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Clean jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel continues to be assisting to shape the genre since his recording debut in 1980. Created in Seattle and elevated in Eugene, OR, Siegel began acquiring piano lessons at age group eight and was fronting a rock-band at 12. After going to the Berklee University of …

Almost completely instrumental, the Muffins’ music was a distinctive mixture of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation plus much more. The group was shaped within the Washington, DC region in the first ’70s by Dave Newhouse (keyboards), Billy Swan (vocals, bass and electric guitar), Tom Scott (woodwinds) and Michael Zentner (electric guitar …

Using a smooth sound combining components of funk, R&B, rock and roll, and electric jazz, keyboardist Jeff Lorber helped pioneer a genre of fusion afterwards formatted under such names as NAC and contemporary jazz. Blessed in Philadelphia on November 4, 1952, he started playing the piano at age four, so …

American composer, arranger, producer, pianist, and educator Don Grusin can be an completed Grammy Award-winning musician having a bent toward crossover varieties of music from jazz to pop with a particular desire for the music of Brazil and Latin America. Younger sibling of pianist Dave Grusin, Grusin was raised in …

Founded in 1974 by saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, Spyro Gyra possess consistently been among the commercially successfully pop-jazz sets of days gone by 30 years. The music group became a full-time enterprise in 1976 and it has been touring since. Critics want to assault this band’s music, which combines R&B and …

Bob Adam’ recordings possess practically defined pop/jazz and crossover in the past couple of decades. Very inspired by pop and film music, James provides often highlighted R&B-ish soloists (especially Grover Washington, Jr.) who put in a jazz contact to what is actually an instrumental pop place. He actually began in …

Singer/songwriter/keyboard participant/guitarist Costs Champlin is a rock and roll journeyman within a profession dating back again to the 1960s. Beginning in 1966, Champlin was the pivotal shape in a San Francisco-based group known as the Sons of Champlin that been around and made information on / off for over ten …