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Alan Steward
"Electronic World Fusion", an exotic mix of funk, jazz, world music and electronica" Alan Steward is a producer, songwriter and recording artist who produced hits for Grammy-winning and Platinum-selling artists like...
Albert Marcoeur
Born on the 12th of December 1947, in Dijon (Cote-d'Or)1958 to 1966: Studied clarinet at the National Music and Drama School of Dijon (teacher: Roger Desoomer)
“I'm glad I did it. I must have learnt a thing or...
Alex Ward
Alex Ward was born in 1974. He is a composer, improviser, and performing musician. His primary instruments are clarinet and guitar, and he has also performed in public and on recordings on alto sax, piano/keyboards, bass guitar, and as a...
Alex Weiss
Composer, multi instrumentalist and director for Different Drum, Señor Weiss comes from Farockaway, a small costal village on the edge of New York City. His love of music began as a little boy watching the marching bands parade...Alicyn Yaffee
Graduate of Kelseyville High School.Student at California State University Sacramento. Double Jazz Studies Major. Guitar and Voice.
Alison Marae
San Diego musician, Alison Marae and independent label, Chanteuse Records, released her 6 song debut album on November 1, 2012. The album features four originals written by Alison Marae. Musically inspired by early jazz and lyrically...
Altay Bayram
Kanun(qanun) player from Macedonia. Turkish,Arabic,Grece,Macedonian and Balkan music player. He was born in Skopje - Macedonia and till living in Ohrid. He finished a highscoll and university in Turkey - Istanbul He is one of the best...
Amy Denio
Denio (rhymes with ‘Ohio’ or ‘gennaio’) is a multi- instrumentalist composer and singer based in Seattle, WA. Home-taper since the Dark Ages of Analogue, she started her label Spoot Music in 1986, with the release of her...
Andy Voelker
Andy Voelker is a Berklee trained jazz musician who has studied bebop, hard bop, modern jazz, free jazz, avant guard jazz, and so called noise music. Having embraced the Boston free music scene early on, Andy has been able to incorporate...Beep!
Beep! is a musical collective comprised of pianist Michael Coleman, bassist Nate Brenner and drummer Sam Ospovat. Their music is based on concepts of group interplay, free improvisation, song writing and orchestration in a piano trio...Birds of Chicago
Birds of Chicago, is a collective based around JT Nero and Allison Russell. Whether touring as a duo or with the full family band, Nero and Russell have emerged as two of the most compelling new voices in North American Roots...
Bob Siebert
"LIVE @ STEINWAY GALLERY" was recorded direct to DAT with no editing except for fading on applause. This collection of Standards originally appeared on the old MP3.com website, where it received over 15,000 plays. The trio on this CD was...
Bobby Carcasses
Bobby Carcassés New Album "De La Habana a Nueva York" 9 songs...featuring Dafnis Prieto: drums, Yosvany Terry: saxophone & chekere, Osmany Paredes: piano, Yunior Terry: bass, Marvin Diz: percussion, special guest Andrea Bratchfeld:...
Carosones
In 1949 Renato Carosone founded is own band, almost unknown in an Italy rebuilding itself after WW2. In the next ten years he would go on to write a new page in the “Canzone Napolitana” throughout the world. In his own version of the...Chris Light
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Daniel McDermott
Daniel McDermott is a Irish composer, pianist, producer and multi-instrumentalist (10 instruments). He studied classical piano and guitar from a young age before progressing to Jazz piano/flamenco guitar and tenor saxophone in college. He...David Edward Williams
Bach. Degree in Music Composition Unv. of Md 1991 BFA Corcoran College of Art Wash DC 2007 Art Peformance/ Meat Market Gallery Wash DC 2007 Free Jazz Improv Performance/Solo Piano/ Corcoran College of Art Poetry Reading/Corcoran...
David Leikam
David Leikam is a San Francisco-based composer, designer, improviser, producer, and bandleader of the industrial jazz unit zBug. Being born with cerebral palsy has affected his body and speech, given him a distinct view into his...
David Panton
David Panton was born in the 1940s in the English Midlands where his formative musical experience revolved around singing in the local church choir and later with a mixed voice choir and an amateur operatic society. He began teaching...
Didi Tokaoui
composer, arranger, mixer, remixer and misc ! I'm an ecclectic and multi-instrumentist musician who live in Marseille, in south France after 10 years in Paris as a independant session and band musician, didi tokaoui is the new artist...
Don Thompson
Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist, vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording engineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940. After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bass and the vibraphone in...Dreaming In Colour
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Meeting at a studio in 1997, veteran noise bassist Tony Gordon (Zandosis) takes the young and spirited drummer Dale W Miller (Palomar) under his wing and shows him the ways of truely playing free. Over years of playing together in various...
Eddie Durham
Eddie Durham, one of the most important Swing Era composer/arrangers, was born in San Marcos, Texas, on August 19, 1906. His father played the fiddle at square dances, and his oldest brother, Joe, who played cello briefly with Nat King...EL's MystERy
EL's MystERy (BMI) is the name of Crater Rock Music, LLC jazz fusion recording artist and composer, Tony Belcastro: a high functioning autistic savant with Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) who plays guitar, bass, percussion, drums,...Eric Haltmeier
Eric Haltmeier is an active performer on woodwinds, keyboards, and electronics. He has recorded and performed with 'Space Genetics' with Paul Scea, the 'Car Music Project' (an ensemble of instruments made from car parts), 'Stop Correcting...
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels The composer and director Heiner Goebbels (*1952) belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published by » Ricordi Munich are...
Highland Park Pops Big Band
The Highland Park Pops Big Band is a 17-piece jazz band that plays swing tunes, jazz favorites, dance music and big band standards. Performing primarily in the northern Chicago suburbs, the Highland Park Pops Big Band is interested in...
Hugo Fattoruso
Hugo Fattoruso was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1943. Fattoruso is a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.[1] As well as developing a career as a soloist, he has participated and performed in many different genres: Trio...
James Gordon
James Alex Gordon A Musical Biography Friends call him by the name of: Jim Birthplace: San Francisco, California Happy - with 2 Children 1 Grand Child : ) Vocals-Lead Trumpet-Tenor Saxophone,Piano Other instruments: Synthesizer,...
James Henry Smith
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Jeff Brent
Piano lessons, guitar lessons, sax lessons, fiddle lessons, flute lessons, harmonica lessons, mandolin lessons. Styles taught: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, Latin, C&W, R&B, and more! Jeff Brent has toured all over the world as a professional...
Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut
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.”...Jessica Fichot
Armed with four languages and an array of instruments, Jessica Fichot is making world music that's truly universal. Drawing from her multinational background, Jessica has created a fusion of French chanson, gypsy jazz, vocal jazz and...
Jets Overhead
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...
Joe Blessett
First instrument alto sax, moved on guitar, explored with synths first korg poly 800 and discovered that with a sequencer attach to couple of drum machines I could create much more. I have graduate to professional equipment, but the...
Jon Goforth
Jon Goforth Jon Goforth is known as a captivating musical storyteller with many voices. His music career spans thirty years during which he has performed live and been recorded many thousands of times. Yet every time Jon picks up an...Joshua Geisler
Joshua Geisler plays the Bansuri, the North Indian Bamboo Flute, with a flowing, highly ornamented style that effortlessly weaves together Indian Classical Music and Jazz. With solid roots in both East and West, his music is at the same...Justin Lewis
Has played guitar from mid teens, adding trumpet flute and alto/soprano sax since twenties.
Kevin Spears
Considered by many as one of the best kalimba players alive today, Kevin KalimbaMan Spears gift on electric kalimba/sanza has astounded audiences around the world. He is a performer of exceptional virtuosity and creativity who balances the...
Lajos Ishibashi-Brons
Lajos Ishibashi-Brons was born in the Netherlands in the early 1970s, but moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2008. He has been making music since the 1980s, but rarely professionally. Most of his projects mix(ed) influences from jazz, noise, drone,...Mambo Legends Orchestra
The former musicians of the Tito Puente Orchestra have come together as the Mambo Legends Orchestra. The Mambo Legends Orchestra brings all of its incredible musicians together under their new name to bring their music to an international...
Marc Constant
Marc Constant - Multi-Instrumentalist & Composer. Marc Constant is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Haiti. Marc started his music education by taking private lessons from his cousin Marcelin Denis. He continued his music studies...
Mario Rechtern
Born in Berlin 1942, he began playing the saxophone as a teenager. At that time he claims he had a lot of sounds to penetrate and questions to ask. While officially playing clarinet and violin he had to hide his first saxophone from...Max Vasquez
An Award Winning Composer(Los Angeles Music Awards Best Jazz Album and Best Lounge Artist 2006), since 1978, Max embraces all styles of music with a keen instinct for the nuances of each genre he excels in. At the age of nine, he performed...
Melvin Taylor
Life and times of Blues Guitarist Melvin Taylor Melvin Taylor was born in 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi. His musical roots however have always been in Chicago, where he moved with his music-loving, guitar playing family when he was just...Miguel Serrat
Miguel Serrat started playing Latin percussion as a young boy. He studied Latin Percussion, Rhythm, Afro-Caribbean Rhythms and Merengue/Salsa Ensemble with local Latin percussion legends. He continued his studies and by the age of sixteen...
MuthaWit
{{m: MUTHAWIT = 19873}} featuring BOSTON FIELDER There's a difference between being immersed in music and getting lost in it. If the former is protective and predictable, the latter revels in chance and the unexpected. MuthaWit?...NejtekTichySmetacek
The abbreviation NTS means the common project of three musicians with different genre background: composer of contemporary art-music and keyboard player Michal Nejtek, jazz double-bass player Petr Tichý and the rock drummer Štěpán...
Nicola Conte
To comprehend fully Nicola Conte's music originality and sensibility we should refer, together with his productions, to the unavoidable Fez's activity, a cultural movement founded by Conte himself in Bari in the early nineties. A real...Octavia
Oktawia Kawecka, born in Radom, Poland, is a vocalist, flute player, arranger, and also the leader of her own band. She performs her own arrangements- different shades of jazz, worldwide standards of classical music which she arranges...Painted on Water
SERTAB ERENER has been among the most acclaimed female artists on the Turkish pop music scene for over 15 years. A conservatory-trained coloratura soprano, Erener’s versatility in opera and pop styles has won her an army of devoted fans,...Paolo Lazazzara
Born in 1956, start playng percussion and flutes in '73, some very important encounters (Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, Nana Vasconcelos, pandit Pran Nath)made me grow up musically. Years of travels in Europe, Africa, Central America and...
Randy Raine-Reusch
Randy Raine-Reusch is a composer, concert-artist and improvisor specializing in New and Experimental Music for world instruments. An innovator interested in extending the boundaries of music, he has created distinct new performance styles...Ras Moshe
1.What brought you to music? I always loved music.Jazz especially,but many kinds of music. Its hard to describe why. It was just always there..its still like that! I heard Jazz everyday in the house..that's not too unique because lots of...Rebel Alliance Jazz Ensemble
Dallas-based big band formed in June '08--currently plays regularly every Tuesday night at Pearl in downtown Dallas. 2038 Commerce Street.
Rory Hoffman
Rory Hoffman is a Nashville based guitarist, keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist. Raised on a small ranch in North Dakota, Rory grew up recording and touring with the family Gospel band. He started teaching himself to play guitar and...
Sabir Mateen
Sabir Mateen - Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Flute, Piccolo, Bb & Alto Clarinets Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Poet The name Sabir Mateen has been one to deal with and listen to. Originally from Philadelphia (b. April 16th 1951), he moved...
Sepha
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SEPHA - Multi-Artist : Composer/ Singer Songwriter/ Improvisationalist/ Multi-Instrumentalist/ Walking Art/ Planet XG
Stanley Jason Zappa
Stanley Jason Zappa was a special guest at the 2008 edition of the Zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany. Tenor saxophonist Stanley Jason Zappa is into experimental and free jazz. He has performed with Jacob Hall (bass) and...Stefano Zorzanello
Stephen Zorzanello, musician, composer and scholar, was born in Vicenza in 1969. Since 1997,he has conducted research in the field dealing with oral history, anthropology and soundscape for RAI Radio 3 audiodocumentari Cimbra dedicated to...Stephan Earl
Embodying elements of Jazz, Rock, Down-tempo and New Age, composer / producer Stephan Earl’s music flows across stylistic boundaries yet is focused on the principals of melody, harmony and rhythm. Enchanting and thought-provoking,...Steve Hall
Steve grew up in Palo Alto, CA. Playing guitar and performing in bands, he decided that music was to be his life's calling. Early on he became a huge fan of blues artists BB King, Bobby "Blue" Bland and Little Junior Parker. During high...
Steve Moore
Steve Moore (aka Stebmo) is a multi-instrumentalist hailing from Seattle, WA. Known as a pianist, with a love for wurlitzers, casiotones and bells, he is also a trombonist and composer. As a studio musician and sideman, he has a resume...Steven Gauci
In 1977 Steven Gauci walked into a small basement studio in London, Ontario to record a handful of cover songs as a member of Evelyn Anarchy and the Virginity Destroyers, and 35 years later has just completed his 5th solo CD. After the...
The Barber Brothers
Twins Rahsaan and Roland Barber, saxophonist and trombonist, respectively, are committed to continuing the legacy of jazz through their efforts as composers, performers, bandleaders and educators. Though still in their early twenties, the...The Music Upstairs Project
Feast your eyes on that spin doctor's mixtape. The Music Upstairs Project is the brainchild of 4 MILES Records founder & recording artist Cameron Turner. A well-traveled self-produced multi-instrumentalist, Turner combines his knowledge...
The Recliners
The Recliners, hailing from Austin, TX and now also based in Richmond, VA take the traditional "lounge sound" and zoom-off into galaxies never explored by Sinatra, Jones, or even Humperdinck. In over 15 plus years of existence, The...
Vesturvik
Iceland's “Vesturvik” (pronounced vest-uhr-vihk) is old norse for “Western Bay”. Vesturvik was inspired by merging science, arts, ethnic instrumentation, rockabilly, swing, jazz and electronics into a single project. The velvety...
Victor Feldman
Victor Feldman was born in Edgware, Middlesex in 1934. He caused a sensation as a musical prodigy when he was "discovered" at age 7. His family were all musical and his father founded the Feldman Swing Club in London in 1942 to showcase...Wenda Zonnefeld
Wenda Zonnefeld has a diversified musical background. Growing up in a musical family (everyone played at least one instrument and sang), Wenda was encouraged to pursue various musical interests. She performed in church and school, sang in...
