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Adam Benjamin (musician)
Adam Benjamin is an American jazz keyboardist and composer. He is a founding member of Kneebody, and leads an active career as a performer and writer. He has been recognized as a Rising Star in Jazz by ''Downbeat Magazine''. Background Benjamin attended the Eastman School of Music and California Institute for the Arts, where he received a bachelor's and master's degree in jazz studies. Since then, he has performed at numerous festivals and clinics with groups such as Kneebody, Dave Douglas's Keystone, So Percussion, Beck, and Joshua Redman. He has served as adjunct faculty at California Institute of the Arts, University of Southern California, the School for Improvisational Music, and the Banff Jazz Workshop. He is currently an Associate Professor of jazz piano at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he resides. Discography As leader * 2007: ''It's A Standard, Standard, Standard, Standard World'' * 2008: ''Long Gone'' * 2010: ''Alphabets & Consequences'' With Kneebody * ''Wend ... [...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] |
Theo Bleckmann
Theodor Raoul Bleckmann (born 28 May 1966) is a German singer and composer. Biography Bleckmann was born in Dortmund, West Germany. He planned to be an ice skater before becoming a vocalist. In 1989 he moved to New York City and recorded his first two albums, ''Theo & Kirk'' (1992) and ''Looking Glass River'' (1995) with Kirk Nurock. His mentor was Sheila Jordan, and he appeared on her album ''Jazz Child'' (1999). With guitarist Ben Monder he recorded his first solo album, ''Origami'' (2001), an album of impressionistic vocalese and lyrics sung in German and French. He collaborated with pianist Fumio Yasuda on the albums ''Las Vegas Rhapsody: The Night They Invented Champagne'' (2006), ''Berlin – Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile'' (2007), and ''Schumann's Favored Bar Songs'' (2009). The last album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album. He was given the Echo Jazz award for ''I Dwell in Possibility'' (Winter & Winter, 2010). The album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Musicians From California
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, improvisational style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Musicians From Los Angeles
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Eastman School Of Music Alumni
Eastman may refer to: People * Eastman (surname) * Eastman Nixon Jacobs (1902–1987), American aerodynamicist * John Eastman (b 1960), American lawyer and founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence * Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), American painter * George Eastman (1854-1932), American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company * Lester Fuess Eastman (1928-2013), American physicist, engineer and educator. Places Canada * Eastman Region, Manitoba * Eastman, Quebec, a municipality United States * Eastman, Georgia, a city * Eastman, Wisconsin, a village * Eastman (town), Wisconsin * Eastman Pond, New Hampshire Elsewhere * Eastman (crater), on Mercury Other * Eastman School of Music ** Eastman Theatre ** Eastman Wind Ensemble * Eastman Color Negative * Eastman Chemical Company * Eastman Dental Hospital ** UCL Eastman Dental Institute * Eastman Gang, last of New York's street gangs which dominated the city's underworld during the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Institute Of The Arts Alumni
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Place Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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American Jazz Keyboardists
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Donny McCaslin
Donald Paul McCaslin (born August 11, 1966) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has recorded over a dozen albums as a bandleader in addition to many sideman appearances, including on David Bowie's final studio album, '' Blackstar'' (2016). Early life McCaslin was born in Santa Clara, California, on August 11, 1966. His father was a vibraphonist, and McCaslin played in his father's ensemble at the age of twelve. He had his own group in high school, which played three years at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Musical career In 1987, after studying at Berklee College of Music, McCaslin joined Gary Burton's group and toured the world with him for four years. In 1991 he moved to New York City and was a member of Steps Ahead. In November 2014, McCaslin played saxophone on David Bowie's single " Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)". Subsequently he would play saxophone on Bowie's 2016 album '' Blackstar''. On October 14, 2016, McCaslin released ''Beyond Now'', inspired by his experience recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonshine (Dave Douglas Album)
''Moonshine'' is the 28th album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2007 and features a live performance recorded in a studio in front of an audience by Douglas, Adam Benjamin, DJ Olive, Gene Lake, Marcus Strickland, and Brad Jones. Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "This is not 'jazz' in the conventional (read: conservative) sense, but without the jazz heritage, this creative tour de force of 21st century jazz-funk wouldn't -- and probably couldn't -- exist. ''Moonshine'' is a(nother) monster outing by Douglas".Jurek, TAllmusic review accessed September 26, 2011. On All About Jazz John Kelman said "What makes ''Moonshine'' ultimately such a success, however, is Douglas' ability to cloak avant-garde concerns in accessible surroundings. As deep and challenging as anything he's ever recorded, Moonshine remains an album that's as much food for the heart and soul as it is for the mind, and continues Dougla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
