Tag Archives: Piano Jazz

For somebody of Steve Allen’s versatility and staggering convenience of function, jazz occupied a little yet significant part of his biography. However despite his packed plan, Allen could still spin out facile, skilled, bop-and-cocktail-flavored piano in fast jazz business — nothing especially original but often pleasurable to listen to. He …

This pianist was a familiar fellow around the Paris swing scene from your years of the next World War up with the mid-’80s. André Persiani can be frequently defined as André Persiany, the surname closing in “i” becoming the one provided him at delivery. His father published tunes for musical …

Located in Colorado, pianist Steve Barta produced an impression along with his 1991 Kokopelli discharge Blue River. Although he began playing piano when he was six, Barta dropped interest and ended entirely when he was 11. He do learn trombone sufficiently to operate in regional funk rings in senior high …

Sweden’s Anders Jormin is really a progressive bassist having a bent toward atmospheric classical and folk-influenced jazz. Created in Jönköping, Sweden in 1957, Jormin was initially launched to music via his jazz musician dad, who helped him (and his sibling, percussionist Christian Jormin) find out standards at a age. Later …

b. Stephen Argüelles Clarke, 16 November 1963, Crowborough, Sussex, Britain. Elevated in Birmingham, Argüelles started playing drums at college. He soon considered jazz, playing within a rehearsal music group using the Midland Youngsters Jazz Orchestra and associated going to jazzmen. After departing school he shifted to London where he used …

The title of Steve Cole’s third recording, NY LA, may trip for the East Coast-meets-West Coast hipness factor of his fresh and crackling make of smooth sax jazz, however the soul in his music definitely has lots of touches from the R&B/blues influence of his hometown, Chicago. The saxman’s brand …

An outstanding experienced pianist from Spain, Tete Montoliu was created blind. He discovered to learn music in Braille when he was seven and created amazing technique on piano. He documented with Lionel Hampton in 1956, experienced his first program as a innovator in 1958, and used the touring Roland Kirk …

Given birth to in New Britain, the cellist Tristan Honsinger studied in the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. From the ’70s, the Trans-American experienced relocated to Amsterdam and created the moment Composers Pool with drummer Han Bennink and radical pianist Misha Mengelberg. With this avant-jazz group, his music transcended the traditional …

Another within the latter-day parade of tradition-respecting “youthful lions,” Stephen Scott brings a formidable technique, a few of Ahmad Jamal’s locked-groove obsessions, and components of Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner to his function. However, Scott demonstrated he could increase beyond his neo-bop foundation on THE STUNNING Thing, an …

An excellent accompanist, Slick Jones is most well-known for his period as an associate of Fat Waller’s Tempo. Jones used Fletcher Henderson briefly in 1934 and 1936 and toured and documented with Waller pretty frequently during 1936-41; he also documented with Gene Sedric, Don Redman, Lionel Hampton and Una Mae …