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Given birth to and raised in Yamaguchi, Japan, Misako Kano began understanding how to play piano when she was five years of age. She studied traditional and jazz piano at colleges in Japan as well as the U.S. through the mid-’80s through 1990. Kano resided in N.Con.C. for a lot …

A local Californian who was raised in Santa Barbara, drummer Tom Rainey moved to NEW YORK in 1979 whilst in his early twenties (after their studies at the Berklee University of Music in Boston beginning in 1975 and time for California to reside in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA). The brand …

Since he moved to NEW YORK within the mid-’70s, alto and baritone saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Tim Berne continues to be an important person in that city’s creative music community; he asserts a solid and singular musical character throughout his diverse and sometimes absorbing functions. He has inspired other and …

Based in NY but originally from Finland, Mika Pohjola can be an introspective post-bop pianist/composer whose affects range between Paul Bley to Chick Corea and Expenses Evans. Pohjola, who was simply created in Finland in the first ’70s, learned a whole lot about jazz from his dad, a Helsinki-based jazz …

British dual bassist Jon Thorne 1st emerged in the past due ’90s lending his special sound to artful electronica outfit Lamb. Although he’s generally known as a jazz participant, his association with Lamb will be the to begin many flexible pairings for the genre-leaping musician, who in addition has been …

A solid proponent of the avant-garde jazz picture, trumpeter and occasional bassist Ralph Alessi first began monitoring classical trumpet along with his dad. Growing up within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region, Alessi eventually discovered freelance careers with different chamber ensembles in addition to use the SAN FRANCISCO BAY …

Jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine brings an eclectic selection of disciplines and affects to his music. His personal Jewish history, his traditional and jazz teaching, and his fascination with consumer electronics combine in ambitious hybrids which are frequently challenging but constantly inventive. Caine was raised within an intellectual, open-minded family members …

NY bassist Drew Gress became increasingly noticeable in modern improvised music through the entire 1980s and 1990s. In the past due ’80s, he co-founded the quartet JV, which released three albums on Enja spanning 1987-1994. Later on, Gress led his very own N.Con.-structured quartet, Jagged Sky, who released their debut, …

Multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann (given birth to about November 2, 1957) was raised close to Bonn, studied medicine and music in Hamburg beginning 1976, and moved to Berlin in 1983 to reside as a specialist musician. Twelve months later on, the 27-year-old was leading (and co-leading) his personal bands, liberating his …

Most widely known for helming the Claudia Quintet and John Hollenbeck Huge Ensemble, in addition to his sideman efforts to the task of numerous various other performers, John Hollenbeck shows himself to become an intuitive and far-reaching drummer, percussionist, composer, and group head. Delivered in Binghamton, NY and a citizen …