboard)

Vladimir Vysotski (b. 1982) is a pianist, composer, songwriter and producer. He studied classical and jazz piano at Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Received the Nokia Young Talent Award...

Vlatko Stefanovski (guitar)

Born in Prilep in 1957, he started playing guitar at the age of 13. Stefanovski was one of the founding members of Leb i sol with whom he recorded 13 albums between 1978 and 1991. He currently splits his time playing with his VS...

Von Babasin (bass, electric)

Playing bass since I was 17 yrs. old, my first true passion was music, being raised by one of the greatest jazz bassist/producers in history, Harry Babasin. After performing in countless cover bands, I started my first original project in...

Wayward Monks (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Wayward Monks cook up a cauldron of original jazz fusion and progressive rock with odd-meters, improvization, and strong melodies-- fiery and passionate sometimes, spacy and cerebral other times. WINNER OF HONOR AWARD for their...

Weather Report (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Weather Report - Progressive jazz/fusion ensemble Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and 1980s. Along with Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters,it is seen as a definite...

Whitman Rinaldo (guitar, electric)

Whitman Rinaldo is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist who has been in many bands, from jazz to rock. He owes his style to the Beatles, Sting, Allman Brothers and Bob Marley. He has developed from rock, to progressive to jazz & world...

Will Minting (keyboard)

Following in the footsteps of his Grandfather, big band leader Billy Minting (Sax, Clarinet), and rock'n'roll father Mike Minting (guitar), Will Minting (keyboards, guitar, vocals) studied piano from age 6, before becoming a Cathedral...

William Hartzell (guitar)

I began playing saxophone at age 11, and added guitar a few years later. From 1984 to 1988, I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. At Berklee, guitar became my principal instrument. I majored in Commercial...

Wyatt Moss-Wellington (guitar)

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is a progressive folk musician, an idiosyncratic vocalist and guitarist, a composer of humanistic narratives in songform and a swell bloke. He currently provides mandolin and vocal services to bombastic Sydney...

Wynne Alexander (piano)

She’s played for Pearl S. Buck of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize fame and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. It's Jazzed. It's Blues. The Cabaret crowd is very pleased. Cosmopolitan Rock will do but why quibble. Just let her play. Rock legend...

Xenovibes

Xenovibes [XV] is a name known in the international electronic pop and progressive music worlds, and synonymous with the faces of its creator, Shueh-li Ong and XV partner John Anthony Martinez. XV aka [foreign + expressions] began in...

Yiorgos Fakanas (bass, electric)

In 1980 he participated in the historic recording of Manos Hadjidakis’(composer of the Oscar- winning score for the famous film “Never on Sunday”) “Lilipoupolis”, and since then has taken part in numerous recordings by other...

Yoseph "Joe" Levy (drums)

Yoseph "Joe" Levy: Drums; Percussion Yoseph "Joe" Levy is a Jazz Fusion drummer originally from Gibraltar, currently living in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Though he has a special love & affinity for Fused Jazz: Rock; Latin: Funk & more,...

Yuval Ron (guitar)

Yuval Ron and Residents Of The Future (Israel) Band Description: Yuval Ron and Residents Of The Future perform original tunes written and arranged mostly by guitarist and band former Yuval Ron. The music reveals influences of modern jazz...

Zoltán Dévényi (guitar)

Zoltan Devenyi, born in Hungary. His career in music started at the age of 4 when he 'conducted' an ad hoc choir of children at kindergarten. Since then he hasn't stopped playing nor performing the guitar (electric, acoustic, classical),...