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Max Gerl
Max Gerl (born 1992) is an American bass player and jazz musician. Gerl has performed internationally at venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Gerl grew up in a family of musicians in Dallas, Texas. He first learned the piano and alto saxophone, and switched to the electric bass at the age of eleven under the influence of a Led Zeppelin DVD. He also took double bass lessons starting at the age of 15. After high school, he studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston with John Patitucci, Steve Bailey, James Genus, Victor Bailey, Bruce Gertz, Tia Fuller and Hal Crook. Gerl moved to New York City in 2017. From there he toured the United States and Europe with pianist Cameron Graves, and participated in the album ''Seven'' (2021). In 2019 he moved to Los Angeles, CA. He worked with Dan Kye, Makaya McCraven, James Francies, Stanley Clarke, Tia Fuller, Shaun Martin, Bernard Wright and Chris Cheek. At the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gertz
Bruce David Gertz (born December 15, 1952, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American jazz bassist. He plays both double-bass and electric bass. Gertz first learned to play guitar, then switched to bass guitar as a teenager, playing with local blues and rock groups. He studied music formally at New England College and Berklee College of Music in the 1970s; after graduating from Berklee in 1976 he taught music there; he is now a professor of music. He worked with George Garzone in the Overtones in the late 1970s and was a co-leader of ensembles with Jerry Bergonzi from 1978 to 1989. He worked with Mike Stern both in the Bergonzi ensembles and with Stern's own quartet. From 1982 to 1985 he was house bassist for the Willow Jazz Cafe in Somerville, Massachusetts. In the 1990s he worked with John Abercrombie, Joey Calderazzo, Ken Cervenka, Adam Nussbaum, Danilo Perez, Dan Reiser, Kurt Rosenwinkel, George Schuller, and others."Bruce Gertz". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Greg Spero
Greg Spero (born February 22, 1985) is an American pianist from Highland Park, Illinois. He has toured with Halsey and the Miles Electric Band and has composed music for film and television. He leads the jazz band Spirit Fingers, (Max Gerl, Mike Mitchell, Dario Chiazzolino). He also runs a label called Tiny Room, which runs live streamed sessions from its studio in Los Angeles and has been featured on NPR Live Sessions. When the coronavirus pandemic caused live music to cease in 2020, he launched a startup called weeBID which is the first fan initiated crowd funding platform. Spero was described as "a new breed of record exec, at the vanguard of big changes in music industry". He outlined his vision for weeBID at the Center for Creative Entrepreneurship, Chicago in August 2021. Career Spero's mother was a classical pianist and his father was a blues pianist. When he was fourteen, he joined his father's band. He also worked with Frank Catalano, Buddy Rich, and Robert Irving III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamasi Washington
Kamasi Tii Washington (born February 18, 1981) is an American arranger, composer and jazz saxophonist. Archived July 9, 2015. He is a founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down. Career Washington was born in 1981 and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music of Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, Los Angeles. Washington next enrolled in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, where he began playing with faculty members such as Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, and Billy Higgins, who mentored a quartet with Washington, pianist Cameron Graves, and the brothers Stephen ("Thundercat") and Ronald Bruner. They released their debut album ''Young Jazz Giants'' in 2004 on Birdman Records. Washington joined the Gerald Wilson Orchestra for its 2005 album '' In My Time''.Blanco, Edward"Gerald Wilson Orchestra: In My Time."''Allaboutjazz.com'', January 4, 2006. In 2008 and 2009 "The Kamasi Washington Band" played the outdoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Mandel
Steven Mandel (born 1969) is an American music producer, audio engineer, songwriter, record label executive, radio DJ, and podcaster. He is also music producer for The Roots on ''The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon''. Mandel has produced music for The Roots, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Squeeze and Erykah Badu among others. In 2016, Mandel co-founded the record label, J.M.I Recordings, which specializes in recording, mixing, and mastering in analog. He is co-host of "Labeled On WKCR" on Columbia University’s WKCR radio station, and was a member of "Team Supreme" on the Questlove Supreme podcast 2016-2025. Early life Mandel grew up in the hamlets of Bardonia and Nanuet in Rockland County, New York. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1991, with a Journalism major and English minor. He later graduated from the Institute of Audio Research in 1996. Work In 1996, Mandel became an assistant engineer at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Mentored b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Recording
Analog recording is a category of techniques used for the recording of analog signals. This enables later playback of the recorded analog audio. Analog audio recording began with mechanical systems such as the phonautograph and phonograph. Later, electronic techniques such as wire recording, wire and tape recorder, tape recording were developed. Analog recording methods store analog signals directly in or on the media. The signal may be stored as a physical texture on a phonograph record, or a fluctuation in the field strength of a magnetic recording. Analog transmission methods use analog signals to distribute audio content. These are in contrast to digital audio where an analog signal is Sampling (signal processing), sampled and Quantization (signal processing), quantized to produce a Digital signal (signal processing), digital signal which is represented, stored and transmitted as discrete numbers. See also * Comparison of analog and digital recording * History of sound re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Berliner
Sasha Berliner (born June 20, 1998) is an American vibraphonist and composer. Early life Berliner was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area, where she began playing drums at age 8. In her earlier years, Berliner was more focused on rock and indie music, and she participated in the San Francisco Rock Project (formerly the San Francisco School of Rock) along with her entire family: her father, John Berliner, is a bassist on the school's board of directors; her mother, Sheri Evans, was the school office manager; and Berliner and her brother, Cole, played in the school's House Band for a number of years. In 2011, at the age of 13, Berliner auditioned for the Oakland School for the Arts, but was told they already had too many drummers. The school asked if she would be interested in playing the vibraphone instead, and she agreed without knowing what instrument it was. Despite her initial confusion, she found the vibraphone spoke to her investments in harmony and melody, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Mitchell (drummer)
Mike Mitchell (born 1994) also known as Blaque Dynamite, is an American drummer from Dallas, Texas, who plays across jazz, hip-hop, and jazz fusion. He is part of Greg Spero's group, Spirit Fingers,. Mitchell has played with Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Willow Smith, Derrick Hodge, Christian McBride, Kamasi Washington and others. Mitchell began touring with Stanley Clarke band before graduating from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. He also performed at the 2012 International Jazz Day performance with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and Herbie Hancock. Mike Mitchell cites influences from Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, and Lenny White to Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon, and John Bonham John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and feel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status. Clarke is the recipient of five Grammy Awards, with 15 nominations, three as a solo artist, one with the Stanley Clarke Band, and one with Return to Forever. Clarke was selected to become a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship. A Stanley Clarke electric bass is permanently on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Music career Early years Clarke was born on June 30, 1951, in Philadelphia. His mother sang opera around the house, belonged to a church choir, and encouraged him to study music. He started on accordion, then tried violin. But he felt awkwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francies
James Francies (born 1995) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger. He grew up in Houston but moved to New York to continue his musical studies. Following performances and recordings with various musicians, his first album as leader was released by Blue Note Records in 2018. Early life Francies was born in Houston in 1995, and grew up in the South Park neighborhood. He began having piano lessons at the age of five, and learning about jazz at junior high school. He went on to attend the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston. He played at the church that his parents attended, and formed a jazz trio at the age of 14 that performed for three years. At high school, Francies was awarded a series of jazz scholarships to aid his musical development. These helped him obtain a full scholarship to study at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York. Career While a student in New York, Francies became a regular in drummer Jeff "Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makaya McCraven
Makaya McCraven (born October 19, 1983) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Life and career McCraven was born in Paris, France, to jazz drummer and Hungarian singer Ágnes Zsigmondi (of the band Kolind, and from the age of three was raised in and around Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts. At the age of five he played in his father's drum ensemble, the CMSS Bashers, along with some of his father's students. In middle school, he and friends formed a band to accompany his mother's folk singing. In high school, McCraven formed the jazz-hip hop Cold Duck Complex. He studied music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, becoming part of the university's jazz orchestra and receiving various DownBeat student awards, but did not graduate. In 2007 McCraven moved to Chicago, where he performed in the bands of Bobby Broom, , Willie Pickens, and with the Occidental Brothers, Marquis Hill, and Jeff Parker. He also worked as a studio musician fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
