September 30, 2023
Biography
b. 18 Sept 1977, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. Taking on music as a kid, Zimmer became an adept drummer, learning percussion privately with Adam Sewrey at Carroll University in his home-town from age 10. During his senior high school years he created a preference for jazz, and used some local music …
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September 30, 2023
Biography
Alto saxophonist Martin Speake was created in 1958 in Barnet, Britain, where his youth present him surrounded by music. He was attracted initially towards the rock and roll and pop music of your day, but soon after he still left school at age 16, Speake bought an alto saxophone after …
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September 29, 2023
Biography
A versatile pianist that has been featured in a number of configurations, John Beasley continues to be an asset to numerous different tasks. He was raised in Tx to an extremely musical family members. His grandfather performed trombone in place rings and was a junior senior high school music group …
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September 29, 2023
Biography
In the tender age of 20, NY vocalist Jane Monheit was the first runner-up in the 1998 Thelonious Monk Institute vocal competition, winning a $10,000 scholarship or grant to help expand her music education. Judges couldn’t precisely place her audio, which blended organic elegance having a powerful yet impressively managed …
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September 28, 2023
Biography
An adept jazz guitarist having a clean assault and liquid, lyrical design, Russell Malone frequently plays inside a swinging, straight-ahead design weaving in components of blues, gospel, and R&B. Created in Albany, Georgia in 1963, Malone 1st began playing acoustic guitar around age group four on the toy device, quickly …
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September 27, 2023
Biography
Euge Groove — a pseudonym for saxophone journeyman Steve Grove — began using piano in the next grade and considered the saxophone in age nine or 10. His teacher provided him a traditional education over the device, which he continuing at the School of Miami’s College of Music, where he …
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September 27, 2023
Biography
As a guitarist developing up in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, Charlie Hunter wanted ways to stick out in the ’80s. His major influences had been jazz great Joe Move and the liquid Tuck Andress (from the electric guitar/vocal duo Tuck & Patti), both six-string guitarists who had …
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September 26, 2023
Biography
Geoff Keezer was only 17 when he became the final pianist in Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1988-1990), an ideal gig for the talented hard bop musician who suit right along with the custom of Horace Sterling silver, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton, Adam Williams, and Benny Green. Since Blakey’s loss of …
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September 23, 2023
Biography
Keyboardist Gary Versace could popularity of the modern jazz picture in scant couple of years, yet the trip to prominence was hard fought and deservedly won. Delivered in Greenwich, CN Apr 25, 1968, his preliminary lessons originated from his mom who was simply a vocalist and organist. Urged by his …
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September 23, 2023
Biography
Pianist Eric Reed is among a lot of talented music artists who all emerged from Wynton Marsalis’ rings to pursue a rewarding single profession in his very own right. Delivered in Philadelphia in 1970, Reed’s initial contact with music emerged through his dad, a minister and regional gospel vocalist; he …
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