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Aaron Diehl

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "The most promising discovery that [Wynton] Marsalis has made since Eric Reed," Aaron Diehl's distinctive interpretations of the music of Scott Joplin, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, and...

Aaron Goldberg

For the Boston-born, New York-based Aaron Goldberg, Worlds his 2006 release on the Sunnyside label, is an encyclopedic circumnavigation of his ever-evolving musicality, which began with piano lessons at the age of seven. In high...

Aaron Parks

"Somebody once asked me to find two words that describe the music I make, and the words I picked were ‘spontaneous’ and ‘cinematic,’” says Aaron Parks. Having clarified the essence of his art, the pianist kept those two words...

Ab Kroon

Ab Kroon (1953). Is zijn hele leven al met muziek bezig. Zowel met luisteren als met zelf spelen. In een grijs verleden wel een paar jaren pianoles gehad, maar dat was geen succes. Rond zijn 14e jaar begon hij zelf opnieuw met pianospelen...

Abdullah Ibrahim

Where the African continent geographically descends into the Cape of Good Hope, sits Umlindi Wemingizimu, rising over 3000 feet into the South African sky. This translates into “The Watcher of the South”, today known as...

Abe Rabade

I was born in Santiago de Compostela (Galiza) on September 8, 1977. I began my musical studies at age 4 in the Historic Conservatory of Santiago, where the method employed for beginners was Kódaly -a way of learning that emphasizes...

Achim Kaufmann

Achim Kaufmann (piano, composer, electronics) was born in Aachen, Germany, and has been living in Amsterdam since 1996. He is involved in a number of different projects, some of them all improvised, some of them featuring his own...

Adam Berenson

Classically-influenced jazz pianist/composer Adam Berenson has been described by author and Juilliard professor David Dubal as: "what is needed in our over specialized society-- a true polyartist-- Pianist, Playwright, Composer,...

Adam Birnbaum

Adam Birnbaum is emerging as one of the top young voices in jazz piano. After receiving an Artist's Diploma from Juilliard as a member of the inaugural class in Jazz Studies in 2003, Mr. Birnbaum went on to win the American Jazz Piano...

Adam Bodine

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Adam Bodine Trio

Out of Colorado, USA, The Adam Bodine Trio creates instrumental music with a postmodern attitude and energy that is positive, open-minded, professional and appreciative of its listeners and supporters. Most often categorized as jazz,...

Adam Fairhall

Raised in Cornwall, Adam began, like many pianists, by practising boogie and blues with friends during school lunchtimes. He received piano lessons covering jazz harmony and repertoire in his teens, before moving north to study...

Adam Gray

Adam Gray is a young pianist from south London, UK.

Adam Makowicz

Adam Makowicz - jazz legend, master of improvisation, piano virtuoso. European "Jazz Forum" magazine voted Adam a "Number One Jazz Pianist" six years successively. Decorated with the Officer's Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland and...

Adam Park

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Adam Shulman

Adam Shulman has been a staple of the San Francisco Jazz scene since he moved to the city in 2002. Before the move, Adam was a student at UC Santa Cruz where he studied with the great Smith Dobson and the trumpeter/arranger Ray Brown. He...

Addy Scheele

The repertoire of DEMI-SEQ comprises own compositions of pianist Addy Scheele and congenial composers such as Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis. The first album "By Nature" - released by the "Squint Records" label -...

Ade Ishs

ade ishs (IPA: ʌdɛ iʃ) is a songwriter and a pianist currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in 1978 in Bandung, Indonesia. His playing style revolves around contemporary jazz, classical, and meditational. He has...

Adnan Ajdini

Adnan Ajdini (frontman of the band, arranger, keyboards), born: March 15, 1969, in Skopje, lives in Skopje. Elementary and high school finished in Skopje. Graduated at University of “St. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Natural Sciences...

Adrian Cohen

ABOUT ADRIAN Upstate New York pianist Adrian Cohen has been recognized multiple times as Best Pianist, as well as Best Jazz Ensemble (for the Adrian Cohen Quartet), and Best Jazz Musician by Metroland Magazine. Adrian has composed music...

Adrian Iaies

On first glance apprehension. Admittedly ashamed I was prejudiced. For on the surface was an Argentine group, playing 'jazz', with an accordion no less! What could they possibly do with the music in this format setting? I would ask...

Adrian Untermyer

Pianist Adrian Untermyer, driven by a broad-based musical perspective and an insatiable desire to explore new sounds, channels a creative energy that transcends genres and races the imagination. Armed with years of intensive training...

Agnar Mar Magnusson

Agnar Már Magnússon began musical studies at a young age. After graduating from the FÍH school of music in Reykjav�-k and Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands, he studied with Larry Goldings and other private instructors in...

Agus Hardiman

Jazz lover from Indonesia & soon to be jazz musician :)

Ahmad Jamal

In 1951, Mr. Jamal first recorded 'Ahmad's Blues' on Okeh Records. His arrangement of the folk tune 'Billy Boy', and 'Poinciana' (not his original composition), also stem from this period. In 1955, he recorded his first Argo...

Aisha HR

Aisha is almost ten years-old when she begins to follow private lessons of music and classical piano; Aisha, enrolls, therefore, to "G. Gershwin School" in Padova, and follows, for two years, the jazz courses of M° Sergio Pietruschi. In...

Aki Takase

Born in Japan, lessons of piano since 3 years old, later on studies of music at Tohogakuen Music University. Since 1978 several stays in the USA. Many concerts & recordings in Japan with Dave Liebman, Lester Bowie, Joe Henderson, Cecil...

Al Daniels

Al Daniels is an accomplished, well rounded artist and musician. While still in high school he won his first award for his musical talents. His classical performance on piano in the Young Musicians Competition (sponsored by Pepsi) won...

Al Haig

A fine bebop pianist, Al Haig will come to mind as a participant on the Miles Davis “Birth of the Cool” sessions. Though this might be the primary recollection point on his resume, Al Haig was quite a player in his own right,...

Al LaPorte

Playing the piano since the age of 4, Al is comfortable in all music genres. Currently performing New Orleans Jazz and Funk, Al performs over 600 gigs per year. Look for Al's newest CD "From Rags to Fancy Fingers" Due soon.

Al Macy

Al has studied trombone, guitar, and piano, but now devotes all of his time to piano. He can be seen at solo piano gigs, in duos with bass or saxophone, and, primarily, playing with the 24/7 Jazz Trio. When he lived in the San...

Al Scott

The Al Scott Trio features HENRY GILBERT on Double Bass & MARCO QUARANTOTTO on Drums. The Trio recorded their first album together called 'Introducing the Al Scott Trio' which was released November 2011. The album is available for digital...

Alain Mion

Pianist, composer & singer. "...A fresh sound mixing churchy style and impressionist inspiration...". Performing with his combo and with "The Alain Mion Trio" including Patrik Boman (bass) and Michael Kersting (drums). Alain is also the...

Alan Blackman

Pianist and composer, Alan Blackman, has been a mainstay in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore area for nearly a decade. He has performed at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and nearly all of the area’s Jazz Festivals...

Alan Broadbent

Alan Broadbent was born in Auckland, New Zealand and in 1966, at the age of 19, received a Downbeat Magazine scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1969 he was asked to join Woody Herman's band as his pianist and...

Alan Brown

Alan Brown is an established jazz pianist within New Zealand, from having led a highly successful jazz-funk band in the 90’s - Blue Train (1996 Jazz Album of the Year winner), through to having been a core member of The Grand...

Alan Jay Palmer

Alan Jay Palmer or BAP ( Bad Alan Palmer) was born in Washington D.C. and attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Alan was exposed to Jazz piano through his first teacher John Malachi and listening to Thelonious Monk , Mingus, and...

Alan Pasqua

Alan Pasqua, Chairman of Jazz Studies at USC, was born in New Jersey and began studying piano at the age of seven, playing both classical and jazz. He attended Indiana University and received his bachelor's degree in jazz studies from the...

Albert Ammons

Pianist Albert Ammons was the king of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States, and then the world, from the late 1930s into the mid-1940s. Although his origins were modest, his powerful piano style would take...

albert sanz garcia

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Albert Sarko

b 1956 Detroit Worked with Archie Shepp, Candy Dulfer, Benny Bailey, Woody Shaw, Jimmy Witherspoon, Steve Grossman, John Handy, The Artie Shaw Orch., Solo-Recording Artist Enja Records, Producing 6 new CDs (Word-Drum), Recordings for...

Alec Bart

A rising young star in the jazz world, Alec Bart is fresh out of high school and has begun his collegiate study of jazz piano at the world-renowned University of North Texas. At the youthful age of 18 he has proven that while he may...

Alec Katz

Alec Katz is a sought after pianist, arranger, producer and educator. Began playing professionally on local scene in Israel in the early 1990's. Worked with visiting artists such as Abraham Burton, Walter Blanding, Valery Ponomarev, Arnie...

Aleksandar Jovanovic Schljuka

Pianist, keyboardist, composer, born in 1978 in Zajecar (Serbia). He began to study piano at six in the music school "Stevan Mokranjac" in Zajecar, but after a few years he leaves classical music education and continues to explore...

Aleksandar Pejovski

ALEKSANDAR PEJOVSKI (born 1979) is an awarded music composer from Skopje, Macedonia. His works have been performed internationally. He composes music for TV, Film and Theatre. Pejovski graduated theory at Faculty of Music Arts [2004]....

Alessandro Bianchi

Avvicinatosi alla musica all'età di nove anni, dopo la Maturità classica ha intrapreso lo studio del pianoforte fino al corso medio, sotto la guida del M° Mario Demolli, presso i Conservatori “Cantelli” di Novara e “Vivaldi”...

Alessandro Carabelli

A jazz pianist and composer with strong background in the fields of classical music, jazz music, music history, harmony and composition, Alessandro Carabelli has over fifteen years experience as a performer in international jazz...

Alex Brown

The understated virtuosity of pianist Alex Brown is a clear indication that reports of jazz music’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Fast emerging at the forefront of a new generation of artists, Brown is mightily armed with the technique...

Alex Clements

Alex Clements; so many adjectives can be used to describe the many facets of this talented, creative, well-rounded Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Clements is an internationally recognized artist, performing in the United States,...

Alex Leonard

Featured in venues from Manhattan to Tokyo and Europe, pianist/vocalist Alex Leonard performs a repertoire of improvised music and great American standards.

Alex Levin

Alex Levin has a rich and varied musical background. Born into a family of musicians, he was drawn to the piano at an early age. He began performing on the instrument when he was fifteen, and he hasn’t stopped since.

After studying...

Alex Wilson

Alex Wilson: Alex Wilson took a fateful decision in 1993 and his passion for music and jazz into a professional career and by 1996 he had become one of the most in-demand keyboard players on both the London jazz and Latin music scenes. His...

Alexander Hawkins

Born in Oxford in 1981, Alexander Hawkins is a pianist described as having a "fierce technique" and a "wizard's touch". Indeed, a recent interview commented that he is "just emerging as one of the most striking voices of his generation,...

Alexander von Schlippenbach

Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano, composer One of Europe's premier free jazz bandleaders, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach's music mixes free and contemporary classical elements, with his slashing solos often the link between the...

Alexandra Caselli

Alexandra began classical training on the piano at the age of 6. She received a B.A. degree in liberal arts (Plan II) from the University of Texas at Austin and went on to study music as a graduate student at North Texas State University...

Alexandra Ravald

”Honey, you don´t seem to know me that well. I’ll give you lots of time to learn.” Så inleder Alexandra Ravald sitt debutalbum. - Låten handlar om att ha tid att lära känna någon, man behöver ge saker tid i början av...

Alexandra Samsonova

Alexandra Samsonova, began her musical training at the age of six. Starting with classical she was accepted at the age of sixteen at the renowned Gnesinyh Russian Academy of Music. Wishing to develop growing interest in jazz, she was later...

Alexey Lapin

We can say very little about the music we play. The music itself could say much more about us. Why is it interesting to know where we are from, who we are, when were we born, and so on, if you come to listen to music? Destiny is a strange...

Alfred Gomez Jr.

Singer and composer born on october 17, year 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela. studied music at Miami Dade commnity College, and also with professors, Gonzalo Mico, and Leo Quintero both well know guitar players. After producing several albums...

Alfredo Rodriguez

Born in Havana, Cuba, Alfredo trained at the famous Manuel Saumell Classical Music Conservatory, then at the Amadeo Roldan Music Conservatory and subsequently at the Instituto Superior de Arte. His lucky break came in 2006 when he was...

Ali Berkok

A relentlessly multi-faceted pianist and composer, Ali Berkok can be seen performing in a variety of settings all over his home base of Toronto. In demand as a sideman in various jazz settings, Ali is well on the way to discovering a...

Alice Coltrane

For more than five decades, the Coltrane name remains at the forefront of modern music. It is lauded throughout the United States as well as internationally where it has received great acclaim. The musical offerings cover an...

Alina Brouwer

A fresh and breezy voice, one that has been compared to Brazil's Astrud Gilberto and Spain's Ana Belen and Carmen Cuesta. Alina Brouwer leads her three piece ensemble through sensuous and soulful songs full of catchy melodies and...

Alister Spence

Alister is one of the most creative and original contemporary jazz pianist/composers in Australia. His wide-ranging talents have led to performances with many musicians across the contemporary music spectrum including Ed Kuepper and The...

Alix Noel

Montreal Jazz, classical, latin and world-music pianist and acordionist of haitian background. Alix studied in Fortaleza, Brazil, in Berklee, Boston and Vincent d'Indy, Canada. He is now playing for the brazilianized group Bombolesse and...

Allen Toussaint

Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B. Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through their numerous cover...

Allon Sams

Allon Sams is a talented keyboardist gaining momentum in the contemporary smooth jazz format. He began playing the trumpet and french horn in his hometown of Tampa, Florida but the keyboards captured his heart and he set out to master his...

Alma Macbride

Pianist Alma Macbride is currently an honor roll, full scholarship student at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT and is the piano chair of the Jazz Band. Alma was the first ever recipient of the Susan Freydberg Scholarship for her...

Alon Nechushtan

" A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture" - (Down Beat magazine 2011)- Alon Nechushtan's music adventures has brought him to far corners such as the Yokohama Festival...

Alonzo King LINES Ballet

ALONZO KING (Choreographer, Artistic Director) is a visionary choreographer who has works in the repertories of companies throughout the world including the Swedish Royal Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem,...

Alton Merrell

Alton Merrell, a native of Warren, Ohio, is a worshiper, gospel and jazz pianist, educator, music producer, songwriter and composer. At the tender age of six, Alton's musical journey began playing the drums and piano at New Jerusalem...

Alton Purnell

Starting out as a singer, Alton Purnell took up piano in his youth and became a professional musician in his mid-teens. He worked with a number of well-known bands in his home-town of New Orleans, including those led by Alphonse Picou and...

Aluzinati

From 2003 with Anita Tijoux on Vocals, Aluzinati begin his musical history with 8 members like Jaime Ferrada on the Bass, Carlos Cortes on Drums, and Sebastian Jordan and Agustin Moya on the Horns. Appearences on the chilean film music...

Alva Nelson

Alva Nelson Playing a pianist in hip current TV shows, “Gossip Girls” or “Lipstick Jungle”, or leading his own jazz trio, engaging in a musical conversation with his band mates�"and his audience, is what Alva Nelson does. Pianist...

Alvaro Is Rojas

Alvaro Is Rojas (b. 1946 in Barcelona, Spain) is a pianist and composer, who has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since the late 1960s. After having completed classical piano and composition studies at the Barcelona Conservatory, he worked as a...

Aman Mahajan

Aman Mahajan is a pianist presently based in Bangalore, India. Graduating from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, in 2007, where he studied music synthesis, Aman is widely influenced by jazz, blues, Western and Indian classical music,...

Amanda Tosoff

Toronto-based jazz pianist and composer Amanda Tosoff has emerged as one of the top new talents on the Canadian jazz scene. Originally from White Rock BC, Amanda grew up in a musical family, and attended Semiahmoo high school, renowned for...

Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Cluadine Myers was born in Blackwell, Arkansas. She was raised by her great aunt Mrs. Emma Thomas whom she called "mama" and her uncle Buford. This is where her music lessons began, with her uncle teaching her rhythms. She started...

Amina Figarova

Amina Figarova is without doubt one of the most productive jazz composers and talented jazz piano players from Europe. Now living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Amina started playing piano and composing at a...

Amos Milburn

Milburn was one of the great R&B pioneers and a tremendous influence on many who followed. He was a fine singer and even better pianist - he could bang out a mean boogie or tinkle the ivories in a light and jazzy style as the situation...

Amro el bahrawi

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Amy Duncan

Amy Duncan is an American pianist, composer and arranger originally from New York, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She originally put her band, Brass Tacks, together in New York in 1984, where they played in various venues around the...

Amy G

My life is about my music, so check out my myspace page and hear some - there's much more info about me and what i've been up to there and if you're in NYC come see my band! myspace.com/amygfunk cdbaby.com/cd/amyg

Amy Rempel

As a jazz pianist, Amy Rempel is developing a reputation as a significant, emerging talent. Winner of a Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award, the Indiana University Jacobs Scholarship, two Manitoba Young Women of Note jazz soloist...

Amy Ward Choate

Amy Ward Choate earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies at Brigham Young University, where she studied piano with Stephan Lindeman and jazz pedagogy and performance with Ray Smith. While at BYU, she was the pianist for the West...

Anat Fort

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...

Anders Vercelli

Anders Vercelli is a jazz pianist with a stunning repertoire of standards and tunes from the Great American Songbook. Anders will enhance your event with the elegance of live jazz piano. It's not esoteric or academic jazz, but wonderful...

Andile Yenana

ANDILE YENANA Music has been the mission of Jazz pianist Andile Yenana's life since he was born in King William's Town in the Eastern Cape in 1968. His father’s house music memories helped inspire his music career. "Already, around...

Andre Previn

André Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his formative years. In the early 1950s, he was blown away by the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. By 1954, he was performing...

Andrea Frascaroli

Studies:
Piano with Fabrizio Pieroni and Andrea Beneventano, Jazz with Roberto Ferrara and Nicola Stilo, Ethnomusicology at the “Sapienza” univesity of Rome, Professor Francesco Giannattasio, Masterclasses with Enrico Pieranunzi,...

Andrea Keller

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

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...

Andrea Vicari

Pianist and composer Andrea Vicari was born in Miami (Florida) and grew up in Birmingham (England). Educated at Cardiff University she won a scholarship to study at The Guildhall School of Music in London. Andrea was soon in demand as a...

Andreas Baer

Andreas Baer • Bandleader, Piano, Vocal After eleven years of classical music training, Andreas Baer chose the contrast of Jazz, Blues Boogie and Swing. Andreas, born in Brugg, Switzerland did not look back. Inspired by world-class...

Andreas Hertel

Andreas Hertel studied jazz-piano with Achim Kaufmann in Mainz, Germany and visited workshops with Simon Nabatov and Kenny Werner, among others. Main projects are the Andreas Hertel Quintet, playing original compositions of Andreas, and...

Andreas Stensland Løwe

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

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...

Andree-Ann Deschenes

Andree-Ann Deschenes is a pianist and keyboardist native from the Montreal region, in Quebec but has since moved to Toronto (Ontario), to attend the renowned establishment of Humber College. Andree-Ann has had the privilege to study...

Andres Ortiz Trio

Andrés Ortiz Villalba is born in Bogotà, Colombia, in 1978. At a very young age he approaches folkloric music through learning to play the organ. He pursues his tudies on the piano, at first privately with Maestro Betancourt, later...

Andrew Bemkey

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 Boniwell

Andrew has been a professional piano player on the Toronto jazz scene since 1980. A frequent participant in the Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival he has also appeared at the Distillery Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival, Guelph...

Andrew Gilpin

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 Hill

Over nearly half a century, composer-pianist-ensemble leader Andrew Hill gained international jazz renown for his uniquely original music and recorded ouevre, which is by turns dark, fragile, funny, stark, unforgettably...

Andrew J Dorsett

"It's not about me"

Andrew Nevala

Award winning Pianist/Arranger/Composer Andy Nevala is based in Denver, CO. He has been recognized by Downbeat Magazine on 9 different occasions, winning Downbeat Music Awards for composition (2002), arranging (2003), and...

Andrew Oliver

Andrew Oliver is a pianist and composer from Portland, Oregon. He started piano at the age of 3, and grew up playing classical piano and cello, before delving into the realm of jazz and improvised music while in high school, when he began...

Andrew Sheyback

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Andrzej Winnicki

Plenty has been written about European musicians approaching the American jazz tradition; it's far rarer to hear about American musicians bringing their heritage to distinctly European projects. Capitalizing on the critical acclaim for its...

Andy Fleet

Songwriter, vocalist and piano player andyfleet pulls his influences from the piano men; Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Donald Fagen and Allen Toussaint. Andy's debut album, The Night Falls Fast, is set for release Spring 2009. His jazz and...

Andy Howe

ANDY HOWE Biography-Andy Howe 818.780.7888, andyhoweart@aol.com Andy was accompanist and musical director for Debbie Reynolds from 1975-1979, conducting her Las Vegas act, acting as assistant conductor of ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, and...

Andy Kahn

Andy Kahn is committed to preserving America’s unique musical art form, “JAZZ and the STANDARD SONG.” For more than 40 years, he has researched works of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and other American...

Andy LaVerne

Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Andy LaVerne studied at Juilliard, Berklee, and the New England Conservatory, and took private lessons from legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. The list of musicians with whom LaVerne has worked reads...

Andy McDonough

Andy McDonough plays piano, sings, creates photographs and publishes NJJazzList.com, a website that supports jazz players and venues in New Jersey.

Andy McWain

Boston-born improvising pianist/composer Andy McWain has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Assif Tsahar, Karl Berger, Tiger Okoshi, Santi Debriano, Brian Melvin, Joe Giardullo, Royal Hartigan, John Dirac, Hafez...

Andy Milne

Toronto native Andy Milne draws inspiration from various forms of music, politics, philosophy, comedy, and science fiction. Some of his musical influences include Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Herbie Nichols, Bela Bartok, Joni Mitchell and...

Andy Quin

Born in London. Classically trained, started playing jazz at 8 years of age. Many concerts and gigs over 25 years as a professional. Played and recorded with many of the UK'S leading jazz musicians including Guy Barker, Stan Sulzmann,...

Andy Roninson

Andy Roninson is a versatile pianist adept at many genres. Although he is currently attending the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase as a Jazz Performance major, he has studied classical music extensively, has accompanied musicians of...

Andy Rumble

Andy Rumble has had a successful career in British television and theatre for a little over 20 years. He was chosen by Barry Manilow to score his musical Copacabana in London's West End. There followed more west end musicals and more...

Andy Wasserman

Jazz pianist and native New Yorker Andy Wasserman draws on an astonishingly diverse range of experience in the world of music since becoming a full-time professional musician in 1971. Throughout his career as a multi-instrumentalist,...

Angela Furr

With a variety of styles from fabulous jazz standards, pop, rock and classical to modern, along with her dynamic passionate performances... Angela has had the opportunity to perform at an amazing variety of venues, concerts and musical...

Angela Wang

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Angelica Sanchez

Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. From 1990-1994 she studied piano and composition at Arizona State University. Sanchez moved to New York in 1995 and has since played with: Susie Ibarra, Tim Berne,...

Angelo Comisso

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Ania Paz

Ania Paz, pianist and composer, is known for her modern and driving sound, impregnated by a new fusion of Afro-Peruvian and Caribbean styles, within the Jazz language. She was born in Lima, Peru, where she started studying music at the age...

Anke Helfrich

Anke Helfrich studied in Hilversum/Netherland and in New York, where she had lessons with Kenny Barron and Larry Goldings. In 2000 her debutalbum "You'll see" with Johannes Weidenmueller (b), Jochen Rueckert (dr), feat. Mark Turner (ts)...

Anna Dagmar

Short Bio: Born in England, raised in MA and based in NYC, Anna Dagmar creates piano-woven art-pop songs that will surprise and move you. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, she has been influenced by artists including Debussy,...

Anna Walter

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

Anne Sajdera

Many an American musician has fallen under the sway of Brazil’s seductive rhythms and enticing melodies. But San Francisco pianist/composer Anne Sajdera has taken the romance a good deal deeper than many of her similarly besotted...

Annie Friedland

Annie has played keyboards since she was one-and-a-half years old. Coming from a family of musicians and artists helped. By the time she was four, she had been thrown out of classical lessons for hearing intricate pieces (she has perfect...

Anthony Coleman

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 Davis

The music of pianist, improvisor and composer Anthony Davis eludes easy categorization. Active in a variety of media, including operatic, symphonic, choral, chamber, dance, theater, and improvised musics, Davis has focused upon the...

Anthony Dowd

Born in Richmond, Va in 1957, Anthony started playing piano by ear at age six. Much of what he heard on television was figured out on the piano, but he did begin formal lessons at age 12 and studied for about five years. When he was in...

Anthony Pocetti

nthony Pocetti was born on June 3, 1989. He grew up in Hamilton, New Jersey and graduated Steinert High School in 2007. Anthony graduated from New York University and lives in New York City with a Bachelor of Music degree. Anthony was a...

Anthony Rodriguez

Pianist and musical producer Anthony Rodriguez decides to produce a project of his own.A style of latin jazz but more open for improves.Anthonys point of view in this project is to give god the melodies that comes from his heart.This...

Antonio Adolfo

Antonio Adolfo is an important composer, having written songs recorded by many Brazilian and International artists. He also had a noted role in the process of making important music available through independent production, through...

Antonio Carlos Jobim

It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil--and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz repertoire, both expanded their reach...

Antonio Ciacca

A graduate of the Bologna conservatory with a degree in contemporary music, German born Italian pianist Antonio Ciacca has played with jazz legends Steve Grossman, James Carter, Marcus Belgrave, Larry Smith, Roy Brooks, Lee Konitz Art...

Antonio Mazzei

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Antonis Tsikandilakis

Antonis Tsikandilakis was born in Heraklion (Crete-Greece) in 1979. What is characteristic of his relation to the piano is free improvisationing. In this field of improvisation he co-exists with Dimitris Neonakis,guitarist, and...

Antti Kujanpää

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...

Ari Erev

Jazz Pianist, arranger and band leader. "About Time" Album - (2008) "A Handful of Changes" Album (2012) With the recording and release of his latest album - "A Handful of Changes" - pianist Ari Erev is taking his place as one...

Ariel

Ariel was born in 1997 in Jerusalem, Israel. He began formal piano lessons just before his 5th birthday with Lea Agmon. Since then he has performed repeatedly at concerts at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and at various youth...

Ariel J Ramos

Composer and Pianist Ariel J. Ramos has been working with independent filmmakers since 2000. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Ariel Ramos started his career as a pianist. In 1997 he...

Armand Hug

Armand Hug - pianist There is something special about a piano bar. First, as music historian Jack Stewart notes, the piano really gets the patron’s attention. “The piano is the entertainment �" they turn off the television.” New...

Armen Donelian

For over thirty years, pianist/composer and Fulbright Scholar ARMEN DONELIAN has distinguished himself in 23 countries as a performer, recording artist, master class leader, and with his published writings. Donelian’s music is a...

Armen Nalbandian

Armen Nalbandian (b.1978 in Manchester, England) is a jazz pianist, composer & humanitarian. In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz,...

Arnaud Quercy

I have always wanted to learn the piano...so I started a couple of years ago to train a bit more seriously on my spare time, starting with basic scales etc. A good colleague of mine challenged me at last Xmas party asking that I show...

Arshak Sirunyan

When asked about Arshak Sirunyan, Gabrielle Goodman (award winning songwriter, vocalist and Berklee College of Music educator) remarked without hesitation, “There are piano players and then there’s Arshak; he’s on a whole...

Art Bailey

Pianist, accordionist, producer, composer and arranger Art Bailey is a busy guy, maintaining a packed calendar with dates playing improvised music, Latin jazz and traditional Cuban music, and new classical music. His current projects...

Art Hirahara

Art Hirahara is a jazz pianist/composer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in jazz piano performance at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA and a...

Art Hodes

Arthur W. Hodes (November 14, 1904 in Russia; died March 4, 1993 in Harvey, Illinois) is an American jazz pianist born in Ukraine. His family settled in Chicago, Illinois when he was a few months old. His career began in Chicago clubs, but...

Art Lande

Grammy-nominated Art Lande is an internationally known pianist, composer, improviser, drummer and educator who has performed with a long list of the Who's Who in jazz, including Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Steve Swallow,...

Art Tatum

Art Tatum was born Oct. 13, 1909 in Toledo, Ohio and despite being blind in one eye and only partially sighted in the other he became arguably the greatest jazz piano player who ever lived. He came from a musical family and when younger...

Arthur Satyan (Satian)

* Born in Yerevan, Armenia, in the family of leading Armenian composers... * More than 20 years of music education in 2 leading conservatories of former USSR - Moscow (Russia) & Yerevan (Armenia) * Professor of Piano at the Lebanese...

Arturo O'Farrill

Winner of the Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2003, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. In 2002, Mr. O'Farrill and Wynton Marsalis created the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for Jazz at Lincoln Center due in part...

Artūras Anusauskas

One of the most distinguished Lithuanian jazz pianists, Artūras Anusauskas has been active as a soloist, composer and band leader. Sharing his sympathies between jazz and classical music, he is particularly nimble at combining the...

Aruan Ortiz

Aruán Ortiz is a critically acclaimed, Cuban pianist, an award-winning composer, and a solid producer and educator, not only on the New York City scene, but internationally as well. Named “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in...

Arun Prasaad

Arun 'monk' Prasaad 'life without music is a big mistake' Arun Prasaad plays piano, founding member of Rock Music Group, 'Heaven', in 2003, Chennai, like every synth-loving young musician. But then matured enough to evolve as a jazz...

Aryan behnam

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Astrid Cowan

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Atanas Valkov

Born in 1982 in Burgas (Bulgaria), he is the winner of several awards and acclaims including 1st place in Berlinale 7th BTC Score Competition and a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music. He recieved his classical music education at...

Atzko Kohashi

Atzko was born and raised in Japan and currently resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied classical piano from an early age and opened her eyes to jazz in her early teens. She is a self-taught jazz pianist. As a college...

August Rosenbaum

24-year old pianist August Rosenbaum is an active contributor to the progressive Danish jazz scene. In 2010 he won a Danish Grammy for his debut "Beholder" and was named '#1 New Danish Jazz Act'. Oct 2011 marks the release of a new...

Augusto Pirodda

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Avery Parrish

There are many mysterious characters in jazz and blues history whose names are remembered or recognized on the records down below the artist in parenthesis, as the composer of the song. Avery Parrish will go done in history as the composer...

Avzal Ismail

Avzal Ismail has worked with a host of top international names, including acclaimed violinist Regina Carter, Donald Harrison, Carl Andersen, Professor James Houlik, Bhakhithi Khumalo and many more. He also composed and performed the...

Axel Herr

Axel Herr is a German virtuoso pianist and composer. His musical vita started as young teenager when he was playing the piano in a boogie band. With his early classical piano etudes he even won a composition contest at the age of 15! Later...

Axel Schwintzer

Born in Cologne, Germany, not long after Keith Jarrett played his legendary Köln Concert in the same city, Axel Schwintzer has started to play the piano at the age of 10. He studied mostly classical music at first, and later switched...

Axel Zwingenberger

Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1955, pianist Axel Zwingenberger is traveling the world as the »ambassador of Boogie Woogie« since the age of 19. Together with his friends Vince Weber, Martin Pyrker and George Moeller, he started out in the...

Ayako Shirasaki

Recognized in her native Japan as a jazz prodigy (in the 5th grade she was already transcribing Bud Powell solos), Ayako Shirasaki while yet a pre-teen won many prizes including the Grand Prize at the Asakusa Jazz Competition. Her...

Ayse Tutuncu

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Aziza

Aziza is a composer, pianist, poet, vocalist, arranger and music educator. Aziza was born and raised in new york city. She started playing piano at 8 years of age and began composing music while attending The High School Of Music and Art...

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

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...

Baptiste Trotignon

Born near Paris in 1974, Baptiste Trotignon grew up in the Loire region, outside Saumur. His parents started him on the violin when he was six, but two years later he gave it up in favor of (what else? ) the piano! His classical training...

Barb Januszkiewicz

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Barbara Carroll

Barbara Carroll - pianist, composer, vocalist The elegant jazz pianist, composer and vocalist Barbara Carroll is regarded as one of today’s most fascinating purveyors of swinging jazz piano and expressive vocals. Equally at home in a...

Barbara Higbie

A Grammy-nominated, Bammy award winning composer, pianist singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Barbara has performed on more than 65 albums, including Carlos Santana’s 2007 release. She has 11 recordings to her credit as well as...

Barney McAll

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 Brake

Pianist Barry Brake began playing at San Antonio's historic Gunter Hotel as a high-school student, before earning a Composition degree from Baylor University, and a Master's in English literature from UTSA.
He is now a free-lance...

Barry Dallman

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Barry Harris

Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist, Composer and Teacher. Dr. Harris is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University. He has received the Living Jazz Legacy award from the Mid- Atlantic Arts...

Barry Miles

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

Bartosz Hadala

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...

Bassini Piero

Nato nel 1952 a Codogno, dove risiede, Piero Bassini si è avvicinato alla musica molto giovane suonando la chitarra, l’organo e il pianoforte. Ha svolto attività professionale in vari gruppi rock e successivamente nei Rockys Fili,...

Bastien Brison

Born in Roanne in 1991, he began his studies at the Chalon-sur-Saône conservatory in 2006. Alongside the Michel Martin-Charrière and Elie Martin-Charrière father/son duo, he soon discovered the joy of trio playing. His playing bears...

BB Cooper

BB studied piano from the age of six, starting to write piano pieces at eight. Composing for film, she specializes in haunting, lyrical themes and variations for piano. As a songwriter, BB writes in English and French and occasionally...

Beata Hlavenkova

The most sought after pianist, arranger and composer of the Czech jazz scene Beata Hlavenkova (born 1978) graduated at Janacek Conservatory in Ostrava as the classical music composer in 1992-1998. In 2001-4 she continued her music studies...

Bebo Valdes

Valdés played piano from an early age and was very active as a performer, composer, arranger, and musical director at various Havana nightclubs, throughout the 40s and on into the 50s. During these years, he was also playing...

Beegie Adair

Once in a while a musician comes along with impeccable technique, deep understanding of the jazz repertoire, an innate tendency to swing and the rare ability to communicate the heart and soul of a tune to listeners. That musician is Beegie...

Beka Gochiashvili

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Ben Dowling

Jazz pianist and composer Ben Dowling takes the long view when it comes to music and his artistic-life journey. Born in Arkansas, raised in New York, Vermont and Boston but settled in Los Angeles, Dowling smiles at his conflicting...

Ben Geyer

Ben Geyer is a pianist, composer, and bandleader. He began to play the piano at age eight in Nashua, NH, when his parents found him playing by ear at a friend’s piano and immediately enrolled him in lessons. Ben’s...

Ben Markley

Jazz pianist Ben Markley has a strong affinity for tradition. He has performed with Brian Lynch, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Lenny Picket, Ron McClure and George Garzone at various New York Venues including the Blue Note, Dizzy's Club Coca...

Ben Paterson

Ben Paterson has performed at premier Chicago jazz clubs including the Jazz Showcase, the Green Mill, Andy's, Pops for Champagne, The Velvet Lounge, Pete Miller's, The Checkerboard Lounge, Green Dolphin Street, and the New Apartment...

Ben Schwendener

Pianist Ben Schwendener sustains a unique voice in contemporary creative music and natural pedagogy, and is a leading authority on George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization. As a critically acclaimed...

Ben Sidran

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...

Ben Stolorow

Susan Muscarella (Founder/Director of the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA) has called Ben Stolorow’s first album, I’ll Be Over Here (2008), a “beautiful, introspective body of work reminiscent of some of the greatest piano trios.”...

Ben Tankard

Without ever taking a lesson or learning to read a note, composer and keyboardist Ben Tankard has, over the course of 18 years and 16 best selling recordings, used his God-given musical talent to share the hope of the Gospel that changed...

Ben Waters

Ben Waters is well known British Boogie Woogie/Rock N Roll Piano players. Although only 35 he has entertained in Festivals, Theatres, and clubs for over 20 years, with over 3000 gigs under his belt. Together with his band he has toured...

Benedikt Jahnel

Benedikt Jahnel (28.05.1980) (piano/composition) Benedikt grew up in Geretsried near Munich Germany. 2000: Move to Berlin Germany. 2005: Diploma at the University for the Arts in Berlin. 2005: Move to New York USA. 2007: Masters of Art...

Bengt Hallberg

Bengt Hallberg is, without doubt, one of the most influential pianists in the history of Swedish jazz. In his Encyclopedia of Jazz, Leonard Feather called him “his country’s foremost jazz pianist,” praising his “unique,...

Benito E. Gonzalez

The fusion of world rhythms and straight-ahead jazz make this passionate performer an audience favorite all over the world. Benito Gonzalez is being recognized as an exciting pianist and composer for his well-received debut album,...

Benito Gonzalez

The fusion of world rhythms and straight-ahead jazz make this passionate performer an audience favorite all over the world. Benito Gonzalez is being recognized as an exciting pianist and composer for his well-received debut album,...

Benjamin Inbar

'Most of who we really are is invisible and untouchable. Close the language door and open the window into the music within you. In a higher frequency or dimension, there is just music.' Benjamin Inbar is an established, exceptionally...

Benjamin Jonas Schatz

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....

Benny Green

Born in New York in 1963, Benny Green grew up in Berkeley, California, and began classical piano studies at the age of seven. Influenced by his father, a tenor saxophonist, his attention soon turned into Jazz: "I began trying to improvise...

Benny Lackner

Presenting singularly expressive jazz, embellished with slight electronic augmentation and drum programming, The Benny Lackner Trio is anything but typical. Functioning as a collective, with each member interjecting equally toward the...

Bernard Peiffer

Bernard Peiffer was born on October 23, 1922 in Epinal, in the Vosges district of northeastern France. Bernard’s father, formerly an army man, was a violinist and was devoted to chamber music. An uncle, Georges Peiffer, was a composer...

Bernardo Sassetti

Bernardo da Costa Sassetti Pais was a Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer. Sassetti was born in Lisbon. He was a great-grandson of Sidónio Pais, President of the First Republic. He initially played guitar, then began studying...

Bernie Senensky Music

Toronto keyboardist Bernie Senensky has earned the reputation of being one of Canada's premier jazz artists. His playing has been featured internationally in many concerts & festivals, and he is recognized and respected as one of the...

Bernt Moen

Norwegian pianist/composer.

Bert Rechtschaffer

Studied classical as a child. Studied Jazz with Andy La Verne,and several others. Played in various venues in Weschester,and Putnam county.

Bert Seager

Pianist and composer Bert Seager has been a leading player on the jazz scene in Boston Massachusetts since 1981. His thirteen compact discs have won him unanimous critical acclaim from the New York Times, Keyboard Magazine, The...

Bertha Hope

Bertha Hope has been an active force in improvised music since the early 60's. Her long association with pianist/composer Elmo Hope resulted in a host of recorded compositions and arrangements, currently performed by the Elmo Hope...

Beryl Booker

Raised in the mecca of African-American artistic expression in Philadelphia in the 1920's, Beryl Booker was a pianist prodigy who never learned to read music. After landing her first professional gig with Slam Stewart's trio in 1945, she...

Bess Bonnier

One of the most important jazz musicians in Detroit, Bess Bonnier is one of the Detroit jazz artists who chose to stay at home. Some of her contemporary jazz friends - Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones and Sir Roland Hanna -...

Bett Butler

A multi-faceted and eclectic song interpreter who counts Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Etta James, and Tanya Maria among her influences, award-winning singer/songwriter/pianist Bett Butler authored two critically-acclaimed albums of...

Bheki Mseleku

Bheki Mseleku - pianist, guitar, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, recording artist The South African jazz scene is proud of its heritage and the musicians tend to integrate that essence into their style. Proper recognition of this...

Big Joe Duskin

Big Joe Duskin, the blues and boogie pianist, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but grew up in Cincinnati, where he began playing piano in his early teens. His first idol was Fats Waller, whom he heard on the local radio station WLW. What...

Big Maceo

By the mid 1930’s, there had been a significant change in the nature of blues piano. The piano blues and boogie-woogie of the “first generation” pianists had for the most part been a series of solo performances, augmented...

Bill Anschell

Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, composing, and performing across the country and around the world. Anschell left Seattle after high school, studying for two years at...

Bill Beach

Bill Beach has performed with many jazz legends including Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Nat Adderley, Mark Murphy and Howard Roberts. He has studied with Marian McPartland, Jack DeJohnette and Warren Bernhardt. Bill has...

Bill Carrothers

Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for 30 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival...

Bill Carter

Presbybop Music is a musical venture of Bill Carter, jazz pianist and Presbyterian minister. After years of pretending to split the life of faith from the music of jazz, Bill has been trying to find links between the two halves of his...

Bill Champitto

Bill Champitto is a fiery Boston-based singer/songwriter/pianist and Hammond B3 organist whose music was aptly defined by an ardent web fan as “Soul, Funkified Jazz.” Originally from Troy, New York, Bill started playing keyboards by...

Bill Charlap

Bill Charlap was born in New York City into a musical family. His father, Moose Charlap, was a Broadway composer and songwriter whose credits included the scores to Peter Pan, The Conquering Hero, Whoop-up, Alice...

Bill Cunliffe

Grammy nominated composer, arranger and jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe is gathering nationwide attention with his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions He first fell under the influence of jazz by studying at Duke University with...

Bill Doerrfeld

Born April 3, 1964 into a musical family from Chicago, Illinois Bill Doerrfeld began playing piano at age 4. During his youth Bill earned numerous awards for his music including winning a Downbeat Magazine DB award at age 16 (the...

Bill Evans

Who Was Bill Evans?

Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of...

Bill Gerhardt

Pianist / Composer / Arranger / Band Leader Bill Gerhardt Gerhardt's compositional style in any genre he explores is uniquely recognizable. Balancing challenging harmonic and rhythmic aspects with natural melodic ideas, listeners...

Bill Gulino

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 Harvey

Pianist, composer, arranger living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Member of Eileen Joyce band, former pianist of Dutch Mason.

Bill Howland

Bill Howland grew up in the Greater Boston area, studying with classical pianist Allen Barker of Wayland, Massachusetts. Bill continued his education in music theory at Northeastern University and later studied with jazz pianist Dick...

Bill Lyons

Professional pianist with Road and Cruise Ship experience. Significant experience with Modern Jazz: Bebop, Post Bop, Modal. Have also backed up numerous Jazz Fusion, R&B and Oldies acts. Over 30 years of experience. Piano studies...

Bill Mays

Pianist, composer and arranger William Allen Mays (Bill Mays), born February 5, 1944, came from a musical family. In his northern California home, music was always present; his dad was a minister, and his mother, a homemaker. "Gospel...

Bill Meyer

MUSIC: • leads The Bill Meyer Group, a popular dance band for over 30 years, • part of the acclaimed SBH Jazz Trio, at Berts Marketplace for over 8 years • composes and arranges music for TV, film and advertising • plays keyboards...

Bill Rinehart

Bill Rinehart did undergraduate work at the Berklee College of Music and holds the M.Mus. degree in Jazz Studies from the Boston Conservatory/Berklee College of Music where he studied with Ray Santisi, Joanne Brackeen and Charlie Banacos....

Bill Steck

Bill Steck has a broad background as a professional musician, but maintains a primary focus on jazz piano. Bill has played on many circuits throughout his forty-year career as a pianist, and most recently has been playing nightclubs and...

Bill Stevens - Piano

Bill is an active jazz pianist in the North Carolina area. He was the house pianist at The Know Bookstore and Restaurant in Durham NC from April of 2008 through March of 2010. He also leads a trio with musicians Weldon Kollock (trombone)...

Bill Tannebring

Available at: www.billtannebring.com

Bill Wingfield

The pieces I play are mainly from the golden age of American songwriting by composers such as Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, Loewe, Kern, Mancini, and the Brazilian composer Jobim. I also play modern standards and my own...

Billy Childs

Billy Childs was born in Los Angeles. Having demonstrated an aptitude for piano as early as age six, Childs developed rapidly, and at age sixteen entered the Community School of the Performing Arts, a preparatory music program sponsored by...

Billy McBride

Shalom! Hi, my name is Billy McBride, some call me also William. I make synthesizer and piano solo instrumental music for the fan who really enjoys to meditate upon what they hear of an improvization's structure, composition, meaning,...

Billy Strayhorn

If you are familiar with the jazz composition, "Take the A Train," then you know something about not only Duke Ellington, but also Billy "Sweet Pea" Strayhorn, its composer. Strayhorn joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the age of...

Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor encompassed that rare combination of creativity, intelligence, vision, commitment and leadership, qualities that made him one of our most cherished national treasures. The distinguished ambassador of the jazz community to the...

Billy White

William “Billy” White is a pianist, composer, producer, ethnomusicologist and music scientist living in Brooklyn, New York. The 28-year-old pianist grew up in the rich stew of San Francisco's music scene in the 80's and 90's. After...

BJ Papa

"Papa's life story mirrors much of the history of jazz in San Francisco over the past 50 years. He may be under the radar of many current jazz fans, but the significance of his career can be tracked through the dozens of young musicians...

Blind John Davis

Blind John Davis, a Blues piano legend on Chicago’s West Side, accompanied many great blues musicians on their records, but released few of his own. Born in 1913, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, his family moved to Chicago in 1916 making...

Bliss Rodriguez

Bliss Rodriguez was born in NYC on April 2, 1945 to Dominican immigrant parents. He grew up in Hamilton Heights, between Harlem and Washington Heights, on the west side. Bliss was born visually impaired, having no vision in his right...

Blossom Dearie

Born 28 April 1928, East Durham, New York, USA. A singer, pianist and songwriter, with a "wispy, little-girlish" voice, Dearie is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. Her father was of Scottish and Irish descent; her mother...

Bob Albanese

Albanese, a perpetual student, was granted a scholarship in 2002 to complete a B.M. and M.M. at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in Jazz Composition. He met the challenge head on and while under the M.S.M. umbrella composed a...

Bob Baldwin

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Bob Boguslaw and The Way

The Way has been performing together in one form or another since 1995. The group has received critical acclaim from Jazz Times, All About Jazz and Beyond Coltrane for their Summit Records CDs, The Way and Gabrielle’s Hand. They have...

Bob Davis

Bob Davis was born in Cosmos, Minnesota in 1927. By the age of 18, Davis was playing improvisational jazz with some of the greats. His styles were ahead of his time. Jazz greats such as Stan Kenton & Count Basie had looked at Davis as one...

Bob Dorough

Born in the decidedly non-bustling Arkansas town of Cherry Hill and raised in Texas, Bob Dorough played clarinet in his high school band and earned a BA in Music from what is now North Texas University. Before that, three years with a...

Bob Gluck

Pianist Bob Gluck is a pianist whose repertoire spans jazz, live electronic music, and avant-garde concert music. Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz) wrote of the latest of Gluck’s five recordings: “As a composer and player, Gluck ranks...

Bob Hamilton

Born and raised in the Newark, NJ area, Bob started playing piano and organ at the age of 8. Early on, family and friends noticed that he was gifted and encouraged him to pursue his music. Throughout middle school and high school, Bob...

Bob James

The career of Bob James is long, varied and continues to evolve at every turn. From his first days in Marshall, Missouri, the music of Bob James has captivated audiences throughout the world. Discovered by Quincy Jones at the Notre Dame...

Bob Mamet

Bob Mamet is an internationally acclaimed Jazz pianist and composer. Born and raised in Chicago Illinois, he attended the prestigious Peabody Conservatory before heading west to Los Angeles to begin a career as a composer and studio...

Bob Marbach

Bob was born in San Diego CA, and raised in Denver CO. He earned degrees in classical piano performance from Metropolitan State College of Denver and the University of Memphis. While living in Memphis TN, was adjunct faculty at University...

Bob McHugh

Bob McHugh has been playing jazz clubs,festivals,halls,private parties, and restaurants in the NY metro area for over forty years. Be it solo,duo,trio or big band Bob has done it. His styles include, but are not limited to...

Bob Rodriguez

Critically acclaimed pianist Bob Rodriguez is one of the most distinctively imaginative musicians in contemporary Jazz today. Possessing a refined virtuoso technique, extraordinary harmonic sensibility and an incomparable approach to his...

Bob Szajner

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Everyone has their own story, this is Bob Szajner's, hopefully interesting to the reader.
Born on September 12, 1938, he grew up listening to talented relatives...

Bob Wijnen

Bob Wijnen is a pianist of great sensitivity and depth. Much in demand as an accompanist, he is known for having some of the best ears around, as well as being an elegant and adventurous soloist who has absorbed a great deal of the history...

Bobby and Harry Cardillo

Bobby Cardillo has enjoyed a long, varied, and successful musical career spanning over fifty years. He describes himself as a product of the big band era. During the 1940's he traveled with the Ina Rae Hutton jazz band, after she broke up...

Bobby Avey

Upon graduating in 2007 with a BA in Jazz Studies from Purchase Conservatory of Music, Bobby moved to Brooklyn, NY. In 2005, Avey was specially invited by the saxophone great David Liebman to adapt and arrange art songs from the Classical...

Bobby Few

Jazz pianist Bobby Few was raised in a neighborhood in the Shaker Heights section of Cleveland, Ohio, along with the influential free jazz player Albert Ayler. Growing up, they listened to Lester Young and Charlie Parker together. Both...

Bobby Short

After he took up residence in the lounge of New York's elegant Hotel Carlyle in the late 1960s, vocalist and pianist Bobby Short became an icon of New York and American cultural life. Short called himself a saloon singer, but actually he...

Bobby Timmons

Bobby Timmons came out of Philadelphia at age 19, with a funky gospel tinged piano style, flavored with blues and hard bop. He would, in a recording career that would only span a short time frame, contribute to some of the...

Bobby Troup

For versatile Bobby Troup -- musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner -- there's hardly a "first" left in show business to claim and conquer. His demanding role in "Emergency!", Jack Webb's hour-long...

Bobo Stenson

Bo Gustav Stenson (mostly known as Bobo Stenson, born in 1944) is a Swedish piano player and jazz musician. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm,...

Bojan Zulfikarpasic

Born in a music loving family in Belgrade in 1968, Bojan Zulfikarpasic starts playing the piano at the age of 5. “In my country, music is a very widespread activity, and since working days finish quite early, family and friends...

Bonginkosi Winston

Bonginkosi’s Quartet JAZZ AND AFRICAN MUSIC NIGHTS VUSI KHUMALO AND BONGINKOSI MADONSELA The Jazz and African Music Nights hosted the 24th show of the series featuring the legendary Vusi Khumalo and the young and well-groomed...

Bonnie Lowdermilk

Singing and playing since early childhood, Bonnie Lowdermilk has her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been performing professionally for close to thirty years. She studied jazz piano with...

Booker T. Laury

A Memphis native son, Lawrence "Booker T" Laury was born on September 2, 1914. A lifelong friend of Blues giant Peter Chatman, better known as Memphis Slim, the two grew up only blocks from one another. Laury would even at times claim the...

Borah Bergman

Borah Bergman was an American free jazz pianist. Bergman was born in Brooklyn. He learned clarinet as a child, and did not commence his piano studies until adulthood. He developed his left hand playing to the point where he became...

Borys Kossakowski

Autodidact pianist, songwriter, poet. Manager of a jazz Club Zak in Gdansk, Poland. A member of a experimental music&poetry band Towary Zastepcze and experimental-electronics-free Karol Schwarz All Stars. Performs as a soloist.

Boy Katindig

Jazz Pianist and International Recording Artist Boy Katindig, comes from a well-known clan of musicians who pioneered Latin jazz in Manila. His father is Philippines' jazz legend, Romy Katindig. After playing with a host of successful...

Boyd Lee Dunlop

After nearly 80 years as a live musician and mainstay at the storied Colored Musicians Club of Buffalo, NY, Boyd Lee Dunlop will release his debut recording, Boyd’s Blues, on December 10, 2011. Boyd’s Blues swings with a divine...

Brad Kay

Brad Kay, pianist, cornetist, composer and musicologist, has played in and led bands in Los Angeles since 1965, when he began performing at SHAKEY'S PIZZA PARLORS. Music has been his consuming passion since childhood, starting with...

Brad Macdonald

Brad Macdonald is a jazz pianist based in the Chicagoland area. Growing up downstate in a small town called Collinsville, Brad studied in St. Louis with Carolbeth True. Since moving to Chicago in 2006, he has studied with Frank Caruso,...

Brad Mehldau

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. He has worked primarily with the same trio since 1995, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. Between 1996 and 2000, they released...

Brad Podray

At the tail end of Winter Cycle, the stark and melancholy 2010 solo piano EP by My Shadow and I "a unique sonic concept developed by multi-talented musician and songwriter Brad Podray"there is a brief burst of sweeping orchestral optimism...

Brad Whiteley

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Bradley Joseph

Bradley Joseph was a featured keyboardist on Yanni's "Ethnicity 2003 World Tour". Performing to over 500,000 people on the world's greatest stages, including Madison Square Garden and The Hollywood Bowl. Billboard Magazine ranked it...

Bradley Sowash

Creative pianist, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, composer/arranger, collaborator, author and educator, Bradley Sowash has performed with such luminaries as The Cab Calloway Orchestra and The Mills Brothers. As a soloist and...

Bradley Williams

Bradley Williams cut his teeth in a two-year stint with {{m: Woody Herman = 7596}}'s Thundering Herd in the mid- '80s, both as pianist and arranger. After settling in Chicago he gained notoriety as musical director at the legendary...

Bram Weijters

Eight years old, Bram started music courses at the music school in his birth town, attending piano and percussion classes. As a teenager he played in several rockbands. After completing secondary education, he was admitted to...

Brazilian Jazz Collective

The Brazilian Jazz Collective Brings A Youthful Approach To An Honored Tradition of Music On Their First California Tour

(Los Angeles, October 30, 2009) On Sunday, November 29, 2009 the Brazilian Jazz...

Brenda Earle

Brenda Earle is a woman on a mission. She is a quadruple threat - a singer/pianist/arranger/composer, who is taking the internation jazz community by storm. Born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Brenda attended York University in...

Brenda Hopkins Miranda

There is always a sense of exhilaration associated with a musical artist whose time has come. When all those years of study, practice, performance and dedication reach a point of manifestation. This is precisely the case with pianist...

Brian Cashwell

Brian Cashwell is a pianist/organist living in Manhattan. He moved there from Cincinnati in September 2004. Since moving to New York, he has toured with the Boys Choir of Harlem, played for ballet classes at The School of American Ballet,...

Brian deLima

1999 Jazz report winner best post sec. ensemble 2002-performed at smalls paradise in n.y alongside brad meheldau and gregory hutchinson 2003-performed at the oscar peterson tribute alongside benny green,russel malone,monty alexander,clark...

Brian Hunt

Free player classical jazz gospel music love blues bluegrass

Brian Jackson

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 Kelly

Brian Kelly is a Contemporary Instrumental composer, pianist, and producer. His latest release, Afterplay, was awarded second place in the "Best Instrumental Jazz Album" category in 2009 by the Just Plain Folks Music...

Brian Murphy

I am a pianist/arranger/composer originally from Canada and currently based out of Miami Beach, Florida. I have recorded and performed extensively in Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Finland, Japan, and the U.S. with many...

Brian T Collins

Brian Collins has twenty-nine years experience in the Arts and Entertainment field. He has performed numerous appearances on CITY TV, CTV, Channel 47, CFTO, TLN and Much Music. He has worked for Sleeping Giant Productions composed and...

Brian Trainor

A melodic pianist/composer who was born and raised in Trenton, NJ, Brian Trainor has loved both jazz and classical since childhood. Trainor's interest in music was greatly encouraged by his father, Francis Trainor, Sr., a singer who had a...

Bruce Barth

Bruce Barth is widely considered to be one of finest jazz pianists and composers of his generation. New York City’s Village Voice calls him “one of the best pianists in town, period.” His is a modern and original voice, with great...

Bruce Boardman

Studied piano at London's Royal Academy of Music. Worked regularly in the nineteen-seventies and eighties with performers such as Terry Lighfoot, George Melly and Val Doonican. From the mid-nineteen-eighties, led a band which often...

Bruce Dudley

Jazz Pianist and composer BRUCE DUDLEY has performed at Jazz Festivals in Canada and the United States since 1974 when he was the featured “Young Talent” winner at the Wichita Jazz Festival. Since then he has performed across Canada...

Bruce Geller

Thank you for checking out my page here on AAJ! I am a multi-keyboardist and pianist who composes and performs original ambient and smooth jazz compositions. I regularly perform around Southern California as a soloist or with my band AKIBA...

Bruce Hornsby

"When I play music, I guess I'm what you'd call an ecstatic," says Bruce Hornsby. "I'm always pursuing those joyful, exuberant, transcendent moments that happen when everything is working. That's why I called this album Levitate, because...

Bryan Nichols

Bryan Nichols is a Minneapolis-based pianist and composer, working primarily in jazz and instrumental music. He returned to the Twin Cities in 2005 after four busy years in Chicago where he played with jazz heavyweights like Corey...

Bud Powell

Bud Powell is generally considered to be the most important pianist in the history of jazz. Noted jazz writer and critic Gary Giddins, in Visions of Jazz, goes even further, saying that "Powell will be recognized as one of the...

Buddy Budson

Buddy Budson has been playing jazz piano around the Detroit area for the past 46 years, beginning at local clubs at the age of fifteen. In 1973, Buddy joined drummer Buddy Rich’s big band, toured England, Australia,...

Bugge Wesseltoft

Early Years Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft was born February 1st, 1964 in Porsgrunn and raised in the neighbouring city of Skien, around 100km south-west of Oslo. Jazz music filled Bugges world from an early age by...

Burton Greene

Burton Greene figured prominently in New York's free jazz movement of the '60s, performing with such major figures as Alan Silva, Marion Brown, Sam Rivers, Albert Ayler, Byard Lancaster, Gato Barbieri, etc. As a child, Greene studied...

Cal Bezemer

Piano, Synth, B3, Vocals. Teacher, Composer, Song Writer. Issac Hayes was preparing to record 'The River Of Life'. Google "Cal Bezemer", and you can order CD's Cal is on with Herb Jeffries and Al Jarreau. Mus. Dir./Pianist for: Herb...

Calvin Jackson

Calvin Jackson - pianist, composer, arranger, band leader, radio host (1919-1985) Calvin Jackson was born on May 26, 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied music at the Juilliard School for a year (1941), and then went to...

Candini

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Carl Perkins

Not the rockabilly guitarist/vocalist - rather, the exceptional but little-known West Coast pianist. Carl Perkins was born in Indianapolis, IN in 1928 and eventually settled in Los Angeles in the late 1940s where he passed away in...

Carl Reppucci

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Carl Victor Moore

Keyboardist/composer Carl Victor has had the priviledge of performing with many greats such as Chuck Berry, Beverly Crawford, Jean carn, Phyllis Hymen, Janet Jackson, Dr. Berniece Reagon, he has also toured the Far East & Canada. His true...

Carla Bley

Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical...

Carli Muñoz

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 Cuevas

Carlos Cuevas has enjoyed a highly successful musical career. His experience as pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and vocalist has allowed him to work with some of the finest musicians in the business and to explore a wide range of...

Carlos Semilla

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Carlton Holmes

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...

Carmen Staaf

'Winner of the festival's piano competition last year, Staaf could have earned a small slot on the program on the strength of her technique alone. What stood out, though, were her compositions, particularly the fanciful "Merry Go Round,"...

Carmen Stokes

One of the many women pianists who started out playing classical but went to jazz in her early teens, Carmen Stokes is a stunningly beautiful pianist of great energy, versatility and enterprise. As a Composer, Arranger, Instrumentalist,...

Carolina Calvache

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...

Carolyn Hume

Hume has released seven albums over the last decade on 'Leo Records', five albums with long term collaborator Paul May and two solo albums with composition for cello and voice. Over the years she has played and recorded with many...

Casey Golden

Casey Golden is a Sydney-based piano player and composer who his making his mark on the Australian jazz scene. He has just released his debut album Clarity, with his trio on Scrampion Records/Planet/MGM. Born into a musical family, he...

Cassio Vianna

Born in July 30, 1976 in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, Cassio Vianna began studying piano at age nine and composing at age twelve. Starting as a classical pianist, Cassio moved to pop music at age thirteen, as he joined a Christian band in...

Cecil Gant

Cecil Gant jumped into the R & B world's consciousness during a war bond rally in downtown Los Angeles in 1944. The 29 year old pianist / singer made a great impression on many in the audience that day and so he was soon in a makeshift...

Cecil Taylor

"One of my wishes has been realized. I found love. It was difficult, but I found it. Because when Billy Holiday sang, “You don‘t know what love is,” great singers will tell you… it‘s a partnership. It‘s a sharing"....---Cecil...

Cecilia Coleman

CECILIA COLEMAN BIG BAND Long known as an inventive pianist and a skilled composer, a year ago Cecilia Coleman also became a significant big band leader. She told her friend trumpeter-music publisher Don Sickler that she would love to...

Cedar Walton

For over 25 years, pianist Cedar Walton has enjoyed an uptempo career, which never seems to slow down. Maintaining a non-stop itinerary, Walton has accompanied a litany of Jazz greats while also fronting his own successful groups. Born...

Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu

Cezara-Lucia Vlădescu started her piano studies with her mother, also pianist, Carmen Giorgiana Vlădescu. At the age of fourteen she was admitted under exceptional circumstances and with the highest score at the Music Academy in...

Chad Lawson

i'm a 31 year old pianist/keyboardist living in nyc. have recently been doing some pop/rock projects here in the city, as well as tv commercial work. i just finished scoring the music for a film titled "Dough Boys" written, directed and...

Champian Fulton

Born in 1985, Champian grew up in Norman Oklahoma with her parents, Stephen and Susan. Influenced at an early age by her father Stephen, a world reknowned Jazz trumpeter, Champian fell in love with Jazz. Surrounded by her father's musician...

Champion Jack Dupree

Born William Thomas Dupree, 4 July 1910, New Orleans, (Dupree's birth date is the matter of some conjecture and is sometimes listed as 23 July 1909). Orphaned in infancy, Dupree was raised in the Colored Waifs Home for Boys until the age...

Chano Dominguez

Though the association of flamenco music and an instrument is primarily the guitar, Chano Dominguez has been steadily taking his jazz approach on the piano head on into the genre with brilliant results. "In jazz you improvise with a...

Chantale Gagné

A native of Quebec, Canada, jazz pianist Chantale Gagné began studying music at the age of 8. For more than 7 years, the organ was her primary instrument. At 15 however, the piano became Chantale’s true passion. From 1997 to 1999, she...

Chappy Washington

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Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport

Cow Cow Davenport was one of the most distinctive and influential blues pianists of his era. His walking bass lines combined with his ragtime influences helped to create the style known as barrelhouse or boogie-woogie, a term that...

Charles Cornell

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Charles Greene

Charles Greene is a Pianist, Keyboardist, Composer, and Producer who is originally from Detroit Michigan. He has toured on keys with several Motown acts (the Spinners, Four Tops, Jimmy Ruffin), and also worked with Vic Damone, Richard...

Charles Kefover

Charles Kefover is a northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York-based jazz pianist and composer whose compositions and performances have put him in the forefront of the local jazz scene. Kefover began playing at a very young age studying...

Charlie Austin

Pianist Charlie Austin has influenced an entire generation of western Canadian jazz musicians. As a performer, Charlie’s versatility and musicianship have seen him establish a solid career for the past four decades, playing in a wide...

Charlie Palmieri

He was an authoritative voice in Latin American piano styles, an accomplished classical player, a fine arranger, ensemble player, and an inspired soloist.. For those familiar with his work in the salsa world, the melodic and harmonic...

Charlie Peacock

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Charmaine Ford

With a career still in its infancy, New Zealand-born piano virtuoso and composer Charmaine Ford has accomplished more than most musicians do in a lifetime.

Ford has blazed a trail of awards confirming she is indeed one of New...

Chase Morrin

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...

Chick Corea

An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner, prolific composer and undisputed keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply...

Chieko Yano

Pianist/piano teacher in the Chicago area.

Chihiro Yamanaka

Chihiro Yamanaka, Universal Classics & Jazz recording artist, is one of the most exciting jazz pianists and composers of her generation, and the leader of the Chihiro Yamanaka Trio. Chihiro Yamanaka’s new CD, Reminiscence...

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson was born in Chicago on February 26, 1926. He passed away just before his 82nd birthday two years after suffering a stroke. His lifelong fascination with harmony, sparked by movie scores, began well before the age of 10. He...

Chris Chalfant

CHRIS CHALFANT - PRODUCER, DIRECTOR COMPOSER, ALTO (VOICE), PIANO In 2001 I Founded the Lifetime Visions Orchestra which I co-direct with Joseph Jarman. The LVO recently returned from performing at the Nancy (France) Pulsations Jazz...

Chris Cody

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 Conway

Hailing from Michigan USA Chris Conway has built his career in the UK , becoming one of the most fascinating musicians on the scene. Chris Conway is active in many genres - electronic, acoustic, Celtic, world music, new age,...

Chris Dundas

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Chris Forbes

1.What brought you to music? I was interested in music pretty young according to my mother. She said I always seemed to gravitate towards the musical instrument toys at the expense of most of the others. My earliest musical memories...

Chris Illingworth Trio

The Chris Illingworth Trio formed in 2005. Chris Illingworth and Finlay Panter have been playing together for many years and were lucky enough to meet Grant Russell at the RNCM. Chris and Finlay have recently finished their studies at the...

Chris Magrath

Pianist, Organist, Keyboardist, Chris Magrath grew up in A small Village and continued to teach himself Piano from an early age, gradually moving onto electronic equipment including both Organ & Keyboards, and now has A huge knowledge in...

Chris Morris

Chris started playing piano at the age of 4 and studied classical piano until high school when he switched to jazz. After a couple years of private instruction, he attended the University of North Texas, participating in their Jazz...

Chris Neill

I am a 15 year old semi-professional musician. I play piano, tenor and alto saxophones, clarinet, guitar, cello, bass and drums. I am resident pianist at the Belvedere Jazz Bar, in Billericay, Essex where you can see me every Wednesday...

Chris Plansker

Chris Plansker is a composer,pianist and session musician based in the united states. His work has been featured on various recordings,television shows and commercials globally.Trained in classical and Jazz piano Chris holds a degree in...

Chris Rob

Born and raised on Chicago's south-side, Chris Rob was first introduced to music at age 4 by his mother, a renowned classical pianist. Today a respected singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, he's created an international...

Chris Schneider

I play piano. I sing. That's good enough for me ...

Christian Jacob

Christian Jacob began playing at the age of four and graduated with First Prize from the “Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique” in Paris. In 1983, he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and later joined the...

Christian Pabst

Christian Pabst is pianist and composer. The press calls him an „extraordinary lyrical musician“. He gave concerts in India, South Africa, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Italy, Great - Britain,...

Christina Blalock

A short biography of CHRISTINA BLALOCK A graduate of Rutgers University, NJ, Christina has a solid command of many piano playing styles and interpretations, from Chopin to Brubeck. Her musical development started very early, and after...

Christine Keller

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Christine Spero

Christine is the Winner of the USA Songwriting Competition/Jazz Category and is a pianist,singer-songwriter whose N.Y. group performs her vibrant, multi-faceted vocal and instrumental material that fuses styles and rhythms of...

Christine Walker

Taught by my grandmother from the age of six. Passed grade 5 practical and theory by the age of 11. Started teaching under the watchful eye of my grandmother at the age of 12!Passed ALCM and LLCM(TD) by the age of 18. Have loved teaching...

Chuchito Valdes

Jesus "Chuchito" Valdés - (Pianist, arranger, composer, bandleader) Born in Havana Cuba, Chuchito Valdes comes from one of the most distinguished musical families in Cuba. He has recorded and performed piano with the world renown Cuban...

Chucho Valdes

Chucho Valdés, born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist...

Cian Boylan

Cian Boylan is an Irish musician, working across many musical genres including jazz, rock & pop, and film & theatre, and collaborating with many established international artists. He was born in Dublin, and began studying piano at the...

Claude Bolling

Claude Bolling is one the most famous French musicians in the world. Although his passion is jazz, he is also an accomplished composer of pop music and has written numerous film scores. He is quite an accomplished player of classic ragtime...

Claude Hopkins

Claude Hopkins - pianist, bandleader, (1903 - 1984) Often overlooked by historians, Claude Hopkins was a major contributor to the development of early jazz and swing music. He was an incredibly gentle yet powerful stride pianist who...

Claude Marc Bourget

Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century.

"An...

Claude Williamson

Claude Williamson - piano Born Claude Berkeley Williamson, 18 November 1926, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA. After studying piano formally at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, Williamson turned to playing jazz in the...

Clayton Wright

Clayton Wright Jazz Piano Trio has released three new jazz cds, 1. Jazz Escapades (2005), 2. Jazz Voyages (2006), and 3. Serenade in Blue (2007) with polymodal and polytonal harmonies and melodies used in a way that is unique. Previous CD...

Clayton Wright Jazz Piano Trio

Clayton Wright, composer and pianist, Master of Music, winner of national music composition awards: Discology: 2007: Serenade in Blue (Jazz Piano Trio), 2006: Jazz Escapades (Jazz Piano Trio), 2005: Jazz Voyages (Jazz Piano Trio), Clayton...

Cléone Blake

I was introduced to the piano at the age of five and have been passionate about music throughout my life. I pursued both Music and French from an early age and have a general love of languages which relates to my keen awareness of sound. ...

Clement Doucet

Born and raised in Brussels, studied at and ran away from the Conservatoire, where his teacher Arthur De Greef had himself been a pupil of Liszt. His prodigious technique was further developed by a spell in the USA in the early 1920s....

Cleo Brown

Cleo Brown - pianist, vocalist (1909 - 1995) Cleo Brown bears the distinction of being the first woman instrumentalist honored with the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. Her family moved to Chicago in 1919 and four years later, at age 14,...

Cliff deMarks

Cliff deMarks is an Atlanta-based musician who is living and loving life and writing and performing a little bit of every flavor of music. Although he is primarily a jazz artist, on keyboard and sax, he also is writing some ambient new...

Cliff Monear

A product of the Berklee College of Music " Cliff’s jazz group, "The Cliff Monear Trio," is one of the busiest performing rhythm sections in the Midwest. In addition to this very full private and public performance schedule, and...

Clifford Korman

An accomplished jazz pianist and highly regarded educator and researcher, Cliff Korman has developed numerous jazz projects featuring Brazilian and American musicians and presenting a variety of original compositions and arrangements. His...

Clint Eastwood

Piano Blues Directed by Clint Eastwood Director and piano player Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me, Bird, Unforgiven) explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure...

Clinton Parsons

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Cody Garrett

www.codygarrett.com I have studied classical piano and percussion for 15 years, and began to play contemporary styles (Jazz, Latin, Funk, Progressive Metal) 8 years ago. I studied classical music theory, composition and piano performance...

Colin Towns

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Colin Vallon

After studying classical music for two years Colin Vallon (born November 17 1980 in Lausanne) took classes with jazz pianist Marc Ueter at the age of fourteen. He enrolled at the Swiss Jazz School when he was 18 and studied with Silvano...

Connie Crothers

CONNIE CROTHERS is known for her uncompromising spontaneous improvisation, originality, virtuosity and a wide range of expression. She has just released “Session at 475 Kent,” a duo with bassist Michael Bisio, on the Mutable...

Corrado Abbate

Originally trained as a classical pianist, Corrado Abbate quickly turned to jazz, soon demonstrating a distinct aptitude for composition and arrangement. He has always loved leading small combos, playing mainly his own compositions,...

Coto Pincheira

Chilean-born pianist Coto Pincheira is an internationally experienced pianist and musical leader with over 20 years of education and experience, playing a variety of musical styles which include but are not limited to; Classical, Jazz,...

Count Basie

Bill Basie studied music with his mother as a child and played piano in early childhood. He picked up the basics of early ragtime from some of the great Harlem pianists and studied organ informally with Fats Waller. He made...

Courtney Bryan

Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, La, is a prolific and eclectic composer, pianist, and arranger. Her compositions range from solo works to large ensembles in the jazz and new music idioms, film scores, and collaborations of...

Craig Brenner

Called "a fine and funky pianist" by Living Blues, pianist and composer Craig Brenner has been voted "Best Musician" in Bloomington, IN numerous times in the Bloomington Independent; Craig Brenner & the Crawdads have been selected best...

Craig Gildner & The Blue Sky 5

Whether you love to lindy hop, remember the days when "swing was king", or just appreciate good vintage jazz, you can dig all that jive with Blue Sky 5. The band’s repertoire consists of songs made popular by Count Basie, Nat...

Craig Schneider

Craig Schneider is a multi award-winning pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Equally at home on the concert stage or in an intimate jazz bar or cabaret room, Craig is an extremely versatile performer. Leader of an...

Cripple Clarence Lofton

Cripple Clarence Lofton - Boogie woogie Pianist (1887 - 1957) Although he figured in the boogie woogie craze of the ‘20’s and ‘30’s and was much celebrated by the early jazz collectors of the 78 rpm era, Cripple Clarence...

Curtis Clark

Curtis Clark was born in Chicago in 1950, moved and spent his student years in Los Angeles where he started composing and playing the piano. After Curtis graduated in music theory and composition from the renowned Californian Institute...

Curtis S.D. Macdonald

Curtis Stuart Dalton Macdonald (born Febuary 20, 1962) is a new age, jazz and contemporary instrumental keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Curtis Macdonald played a major role in...

Cynthia Hilts

Cynthia Hilts--internationally renowned jazz artist--is a pianist and vocalist, a prolific composer and brilliant lyricist. Her trio CD Second Story Breeze, with {{Ron McClure = 9227}} and {{Jeff Williams = 19190}}, has just...

Cyrus Chestnut

Telarc International, a leader in jazz recording since the 1980s, adds another stellar name to its impressive roster by bringing pianist Cyrus Chestnut into the fold. Chestnut has recently finished an album with the help of producer Elaine...

D Bayne

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D C DowDell

D C DowDell is a dynamic Jazz pianist/composer available for private Jazz piano lessons, workshops and clinics, recording and live performance with his Jazz ensemble or as a solo artist. D C has appeared with Bobby Vinton, Marilyn McCoo...

D Locutor

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...

D.D. Jackson

D.D. Jackson is an award-winning jazz pianist/composer whose work spans 12 CD’s as leader or co-leader (including two for the major label RCA Victor/BMG) featuring almost entirely original material. His most recent CDs are