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Horn, flugelhorn, corno da caccia, alphorn, corno pastoriccio, didgeridoo, Wagner tuba etc. Born in Moscow, Russia on October 17, 1956. At the age of six started to play alto horn in a brass orchestra at the Kuntsevo District Young...
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Born on Aug. 21, 1928, in Iowa, Farmer was raised in Phoenix, Arizona along with his twin brother Addison. They moved to Los Angeles in 1945 and during the late '40s, Farmer worked with the West Coast based bands of Jay McShann, Johnny...
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Barry Long was the inaugural Samuel Williams Professor of Music at Bucknell University where he currently directs the jazz ensemble and teaches coursework in jazz and music theory. Prior to joining the Bucknell faculty, he held similar...
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Originally from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Brad Curran is a B.M.E. graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. He began playing trumpet in the fourth grade and was playing gigs and arranging by age twelve. Since that time, he has had...
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Did Orient tour in the 1970's Worked with various combos Played casuals with Art Pepper Now play Casuals with various combos
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Trompettiste, Carl Marche est très t�'t passionné de Jazz, il apprend sur des disques, à l’écoute des grands maîtres et se perfectionne en parallèle au conservatoire de musique d’Orléans. Grâce aux répétitions dans des...
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For more than five decades, Chuck Mangione's love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiates from the stage. Mangione first attracted attention with his brother, Gap,...
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Danny Davis was a band leader, vocalist and producer and founder/leader of the Nashville Brass. Born into a large Irish-Catholic family. His father died when Davis was five years old. His mother supported the family by giving music lessons...
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Celebrated for his warm tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, American musician DMITRI MATHENY has been lauded as “the first breakthrough flugelhornist since Chuck Mangione" (San Jose Mercury News). First introduced to jazz...
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Trumpet/Flugel player, composer & arranger Duncan Fraser is one of the UK's Top young professional musicians. Having graduated on a Music Scholarship from Exeter University and come through the ranks of NYJO, Duncan is now based in London...
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She is a singer/guitarist/composer/music therapist who has performed solo and in various groups, has been associated with an original rock musical that was performed at Lincoln Center's Guggenheim Bandshell in the mid-1970's and is being...
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Garot Michael has been a BMI affiliated artist, composer and publisher for nearly 20 years. A music interest begining in the early 80's, Garot Michael continued his growing interest in the trumpet and music throughout his highschool career...
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West Indian Harry Beckett, born in Barbados, brought his own highly personal approaches to the trumpet to the cultural stew of the mid- to late 1960s. Such is the distinctiveness of Beckett's playing that it continues to be the musical...
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Arne Hiorth is an experienced musician, composer , producer, teacher and project coordinator. Hiorth has worked with top artists in Norway, like Mari Boine, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Anja Garbarek , Oslo Groove Company ( Spellemann Award for Jazz)....
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Ever since the day in 1954 when Archbishop Trevor Huddleston gave him his trumpet, Masekela has played music that closely reflects his beginnings as a little boy in Witbank. The street songs, church songs, migrant labour work songs,...
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Often described as Miles Davis meets Pink Floyd, trumpet/flugelhorn artist Jeff Oster is set to release his fourth album, next, this spring. Jeff’s sound is a unique combination of his parents’ influences of 30s and 40s lyrical...
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John Tatum first picked up the frenchhorn in fifth grade...He won every competition for solo and trios in high school..went to the all region band. He switched to trumpet and flueglehorn...about 15 years ago... First started playing by ear...
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Larry Gatchel, “Gatch", is the leader of the new “JassCats" band. We are dedicated to keeping “JAZZ" alive by providing “free concerts" for non-profit organizations and discounts for others too!* In spite of all my...
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Lex Samu is a freelance trumpet and flugelhorn player who has been working busily in New York's free jazz scene for the last several years.
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MARIO FRAGIACOMO, trumpetist, flugelhornist, composer was born in Triest (Italy). He started studying music privately when he was 9 years old. His father, a former band player, is the one who first turned his thoughts into studying wind...
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A professional musician for over forty years, multi-instrumentalist Matt Finley is a native of Lake George, New York. He graduated from Union College, where he led a combined Union/SUNY Albany/RPI Jazz Workshop to a semi-final appearance...
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Trumpet/flugelhorn soloist Mike Metheny is a native of Lee's Summit, Missouri and has degrees from the University of Missouri/Columbia (B.S. in Music Education) and Northeast Missouri State University (Masters in Music Education). His...
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Oskar Stenmark grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden. His family contains generations of professional musicians, so Oskar split his childhood between the Concert Hall and the local jazz club. He quickly developed a musical interest, and eventually...
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Santa Cruz, California writer, musician and producer PETELACEY’S self titled album presents sophisticated and timeless melodies floating gracefully over cool rhythmic beats traversing between pop/rock and modern jazz. PETELACEY makes...
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Stephen is a Jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and drummer who has devoted over twenty years to the study of the legacy of Jazz . He is a performer,educator and advocate for Jazz. He began his career in Oklahoma where he studied music at the...
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Trumpet and Flugelhorn; played with Rias Big Band, Greetje Kauffeld, Gustavo Bergalli, T.M. Stevens, Inside Out Big Band, Vargo, Clarke Terry, and many others played at several Festivals with his Group: MGE
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Born in Detroit and raised in the Midwest heartland, Tom began as a jazz trumpet and flugelhorn musician nearly thirty years ago. Equipped with a B. S. in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse and Masters work in jazz...
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TONY GUERRERO has established himself in a variety of areas over the last fifteen years. His work as a contemporary jazz flugelhornist, trumpeter, composer and producer has garnered him both critical success and a world-wide audience. He...
I love jazz because anything is possible; it has few rules and the best jazz breaks those ones. I prefer free improv because it doesn't really have any rules at all.
I was first exposed to jazz in my teens (in the late sixties).
The first jazz record I bought was Filles de Kilimanjaro by Miles Davis, shortly followed by Extrapolation by John McLaughlin.
My advice to new listeners is to listen as widely as possible and not to make snap judgments--stick with it.
Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music...
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