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A Troop of Echoes (saxophone)
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Muscular bass. Agile saxophone. Propulsive drums. Lithe guitar. In a music scene where many bands claim almost-divine levels of inspiration and originality (while still all sounding curiously alike), A Troop of Echoes shelves the self- important melodrama and delivers... [ Continue ]
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Aatish Karki (piano)
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Aberdeen (band / ensemble / orchestra)
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Aberdeen is a jazz / indie rock brass band based out of Brooklyn, NY. They create a wall of sound with soaring, horn-driven melodies, supported by a bed of distorted guitars and raucous drums. Brian Plautz is the primary songwriter in the band. The band, featuring saxophones,... [ Continue ]
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Adam Mansfield (drums)
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Adi Wijaya (piano)
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Adi Wijaya may be known to you for his keyboard work on the album Chapter One by the Yogyakarta 'prog—jazz-rock' guitar-led group I Know You Well Miss Clara. He is approximately 30 years old and holds a Masters Degree in music composition. He lives in the city Yogyakarta,... [ Continue ]
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Adrian Belew (guitar)
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A wizard of sonic manipulation and texture, Belew has been the guitarist of choice for the art-rock crowd, playing with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and Nine Inch Nails [see entries]. He has also fronted a version of King Crimson and sustained a... [ Continue ]
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Aggelos Fetsis (guitar, electric)
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Agorà
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One of the few professional bands from the Marche, on the Adriatic side of central Italy, Agorà were formed in 1974 near Ancona, and played a jazz-rock very influenced by the likes of Weather Report or the Italian group Perigeo, with a very limited use of progressive sounds.... [ Continue ]
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Agustin Barreto (bass, electric)
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Agustin Barreto, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico started playing electric bass at age 16 and soon discovered his gift and passion for music. He developed quickly as a bassist playing in many local bands, including the popular “DEFENSA PROPIA”, one of the first bands on the... [ Continue ]
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Ai Kuwabara (piano)
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Ai Kuwabara Born on September 21st, 1991. Graduated from the Music Department at Senzoku Gakuen High School as a jazz piano major in 2010. Studied piano under Yuki Arimasa, Yoko Yamashita, and Kazune Zaima. Has been active since her early years, winning many awards such as gold... [ Continue ]
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Ake Ériksson (drums)
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Ake Eriksson (drums)
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All my life i've been drumming and it looks like that's what i'll continue to do until i'm six feet under. I've done every kind of gig you can think of but my heart is with jazz-rock fusion which also means i'm not the wealthies guy around. It has a limited audience, but it also... [ Continue ]
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Al Garcia (guitar)
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Born in Newark, NJ, Al began playing the bass guitar at the age of 13. He was influenced early on by Jack Bruce and Felix Papalardi, two bass visionaries who helped expand the role of the bass guitar in rock music. His musical horizons were broadened to include Jazz, Classical,... [ Continue ]
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Alan Davey (bass)
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Alan Davey is an English musician, best known as the former bassist with Hawkwind. He is now the bass player and vocalist for Gunslinger as well as The Psychedelic Warlords. [ Continue ]
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Aleif Hamdan (guitar, electric)
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Aleif Hamdan is a guitarist/composer from Indonesia and Malaysia. Growing up in South East Asia, Aleif was exposed to a wide variety of music, contributing to a diverse and eclectic palette of taste. Aleif moved to Kuala Lumpur in 2010 to pursue studies at the International... [ Continue ]
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Aler Santarelli (keyboards)
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Self taught keyboardist, fell in love with music by listening to Ray Manzarek organ in The Doors, eventually discovered jazz and quickly got into improvisation and progressive forms of music. [ Continue ]
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Alessandro Benvenuti (guitar)
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Alessandro Bottura (bass, electric)
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Alessandro Bottura, 03/06/1984, started to get interested in music since he was a child, studying piano for 5 years, then guitar and drums until 2000, when he landed to the bass as self-taught. With the rock band NoLogo he performed in lots of liveshows in Modena, winning also... [ Continue ]
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Alex Glushkov (guitar, electric)
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Alex Lofoco (bass)
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Born and raised in Rome Alex moved to London where he graduated in Popular Music Performance – BMus (Hons) at the University of West London. Alex releases his progressive fusion debut album Beyond in December 2017, featuring guest artists Marco Minnemann on drums... [ Continue ]
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Alex Lozupone (guitar)
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Alex Lozupone is a mutli-instrumentalist, music producer/engineer, and film director, primarily known as a lead guitarist, and as an avid producer of live music videos. He has over a hundred videos documenting the music scene on his youtube channel, 'dogandpanda', and has played... [ Continue ]
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Alex Milella (guitar)
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Guitarist, arranger and musical programmer, he begins at the age of 6 studying piano; at 13 years old he switches to guitar, in a private school; he continues, afterwards, as self- taught, with various live experiences in the pubs of his town. Around the age of 18, he improves... [ Continue ]
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Alex Skolnick (guitar)
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Alex Skolnick, born in 1968, grew up in Berkeley, California. At age nine, a fascination with the rock group Kiss led to a desire to learn guitar. At age sixteen, Alex tried out for a local band called Legacy. Shortly after graduating from high school, he found himself recording... [ Continue ]
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Alex Walker (saxophone)
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Alex started his musical career at age 3 while playing the piano and moved on to saxophone at 15, along the way he dabbled" in trumpet, clarinet and flute. He realized that he could recognize many personalities from the saxophone, sweet and gentle to aggressive and bluesy.... [ Continue ]
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Alexander Randall (guitar, electric)
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Alexandre A Aoki (guitar)
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Born in Sao Paulo - Brazil, Rock Guitar Player since 1982. [ Continue ]
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Alexey Revenko (guitar)
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The composer, singer and guitarist (as well as poet and writer) Alexey Revenko is well known by his approach and experiments in music. He is called a founder of acoustic neoclassical and neoromantic music style in Ukraine and Russia (albums Felicity" (2003), Apogee... [ Continue ]
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Alf Terje Hana (guitar)
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CVAlf Terje Hana, aka AthanaGuitarist/composer from/living in Stavanger NorwayStarted playing guitar, late sixties, in his own bands like Crystal, Wasaband, Timebeat, and Athana since 2000. Often mentioned by critics, to be in the same landscape as Robert Fripp and Jeff Beck.... [ Continue ]
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Alfie Ryner
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« After five years of intense rehearsing, gigging, changing and re-arranging songs, live-testing, abandoning, approving, and a long thought process concerning the best way to lay down our music on record, we decided to work with the magicians Olivier Cussac and Arthur Ower and... [ Continue ]
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Ali Bey (bass, electric)
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Allan Holdsworth (guitar, electric)
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Allan Holdsworth is widely regarded by fans and contemporary musicians as one of the 20 th century's most prominent guitarists. He is one of a handful of musicians who has consistently proven himself as an innovator in between and within the worlds of rock and jazz music. Many... [ Continue ]
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Allan Holdsworth & Alan Pasqua (band / ensemble / orchestra)
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Allen Weber (guitar, electric)
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Journeyman musician Allen Weber is another musician to emerge from Chicago’s music scene. At age 7 he learned to play piano. At age 11 he switched to trumpet. And at age 15 he finally moved to guitar, though he originally wanted to be a bass player after watching the Beatles... [ Continue ]
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Alphonse Mouzon (drums)
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Chairman/CEO of Tenacious Records, composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist and actor ALPHONSE MOUZON has been composing and producing beautiful music that has captivated and enthralled audiences throughout the world for over two decades. ALPHONSE MOUZON (who is an... [ Continue ]
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Alphonso Johnson (bass)
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Alphonso Johnson is an iconic musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania whose contributions with the electric bass set the landscape of music to come. As Weather Report’s bassist, Johnson’s warm tone and fluent chops contributed to the band’s initial breakout... [ Continue ]
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André Lambert (saxophone)
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André Lambert, saxophone/EWI. Après des études au BerkLee College of Music de Boston. André Lambert a étudié le saxophone avec le réputé Phill Woods. Il détient aussi une maîtrise en musicologie de lamusique populaire de l’Université Laval. Après avoir tenu les... [ Continue ]
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Andrea Balestra (guitar, electric)
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Andrea Balestra is Los Angeles based guitarist, originally from Italy. His music is an original blend of jazz rock and thoughtful compositions with broad influences that encompass artists such as Wayne Shorter, Jimi Hendrix, Ennio Morricone and Miles Davis. After accomplishing... [ Continue ]
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Andrei Krylov (guitar)
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Andrei Krylov - guitarist and composer. He plays 6 and 7 string guitar. Original music, Fusion of Flamenco, Folk, Jazz, Gypsy styles, Classical music. He studied guitar, arrangement and composition in Music School and Music College in St.Petersburg, Russia and now is living in... [ Continue ]
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Andrei Marica (guitar)
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Andy Rothstein (guitar)
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Blend the energy of rock with the complexity of jazz and the dynamics of blues and you just might end up with a unique style. New Jersey based guitarist Andy Rothstein’s unique musical voice can be attributed partly to his diverse musical influences, and party to the... [ Continue ]
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Anthony Jackson (bass, electric)
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Anthony Jackson (b. 1952) is quite simply a legendary figure in modern music. Although his first steps into music were with the piano and guitar he switched to the electric bass after hearing Motown bassist James Jamerson. Having played on over 3000 recording sessions it is safe... [ Continue ]
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Anthony Smyth (drums)
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Anthony started playing drums at the age of 13. During the late 1970s, while still at school, Anthony was playing professionally in various bands in Canberra Australia. A move to Sydney in 1979 brought regular work in Fusion, Funk & Pop bands over the following 5 years. During... [ Continue ]
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Antoine Fafard (bass)
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Canadian-born and UK-based bass player Antoine has been releasing original instrumental music for nearly 20 years. He actualises his musical vision with harmonic and melodic elements that are mostly composed on the classical and electric guitar, while special attention is always... [ Continue ]
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Arcus Trio (band / ensemble / orchestra)
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Art 'Spike' Schloemer (keyboards)
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Art'Spike'Schloemer ist one of the few musicians who was born to groove". He began his piano studies at the age of six and starting performing professionally throughout Germany after graduating from Bela Bartok Conservatory in Budapest. During his productive career as a... [ Continue ]
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Arthur Smith (guitar, electric)
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Arturo Mora (bass)
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Relocated to Copenhagen in late 2017, in his natal Madrid (Spain) he played in the house band of several jam sessions comprising more than 12 years of weekly stage routine. Arturo has played with the likes of Chema Saiz, Juan Camacho (CD La estrategia del tiempo, 2008; CD... [ Continue ]
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ÄTSCH (band / ensemble / orchestra)
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ATSCH started life as a graduation ensemble put together by guitarist Mathias Winkler’s for his Newpark BA in 2016. Since then the quartet has held down a weekly residency in Dublin and in November (2017) , they released their self-titled debut EP. Since then ATSCH has become... [ Continue ]
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Audric Jankauskas (guitar, electric)
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2003 - Audric Jankauskas and Rob Lewcun collaborate to create the CD titled Spontageous , published and released by aujanmusic in January 2004 Spontageous is the name of the four piece jazz-rock group that features guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums. The sound of Spontageous can... [ Continue ]
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BangTower (band / ensemble / orchestra)
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BangTower features legendary bassist Percy Jones, Grammy winning guitarist/engineer/producer Neil Citron and LA Drum Guru" Walter Garces. Their debut release Casting Shadows" produced by Jon Pomplin (Declassified Records), and Neil Citron (who also engineered, mixed... [ Continue ]