Tag Archives: Michael Formanek Quartet

Although jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver continues to be known in the Detroit area as an excellent musician and educator because the early ’90s, he had not been so well-known to listeners beyond the Midwest until an explosion of recordings released beginning in 1999 brought his effective and tasteful drumming towards …

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 …

Born in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1958, Michael Formanek offers proven that he is able to do everything: bassist, composer, improviser, bandleader, collaborator, educator, and first-call sideman to numerous of the very most highly regarded performers in creative jazz. He is a main presence on the brand new York …

Jazz pianist and key pad participant Craig Taborn began functioning professionally within the 1990s in a number of musical contexts, which range from more straight-ahead jazz to more outdoors music, with small jazz music artists, seasoned veterans, and also techno performers. In his hometown of Minneapolis, Taborn analyzed piano, structure, …