“My music is swing, blues, modern and original jazz. I like to play tunes that have a groove and lend themselves to improvisation within the form of the composition. I’ve been playing trumpet since I was 9 years old. My daddy was a musician so I come from a musical family and we all played [...]
1. What genre of music do you perform? Most of the genre’s I perform are R&B, Rock & Roll and Jazz but many other styles as well. 2. When did you start performing? Professionally I start performing at age 14. I auditioned and got the gig with the Army Band In NYC at 18 and [...]
1. What genre of music do you perform? I am a Jazz singer with 5 cds out on the Warner Jazz and Classics label. However I have also been in a few Broadway musicals. So I guess what I do that is different from the other Jazzers out there is bring a sense of show [...]
What genre of music do you perform? I am often asked to categorize my music into a broad genre. My music is often grouped under the “jazz” medium but I try to bring in influences from funk, soul, rock, psychedelia, and jam. IYQ’s music is based heavily on improvisation and is stemmed in the tradition [...]
1. What genre of music do you perform? My roots are in jazz, and the more I play, the more I feel like that’s where my home is. But I play and learn from all kinds of different music. My last solo record, for example, is called Goldberg Variations / Variations: I play the Goldberg Variations, [...]
Lou Grassi is internationally known for his work in both the traditional and the avant-garde jazz worlds. He has literally played from Ragtime to No-Time: He toured with Ragtime pianist Max Morath and for the past decade has been the leader of the Lou Grassi PoBand. 1. What genre of music do you perform? [...]
If you listen to Smooth Jazz / instrumental music, chances are, you have heard keyboardist Chris Geith. His music has been among the most streamed / downloaded on the first generation MP3.com website with a whopping 1,400,000 + downloads. Chris began playing piano at the age of six. Starting with classical, Chris moved into Jazz [...]
Western Connecticut State University has appointed who officials claim is a world renowned jazz performer and composer, as a faculty member in the department of music. Jimmy Greene, a Hartford native, who has held a music faculty position at the University of Manitoba in Canada since 2009, has accepted an appointment effective Aug. 27 to become [...]
Hubert Laws grew up literally surrounded by music. His grandfather played harmonica and entertained with a one-man band. His mother played gospel music on the piano and his boyhood home was right across the street from an actual honky-tonk in Houston. Hubert grew up playing rhythm and blues and gospel at dances. His early musical [...]
1. What genre of music do you perform? Jazz mainly. Sometimes I get to do classical, as well as music in the R&B, funk, soul, and pop styles. 2. When did you start performing? I started taking classical piano & violin lessons at the age of 5 and soon after began participating in recitals and [...]
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