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Trevor Watts Moiré Music

Trevor W has led many groups beneath the name Moiré Music, with all writing a concentrate on structure and globe rhythms in clear comparison to his previous involvement in Uk improvisation. These groupings have ranged in proportions from a trio to 14-piece group, starting being a ten-piece group in 1982. …

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Michel Mast

Belgian saxophonist Michel Mast can frequently be heard using tenor in avant-garde jazz and rock albums, and he continues to be featured about baritone and soprano saxophones aswell. Mast began showing up on recordings in the first ’80s, as an associate of Luc Houtkamp’s saxophone quartet Hommage within the group’s …

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Robert “Brother Ah” Northern

A rare jazz France horn participant and soloist, Robert North aka Sibling Ah was among the busiest program musicians from the ’50s and ’60s. He proved helpful and documented with many jazz stars, included in this Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Sunlight Ra, Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner, Rahsaan Roland …

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Rick Harris

Brass participant, vocalist and arranger Rick Harris offers often been associated with vocalist Pam Bricker, although he offers recorded in various other contexts including a 1994 cooperation using the unrelated Costs Harris. An ensemble known as Mad Love which started in the middle ’80s was the to begin the Bricker …

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Chris Corstens

Created in 1964, saxophonist/composer Chris Corstens received conservatory teaching but preferred to get musical encounter and knowledge through live show. Shifting to Amsterdam in 1995, he explored an array of designs and has performed in the avant jazz trio Vacuum (with guitarist Nils Krook and drummer Martin vehicle Leusden) aswell …

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The Visitors

The Visitors were today’s jazz quintet out of Philadelphia led by saxophone-playing brothers Carl Grubbs (alto) and Earl Grubbs (tenor and soprano) and in addition featuring Sid Simmons on piano, John Goldsmith on drums, and a Stanley Clarke on bass. Carl and Earl in fact required sax lessons in the …

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Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock will be perhaps one of the most revered and controversial statistics in jazz — just like his company/mentor Mls Davis was when he was alive. Unlike Mls, who pressed forward relentlessly rather than looked back again until close to the extremely end, Hancock provides lower a zigzagging ahead …

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Anouar Brahem

The role from the Arabic, lute-like, stringed instrument, the oud, continues to be revolutionized through the playing of Anouar Brahem. While found in days gone by to accompany vocalists, the oud can be used by Brahem as an imaginative single device. In 1988, Tunisian newspapers Tunis-Hebdo published, “If we’d to …

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McCoy Tyner

It really is to McCoy Tyner’s great credit that his profession after John Coltrane continues to be definately not anti-climatic. Along with Costs Evans, Tyner continues to be the most important pianist in jazz of days gone by 50 years, along with his chord voicings getting adopted and employed by …

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Nate Birkey

Although a quintessentially west coast jazz musician, trumpeter/vocalist Nate Birkey is a Midwestern native given birth to in Indiana and raised in Colorado. Having a smooth, tenor tone of voice and pining trumpet audio Birkey pulls easy evaluations with “interesting college” luminaries such as for example Chet Baker, Kilometers Davis …

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