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A soulful mixture of jazz and R&B creates the distinctive blue-eyed spirit audio of California-based keyboardist, composer, and arranger David Diggs. Called among three best brand-new artists by Money Container and Billboard in 1985, when his 4th solo record, Streetshadows, spent 26 weeks in the very best Ten of Billboard’s …

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene was created in Bloomfield, Connecticut, in 1975. His dad, Adam Greene, Sr., who was simply an beginner saxophonist and songwriter, got his boy making music young, buying him his 1st alto saxophone at age group six. 2 yrs later he started acquiring lessons, and by junior …

b. Peter John Ruler, 11 August 1940, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, Britain. Self-taught on many reed instruments, from the past due 50s Ruler had founded himself as a significant and thrilling alto saxophonist on the united kingdom jazz scene. On the next couple of years he caused John Dankworth, Tubby Hayes, Stan …

A plausible synonym for versatility is possibly Robert Kyle. Blessed, raised, and employed in LA, Kyle is certainly adept at a number of jazz settings and his executing retains its advanced, regardless of the design he’s asked to try out. One reason behind his adroitness is the fact that he …

Because he was involved with many commercial saving projects in the mid-’70s through the first ’80s and on an intermittent basis since, some observers wrote Ernie Watts off prematurely being a pop/R&B tenorman. In fact, Watts’ primary hero is definitely John Coltrane, and his afterwards function reveals him to become …

Fred Jackson just released 1 album and performed on a small number of sessions for Blue Notice before disappearing from your jazz scene within the middle-’60s. He deserved an improved destiny. Although he wasn’t a wildly initial tenor saxophonist, he was a good journeyman who discovered an effective common floor …

Don Menza is a robust tenor saxophonist who, although in a position to effectively imitate a lot of the best stylists (from Coleman Hawkins to John Coltrane), includes a distinctive audio of his very own. Menza began playing tenor when he was 13. After getting away from the Military, he …

Bennie Wallace has very long had his own unique design, combining collectively the raspy firmness of Ben Webster using the frequent wide period jumps of Eric Dolphy. He comes with an explorative design that sound-wise appears back again toward the golf swing era. Wallace began on clarinet when he was …

Bristol, England-based electronic musician who also, though he hasn’t DJed, is becoming within the mid-90s a name within the dance circuit through his experimental strategy. Recording for FROM Orbit, a subsidiary of Italian label ACV (Annibaldi, Armani, etc.), his function reveals a stylistic personal debt towards the Detroit techno godfathers: …

One of the most promising pianists located in the L.A. region, Bill Cunliffe continues to be careful to get each of his recordings screen its own character. He received the 1989 Thelonious Monk jazz piano award, for a while led the fusion music group Porcupine, works together with Natalie Cole …