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Fusion/light-jazz bandleader, composer, and innovator of an organization that’s recorded two albums about Iris records.

A keyboardist and longtime person in Arsenio Hall’s “Posse,” Starr Parodi in addition has issued fusion/R&B albums like a innovator, though non-e has so far yielded any fruits.

Dutch saxophonist/vocalist Chocolate Dulfer is a charismatic and gifted performer known on her behalf funky, genre-bending undertake clean jazz, dance-pop, and instrumental R&B. In the beginning taken to the public’s interest via looks with Prince, Dulfer (whose affects range between Sonny Rollins and Kilometers Davis to Maceo Parker and David …

Probably one of the most popular saxophonists ever, Grover Washington, Jr. was very long the pacesetter in his field. His origins had been in R&B and soul-jazz body organ combos, but he also fared perfectly within the infrequent events when he performed straight-ahead jazz. An extremely influential participant, Washington forced …

Among the first Jazz Crusaders, Stix Hooper remains to be a well-respected drummer although his own single career offers mostly present him in fairly anonymous configurations. He began playing drums in early stages in his indigenous Houston. When he was 16 he come up with his very own group, originally …

Even just before singer/songwriter Tommy Wiggins eased onto the national music picture in 1990 using the Nouveau/K-Tel release Awesome Saturdays, he previously years of saving experience in back of him. The Minnesota indigenous produced his first appearance on the documenting in 1972, when Freeland, the music group then belonged to, …

Pianist/composer Mike Catalano is a jazz designer having a bent toward melodic soft jazz and a specific fascination with Brazilian music. Created in NEW YORK, Catalano studied traditional piano developing up and finally went to the Five Cities University of Music. During this time period he began composing and carrying …

A busy studio room musician during a lot of his profession, Ralph MacDonald added colorful noises and catchy rhythms to a huge selection of saving classes. His father’s music group performed calypso in Harlem, and it experienced a strong impact on his playing, as do a ten-year stint (1961-1971) with …

Clean jazz guitarist Peter White’s lyrical lines and musical inventiveness certainly are a joy to hear. The affable Englishman’s elegance and playfulness arrive through in his music, providing his design of clean jazz a liveliness that others in the genre absence. Born Sept 20, 1954, for an British dad and …

Created and raised in southern California, vocalist Marilyn Scott matters among her first affects singers like Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Gladys Knight, Janis Joplin, Etta Wayne and Sam Cooke. She started performing in regional clubs and college features when she was 15. She shifted to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to …