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Dayna Stephens
Dayna Stephens (born August 1, 1978) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. In addition to leading his own group, Stephens has performed extensively with Kenny Barron, Ambrose Akinmusire, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Eric Harland, and Gerald Clayton. Stephens grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Berkeley High School. He went on to study at the Berklee School of Music and later at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Stephens's albums include ''The Timeless Now'' (2007), ''Today Is Tomorrow'' (2012), ''That Nepenthetic Place'' (2013), ''I'll Take My Chances'' (2013), and ''Peace'' (2014). ''Peace'' features guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Eric Harland. ''Gratitude'' was released in 2017. Discography As leader * ''The Timeless Now'' (CTA, 2007) * ''A Week Ago Today'' (Prophone, 2011) * ''Today Is Tomorrow'' (Criss Cross, 2012) * ''I'll Take My Chances'' (Criss Cross, 2013) * ''That Nepenthetic Place'' (Sunny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cohn
Joseph Mark Cohn (born December 28, 1956) is an American jazz guitarist. Career The son of Al Cohn, he started to play the guitar in his teens, transcribing from recordings featuring Art Tatum, Thad Jones, and Clifford Brown. Besides taking lessons, he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he also played with Nick Brignola and Bob Mover. He is self-taught on double bass and performed with musicians at hotels in the Catskill Mountains. He continued to play bass in New York City with Freddy Cole and Buddy DeFranco. Beginning in 1984, he played guitar for several years in the Artie Shaw Orchestra led by Dick Johnson in addition to learning the trumpet. He recorded and toured with his father, saxophonist Al Cohn. In the 1990s, he was a member of the Carmen Leggio quartet with Bill Crow. His daughter Shaye Cohn plays cornet with Tuba Skinny. Discography As leader * ''Two Funky People'' (Double-Time, 1997) * ''Restless'' ( Arbors, 2007) * ''Shared Contemplations' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Jazz Saxophonists
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American Male Jazz Composers
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American Jazz Composers
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1978 Births
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Paul Zarzyski
Paul Zarzyski (born 1951) is a cowboy poet and educator. He is a former bareback bronc rider. Biography Paul Zarzyski was born on May 25, 1951, and he grew up in Hurley, Wisconsin.. Zarzyski received his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing in the mid-1970s at the University of Montana, where he studied with Richard Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and John Haines, and where he later taught Hugo's classes after his passing. In the same breath in which he first pursued his poetry passion, he discovered a second unexpected calling—bareback bronc riding—and competed on the amateur, ProRodeo, and Senior circuits into his early forties. Zarzyski has performed at the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada for the past 30 years. He has toured Canada, Australia, Wales, England, and Russia, has recited at the National Book, Folk, and Storytelling Festivals, at The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Library of Congress, and has appeared with the Reno Philharm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Slocum
Matt Slocum (born 27 December 1972) is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer. Biography Born in Rhode Island to Joseph and Hildegard Slocum, his family moved to New Braunfels, Texas, when he was eight months old, and opened a book store. In 1991, while a senior at New Braunfels High School,1990-1991 New Braunfels High School Yearbook Slocum played guitar with Chris Taylor on a garage-band tape release called ''A Place to Hide Away (Part 1)''. He was a member of Love Coma, a Christian rock band, and in the early 1990s he met vocalist Leigh Bingham Nash while attending the same church in New Braunfels, Texas. Slocum and Leigh formed Sixpence None the Richer; he and Nash are the band's only constant members. He co-wrote, with Nash, the song "Nervous In the Light of Dawn" for Nash's debut solo album '' Blue on Blue.'' In 2006, Slocum toured with the band The Choir, playing bass. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Ranelin
Phil Ranelin (born May 25, 1939) is an American jazz and experimental music trombonist. Career Ranelin was born in Indianapolis and lived in New York City before moving to Detroit in the 1960s. He played as a session musician on many Motown recordings, including with Stevie Wonder. In 1971, he and Wendell Harrison formed a group called The Tribe, which was an avant-garde jazz ensemble devoted to black consciousness. Alongside it he co-founded Tribe Records. He released several albums as a leader in the 1970s, and continued with The Tribe project until 1978. Following this, Ranelin worked with Freddie Hubbard. Ranelin worked mostly locally in Detroit in the following decades, and did not find widespread acceptance among jazz aficionados. However, he eventually came to the attention of rare groove collectors who became increasingly interested in his work. As a result, Tortoise drummer John McEntire remastered some of Ranelin's older material and re-released it on Hefty Records. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Parlato
Gretchen Parlato (born February 11, 1976) is an American jazz singer. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke. Parlato's ''Flor'' (2021) received a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, hitting No. 1 upon release in iTunes Jazz and #3 Best of the Year Albums in Jazzwise Critics Poll '21. ''Live in NYC'' (2013) received a Grammy Award Nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, also receiving 4.5 stars in ''Downbeat'' Magazine, with the DVD hitting No. 1 on the iTunes best music video list. ''The Lost and Found'' (2011) received over 30 national and international awards, including Jazztimes Expanded Critics Poll No. 1 Vocal Album of 2011 and iTunes Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Her 2009 sophomore release, ''In a Dream'', was Jazz Critics Poll No. 1 Vocal Album of 2009 and hailed by ''Billboard'' as "the most alluring jazz vocal album of 2009." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Oh
Linda May Han Oh (born 25 August 1984) is an Australian jazz bassist and composer. Biography Oh was raised in Western Australia. When she was 11, she started to play the clarinet and at the age of 13 bassoon. She went to Churchlands Senior High School. As a bass guitarist, she started in a high school band; and in 2002, she attended the ''Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts'', where she picked up the upright bass and studied solo transcriptions of Dave Holland. Her thesis was on the classical Indian music rhythms in Holland's solos. After more scholarships she moved to New York in 2008, where she completed her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music, among others with Jay Anderson, John Riley, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman and Rodney Jones as supervisors. In 2008, she released her debut album ''Entry'' with own compositions and a cover version of Red Hot Chili Peppers ''Oztrax'', with the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and drummer Obed Calvaire. Oh also cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison Miller (drummer)
Allison Miller (born 1974 or 1975) is an American, New York City-based drummer, composer, and teacher. Early life Miller is descended from a long line of musicians on the maternal side of her family. Her grandmother was a professional organist in Oklahoma, whose sister was a professional singer. Her mother is a classical pianist and choral director. Miller has a cousin who she described as "a very famous opera singer". Miller was raised in the Washington, D.C. area, and began playing drums at the age of 10. She attended West Virginia University. Career Within two months after graduation, she moved to New York City to study with Michael Carvin and Lenny White, and began her career as a freelance drummer. She has also worked as a producer, composer, and teacher. She has recorded six albums as a leader: ''5 AM Stroll'', ''Boom Tic Boom'', ''No Morphine-No Lilies'', ''Live at Willisau'', ''Otis Was a Polar Bear'', and ''Glitter Wolf'' as well as working as a session musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
