49,370 Jazz Musicians

Anat Fort (piano)

With Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Elvis Costello, John Coltrane and Egberto Gismonti among her many formative influences, Anat Fort’s music can also subtly hint at her geographical origins. Born near Tel Aviv, she studied...

Andre Fernandes (guitar)

Andr� Fernandes was born in Lisbon in 1976. He finished his studies at the HotClub of Portugal Jazz School where he nowadays teaches Guitar, Analysis, and Ensemble. Also teaches at the Madeira Conservatory. In 1996 was awarded a...

Andrea Keller (piano)

Andrea Keller Pianist & composer Since the release of her first album in 2000, pianist and composer Andrea Keller has established herself as an important contributor to Australian jazz and contemporary music. Described as having...

Andrea Pagani (piano)

Andrea Pagani - Pianist, keyboard player, composer, arranger. Andrea Pagani was born in Rome on october 2, 1970. He begins to show keen interest in the keyboard at the age of fifteen and approaches music as autodidact. At the age of...

Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo (guitar, acoustic)

The Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo represent the perfect alliance of ten-fingered guitar virtuosity, outstanding melodic themes, and dynamic rhythmic variations. Kapsalis' Spanish-inflected playing complements their...

Andreas Stensland Løwe (piano)

Born and raised on Hedrum Prestegard, Norway, a farm wedged halfway between Larvik and Sandefjord. Master degree in Improvisation and Composition from The University in Agder, Norway. A pianist first and foremost, but contributes with...

Andreas Ulvo (piano)

Andreas Ulvo (b.1983) from Eidskog in Hedmark, has despite his young age already remarked himself on the Norwegian and European jazz scene. His main projects is his own solo project and Eple Trio. Together with the two other members of...

Andreas Willers (guitar)

Andreas Willers has gained a reputation as an exceptional guitar player with an incredibly rich stylistic background reaching from blues and jazz to improvised and New Music. The impressive technical and tonal options at his disposal are...

Andrei Covaciu-Pogorilowski (author)

André Pogoriloffsky is the pen name used by Andrei Covaciu- Pogorilowski for his book "The music of the Temporalists". He was born in Bucharest, Romania, in February 1968. Starting with 1982, he studied music independently, helped...

Andrew Bemkey (piano)

Andrew Bemkey (piano, bass clarinet)is a musician who honors the tradition, knows and loves the music of the masters, and doesn't sound like anyone ever heard before. Andrew was born in 1974 in Libertyville, a little town outside of...

Andrew Gilpin (piano)

Andrew Gilpin, who rebelled against formal music lessons at the tender age of seven, is a completely self-taught pianist and composer. Although this meant he never had much homework, Andrew always kept the pedal to the metal and never...

Andrew Lamb (sax, tenor)

ANDREW LAMB (saxophones, flutes) was born in Clinton, North Carolina and grew up in Chicago and in South Jamaica, Queens. Having studied with AACM charter member Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Mr. Lamb came into New York’s "avant-garde"...

Andrew Ryan (guitar)

Five notes into "I'd Follow You," the opening song on Andrew Ryan’s sophomore Divulge Records release Waiting for Paris--EP, Andrew’s voice melts into his soulful, beautiful guitar playing and his lyrics are just as heartfelt and...

Andy Ballantyne (sax, tenor)

A native of Toronto, Canada, Andy Ballantyne began learning music in the Toronto public school system, studying clarinet and saxophone. He soon developed an interest in jazz and studied privately with Woody Herman alumnus Steve Lederer. ...

Andy Summers (guitar)

In the summer of 97, millions of people were beguiled by an Andy Summers guitar lick, just as they were regularly in the decade previous. A single by a certain rap impresario copped the Police's "Every Breath You Take," and the song's...

Angel Rose, singer (vocal)

“Re: Writeup on George Gee's Swing Band: "... a singer named ANGEL ROSE who does ballads with a silken voice and swings the blues."” L. Fobins - Issuu Jazz Culture...

Anita Eccleston (trumpet)

Anita Eccleston is a trumpet player and vocalist who presents music ranging from traditional jazz standards to funk, motown, soul, blues, pop covers and originals. Whether she is appearing with her quartet, trio or as a solo act she is...

Anna Walter (piano)

Far reaching improvising artist, on keyboards, flute and piano. Also a visual artist.

Anthony Coleman (piano)

Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: “Sephardic Tinge,” “Morenica,” and “Our Beautiful...

Anthony Labuguen (guitar, electric)

I grew up in South Elgin, Illinois, about forty miles west of Chicago. I went into the city often to visit family and friends and when I was older, I went myself, taking a commuter train or bumming a ride from friends that had driver's...

Antonio Underwood (tuba)

Since leaving the Yale School of Music in 1987 as a Tuba Major (Classical), Antonio Underwood has been a member of the two-time Grammy Award winning McCoy Tyner Big Band, featuring such artists as: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Savion Glover, Diane...

Antti Kujanpää (piano)

Antti Kujanpää is a Finnish piano player. Graduated from the jazz department of Sibelius Academy, Antti plays in several jazz bands, including Big Blue, Kvalda, Auteur Jazz, Duo Jorma Kalevi Louhivuori & Antti Kujanpää, European Jazz...

Antwon A. Owens (drums)

ANTWON OWENS DRUM KIT/PERCUSSION: Mr. Owens was born and raised in the City of Denver where jazz is thriving. He started out at the tender young age of fifteen with learning music for his first time. Since the graduation of high school in...

Ariel Alexander (saxophone)

Dr. Ariel Alexander has gained recognition as a Los Angeles jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Originally from St Louis, Ariel earned her B.A. at Indiana University and her M.A and Doctoral degrees from the University of Southern...

Ariel de la Portilla (bass)

Ariel de la Portilla was born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba where he lived until immigrating with his parents to the United States in September of 1980. He was raised in the southwest area of Miami, Florida. The neighborhood better known...

Ark Ovrutski (bass)

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Arkady Shilkloper (flugelhorn)

Horn, flugelhorn, corno da caccia, alphorn, corno pastoriccio, didgeridoo, Wagner tuba etc. Born in Moscow, Russia on October 17, 1956. At the age of six started to play alto horn in a brass orchestra at the Kuntsevo District Young...

Arnold Faber (vibraphone)

A twenty-five year veteran of the Canadian jazz scene, Arnold has a lot of CBC Radio work under his belt on Morningside and Jazz Beat, playing with Don Thompson and Terry Clarke. He has performed at most major Canadian jazz festivals with...

Arthur Gracias (guitar)

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Arun Ghosh (clarinet)

Arun Ghosh is a British-Asian clarinettist and composer. His second album, Primal Odyssey, was released in October 2011 on camoci records. In 2008 he was selected for Edition IV of the Jerwood/PRS Foundation 'Take Five' initiative for...

Asaf Sirkis (drums)

Born in 1969 in Petah-Tikva, Israel, Asaf later moved to the town of Rehovot, where he spent his teens and early twenties. This was an influential move for Asaf, as it was here amongst the diverse cultural influences he found in Rehovot...

Asia Fajardo-Wright (saxophone)

Asia Fajardo-Wright is a saxophonist and composer and leads the band Asia Jazz Project. She is also a member of the latin reggae band Mono Verde. Asia Fajardo holds a Bachelor's of Science in Music Performance and Music Management from...

Ask Nørholm (guitar)

ASK NØRHOLM, 26, Nørrebro, KBH. Diplom eksamin med hovedfaget guitar, Vestjysk Musikkonservatorium 2003-2008

Asle Fjeldstad (drums)

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Assembly of Dust (band/ensemble/orchestra)

"I feel like my brain is vibrating all day long," says Reid Genauer, the singer/songwriter behind Assembly of Dust, discussing the band's new album. "It's hard to sleep, I'm so excited. I feel like Lex Luthor, or that Mike Myers character,...

Attaboy (vocal)

attaboy is a four-piece improvisational rock band based in Denmark.

August Engkilde (bass)

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August Engkilde is a composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ and sound-designer. August plays the bass, the keyboards and twists the computer knobs on more than 32 jazz, latin, electro, dub, hip hop,...

Avreeayl Ra (drums)

Chicago master drummer / percussionist AVREEAYL RA was born in Chicago on May 21st, 1947 and still lives there today. He is a renowned musician always in demand among visiting jazz artists in Chicago. Avreeayl’s father, Arthur...

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (piano)

The pianist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh was born on December 19, 1969, in Baku Azerbaijan in the former USSR, into a musical family. Her father was a Jazz pianist and one of the first to incorporate ethnic musical styles, in his case the...

Bad Touch (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Bad Touch is a new music collective made up of alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor. Originally formed under the highly unique, yet controversial name The Loren Stillman...

Barbara Dennerlein (organ, Hammond B3)

Born in Munich, Germany, in 1964, Barbara Dennerlein fell in love with the Hammond organ sound at an early age. She was eleven when the first home organ was given to her for Christmas. After only one and a half years of lessons...

Barney Kessel (guitar, electric)

Legendary musician, guitarist, influential jazz artist, composer, arranger, session player, record producer, one of the leading figures in West Coast jazz, later delving into hard bop, Barney Kessel is now generally considered by...

Barney McAll (piano)

Australian pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger, Barney McAll received a Bachelor Of Music from The Victorian College of Arts and moved to NYC in 1997 after being invited to join Miles Davis alumni Gary Bartz' quartet. He also tours...

Barry Garneau (guitar, acoustic)

Keepin beat in mother's womb while she and my father played guitar and sang. Learned uke, singing harmony, acoustic guitar from her. Electric guitar and R&R for the '50s, jazz from '59 on, plus gumbo of Dylan, Jimi, Janice, Aretha, Otis,...

Bartosz Hadala (piano)

Bartosz Hadala’s fascination with music began at a young age in his native Poland when he began listening to his father’s collection of Dixieland records. He was playing the piano at age six. From 1984 through 1992...

Bartosz Smorągiewicz (saxophone)

Bartosz W. Smorągiewicz was born in Żagań, Poland. He graduated from Hochschule fuer Musik in Wuerzburg, Germany in saxophone at Prof. Leszek Żądło's studio and in composition as a student of Prof. Chris Beier. As an acclaimed...

Beata Przybytek (vocal)

An outstanding vocalist, pianist and composer. She is widely acknowledged as one of the most intriguing Polish voices. After graduating from Public Music High School in Bielsko-Biala in the piano class, she continued her education at the...

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Bembeya Jazz National (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Bembeya Jazz National - band/ensemble from Guinea. The year 2002 was a significant one,it marks the first new recording from Guinea's Bembeya Jazz in 14 years. It is also the started an exciting new chapter in the life of one of...

Ben Bowen (trumpet)

Ben studied jazz trumpet at York University and Humber College, and has played and recorded as a sideman with a number of notable Canadian musicians, including Great Aunt Ida, Ronley Teper, Kevin Hearn, Lily Frost, Valery Gore, Brian...

Ben Elledge (guitar)

I've been playing guitar for 17 years, with the first 12 or so consisting mostly of metal/rock/blues/shred styles. Jazz was intimidating to listen to at first, but I think I finally "got it" after listening to everything I could for the...

Ben Makinen (drums)

Ben Makinen - member BMI - is a performer, composer, and producer living in Denver, Colorado. He is president of Bmakin Music, a label he created to carry music from all points of the globe, regardless of genre. Seeing Miles Davis...

Ben Schachter (sax, tenor)

Ben Schachter is a powerful and original saxophonist and composer. As a leader, he has six recordings on his own label, with more to come. He has performed and recorded in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with; Sam Rivers, Tim Hagans, Conrad...

Ben Sidran (piano)

Ben Sidran - piano, vocal, arranger, producer, author, educator Ben Sidran, a master of many trades in music and media, makes your average Renaissance man look like a slacker. Jazz pianist of international renown, lyricist of a...

Benjamin Jonas Schatz (piano)

Benjamin Schatz started playing the violin at the age of four and the piano at the age of six. After studying classical piano he became a student (jazz piano) of Richie Beirach at the Musikhochschule Leipzig where he graduated in 2008....

Benjamin Stapp (tuba)

Tubist and composer, Ben Stapp, is on the forefront in New York’s creative music scene. With his debut CD release featuring Tony Malaby and Satoshi Takeishi, he has received a critic’s pic from the New York Times. All About Jazz...

Biagio Coppa (sax, soprano)

Biagio Coppa, woodwinds,composer,conductor, educator. Since 1996 he turned his attention to any kinds of improvised music based on afro-american idiomatic expressions. Especially he digs the music of M-base and Steve Coleman; he really...

Bianca Morales (vocal)

Bianca Morales--half Afro-Cuban, half Finnish--is a renowned recording and performing jazz vocalist and composer. At the age of 14, she had already started her jazz career, both singing and recording with Grani Big Band. Bianca was...

Big Black (congas)

Big Black - congas, percussion The master musician, percussionist and hand drummer, known as Big Black, was born Daniel Ray in Georgia in 1934, and grew up as a child in the Carolinas. Big Black first heard drum and percussion rhythms...

Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson (various)

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was the most famous of all African American tap dancers in the twentieth century. Dancing upright and swinging, his light and exacting footwork brought tap “up on its toes” from an earlier flat-footed...

Bill Boublitz (keyboard)

Bill Boublitz - Curriculum Vitae Bill Boublitz is a professional keyboard artist with more than thirty five years experience in performance, recording and teaching. His career has encompassed many musical idioms including a fifteen...

Bill Corvino (guitar)

I currently play in the band Standard Deviation. I have performed with: The Drifters, George Rabbai, The Penguins, Chuck Loeb, The Dovells, Jim Heffernan, the Kidney Stones in the UK, Big Swing Face as well as many others and recorded with...

Bill Gulino (piano)

I have been in the music business for 35 years, always been lucky. After one thing ended I got another big deal thrown in my face. I have been a musical director on many Cruise Ships, a Cruise Director, musical director for America's...

Bill Marconi (percussion)

Since completing a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance Bill has persued a wide range of performing experiences including: The Jimmy Bruno Trio, The L.A.Jazz Workshop Big Band, Trio Nova, The Magic Casino Orchestra (Zurich)and...

Billie Davies (drums)

Idiosyncratic/Polyrhythmic drummer and band leader Billie Davies is mostly an autodidact whose natural talent, relentless, explorative spirit and multifaceted experiences have led to an innovative approach to jazz. With a background in...

Bireli Lagrene (guitar)

Bireli Lagrene was born on September 4, 1966 in Saverne, Alsace, France. The son of Fiso Lagrene, a popular guitarist in pre-war France, Lagrene displayed a prodigious talent as a very young child. Born into a gypsy community, his...

Blue Cranes (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Hailing from the fertile scene of Portland, Oregon, the Blue Cranes create music that is as invigorating as it is disarming. Working a thin line between improvisation and catchiness, Blue Cranes arrive at a unique place. They have found a...

Bluestreet Jazz Voices (vocal)

The BlueStreet Jazz Voices is a unique, 20-voice vocal jazz ensemble backed by an outstanding jazz trio. The ensemble is dedicated to adventurous, broad-scale, musical exploration of vocal jazz. The 20 member ensemble has developed an...

Bob Franceschini (sax, tenor)

BOB FRANCESCHINI Tenor saxophone, soprano, alto and baritone. Flute, alto flute and ethnic flutes. Clarinet, bass clarinet. Keyboards, Composer, arranger, producer and contractor. Bob Franceschini was born and grew up in New York City....

Bob Reynolds (sax, tenor)

Saxophonist Bob Reynolds’ 2006 release, Can't Wait For Perfect, was voted “Best Debut” in the Village Voice’s 2006 Jazz Poll, and called “Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently” by...

Bonnie J Jensen (vocal)

"This is an experienced singer... and it's the combination of innocence and sexy womanliness somewhere in the timbre of her voice that lets you know it." Shane Nichols - www.allaboutjazz.com, Oct '01 Introducing a versatile singer,...

Booker T & the MG's (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Booker T & the MG’s - band/ensemble There are few instrumental songs that have the instant recognition factor, combined with enduring popularity as the 1962 classic hit “Green Onions,” by Booker T & the MG’s. As the house...

Bradley Levy (trumpet)

Professional trumpet player in Chicago. Full time theatre musician and member of Board of Directors of Chicago Federation of Musicians. Active in performance and promotion of original music.

Brandino (bass, acoustic)

Brandino (Kevin Charles Brandon) Kevin was born in Compton, California to loving parents, and into a talented family who where from richly diverse musical cities of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. From birth he has...

Brandon Coleman (guitar)

Born in Pikeville, KY, Brandon Coleman came to music at an early age. There were always guitars around his family home, and he was given his very own at the age of twelve. Initially enamored with Chet Atkins, Jimi Hendrix and Danny...

Bren Plummer (bass, acoustic)

Bren Plummer is a bassist and composer who is comfortable playing funk, straight-ahead jazz, salsa or classical. Originally from Seattle, WA, Bren has studied and performed with some of the great jazz masters such as George Russell, Jimmy...

Brian Albano (drums)

Experienced in jazz performance and recording since 1964(Latin/Jazz; R&B; Soul Music; Piano & Organ Jazz Trios). Audio engineer producer since 1984 and have performed and/or recorded with the following: Randy Anderson; Rockett '88; Andy...

Brian Girley (sax, alto)

Saxophonist and Composer, Brian Girley, was born on April 2 1983 in Orlando Florida. While no one in his family played an instrument both his mother and father would sing in church and at weddings giving him his first musical exposure. ...

Brian J. Donohoe (drums)

Raleigh, NC. Starmount, Razor Wire Safety Net, Volaré and more.

Brian Jackson (piano)

From Strata East to Kanye West, from straight-ahead jazz to straight-out funk, Brian Jackson is a true American legend. Listen to the more than a dozen albums he co-wrote and produced with longtime partner Gil...

Brian Prunka (oud)

Brian Prunka emigrated to New York from the tiny nation-state of New Orleans in the year twenty-aught-three. He had spent the previous decade honing his musical skills in the Home Of Jazz and ingesting what he could of the local culture. ...

Brian Roy Haas (keyboard)

I have played with: JFJO, Bill Frisell, Scott Amendola, Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Marco Benevento, Les Claypool, Mike Dillon, Skerik, Johnny Vidacovich, Karl Denson, Joe Russo, George Garzon, Brad Barr, Marc Friedman, Andrew Barr,...

Brian Simon (turntable)

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Brinae Ali (various)

Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley’s background in the arts is quite extensive. Her first experience began at age three when she put on her first pair of tap shoes. This introduction ushered in her destiny. Under the guidance of her...

Brooks Ivansson

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Bruce Arkin (saxophone)

Saxophonist, drummer, singer, songwriter, Bruce graduated Berklee in Boston in 1991, then moved to Brooklyn. After 5 years in New York, moved to Florida to teach. Feeling the rise of fascism, he moved to Barcelona and has been writing and...

Brulée (keyboard)

Julie Weiner is a born vocalist who comes from a family of singers and musicians. Julie is also an exceptional dancer and veteran of theater especially musical comedy and reveals her love of lyric and melody with captivating tenderness and...

Buck 65 (turntable)

Hello. I'm Buck 65 and this is my bio… I was born with the name Ricardo Terfry. My dad started calling me Buck 65 the day I was born. I don't know why. That's the truth. A lot of stories have been made up about where the name comes...

Byron Stripling (trumpet)

Columbus Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director and trumpet virtuoso, Byron Stripling, has ignited audiences throughout the world. Stripling has become a favorite throughout the country, soloing with Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, Seattle...

Carli Muñoz (piano)

Carli Muñoz grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he played professionally from a very early age. As a pre- teen, Carli prodigiously assembled a group of friends from his neighborhood, told them that from then on they were going to...

Carlos Redman (trumpet)

When the worlds of Hip-hop and Jazz collide, you get Carlos Redman, a musician with strong chops and limitless groove. This Detroit native has grown into one of the most prolific experimental trumpeters of the modern world. Blending a...

Carlos Zingaro (violin)

Born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal; violin, electronics. Carlos Zingaro undertook classical music studies at the Lisbon Music Conservatory from 1953 to 1965, and during the two years 1967/68 he studied church organ at the High School of Sacred...

Carlton Holmes (piano)

CARLTON HOLMES arrived in New York in 1986 where he completed his graduate studies in Music at the Manhattan School of Music. Since that time, Carlton has become one of New Yorks’ premiere piano players, having performed and/or recorded...

Carolina Calvache (piano)

Colombian jazz and classical pianist Carolina Calvache, is part of the new generation of pianist and composers whose style blends South American rhythms with a contemporary New York sound. Her participation in 2011 Mary Lou Williams woman...

Carrie Jahde (drums)

Carrie Jahde has earned national awards and a great deal of notoriety over the past decade for her versatile, passionate, and unique approach to drumming. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she maintains a full-time touring,...

Catherine Lawson (violin)

Catherine has been involved in music her entire life. Her first public performance of an original tune "Ballet Dancers" was during her grade-school assembly and she's been involved in performances ever since. While her 20 years of formal...

Catherine Russell (vocal)

Catherine Russell is that rarest of entities, a genuine jazz and blues singer who can sing virtually anything. Her voice is full blown femininity incarnate; a dusky, stalwart and soulful instrument that radiates interpretive power yet...

Cecile McLorin Salvant (vocal)

Cécile McLorin Salvant is the winner of the 21010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition. She is a young French-American jazz singer, born and raised in Miami of a French mother and a Haitian father and started piano...

Cecilia Smith (vibraphone)

Short Bio - Cecilia Smith Cecilia Smith is currently one of the leading vibraphonists of Four Mallet Technique. She has toured nationally and internationally. She has recorded and performed with several renown artists including: Gary...

Chappy Washington (piano)

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Charito (vocal)

Distinctively a most prominent jazz vocalist in Japan with multi-awarded albums recorded and released internationally, Charito's artistry continues to establish its global presence with her recent and forthcoming tours in Europe, Asia,...

Charito* (vocal)

Recognized as one of the most individual and creative jazz vocalists in today's Japan jazz circuit. Acclaimed by critics, musicians and audiences as one of the most powerful and talented artists, she has definitely notched a place for...

Charlena The Soulfulpsalmist (vocal)

SOULFULPSLAMIST What else can bring you closer the gates of heaven than the musical inspirations of an artist whose lyrics surpasses the towering expectations of an audience that was once filled with the awes of the vocals from our...

Charlie Heim (drums)

Charlie Heim, a drummer residing in Philadelphia, is active in the busy music scene of the Delaware Valley. A founding member of Philly’s experimental rock outfit The March Hare and the jazz trio Sixtanato, Charlie’s busy schedule is...

Chase Morrin (piano)

Chase Morrin, 16, a junior at Canyon Crest Academy, is a member of a Javanese Gamelan Orchestra through the World Center of Music and is an avid composer for the choir, dance, theater, and music conservatories. At the top of his class with...

Chester Thomas (sax, alto)

After serving 11 years with the City of Wichita Fire department as a firefighter until an on the job injury force me to resign. I have now turn my focus on composing music and producing music. Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1957 the fifth...

Chris Burnett (saxophone)

AUTHORIZED PRESS BIOGRAPHY CHRIS BURNETT Chris Burnett is an alto saxophonist, composer, recording artist and educator who began his active career at the age of 18 years old when he was selected by audition and accepted for musical...

Chris Cody (piano)

Chris Cody is one of Australia’s foremost jazz pianists and has performed and recorded around the world. He began his musical career as a classical pianist in Australia, after being a finalist in the Roger Woodward Piano Scholarship at...

Chris Hersch (guitar)

Boston-based guitarist Chris Hersch is part of the new "folk jazz" movement emmerging in the northeast. Chris Hersch's unique style of guitar playing blends jazz, folk, and odd metered trance melodies. Chris Hersch is known as a founding...

Chris K. Gabriel (guitar)

A Filipino-American, born in Stuttgart Germany and raised in Hawaii, Chris Gabriel had spent his early years creating songs for family and friends. Chris spent his summers surfing and vividly remembers watching ocean waves crash...

Chris Kase (trumpet)

Chris Kase (b. 1964, New Brunswick, NJ) is a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and educator who has resided in Madrid, Spain since 1997. He has performed and/or recorded with many well known jazz artists such as: The Mingus Big Band,...

Chris Schlarb (composer/conductor/leader)

Chris Schlarb is a musician, composer and producer based in Long Beach, California. His newest album, Psychic Temple, is a four song mediation on beauty featuring a 29-musician ensemble. Time Out New York said the album “blurs the line...

Chris Speed (saxophone)

Chris Speed is a composer, clarinetist and saxophonist living in Brooklyn, NY. His bands include Human Feel, yeah NO, Trio Iffy , Pachora and The Clarinets. He is a member of Jim Black’s Alas No Axis and John Hollenbeck’s Claudia...

Chris Stromquist (drums)

Chris Stromquist is a New York based drummer and percussionist with wide- ranging experience in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Balkan, Jazz and experimental music. Since 2002 he has been a member of the Seattle-based ex- Yugoslavian Folk/Punk band...

Chris Tarry (bass)

New York City based Chris Tarry is one of Canada's most successful and celebrated electric bass exports. With three Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammy) for best Contemporary Jazz Album, eight Juno Award nominations, and other high profile...

Chris Thompson (trumpet)

I first remember getting excited about the trumpet when my father took me to see Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in 1966. I was eight years old. As a teenager I saw a TV program about Charlie Parker and heard Herbie Hancock's...

Chris Zamora (guitar)

Chris Zamora’s musical influences and experiences span the globe, from Southeast Asia to Brazil to the Chicago jazz scene. Chris’s passion for the guitar started at age 8 in the Philippines. That passion has allowed him to play with...

Christian Eckert (guitar)

The guitarist Christian Eckert has been back in Germany since 1995 after a long sojourn abroad. He is in demand as a free-lance musician with his own band, in a trio with the New York organ-player Garry Versace and drummer Matthew...

Christian Howes (violin)

Christian Howes has already made an indelible mark and is poised to be a path-finding figure on the contemporary violin. He’s won recognition and kudos from artists and critics alike. Says guitar pioneer Les Paul, with whom Christian...

Christine Capdeville (vocal)

Vocalist/songwriter Christine Capdeville's debut album VISION OF LOVE -- which includes seven original songs that she wrote - has just been released on La Cigale* Records. Vision of Love features an impressive line-up of talent including...

Christopher Davis-Shannon (bass)

i’ve never been one for introductions, a good firm handshake is about as far as i ever get. I’m Christopher Davis-Shannon, although primarily a jazz bassist, i dabble in many other artistic fields, a writer, painter, and composer...

Christopher Garcia (percussion)

PROFILE Professional musician since 1981 performing primarily on drumset - the original contraption, throughout the 1980's to the present then percussion of North and South India, including tabla, ghatam, and kanjira with various...

Christopher Woitach (guitar)

Christopher Woitach is a jazz guitarist and composer, currently residing in Portland, OR. He plays and composes in a fresh, innovative style that pushes the boundaries of modern jazz while embracing everything from swing to...

Christy Baron (vocal)

Christy redefines “classics,” it’s entirely appropriate that she was signed by Chesky Records, an audiophile label that redefines the modern recording process by returning to the earliest recording techniques. Chesky...

Chuck Langford (sax, alto)

Charles Langford has been writing music since his teenage years. This Springfield, Massachusetts jazz man does it all,tenor, alto, soprano sax, clarinet and flute. Mr. Langford came to the Northeast United States after attending the...

Chuck Leavell (keyboard)

Chuck Leavell has been pleasing the ears of music fans for more than 30 years now. His piano and keyboard work has been heard on the works of Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, The Black Crowes, George Harrison, The Allman Brothers Band,...

Ciyo Brown (guitar, electric)

Biography ‘Born in Jamaica, Ciyo arrived in England at the age of six months old. Though a high academic achiever qualifying as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives and specialising in the area of housing law, music has...

Claes Brondal (drums)

Born in Denmark in the mid-70s and playing the drums since 1983. Studied with drumming greats such as Ed Thigpen, Dom Famularo and many others. Versatile in many styles of music - especially big band, funk, jazz, Afro/Cuban, Brazilian and...

Clark Gayton (trombone)

You would be hard-pressed to identify a musician as comfortable with classical music as he is with jazz, indie rock, folk and reggae. You would be equally hard-pressed to identify a musician who can rock with Levon Helm (formerly of The...

Colin Towns (piano)

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Community of the Spirit (composer/conductor/leader)

Titled after one of Rumi's most known poems, Community of the Spirit (COS) seeks to fulfill deep, honest expression through the original compositions, the personal interpretations of the material, and the art of improvisation. Crossing...

Craig Akin (bass)

Craig Akin is an in-demand upright and electric bass player living in New York City. Between 1997 and 2007 he averaged 270 gigs a year in his musical hometown of Kansas City. There he developed his rhythm and tone while playing or...

Craig Morrison (guitar, electric)

Plays jazz, rock guitar and keyboards. Varied experience and vast compositional and production skills in digital and analog creations.

Cristina Pato (various)

Cristina Pato has already opened historical new paths for the Gaita (Galician bagpipe). In 1998 Cristina Pato became the first female Gaita player releasing a solo album and since then she has collaborated with world music, jazz, classical...

Cuong Vu (trumpet)

Cuong Vu is widely recognized by jazz critics as a leader of a new generation of innovative musicians. A truly unique musical voice, Cuong has lent his trumpet playing talents to a wide range of artists including Pat Metheny,...

Cytosoul (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Welcome to the home of Cytosoul. We are a Seattle based quartet who compose original music, mixing jazz improvization, classical waltzes, boleros, and art-songs. The melodically captivating, lush, dynamic arrangements give the music a...

D Locutor (piano)

D Locutor, piano keyboards: a regular performer and session player on the east coast music scene. he has worked, studied, and shared the stage with such stellar musicians as dr. frederick ming chang, clifford adams, richie cole, laurie...

Damon Banks (bass, electric)

Damon Banks has performed with and/or recorded with some of the entertainment industry’s “brightest stars”, creative artists, innovative musicians and legends of the stage & screen. Many of these artists themselves are...

Damon Warmack (bass, electric)

By picking up a bass guitar on Christmas Day of 1991, Damon Warmack embarked upon a journey that would take him from Detroit's east side to Asia (Japan), Europe (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Holland, Belgium, France,...

Dan Aran (drums)

Dan Aran established himself as an in demand side man in the New York Jazz scene shortly upon arrival to the US in 2001. Aran started his musical journey in his hometown of Jerusalem, fascinated with the dumbek and drum set Dan got his...

Dan Baraszu (guitar)

Detroit born Guitarist/Composer Dan Baraszu has been playing guitar for over 25 years. Early in his career, he explored many different styles of music. However, when he first heard the genius of Jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, Dan devoted...

Dan Furman (piano)

Pianist Dan Furman doesn't want jazz to have to imitate the past. "We all grew up listening to rock and roll, pop, funk and whatever else made it on the radio. When I play a standard, I try to bring something from today's world into the...

Dan Lauter (saxophone)

Dan Lauter - Dan has performed on Saxophone and world instruments for the past 25 years with professional credits including world music recordings with Anna Halprin, Gabrielle Roth, Steven Halpern, and the late Nigerian drummer Suru Ekeh,...

Dan Peck (tuba)

Dan is a tubist, multi-instrumentalist, and creative artist currently living and working in New York City. Described as a "tuba maverick" by the Gothamist, Dan has been active since his move to New York as a soloist, improviser, creative...

Dan Peterson (guitar)

Kansas City guitar prodigy, Dan Peterson opened for national acts such as Steve Miller Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, etc at age 13. Peterson toured the midwest in a blues band in the early 70's. He later opened for Tom Petty, Journey...

Dan Turner (piano)

Dan started out taking piano lessons in the early 60's and continued, studying with Charles Wade, Archie Mosley, Paul Mitchell, Don Reitan and Don Tweedy among others. He started playing "professionally" in the nightclubs and bars of...

Dani Perez (guitar, electric)

Daniel Perez Amboage, también conocido como Dani Perez. Nacido en Buenos Aires el 2 de abril de 1967. Comienza estudios de piano y guitarra a los 14 años, y a los 16 forma varias bandas de rock & pop con amigos de la escuela secundaria....

Daniel Bennett (saxophone)

Critically-acclaimed Manhattan-based saxophonist Daniel Bennett has garnered feverish accolades for his unique brand of experimental "Folk Jazz." The Daniel Bennett Group has recently shared concert billings with artists like Bill...

Daniel Diaz (bass)

Composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist (bass, guitar, keyboards). Born in Lanus , Argentina in 1963 , Daniel Diaz began playing bass in 1980. In 1983 he started to study theory, harmony, and bass and a year later he was...

Daniel Lanois (guitar)

"I want to leave something behind that means something," Daniel Lanois told Rolling Stone' s James Henke, explaining his singular approach to life and record making. "Am I going to follow my own ideas and philosophies, or am I just...

Daniel Ori (bass)

Originally from Kfar Saba, Israel, bassist and composer Daniel Ori's first exposures to music were piano recitals at his grandmother's apartment in Tel-Aviv. Her attempts to teach Daniel traditional piano lessons were disrupted by his...

Daniel Oz (composer/conductor/leader)

Studied philosophy at BGU, Be'er Sheva.

Daniel Speer (bass, acoustic)

- klassisches Kontrabass-Studium in Mannheim (Dipl. Orch. Mus.)
- Jazz-Studium in Mannheim und Köln (Dipl. Mus.-Päd./Jazz)
- Während des Studiums Mitglied der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie (4 Tourneen)
- Erfahrung mit Big...

Daniela Schaechter (piano)

Daniela Schaechter started early her musical career: by her mid-teens was already performing publicly in Sicily, Italy, as well as doing studio session work. After her classical studies she moved to Boston MA as recipient of a...

Daniele Esposito (bass, acoustic)

Double bass player from Naples (Italy), actually living in Belgium (Bruxelles). Played with Dre Pallemaerts, Luca Aquino; Michel Bisceglia; Jeroen Van Herzeele; Marco Brioschi; Bruno Castellucci; Ben Sluijs; Emanuele Cisi; Eliot Zigmund,...

Danielle Freeman (vocal)

Danielle Freeman’s music is neo-baroque, expansive in improvisation and jazz form. Freeman's quintet, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a unification of opera vocalization, syllabic improvisation, jazz harmony and experimental freedom. She...

Danny Seraphine (drums)

Danny Seraphine is one of the world’s most highly-respected rock drummers, rated by the legendary Buddy Rich as one of his favorite young drummers. He was the drummer, percussionist and a founding member of the multi-million selling,...

Daren Burns (bass, electric)

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.-Ali Akbar Khan "If you miss the sensual part of music, you risk becoming a gynecologist and not a lover"-Rabih...

Darrell J. Walker (trombone)

Hello, my name is Darrell J. Walker. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fled Katrina August 2005 and currently reside in Englewood, NJ, right over GWB. Here is some info: I am an AWESOME trombone player in the real New Orleans...

Darren Kelly (guitar)

Coming soon.

Daseul Kim (bass)

Born in South Korea 1986, Daseul Kim’s musical journey started thousands of miles away from his current New Jersey home. Already a well respected musician in his homeland, it was the call of jazz that led Daseul to the United...

Dave Carpenter (bass)

Bassist Dave Carpenter has appeared on nearly a hundred recordings in the eight years since coming to Los Angeles. And, he has dozens of television and film themes to his recording credit, as well as soundtracks and countless jingles. He...

Dave Carter (trumpet)

Trumpeter/Composer Dave Carter splits most of his performing time between Seattle and San Francisco while residing in Emeryville, CA. Currently a member of the The Barrett Martin Group, Zony Mash + Horns, Tuatara, and Skerik's...

Dave Kaczorowski (bass, acoustic)

Dave Kaczorowski has performed and/or recorded with notable musicians such as: Herb Robertson, Sabir Mateen, Naoko Ono, Yaya Abdul Majid, Peter Kowald, Vattel Cherry, Jane Wang, Terry McManus, Seth Meicht, Dan Peterson, Ravish Momin,...

Dave Ness (guitar)

David Ness, B.M. Northern Illinois University; M.M. Northwestern University, is a freelance musician in the Chicago area. Currently, Dave teaches at the College of Lake County. He previously was the director of jazz studies at Carthage...

Dave Tucker (guitar, electric)

Dave Tucker started performing in the Punk movement of the late 70’s in Manchester. His first recorded release was 1978 with Mellatron. In the early 80’s he was a member of “The Fall” touring as well as recording “Slates” and...

David Amram (various)

David Amram - composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist A pioneer player of jazz French horn, DavidAmram is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as...

David Brown (guitar)

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Wichita, Kansas, David began playing the guitar at age 14 after brief stints playing the piano, trombone and drums. Initially inspired by the sounds of Van Halen, Rush and Led Zeppelin,...

David Chevan (bass, acoustic)

I am the first-born son of a family of second-generation Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia. I was musically active from an early age and grew up in a Conservative-Egalitarian Jewish synagogue where I led services from the age of...

David F. Gibson (drums)

Philadelphia born musician Dave Gibson is paving his way toward that pantheon of jazz greats. Paying all the dues required to develop his prodigious talent. Gibson has earned an impeccable reputation in the jazz world. He’s one of the...

David George (trumpet)

David George (Trumpet, Flugelhorn) Seattle - Received a BM in music performance from Cornish College of the Arts. He has been teaching privately for over 20 years and is currently an active, professional musician performing in big bands,...

David K. Freeman (percussion)

A New Jersey native, David grew up in the suburbs just minutes from New York City. He is open minded, positive, focused and free spirited and these characteristics are reflected in his work. David, musical from childhood, began his...

David Minnick (guitar)

The Sursiks, the masters of musical reverse-engineering, have taken 16 phone messages from the answering machines of family members and friends and set them to music, largely unaltered. The messages are not simply slapped on top of...

David Rozenblatt (drums)

David Rozenblatt’s talents have drawn him to all corners of the globe and all styles of music, performing in the world’s most revered concert halls as well as intimate nightclubs. He has performed and collaborated with some of the...

David Sherr (composer/conductor/leader)

I was born in 1941 and have lived in Chicago, Baltimore, Tulsa, New York and LA, mostly LA. These days I divide my time between Santa Monica, California, and Lynbrook, New York. I began to play the clarinet and saxophone in high school,...

David Sylvian (vocal)

The David Sylvian that fronted new wave pop band Japan wore luminescent hair and glam make-up; on the cover of his solo debut, 1984's Brilliant Trees, he was stylish and refined, a gentleman popster. But the illustration that...

David Tang (various)

I operate a recording studio and teach Recording Arts Technology and Music Production at the Vancouver School of Arts & Academics in Vancouver, WA, USA.

David Theak (sax, tenor)

Theak-tet was founded in 1997 to provide a platform for original improvised music compositions. Theak-tet achieves musical synergy by working together as a unit as this allows a freedom and communication not often possible with thrown...

Davids Angels (vocal)

David’s Angels releases debut CD ”Substar” on Kopasetic Records, distributed through Naxos In a project where jazz, rock, minimalism, avant-garde influences the sound of the band, David’s Angels paints amazing soundscapes not...

Daysahead (band/ensemble/orchestra)

"Turning Point by Daysahead features the compelling voice of Kim Leachman and artistry of guitarist Steve Wright...near perfect marriage artistically...high energy music with lyrical substance." Contemporary Jazz International music...

Dead Cat Bounce (saxophone)

Dead Cat Bounce, Boston's Outstanding Jazz Act (Boston Music Awards, Phoenix Music Poll and Improper Bostonian) and recipient of commissions from Meet the Composer and Chamber Music America, is one of the few recent jazz bands to have...

Debbie "The Delta Diva" Bivens (vocal)

Debbie "The Delta Diva" Bivens Jazz Songstress Born and raised on the beautiful Mobile, Alabama, delta, Debbie 'The Delta Diva' Bivens began her singing career as the ‘first call’ vocalist for regional pro musicians. She relocated to...

Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocal)

Few entertainers have ever commanded such depth of artistry in every medium. Fewer still have been rewarded with Broadway’s coveted Tony Award (Best Featured Actress in a Musical The Wiz), nominated for the London theater’s West End...

Deen Dodge (piano)

DEEN DODGE is alive and well and living in paris since april.

Denman Maroney (piano)

“Pianists have bee tinkering with the guts of their instruments for nearly a century now, but it’s altogether likely that no one has explored the art of prepared piano as diligently or creatively as ‘hyperpianist’ Denman...

Derek Gripper (guitar, acoustic)

Derek Gripper is a composer and guitarist from the Western Cape of South Africa, merging "the imagery and mystery of the rural areas of the Cape" with the techniques of classical guitar and the string music of Africa (uhadi bow, umrhubhe,...

Diego Lines (guitar, electric)

Diego Lines, is a chamber and jazz music composer and guitar player.

Diego Sardo (bass)

I've started playing at 13 and I'll never stop until my body can do it. But at that time my mind will continue it...

Dimitar Bodurov (piano)

Dimitar was born on the 17th of September, 1979 in Bulgaria. Since he was 8, he has been constantly involved in music - singing in a choir, playing trombone, saxophone, piano and drums in the Music High school in Varna, Bulgaria. But his...

Dino Dominelli (sax, tenor)

Canadian Saxophonist Dino Dominelli releases his debut CD as leader, entitled “Faith In You.”. Featuring performances from Dominelli’s International and local colleagues captured over the course of this past year, including...

Dip Theory (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Dip Theory is and ever evolving project from Joey Johnson, Noah Wheeler, and Danny Sher. The music is kind of ambient kind of groovy and kind of cool, somewhere between a really bad beat down and a really good massage. So far there is...

Domina Catrina Lee (guitar)

The music of Domina Catrina Lee combines through composition practice with improvisation and creative innovation. Eschewing simple genre classification, this music is rooted in music's deepest past and aspires to being timeless,...

Dominik Burkhalter (drums)

1975 Born in Zurich, Switzerland 1978 Instructed in Drums 1982 First Concerts Instructed in Piano 1995 Jazzschool Luzern 1995 Works as a musician and composer. 1999 Major in Drums at Jazzschool Luzern 2000 ...

Doors Wide Open (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Doors Wide Open is a Jazz Ensemble with over 20 years of combined musical experience. Our range is vast, from Hampton to Hendrix! We are like no other!!

Doris Day (vocal)

One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Von Kapplehoff on April 3, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents divorced while she was still a child and her mother gained custody. Like most little girls, Doris liked to...

Doug Wamble (guitar)

Listening to the third solo release from guitarist, singer, and songwriter Doug Wamble, it is hard to believe that the Tennessee-bred musician was ever a jazz purist. The ten original songs on Doug Wamble, plus a closing cover version of...

Douglas Detrick (trumpet)

“Douglas Detrick is one of the brightest young talents to emerge in Oregon jazz lately.” - Brett Campbell, Willamette Week, 8.27.09 Douglas Detrick, 25, is a composer and trumpet player based in Eugene, Oregon. Equally at home as a...

Dream Door

Dream Door is a Northern California band whose musical style is based primarily around smooth jazz. Their repertoire includes jazz standards, fusion, smooth jazz and original compositions. The original tunes have catchy melodies, some with...

DugDeep (vocal)

WET PAINT cd's available on cdbaby, itunes and many more on line music depots world wide As our bodies regenerate and transform and enlighten and evolve, every moment we have grown in some way and have more to translate through our gifts...

Dwight Thompson (bass, acoustic)

Still writing... will update soon as it is finished.

Dylan Kay (guitar)

Improvising guitarist Dylan Kay was educated at Berklee College of Music, the Guitar Institute and Oxford University. In Boston, he studied with such world- renowned teachers as Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, David Tronzo, Tim Miller and Richie...

E.L. Mahon (oboe)

Raised on cornbread, greens and fried chicken, this country boy has come full circle. Fargo, Arkansas is home but now he calls Colorado his ‘back home’ spot. After living in Hawaii “again” from 1999 to 2003, and basically calling...

Edan Dover (piano)

As the main composer and arranger for Katonah, N.Y.-based jazz quartet Sweatshop, Edan Dover explores the endless creative horizons of modern jazz. He began his classical training on piano at age 7 and has been studying jazz with pianist...

Eddie Baccus Sr. Quartet (keyboard)

Eddie Baccus Sr. is a Legendary Blind Jazz organist known across the United States along with his son Eddie Baccus Jr.of Pieces of a Dream

Eddie Gatlin (guitar, electric)

I bring a unique new sound of music that blends the styles of jazz,blues, and rock. My musical influences include Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Vaughan, and many other guitarist.

Eddie Lang (guitar)

Eddie Lang was the first Jazz guitar virtuoso. A boyhood friend of Joe Venuti, Lang took violin lessons for 11 years but switched to guitar before he turned professional in 1924 with the Mound City Blue Blowers. He was soon in great...

Edward Simon (piano)

The process by which Simon became an internationally regarded jazz musician began in the small coastal town of Cardón, Venezuela, where he grew up surrounded by the sounds of Latin and Caribbean music. Born in 1969, Simon credits his...

Edwin Hawkins (vocal)

A trailblazing force behind the evolution of the contemporary Gospel sound, Edwin Hawkins remains best known for his 1969 classic "Oh Happy Day," one of the biggest gospel hits of all time and a major pop radio smash as well. Born in...

Eitan Kenner (piano)

Eitan Kenner is a NY/Boston based pianist, composer, arranger, and songwriter.

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)

Eivind Aarset is a guitarist with a unique musical vision that absorbs and reflects all manner of music while retaining an enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from quiet intimacy to searing intensity. His...

Eldad Tarmu (vibraphone)

American vibraphonist of Israeli origin Eldad Tarmu is currently activating in the New York area, after teaching four years as a professor of Jazz Studies at Tibiscus University in Timisoara, Romania. He holds a Masters Degree in...

Eli Bennett (sax, tenor)

At age 18, award-winning tenor saxophonist and composer Eli Bennett is recognized as one of the most compelling young saxophonists in North America and is currently attending Humber College in Toronto on a full scholarship. He has...

Eliane (guitar, electric)

eliane - singer, guitar player and composer Eliane, singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist was born in Switzerland and moved to New York in 1998 to attend the New School University for Jazz and Contemporary music from which she...

Elie Massias (guitar)

Born in Gibraltar, a small peninsula on the southernmost tip of Spain, musician, singer and songwriter Elie Massias, moved to New York in 1994 and since has garnered critical acclaim and has played on and produced dozens of...

Ella Tadmor (vocal)

Ella Tadmor Is a young and fresh jazz singer. With her classical vocal training and her theatrical ability, Ella developed the traditional Jazz into her own original style. Ella grew up in Israel and has a BA from the Jerusalem music...

Ellen Demos (vocal)

I was born in Boston Massachusettes. My early education included formal training in voice and classical piano. In my early twenties I found I had more interest in blues and jazz then the classics and began working with various jazz and...

Elvis Stanic (guitar, electric)

Born in the 1963., Rijeka, Croatia, he started to play at the age of 6. After accomplishing a classical music education for the accordeon, he switched to the guitar, and was influenced by the blues, rock and jazz music. In following years...

Emilio Marinelli (piano)

Studied piano since the age of 10 anni, took his diploma at “Conservatory of Santa Cecilia” in Rome. Aged 18 anni he started his career as a professional pianist while refining his tecnique with some of the best italian pianists:...

Emilio Solla (piano)

Mr Solla got his degree in Classical Piano from the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires in 1986. He studied composition, arranging, counterpoint, improvisation and conducting in Buenos Aires, Barcelona and New York. His former...

Emily Bezar (vocal)

Emily Bezar is an alchemist, a truly unique singer and composer who draws freely from classical, jazz, rock, pop and electronic music to create a sound world all her own. Her soaring voice and keyboard- centric arrangements have earned her...

Ensemble Fleur de Lys (band/ensemble/orchestra)

In Canada, there are two official languages: English and French. While English is spoken in basically every province, French is spoken mainly in Québec. The province of Québec has a beautiful musical tradition that goes back a long way....

Enzo Nini (sax, tenor)

MUSICAL TRAINING Enzo, flute graduated under the guide of Jean Claude and Laurent Masi, followed the firsts jazz seminaries of Siena Jazz studying sax with Claudio Fasoli(1978) and playing in the big bands directed from Enrico Rava and...

Ergo (composer/conductor/leader)

Ergo's music is one of stark melodic beauty, enveloping electro-acoustic texture and empathic imagination. In attempts to describe their sound critics have compared them to music as diverse as Duke Ellington, Autechre, Sigur Ros, Sun Ra,...

Eric Clapton (guitar)

Eric Patrick Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in his grandparents’ home at 1 The Green, Ripley, Surrey, England. He was the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. 7 January 1929, d. March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (b. 21...

Erik Charlston (vibraphone)

Jazz vibraphonist Erik Charlston, a native of Chicago, has a diverse career centered in New York, where he currently leads his JazzBrasil sextet. Charlston has also performed and recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Fred Hersch, Steve Coleman,...

Evan Marien (bass, electric)

Art of Life Records is pleased to present bassist and composer Evan Marien's recording debut for Art of Life Records. Joining Evan on "Between Worlds" are Jovol Bell on drums, Andy Berman on guitar, David Fiuczynski on fretted and fretless...

Exploration Saxaphone Quartet (saxophone)

Newly formed free jazz saxaphone quartet

Fabio Mancini (piano)

Fabio Mancini, born in Milan on 19th august 1967, has completed his studies under M° Costante Ferrari, Enzo Corti and Rosanna Re, obtaining his organ and organ composition degree in 1989 at Milan's "G.Verdi" Music Conservatory and his...

Fabrizia Barresi (vocal)

I was born in Rome, Italy, in 1959. After completing bilingual studies in Italy at the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome, I received a diploma in “Baccalauréat ès Lettres et Philosophie” from the Université de Grenoble (France). After...

Fay Victor (vocal)

In command, infectious, energetic and strong: Fay Victor hypnotizes audiences, whether she sings a blues, sculpts a free improvisation piece, reinvents a Herbie Nichols tune through her own lyrics, or effortlessly scats over the harmonies...

Federico Ughi (drums)

"Federico Ughi is characteristically splendid, his drums serving as much more than a rhythmic undercurrent..." Steven Loewy, Cadence Magazine Federico Ughi is a drummer and composer based in New York. Federico Ughi's music infuses the...

Fidel Cuellar (piano)

Pianist, composer and arranger. Born in Bogotá Colombia. Fidel's musical education began with studies at Universidad Javeriana’s Jazz Performance Program, under the tutelage of Colombian and German instructors. Fidel performed and...

Fiidla (violin)

FIIDLA is a London born-NYC raised virtuoso, who plays 10 instruments, especially 1 very funky 5 string violin. A former member of Spaceman Sun Ra's - Arkestra, Fiidla spent time fronting the pop group Surface, and playing on Hip-Hop...

François Richard (flute)

François Richard was born October 9, 1956. His father is a photographer and his mother a musician. François Richard inherited of a sound musical education. At the age of 10, he had the privilege to be tutored by the great master of...

Franca Masu (vocal)

The prime representative of the Catalan-rooted culture of Alghero, a fisherman’s village in northern Sardinia, the singer Franca Masu breathes and transmits an artistic spirit filled by both land and sea, as well as a progressive...

Frank Anthony Bruno (bass, electric)

Born in Mt Vernon NY, son of Anthony and Palma Bruno (more to come)

Frank Vignola's Gypsy Grass (guitar, acoustic)

One of the premier acoustic jazz guitarists on the scene today, Frank Vignola has launched a new all-star collective featuring some of the acoustic music scene's hottest young players. Melding contemporary gypsy jazz, bluegrass,...

Fred Taylor (drums)

Fred Taylor is a drummer, pianist, composer and arranger, born in Spokane Washington in 1954. He started classical piano studies at the age of 5 with Rosalyn Moldenhauer at the Spokane Conservatory, then drums starting at age 10 with Fred...

G P Hall (guitar)

An original 'Guitarist', world renowned for playing his own original compositions. G P Hall is credited with inventing the genre known as "Industrial Sound-Sculptures". He is a skilled Flamenco improvisor, who prefers the 'Manitas school...

Gabor Szabo (guitar)

An innovative musician who combined the folk music of his native Hungary with his passion for jazz, Gabor Szabo began his study of the guitar at the age of 14. Following a single free lesson that came as a gift with his first instrument,...

Gadjes Band (guitar, slide)

http://nogypsy.narod.ru/newsite/eng_site/resume/resume.htm The word "gadjo" means "not gypsy", thereby "Gadjes Band" is a non-gypsy band that plays gypsy jazz. "Gadjes Band" was formed in 2004 by Russian blues and jazz guitarist Eugene...

Gail Marten (vocal)

Born in Philadelphia, Gail Marten (Divac/Hurlbrink/Cooke) began her singing career in 1980 shortly after moving to Maryland. Performing throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Marten has captivated audiences at music festivals, concert venues,...

Garden Heights Jazz Project (guitar)

The seasoned instrumentalists of the Garden Heights Jazz Project will add a touch of class to any special event. With a deep repertiore ranging from smooth jazz versions of contemporary pop and classic rock to early jazz standards the...

Gary Husband (drums)

Gary Husband is one of a rare breed of musicians in that his expression is divided equally in his capacity as a drummer and a keyboardist of international repute. His classical roots, his quest and development in the improvisational, jazz...

Gary Schwantes (saxophone)

Gary Schwantes has developed a unique and compelling voice on saxophone and bamboo flutes, and as a composer and arranger. Based in San Francisco, he is founder and Artistic Director of ULTRA WORLD X-TET and produced the group's debut CD...

Gary Wright (keyboard)

Visionary songwriter, performer and all-around musical pioneer Gary Wright has spent more than thirty years shattering conventional ideas about how to make chart-topping rock music. Not only have his classic songs “Dream Weaver”,...

Gato Barbieri (saxophone)

Mystical yet fiery, passionately romantic yet supremely cool…You hear those first few notes from that instantly recognizable tenor and know you’re in the unique musical world of Gato Barbieri. Beginning professionally as a...

Günter Wehinger (flute)

Günter Wehinger, born in Austria where he earned a conservatory degree in 1982, subsequently moved to the USA in 1987 to study with the great James Newton in Los Angeles. After a two year period in San Francisco, he returned to Europe. He...

Ged Brockie (guitar)

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Geoffrey Armes (various)

Geoffrey has honed a musical approach that walks a knife-edge between the singer-songwriter and ambient club or world fusion approach to music making. Improvising is an important process in Geoffrey's intuitive composing style. The UK...

Geokoo (guitar)

George Koutras (geokoo) was born in Athens in 1981. He bought his first guitar at age 14 and for the next three years he taught himself to play rock ’n’ roll and the blues. At 17 he decided to devote himself to gardening. Eventually...

George Bradley (sax, alto)

Playing the sax for approx. 14 years (tenor and alto)

George F. Spicka (piano)

Pianist GEORGE F. SPICKA has composed over 500 diverse works ranging from jazz, to electro-acoustic, to chamber and contemporary classical, music for worship and educational purposes. A member of the Baltimore Composers Forum since 1994,...

George Preston Herrett (guitar, electric)

Dave George hails from Virginia and had played all over the East Coast since the early 1990's. With roots in the blues and classic & prog rock music, Dave soon discovered jazz and improvisation and "ain't been right since". He was doing...

Gifrants (guitar)

With over thirty years of composing and performing experience, Gifrants has reached a new plateau in his unique and sultry genre of fused jazz and traditional pan-Caribbean music. This seasoned artist has entertained the east coast with...

Gil Scott-Heron (vocal)

“I consider myself neither poet, composer, nor musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth they hope may lead to peace and salvation.” He has been opening eyes, minds and souls for...

Gillian Harwin (vocal)

Californian turned New Yorker Gillian Harwin is a songwriter, producer, arranger, band leader, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She sings in multiple languages and accompanies herself playing either guitar or upright bass. She otherwise...

Giorgio Dini (bass, acoustic)

Starts studying the Double Bass in 1984 with Enrico Fazio; under his guide he learns the classical technique (Simandl, Bottesini, Montanari, Bill�) and learns the principles and the meanings of the so-called Ananguarde Music. Today he is...

Giovanni Amato (trumpet)

ompositore di notevole spessore, ottimo arrangiatore, Giovanni Amato è un musicista dotato di uno swing eccezionale unito ad uno scorrevolissimo fraseggio boppistico. Il tocco morbido e potente, la musicalità versatile e spontanea sono...

Giovanni Lo Cascio (drums)

Bio: GIOVANNI LO CASCIO composer/drummer/percussionist I was born in Rome in 1963 and start studying music in 1969 with Maestro Vincenzo Ricciuti. In 1976, I studied drums privately with Ivano Nardi and then with Roberto Gatto....

Glenn Barton (sax, tenor)

Formed in the fall of 2007 when brothers Sean Dougherty (guitar) and Kevin Dougherty (bass) were encouraged by their music instructor (Christopher Vance) to learn jazz standards. They formed a jazz trio called Uncle Melon with their life...

GoGo Penguin

Manchester piano trio GoGo Penguin are hotly tipped as the rising stars of the UK Jazz scene. Featuring pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner, GoGo Penguin are an exhilarating live act, drawing on a...

Goh Kurosawa (guitar)

Growing up in a supportive family environment where listening to live classical orchestra music was encouraged, Goh Kurosawa become a frequent visitor to symphony concert halls since the age of three. This was also the time he started...

Golden Smog (guitar)

The group first came together in the Minneapolis area in 1989 as a country-rock reaction to the punk and hardcore music that dominated the Twin Cities' musical scene at the time; eventually Golden Smog became something of a fixture at...

Goran Kajfes (trumpet)

Goran is of Croatian heritage, grown up in Sweden in a family of musicians and artists. He is, since many years, an obvious authority at the very core in the Swedish music scene. A sought after session player, touring musician, arranger...

Gordon Brisker (sax, tenor)

Gordon Brisker, M.A. (Cal.St.U.L.A.) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and has had a long and successful career as a jazz musician, most notably performing with and/or writing for the Woody Herman Band, Anita O'Day (as M.D.), Louie Bellson,...

Green Apple Independent Group (keyboard)

Green Apple Independent Group is an assemblage of artists/musicians/producers who are well-versed in several genres of music [Pop/R&B/Instrumental/Jazz] and have now released their first CD "Rare Find"! We hope you enjoy what...

Greg Burrows (drums)

Greg Burrows is a drum set and multi-percussion player based in The Bronx, New York City. Performance styles/specialties: Jazz, multi-ethnic ("world music"), funk/soul, samba/bossa nova, calypso, chicha (Peruvian Cumbia), bluegrass/folk,...

Greg Heffernan (cello)

Greg "Cosmo D" Heffernan is a versatile cellist whose musical passions have led him to work in improvisation, jazz and electronic music. Greg is currently based out of New York City and works as a freelancer, bandleader and...

Greg Kelley (trumpet)

Greg Kelley began studying the trumpet at age 10. He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where in addition to studying the Conservatory curriculum, he also immersed himself in a deep study of avant- garde and...

Greg Smith (guitar)

Playing guitar since 1966, Greg has played in many styles, ranging from classical, through rock,blues,country, straight ahead jazz and smooth jazz, and all the way to free jazz. He attended Berklee College of Music in 1973 and has studied...

Gregoire Maret (harmonica)

Before he even hit 30 years of age, Grégoire Maret became the most sought after harmonica player behind legends Toots Thielemans and Stevie Wonder. Influenced by both, Maret has managed to find his own voice on the instrument. His...

Gritz (drums)

Born in Salg�tarj�n, it is after the VAT that Peter Gritz can enter to the Higher Academy of Jazz of Budapest. 2 years later, he records his first disc with two of his professors, Bela Szakcsi, Gyula Babos. However there are others of...

Guillermo E. Brown (drum programming)

He has Panamanian Caribbean influences from his father and African-American southern influences from his mother. He was nurtured “in music and rhythm,” and received his earliest drum lessons from his grandfather at age four. As a...

Gunter Hampel (reeds)

Louis Armstrong came streaming from the radio of a US army truck (1945) in the backyard of Gunter Hampel's home in Germany, and young Gunter, already immersed in European classical music, became intrigued with this new sound. A...

Gus Giordano (various)

Gus Giordano wrote the highly acclaimed Anthology of American Jazz Dance , the first book of its kind. Giordano organized the first Jazz Dance World Congress in August 1990. This event, co-sponsored by Northwestern University, assembled...

Gustavi Garcia

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Gustavo Assis-Brasil (guitar)

Based in Boston, USA, Gustavo Assis-Brasil began playing the guitar at the age of 13. He attended the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, to get his bachelor in classical guitar in 1995. During those years, he worked as a studio...

Gustavo Casenave (piano)

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Gutbucket (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Gutbucket is a free-range band. The seven-year-old New York quartet is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of stoned jamband freaks, or on an anarchist German art collective...

Guy Kark (guitar)

Jerusalem born composer, arranger, guitar and oud artist. Reflecting the special texture and colors of Canaan, Guy Kark's music travels constantly between eras, and has been inspired by the unusual local musical diversity, as well as the...

Guy Vaingarten (piano)

Pianist, Composer & Music Producer

Hadar Noiberg (flute)

Hadar Noiberg, flutist, composer and arranger, was born and raised in Israel and is currently living in New York City. She attended the music department of Kiriat Sharet high school in Holon, Israel and is about to earn her Bachelor of...

Haftor Medboe (guitar)

Haftor Medbøe is a jazz guitarist, composer and educator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Jazz Musician in Residence and Lecturer in Composition at Edinburgh Napier University, and has numerous film, television and mult-media...

Hank 'Sugarfoot' Garland (guitar)

Hank Garland was born in Cowpens, South Carolina on November 11, 1930. He began taking guitar lessons when he was six years old from a neighbor. At fifteen years of age he joined Paul Howard's Georgia Cotton Pickers and with them, played...

Hannes De Kassian (guitar)

Hannes De Kassian’s music is a process of continual discovery and reinvention. For the Austrian-born, New York–based guitarist and composer, making music is the ongoing search to mine the spiritual, to delve deeper and deeper into our...

Hannes Fankhauser (bass, acoustic)

Acoustic Bass Player. Lumahama Jazz and Beyond, Sulp, Old Bax, 000 wieso, fankYbasso,

Hans Tammen (guitar)

Hans Tammen creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds,...

Harley Card (guitar)

Harley Card is a Toronto based guitarist and composer. He earned a diploma in Applied Music from Mohawk College in 2003 and a Bachelor Degree in Jazz performance from the University of Toronto in 2006. Harley studied with Phil Nimmons,...

Harold O'Neal (piano)

For Harold O’Neal, the emphasis is on the experience of the music, rather than the genre. “Through my compositions and improvisations, most important to me is the hope to expand the sonic awareness of my listeners and bring about a...

Harrison Goldberg (saxophone)

Harrison Goldberg's departure from mainstream jazz began in 1992 with formation of the performance art collaborative Tabula Rasa. This four piece ensemble undertook an...

Harry Partch (composer/conductor/leader)

Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the greatest and most individualistic composers of all time, was not only a great composer, but an innovative theorist who broke through the shackles of many centuries of one tuning system for all of...

Harvey G Brooks (bass, electric)

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Harvie S (bass)

Any jazz fan will tell you Harvie S is one of the great bass players on the scene today. He's played with the best and he continues to challenge himself and his peers in new artistic directions. Moreover, Harvie is a producer, ...

Hasan Abdur-Razzaq (sax, alto)

My name is Hasan Abdur-Razzaq. My art forms include saxophone, cello, hand percussion, acrylic painting, linoleum block prints, and computer art. I am also a collector of jazz periodicals, historical information, photography, and...

HasHaveHad (band/ensemble/orchestra)

You can hear HasHaveHad at http://hashavehad.bandcamp.com/ HasHaveHad is a boundary-pushing instrumental quartet led by bassist/composer Russ Flynn and based in Brooklyn. Their palette ranges from bombastic punk-jazz to dreamy...

Havana Carbo (vocal)

HAVANA CARBO BIO © 2010 • “Your singing is truly exquisite! Bravo!!!” Gabriel Yared, January 2010 Havana born, US raised, Cuban-American singer/composer HAVANA CARBO, née Gladys Lourdes Margarita Carbo Ramiro Garcia y de la Torre,...

Håkon Storm-Mathisen (guitar)

Håkon Storm-Mathisen (born 1967, Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist, composer, and teacher. Håkon received his formal education at the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen, where he was supervised by Ole Kock-Hansen (The Danish...

Headless Household (band/ensemble/orchestra)

A slippery vehicle of a band which takes liberal detours around its jazz basis, Headless Household has often ventured into rock, polka, free improv, and surf territory in search of...something to do. They released their eponymous debut...

Heikki Sarmanto (piano)

Composer and pianist Heikki Sarmanto is a leading Finnish jazz scene figure who has been internationally praised for his symphonic, orchestral and jazz ensemble works. During the early 1960s, Sarmanto studied at the Sibelius Academy in...

Heinrich von Kalnein (saxophone)

Born in Baden-Baden, Germany, Heinrich von Kalnein has lived in Austria for for more than 25 years , where he figures among the most high-profile musical personalities. As saxophonist and flutist open to many stylistic facets he developed...

Helen Savari Renold (vocal)

Helen Savari Renold, once a member of the Malaysian duet Cenderawasih (EMI artistes of Malaysia from 1982-1990) is an alumni of Berklee College of Music '88. At present she is the educational director of the Swiss youth development...

Helen Sherrah-Davies (violin)

After many years as a noted classical performer and educator in her native Britain, five-string violinist and composer Helen Sherrah-Davies relocated to Boston, graduated from Berklee College of Music Summa Cum Laude (with the “Most...

Helge Nysted & Arne Hiorth (flugelhorn)

Arne Hiorth is an experienced musician, composer , producer, teacher and project coordinator. Hiorth has worked with top artists in Norway, like Mari Boine, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Anja Garbarek , Oslo Groove Company ( Spellemann Award for...

Helmut Lipsky (violin)

Born in Germany, Helmut Lipsky studied violin with Abraham Comfort at the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland where he received degrees in performance and pedagogy. He continued his studies in New York, working for three years with...

Henry Cook (flute)

Henry Cook is a multi-reed player, whose instruments include alto and baritone saxophones, flute, alto and bass flutes, and a variety of folk woodwinds. His passion for many styles of music, including blues, funk, latin as well as African...

Henry Grimes (bass, acoustic)

The Miraculous Return of the Great Henry Grimes!

Master jazz musician (acoustic bass, violin) HENRY GRIMES has played nearly 5OO concerts in 28 countries (including many festivals) since 2OO3, when he made his astonishing return to...

Henson-Conant (harp)

Known for her renegade image, evocative singing voice and a stage presence that combines bigger-than-life with down-to-earth authenticity, her shows blur the line between musical performance and theatrical event. Over the past 25 years,...

Herbie Lovelle (drums)

Herbie or Herb Lovelle (1 June 1924 - April 8, 2009) was a versatile American drummer, who played Jazz, R & B, rock and folk. He was also a studio musician and an actor. Lovelle's uncle was drummer Arthur Herbert. Lovelle began his...

Herbie Mann (flute)

The world according to flutist and composer Herbie Mann was a utopian musical paradise where jazz is made up of of Afro-Cuban, Middle-Eastern, R&B, and nearly every other kind of music. In the 1960s, he discovered Brazil's bossa-nova; in...

Hermann Buhler (saxophone)

Hermann Bühler (*1962), composer, musician, teacher, lives in Zürich. Instruments: Saxophon, Clarinet, Guitar. Studies (lic. phil., MA University Zurich) in musicology and east asian arts. Interests: Improvisation, Jazz, indian music,...

House of Waters

House of Waters is a Brooklyn based band with a global sound. Drawing inspiration from Africa, India, South America, and Jazz, the band is, as TimeOut NY states “a sight to behold.” House of Waters is hammered dulcimer virtuoso...

Howard Roberts (guitar, electric)

Howard Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1929. He began playing guitar at age 8 and by age 15 was playing gigs in and around the Phoenix area. In 1950 (at age 20) Howard decided to move to Los Angeles, and through hard work and...

Hugh Marsh (violin)

Electric violinist Hugh Marsh is widely recognized as Canada's leading improvising violinist. He has toured, recorded or played with Bruce Cockburn, Loreena Mckennitt, Peter Murphy, Robert Palmer, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Brecker, Randy...

Hugo Alves (trumpet)

He was born in Lagos - Portugal, and he is an autodidactic musician, having initiated his musical studies at about seven years of age in the city..s philharmonic. In 1991 it is in Faro that finds a small jazz community made up of local...

Humanfolk (percussion)

HUMANFOLK is a world music project between Johnny Alegre (guitar, vocals, percussion, piano), Susie Ibarra (kulintang, drums, percussion, voices) and her husband, Roberto Juan Rodriguez (drums, percussion), together with Cynthia...

Hungry March Band (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Roaring out of Brooklyn NYC, the Hungry March Band is the greatest brass march band of all time. The HMB is based in New York City. We are a community group with a membership as diverse as our music. Put on your dancing shoes and break out...

Ian M. Davis (drums)

Ian Davis started drumming at 15 as an R&B drummer with The Barons, playing gigs on the South Carolina "chittlin' circuit" with Earl Davis, George McCauley, Craig Washington, Phil Griffin, and "Cool" John Ferguson. He played folk and...

Ian Petillo (drums)

“Legacy Jazz Band brings ambiance and sophistication to any affair” Legacy Entertainment specializes in music for all occasions: corporate functions, private parties, cocktail hours, weddings receptions, ceremonies and concert venues....

Iconoclast (band/ensemble/orchestra)

ICONOCLAST is a duo from New York City comprised of Julie Joslyn (alto saxophone, live electronics, violin, vocals) and Leo Ciesa (drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals). Ciesa and Joslyn have been composing and performing together...

Ilona Knopfler (vocal)

On “Live the Life,” her new release for Mack Avenue, French chanteuse Ilona Knopfler makes a strong musical statement that further defines her place in the jazz world. The CD features twelve timeless songs from the pens of such...

Infantree (guitar)

Trees are carbon dioxide reducing, erosion preventing, oxygen producing, majestic, and sturdy life-forms that grow with their environment. These wise, woody creatures inspired young Alex Vojdani (vocals, lyrics, guitar, keys),...

InPravda

Olga Dikaya (Dyachkovskaya) and Slava Moroz are classically trained musicians who have performed extensively around US and Europe. After one of their concerts in Woodstock a local recording engineer and a promoter Carlito Steen approached...

Insect Brain (sequencing)

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Intelligent Audio (producer)

Intelligent Audio is a London based record label, split into 2 streams: IA1 is for deep, tech house and all kinds of techno. IA2 is anything NOT house and techno. Expect broken beat, nu jazz, downtempo, chill out, lounge, smooth jazz,...

Iris Ornig (bass)

Iris Ornig is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer and a charismatic performer. Her compositions are swinging, stormy, melodic, sensitive, playful, angular and straight-ahead with plenty of twists and surprises. Iris is...

Isaac ben Ayala (piano)

Known within the guild of jazz musicians as one of the most sought-after performers on the jazz scene, the eclectic pianism of Isaac ben Ayala is a one-of-a-kind musical foray into the traditions of Jazz, Classical, African, Latin, and...

Isao Suzuki (bass)

Isao Suzuki Isao Suzuki is the grand master of jazz in Japan. He is a bassist, multi instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, and bandleader. He was born on January 3, 1933 in Tokyo. When he was a college student back in December...

Itai Dattner (piano)

Itai Dattner is a composer and pianist from Israel. His roots are in classical music. He was introduced to jazz in his youth and was influenced by different styles from Bach through Debussy to Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, from...

Iva Bittova (vocal)

Iva Bittová’s countryman Milan Kundera wrote how Europe’s “small nations” form another Europe. The violinist-vocalist may be ‘small nation’ Czech but her musical worldview and visionary creativity acknowledge no borders. Her...

Jack Broad (guitar)

Jack Broad was raised in a musical family in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Miami University on a music scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor Of Music degree. Jack has been fortunate to have studied music with Charlie Banacos, Ben...

Jack Bruce (bass)

JACK BRUCE. The composer, the singer, the multi-instrumentalist, the Legend. Hailed as one of the most powerful vocalists and greatest bassists of his time, his improvisational skill and utterly unique, free-spirited approach to...

Jack Wright (saxophone)

Spring Garden Music began in 1982 as the name given to a bunch of raucous improvisers from Philadelphia. Some of these musicians lived in a house on Spring Garden Street, that was owned by a rambunctious 40-year-old (now 64) saxophonist,...

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Pianist Brian Haas, drummer Josh Raymer, and bassist/effects wizard/guitarist Reed Mathis occupy a rather unique place in the music world. To say that JFJO's music transcends boundaries is an understatement. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's...

Jacob Kaye (drums)

Biography of Jacob Kaye

For more than 20 years, Jacob Kaye musician, drummer,...

Jacob Warren (piano)

Website: www.jacobwarrenjazz.com

Jacob William (bass)

Born and raised in India, Jacob William has arrived via rare routes to play on the vast fields of Jazz and other creatively improvised and composed musics. He grew-up as part of a multicultural family; attended parochial school and...

Jacques Helmus (saxophone)

From the age of five, he studied music theory, then the traditional clarinet in Paris followed by saxophone studies at the conservatory of Lyons (the Lyons school of French classical saxophone) where he achieved a gold medal. Essentially...

Jaime David Vazquez (bass, electric)

Jaime David Vazquez was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and started with classical guitar and music theory lessons at age 16. He entered the Inter-American University to study music education and bought a bass and started gigging with lots...

Jake Shimabukuro (ukulele)

Though many still have trouble pronouncing his last name and the instrument he plays, Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row) is becoming recognized as one of the world's top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay) musicians. His latest release, My Life...

Jake Watson (drums)

Jake has been playing drums for well over twenty-five years. Being involved in numerous performing and recording projects around the country, he brings a great sense of time and direction to the music, as well as knowledge of guitar, bass,...

Jakob Davidsen (piano)

Jakob Davidsen (born in 1969) studied composition and orchestration with, among others, the Danish composers Bo Holten and Niels Marthinsen, and has also toured and recorded with many names from the Danish jazz and world music scene,...

James Armstrong (piano)

James Armstrong has explored concurrent paths in improvisation and modern classical music since his 1979 graduation from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past projects include trios, quartets, and inventions for small...

James Black (drums)

He is one of the key players in New Orleans drumming continuum. In what has to qualify as a lifetime of accomplishments, he played with Cannonball and Nat Adderley, Horace Silver, and Yusef Lateef, and toured with Lionel Hampton. He was...

James Brandon Lewis (sax, tenor)

Saxophonist/composer James Brandon Lewis was exposed to jazz, gospel, and R&B and at an early age began his journey into the realm of music. He attended Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts located in Buffalo NY. Upon...

James Falzone (clarinet)

“Falzone is a remarkable, in-the-moment improviser -- able, as few virtuosi can, to listen as intently as he sings.”
--Larry Kart, Author of Jazz in Search of Itself (Yale University Press)

Composer and clarinetist...

James Kennedy (guitar)

James Kennedy began his musical studies in his local school’s band program. He credits those early teachers with laying a solid foundation of musical knowledge. After a few years in the band program he met his true love, a 6 string...

Jamil Sulieman Nasser (bass, acoustic)

Jamil Nasser (George Joyner) was born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 21, 1932. He attended Booker T Washington along with Louis Smith and Phineas Newborn. He began playing the bass 1949, he was selected to play bass with the school dance...

Jan Kopinski (sax, tenor)

Jan Kopinski has 25 years experience in performing and recording as leader and producer within a number of projects.These include PINSKI ZOO, MIRRORS REFLEKTOR LIVE SOUNDTRACKS to film, KOPINSKI & KONIKIEWICZ GHOSTMUSIC PINSKI ZOO...

Jane Irving (vocal)

JANE IRVING "Biography" A pure individual and a real jazz singer, Jane has a willingness to explore a wide dynamic vocal range. This combined with her unique phrasing and rare ability to interpret a lyric has won her acclaim...

Jared F. Burrell (composer/conductor/leader)

Jared Burrell, Trumpet At a young age, Jared was accomplished in his love of music. He began his education at the University of Amherst, studying Jazz and African American Music Studies; and in 2008 earned his Master of Music, Jazz...

Jason Berman (guitar)

Jason Berman is a New York based jazz guitarist and composer. With the release of his debut album "Mountain of Moonlight" he has established a sound that is uniquely his own. He has studied with many great musicians such as Fareed Haque...

Jason Domnarski (piano)

Since arriving in New York City in 2004, pianist Jason Domnarski has been an active member of the downtown music scene, performing in several different venues with a variety of projects. Following his graduation from Skidmore College,...

Jason Green (guitar)

Jason Green was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973. He began playing guitar at the age of 15 and was immediately bitten by the blues and jazz bug. By the time he was 17, he was already playing professionally in local clubs, with guys more...

Jason Seed (guitar)

Composer/Guitarist Jason Seed’s music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, The Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, Present Music, The Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra (Poland), The Icelandic Symphony’s Vijhalmsson Quartet, The Prometheus...

Jay Smith (piano)

Jay Smith has performed with dozens of groups all over the US and Europe in a wide range of music from bebop and jazz fusion to latin rock and funk. He has worked with groups and musicians as Marcos Reyes (War), Carl Saunders,...

Jazz Punks (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Jazz Punks combines the best of East and West coast jazz, hittin' Bebop and Straight Ahead with a distinct and powerful edge �" often woven with deep undercurrents of classic rock - from Hendrix to Nirvana to Zeppelin: classic jazz...

Jazz Vision Trio (sax, sopranino)

Visionary American Jazz master Dave Liebman , French pianist Jean- Marie Machado, and American multimedia visual artist Barbara Januszkiewicz have teamed up in a wordless conversation, each in their own language responding to the...

Jean Caze (trumpet)

Winner of the 2006 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition, and the 2004 National Trumpet Jazz Competition, Jean Caze has emerged as one of today’s most exciting new voices in jazz. Though only twenty-four, Jean has performed with...

Jean-Christophe Maillard (guitar)

Jean-Christophe Maillard is a French composer, guitarist and pianist, singer/songwriter and arranger native of Pointe-à-Pître, Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Such atypical circumstances: early classical piano studies, life in the...

Jeannie Gagne (vocal)

A world-class vocalist, Jeannie Gagné has sung with Philip Glass, opened for Bare Naked Ladies, performed for NBC-TV with comedians Penn and Teller, toured with reggae legend Frankie Paul, and sings on the soundtrack for the feature film...

Jeannie Tanner (trumpet)

“…Her singing is as lyrical as her trumpet playing, but more subtle and delicately nuanced. The silvery quality of her vocal tone, the pliancy of her rhythms and the originality of her compositions attest to her depth as a jazz...

Jef Neve (piano)

JEF NEVE - www.jefneve.be News : Jef Neve just recorded the music for his next album « Sons of the New World », written for his trio with added five woodwinds & brass and dedicated to the evolution of the new world, which will be...

Jeff Jones (sax, tenor)

Artist Information Biography Jeff Jones Tenor saxophonist,composer,producer,director Jeff jones founded "The People's people",and "The Voice of the people publishing company in 1974 in an effort to contribute aid to people without a...

Jeff Massanari (guitar)

When you think of the Amish countryside, jazz guitar rarely comes to mind. Yet born in Northern Indiana, jazz guitarist Jeff Massanari's roots are firmly placed in the little town of Goshen. Jeff could have easily followed in the footsteps...

Jeffrey Agrell (french horn)

Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell joined The University of Iowa School of Music faculty after many years as a professional orchestral musician. He has won awards as both a composer and a writer, with some one hundred published...

Jeffrey Fisher (composer/conductor/leader)

BIOGRAPHY Jeffrey Fisher's talent and love for music, combined with passionate dedication, led to his success as a prolific composer and performer in groups across the United States. Upon moving back to Southern California’s San...

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (multi-instrumentalist)

Signal To Noise By: Lawrence Cosentino In the notes to his eight-part “digital box set” on Ayler Records, Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut calls himself a “moving portal,” a human receptor communicating “the all-out storm of the world.”...

Jeffrey Witherell (percussion)

Hailing from Portland, ME, Jeffrey K. Witherell is a unique and fearless artist that is stretching and breaking the boundaries of jazz and contemporary music. His music can be described as a musique concrete/avant garde jazz crossover....

Jennifer Bryce (vocal)

Recording artist, Jennifer Bryce "At Last") serves up a cocktail of classic jazz, originals and vintage and contemporary pop & soul a la Tuck and Patti with a shot of Aretha, Annie Lennox and John Mayer stirred in. While her tone and...

Jeremy Carlstedt (drums)

Performed with: Chico Hamilton, Tim Motzer, Andrew Bemkey, Ursula Rucker, Brian Settles, Neil Podgurski, Corcoran Holt, Evan Schwam, Will Connell Jr., Tom Abbs, and many more great musicians. Location: Brooklyn, NY

Jerome Kern (arranger)

Jerome Kern - pianist, composer (1885 - 1945) A colossus of the American Musical Theater, Jerome Kern was born in New York City on Jan. 27, 1885. His first music teacher was his pianist-mother. He later studied at the New York College...

Jesse Cook (guitar)

Born in Paris on 29 November 1964 to photographer and filmmaker John Cook and television director and producer Heather Cook, Jesse Cook spent the first few years of his life moving between Paris, Southern France and Barcelona. As a toddler...

Jesse Selengut (trumpet)

Jesse Selengut is a Brooklyn-based trumpeter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He has had success as a bandleader, film scorer, producer and sideman on over a dozen albums, most noticeably, Huge Voodoo's Affordable Magic...

jessica Care moore (vocal)

jessica Care moore Renaissance Woman jessica Care moore is the CEO of Moore Black Press and founder of the literacy-driven, The Jess Care Moore Foundation, and the founder of Black WOMEN Rock! A musical tribute and educational weekend...

Jets Overhead (multi-instrumentalist)

Our band lives on a massive island that is pigment green with sharp grey mountains moving slowly and peninsula fingers stretching out and snagging the sea. The people in the band are all different heights and all have very different tastes...

Jim Lutz (trombone)

Jim is the bandleader and trombonist in Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, which is currently touring North America. More information is available at Kooza's site. Jim completed his master's degree in jazz...

Jimi Durso & Karla Harby (guitar, acoustic)

Flute and guitar duo.

Joana Machado (vocal)

Born in Funchal, Madeira, in 1978. At age 6, she started her musical journey by taking piano lessons at the local Conservatory. Eleven years later, she moved to Lisbon and took classical singing lessons for a year. Later, in 1998, she...

Joanne Lapointe (vocal)

This "Beverly Sills meets Bette Midler", according to the Grunion Gazette, has performed in many southland theatrical and musical productions including Evita, Sweet and Hot, Bus Stop, H.M.S. Pinafore, Most Happy Fella, Picnic and Among The...

JoAnne Maffia aka THe jojo EXperiment (band/ensemble/orchestra)

JoAnne C. Maffia aka THe jojo EXperiment multi-discipline artist composer-percussionist- writer-director-producer-presenter Advanced Certificate in Music Education CUNY Brooklyn College, May 2010 Master of Arts in Music Composition New...

Jody Redhage (cello)

Called an “adventurous cello songstress” (Time Out New York), cellist, composer, and vocalist Jody Redhage's dual passions for chamber music and new music have led her to participate in an array of cutting-edge projects. Praised for...

Joe Abbatantuono (drums)

Joe holds a B.M. in Music Education in 1998. He also earned a Master of Arts program at New York University in the performance (Jazz Studies) program, in 2000. Joe has studied with musicians of many genres, including jazz greats John...

Joe Miller (guitar)

Please see personal website..... www.soundslikejoe.com

Joe Quintana (guitar)

Joe Quintana is the quintessential journeyman guitarist. Every weekend (and many week nights) he sets up his equipment, tunes his instrument, and performs a full repertoire of music for the local patrons, be they a handful or a hundred....

Joe Rosenberg (sax, soprano)

Soprano saxophonist and composer Joe Rosenberg is a unique and compelling voice in today’s jazz. A 1995 recipient of a Jazz Performance Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Joe has studied with the legendary Joe Viola,...

Joe Sample (piano)

Joe Sample is a pianist of great energy, versatility, and enterprise. He has constantly sought out novel directions to express his ideas. Since his days with the Jazz Crusaders to his multiple solo efforts and countless sideman sessions,...

Joel Harrison (guitar, electric)

As guitarist, composer and vocalist, Washington D.C. native Joel Harrison resists categorization: jazz, African and Indian, contemporary classical, blues and rock all have a place in his unique approach. Remarking on his eclectic approach...

Joel Vanderheyden (saxophone)

A seasoned performer and clinician in both jazz and classical styles, Joel Vanderheyden is a saxophonist, composer and educator from Minneapolis, MN. He has served as Director of Jazz at both the University of Minnesota, Morris and Oakton...

John Amato (guitar)

I have taught guitar (jazz specialty) for over 30 years, and have been playing professionally since 1972. I attended Berklee School of Music in '75 and achieved an A.A degree in Jazz Arranging via correspondence courses. I was a music...

John Berndt (sax, alto)

John Berndt (born 1967) is a musician and organizer based in Baltimore, Maryland who is best known as an extended-technique experimental saxophonist and electronic musician. He participated in the second wave of the neoism cultural...

John Betsch (drums)

John Betsch was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1945 and presently lives in Paris. His mother was a church organist and pianist and his sister a dramatic soprano singer. John began playing drums at age nine and started playing...

John Bishop (drums)

”...a wonderfully creative and fluid percussionist who weaves an often understated but complex web of textures...” - ALL ABOUT JAZZ One of the primary voices in Northwest Jazz for 30 years, drummer John Bishop has performed in...

John Bostock (piano)

John Bostock - composer/improvising musician. Among his composition teachers were: Arie Shapira (Israel) and Anne Boyd (Sydney, Australia), Leon Schidlowsky (Israel) and Ross Edwards (Sydney); jazz piano teachers: Hal Galper(New York)and...

John Butcher (saxophone)

John Butcher was born in Brighton, England and has lived in London since the late 1970s. His music ranges through free improvisation, various structurings, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and work with live electronics,...

John Davey (bass, acoustic)

John Davey has released the CD “You Are Here” with his world music-jazz trio GlobeTrotting, featuring bansuri flutist/multi-reedist Steve Gorn and percussionist Brian Melick. He released his first CD as a leader, entitled "Sound...

John Fahey (guitar, acoustic)

John Fahey - acoustic guitar (1939 - 2001) Acoustic guitarist John Fahey was impossible to classify. His eclectic music included traditional-sounding folk pieces, Indian ragas, blues, and unpredictable modern works, not fitting...

John Lennon (composer/conductor/leader)

John Lennon was the Beatles' most committed rock & roller, their social conscience, and their slyest verbal wit. After the group's breakup, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, carried on intertwined solo careers. Ono's early albums...

John Malino (guitar)

Ask soulful singer and guitarist John Malino who his musical heroes are, and he'll tell you Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix. That may sound like and odd combo, but when you hear the The John Malino Band perform, you canf eel how they...

John McAll (piano)

John McAll is one of Australias More unique jazz pianists and Composers His Style defies pigeonholing and spans many genres From contemporary Classical Afro to Rock. His most recent work"Black Money was recorded at Bennetts New Jersey...

Johnny Mandel (arranger)

The eventful career of Johnny Mandel is grounded by a thorough background in music that has resulted in his being acclaimed in the pantheon of American composers, arrangers, record producers and songwriters. His is a career that has had...

Johnny Smith (guitar)

Guitarist Johnny Smith's career spans the decades of the 1940's through the 1990's. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, many mention Smith as a major influence on...

Jon De Lucia (sax, alto)

Jon De Lucia is a Brooklyn based saxophonist and composer. Originally from Quincy, MA, Jon has become an integral part of the New York scene. Predominantly a student of jazz, he also has a deep interest in the folkloric music and...

Jon Zeeman (guitar)

From the age of 8, Jon Zeeman has been obsessed with guitars, amplifiers, wah-wah pedals, power tubes, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. Growing up outside NYC, he studied classical piano and decided on a...

Jon-Paul Frappier (trumpet)

Jon-Paul Frappier has worked with top names like Aretha Franklin, Destiny's Child, Michael Stewart and Alicia Keys. J.P. is a native Detroiter and is now calling Nashville home. Jon-Paul is a versatile jazz and commercial player, as well...

Jonatha Brooke (vocal)

Jonatha Brooke is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She began her career in the 1980s as one half of the folk duo The Story, and began her solo career in 1994. Her music merges elements of folk, rock and pop, often...

Jonathan Levy (drums)

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Jonathan Powell (trumpet)

Recently voted "Best Latin Jazz Trumpet Player of 2009" (Latin Jazz Corner), young lion Jonathan Powell can not so easily be defined. Sharing the stage and recording studio with such world renown musicians and artists like JT Taylor (Kool...

Jonathan Richman (guitar)

Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions. He's revered by countless...

Joni Mitchell (vocal)

Joni Mitchell as a musical artist, has been restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk styling into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music, presaging the multicultural experimentation of the 1980s and 1990s...

Jose McLaughlin (guitar)

I was born in Liverpool, England, and am a former member of Gerry and the Pacemakers. I now live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia where I am in constant demand as a session guitarist and teacher. I play in a variety of bands including my...

Joshua Jefferson (sax, alto)

Josh Jefferson is a collage artist and a alto saxophone and bass clarinet player whose music can not be easily confined to such limiting descriptions as "noise", "free jazz", "improv", etc. He plays locally in the groups Skinny Vinny, Duck...

Joy Anandasivam (guitar)

Joy Anandasivam is a Montréal based guitarist and composer of multiple disciplines. His music mainly draws from two incredibly rich and different worlds, South Indian classical music, Carnatic and Jazz. His interpretation of Jazz through...

Joya Sherrill (vocal)

In the early 1940s, Duke Ellington discovered a seventeen year old with remarkable poise and singing ability. Joya Sherrill worked with Duke Ellington for a short spell in 1942 and, after writing the lyrics to Take the "A" Train, joined...

Jtr3 (drums)

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Juan Herrera (accordion)

I was born. Then I died. Then I rose again. Then I had a peanut butter sandwhich.

Judith Evicci (vocal)

I am a retired professional jazz standards vocalist, looking for some networking with local jazz musicians who need an occassionals vocalist.

Juergen Reiter (bass)

juergen hits the local music scene of his hometown munich at age 17. shortly after his debut as a bassplayer he plays in the opening act for ray charles. he hones his skills at the sweelinck conservatory of amsterdam, in paris under john...

Julia Dollison (vocal)

Eight years ago, the Washington Post called Julia Dollison "a deeply musical virtuoso with an airy, luminous voice." Four years ago, critics praised Dollison's self-released debut CD "Observatory" as “rare, fresh and substantive”...

Julie Joslyn (sax, alto)

JULIE JOSLYN (Alto saxophone, live electronics, violin, vocals) is a native New Yorker. She studied for a number of years with soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom. She has played with the Indian-influenced rock quintet...

Julius Vasylenko (sax, alto)

Blind from birth, saxist and multi-reedist Julius Vasylenko was born and raised in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. Regaining partial sight at the age of 18 months through experimental optical surgery, he attended Temple Bank School for the...

Jure Pukl (sax, tenor)

Jure Pukl One of the most profilic and creative saxophonists of the younger Slovene jazz generation, Pukl obtained university education abroad. Having completed music high school in Slovenia, he studied classical saxophone at the...

Justin Wood (sax, alto)

Alto saxophonist and flautist Justin Wood began playing saxophone in fifth grade growing up in rural Northern Maine. During high school, he co-led a jazz trio with trombonist Philip Yaeger and brother Tyler Wood on piano, and played gigs...

Kana Dehara (piano)

Born in OSAKA, JAPAN. Kana started to play piano at the age of three. She continued taking private lessons for the next ten years. In that period Kana expanded her knowledge and understanding of music tremendously. When she was eleven...

Kara Johnstad (vocal)

I am singer/songwriter/ producer based in Berlin, Germany. Last two CDs Paths X and Pages of Sand are doing well. Paths X has charted top ten many times at Reverbnation, soundclick, isound, American Idol,...

Karin Okada (vocal)

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Karl Latham (drums)

Karl Latham was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in a musical family. Inspired by his brother Rick, (no relation to the Rick Latham), Karl started playing the drums at the age of 7. Karl has performed with a wide spectrum of...

Katie Elliott (piano)

Classically trained as a flautist and pianist, Katie has been writing and performing music since an early age. After studying at Dartington College of Arts and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she learned to love Balinese gamelan music...

Keith White (bass)

Keith White Musician and Instructor Fretted, Fretless, Midi and Upright basses and guitar k-dub@funkotes.com Home 770.436.7099 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              770.436.7099      end_of_the_skype_highlighting...

Kelli A. Strawbridge (drums)

Drummer Kelli Strawbridge, 24 and taken, loves playing jazz, r&b, funk, rock, alternative or any other style whenever he gets the chance. Kelli also enjoys writing and programming music, walks on the beach, chocolate shakes and playing...

Kelly Roberti (bass, acoustic)

Kelly Roberti is a world-acclaimed musician and composer from Bozeman, Montana. His musical roots reach back over forty-five years to a childhood steeped in all genres by a family of...

Ken Araki (bass)

Hello, this is Ken Araki, the bass player living in Tokyo, playing Jazz, Fusion, Funk and etc... while making a living as a Composer, Arranger, Songwriter and Jazz Educator both bass and composition. My nickname "basskie" given by Quincy...

Ken Edwards (trumpet)

Ken Edwards, trumpet and flugelhorn player, has been an active freelance musician in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for the past 10 years. Ken was a featured soloist while on tour with the legendary jazz trumpeter, Maynard Ferguson, and played...

Ken Serio (drums)

Ken Serio has been playing the drums since the age of 11, and has studied with the great Joe Morello, Kenwood Dennard, and Zak Danziger. He has a large recording and touring list, including Mark Egan, Vic Juris, Ronnie Earl, Bill Turner...

Ken Thomson (saxophone)

Ken Thomson is a Brooklyn-based clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer.

In demand as a composer and freelancer in many settings, he moves quickly between genres and scenes, bringing a fiery intensity and emotional commitment to...

Kendrick Scott (drums)

Kendrick ‘KADS’ Scott was born and raised in Houston, Texas. His initial inspiration and appreciation for music came from growing up in a household of musicians. The first encounters Kendrick had with the drums were in church, where...

Kenneth Salters (drums)

Kenneth Salters started his musical studies at age eleven when he began playing trombone in the sixth grade, but quickly switched to percussion a year later. Kenneth continued to grow in the field of percussion playing in different...

Kenny Rankin (vocal)

In a remarkable recording career that spans three and a half decades, Kenny Rankin has established an impressive set of creative credentials, as an insightful songwriter, a distinctive guitarist and, above all, a world-class singer...

Kerry Marsh (vocal)

Kerry Marsh is a composer and arranger specializing in contemporary music for vocal jazz ensembles. In high demand as a commissioned arranger for many of the nation's top educational vocal and instrumental jazz ensembles, Marsh has a...

Kestutis Stanciauskas (bass, electric)

Kestutis Stanciauskas organized "Streetdancer" as a quartet in 1973. The fundamental purpose for the ensemble was and is to play original compositions using improvisation and original composition as the foundation for creativity. By 1974...

Kevin Diehl (percussion)

Kevin Diehl is a musician/composer whose work centers on extending traditional folk forms to modern contexts. He has immersed himself modern compositions rooted in folk forms, yoruba cultural music, american jazz, Afro Cuban spiritual and...

Khani Cole (vocal)

Khani Cole's assent into the national and international consciousness began after relocating to Phoenix, Arizona from her native Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1992. The move, which initiated many personal changes, sparked the inception of her...

Kim A. Clarke (bass, acoustic)

New York's own Kim Clarke is a multifaceted bassist, composer, website developer and educator. She performs alternately on the Acoustic Bass, Electric Upright and four and five-stringed Electric Bass Guitar as the situation demands. Her...

King Sunny Ade (guitar)

King Sunny Ade - guitar, vocals For more than three decades, King Sunny Ade and his African Beats have been thrilling audiences worldwide with their extraordinary music. The Nigerian singer, guitarist, bandleader, and entrepreneur is...

Kirk Driscoll (drums)

Faculty member of The Brooklyn Conservatory and The Queens Conservatory as well as participant as freelancer for music programs at Columbia ( Perc.), N.Y.U., Drummers Collective to name a few. Active in freelance and leading groups in...

Kjetil Husebø (keyboard)

Kjetil Husebø (aka Optical Substance) is a norwegian keyboard-player and a classically trained piano-player with a background from such varied musical landscapes as:improvisation, electronica, pop, cross-over, folk and jazz. He debued...

Kobi Arad (piano)

Kobi Arad Kobi Arad is one of the most Prominent, Prolific and Versatile pianist-composers-producers emerging from Israel. Having made collaborations with Stevie Wonder (who shows interest in using one of Kobi's songs for his daughter...

Kristin Asbjørnsen (vocal)

Kristin Asbjørnsen is a singer and composer. The last years Kristin’s song has been causing euphoria among reviewers and audiences. Featured on a number of album releases, as well as a series of tours and festival performances in...

Kuni Mikami (piano)

I was born in Tokyo,Japan and came to New York in 1975. I am the last pianist for the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, from 1991 till 2002, I toured all over U.S. and Europe with Hamp. Also I have toured with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Illinois...

L. Brian Maxwell (piano)

With over 35 years of experience in performance, writing, arranging, recording, engineering and production management, his musical influences cover a wide spectrum, from Gershwin and Kern to Steely Dan. Also known as “Woody”, he has...

LA Jazz Underground (various)

LA Jazz Underground is a NuJazz collective based in L.A.'s West Side. DJ's, producers and programmers, live musicians and vocalists, create a sound that is as cool and eclectic as the city itself.

LaDonna Smith (viola)

LaDonna Smith has been on the international new music scene for well over 30 years. An active performer, recently recording and touring with Misha Feigin, Russian guitarist/balalai/poet, recently published an exciting current release,...

Lama (various)

Lama is Nils Martin Larsen. Nils Martin Larsen is Lama. A band that has evolved into its present form over the last 2 years. That is two years of intense song-writing and studiowork to figure out what the thoughts in Larsen's head sound...

Larry Washington (drums)

Drummer * Educator * Producer * Recording Artist * Composer Larry’s passion for music began when he was growing up in Detroit, Michigan. He began playing drums at a very young age, and knew even then that music and performing...

Larry Young (organ, Hammond B3)

A true innovator on the Hammond B3, Young took a different musical path than any of the other organ masters of his time: Although he started out drawing his major influences from the work of Jimmy Smith and the gospel and blues elements...

LaRue Nickelson (guitar)

Guitarist LARUE NICKELSON is a well-known jazz artist in the Tampa Bay area. The LaRue Nickelson Trio has opened for many touring jazz artists and performs regularly in the region. Nickelson has several recordings to his credit, both as a...

Laurence Elder (piano)

Laurence Elder has swiftly established a strong musical presence in the wake of his sold-out CD release concert at the Van Dyke Cafe, in Miami Beach. His fresh, inspired blend of jazz, rock, blues and pop, along with his "triple threat"...

Laurent Medelgi (guitar)

Hailing from Paris, Laurent picked up the guitar at age 12. After a solid year of Classical training, his wantingness to improvise drove him to play Rock Music. Although just a teenager, his adventurous spirit brought him across the...

Laurie Dapice (vocal)

La Re �" Jazz Voicist & Entertainer La Re is one of the most versatile Jazz singers on the contemporary New York circuit today. She is a favorite with both nightclub and Jazz critics. Her extensive repertoire encompasses straight...

Leanne Darling (viola)

Leanne Darling creates a powerful new voice for the viola. She draws from her classical technique, her skills in many musical genres, and her passion for improvisation to break the boundaries of this underused instrument. A versatile...

Leaves (band/ensemble/orchestra)

Leaves are a chicago music collective rooted in the city's free jazz and post-rock atmosphere. Whimsical melodicism combines with spiritual searches to become what is known as Leaves.

Lee Scott (sax, tenor)

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Lee Tomboulian (piano)

Longer version: Pianist/composer/educator Lee Tomboulian has performed on piano, accordion, and keyboards with noted jazz artists Airto, Nat Adderley, Doc Cheatham, Larry Coryell, Jack DeJohnette, Herb Ellis, Eddie Harris, Marc...

Lello Molinari (bass, acoustic)

Bassist, Band Leader, Educator Lello Molinari was born and raised in Naples, Italy. Lello Molinari studied Contrabass at the Scuola Civica in Sesto San Giovanni (MI). In 1985 Lello joined the Italian Vocal Ensemble. With the IVE Lello...

Lennie Niehaus (composer/conductor/leader)

Featured alto sax soloist and arranger for the famous Stan Kenton Orchestra, he has also recorded several albums of his own with jazz greats Mel Lewis, Shelly Manne, Jimmy Giuffre, Hampton Hawes and more. Lennie has also been composer...