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Pianist Irène Schweizer performed and recorded with leading Western european improvisers and free of charge jazz musicians because the 1960s, including feminine improvising groups beginning in the past due ’70s. Among the preliminary organizers from the Taktlos and Canaille music celebrations, she actually is also a founding person in the …

The Portuguese flutist, improviser, and composer Carlos Bechegas could be less known than his compatriot Carlos Zingaro, but his originality and virtuosity are simply as striking. An arts and crafts instructor, Bechegas started playing saxophone and flute in golf swing orchestras and jazz-rock organizations, before dedicating his actions to free …

Vibraphonist Costs Ware was a mover and shaker over the downtown NY scene through the ’80s and ’90s, using both advanced post-bop and grooving, revivalist jazz-funk. Blessed Costs Ware III in East Orange, NJ, on January 28, 1959, Ware began being a bass participant, and later educated on the Harlem …

NY trumpeter Steven Bernstein was music director of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, co-leader from the trio Spanish Take a flight, and served as arranger and leader from the Kansas Town Band (in the Robert Altman film and Verve All-Stars Tour). Bernstein after that started leading his very own groupings and …

Alternate R&B artist Steve Lacy is within a presumably little class of musicians who’ve co-produced a Grammy-nominated album while signed up for senior high school. Befriended his freshman yr by Jameel Bruner of the web, Lacy became a member of that music group as guitarist, vocalist, and co-producer before the …

Delivered to Chilean and Peruvian parents and located in Brooklyn — though Washington, D.C. is certainly his hometown — Nick Hakim found its way to 2014 being a purposefully organic and enhanced balladeer with a vintage soul. Ahead of his breakout season, he made an appearance on Gizmo’s Crimson Balloon …