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John Lewis

John Aaron Lewis (3 May 1920 – 29 March 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Born in LaGrange, Illinois and raised in Albuquerque, NM, he learned classical music and piano from his mother. He served in the Army in World War II, where he met Kenny Clarke. After the war, they moved to New York City and he joined Dizzy Gillespie's band. He also performed or recorded with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Miles Davis, and Lester Young.

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Andrew Gordon

There are, at least, two artists known as Andrew Gordon, both Scottish: 1) A songwriter. 2) A folk singer. 1) A Scottish songwriter, based in Portsmouth, UK. Born in a modern-day barn, out of sight & near some small animals - a desperation to learn the ways of the ivories manifested itself, in the mind of the child & in quick succession song-worthy events occurred. Out of those ashes came Andrew Gordon; a boy with no greater faith in life than in love. Love lost, love found & the love of cigarettes.

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Aronas

"New Zealand born, Sydney based Aron Ottignon is only 24, but he has already developed a boldly original approach to composition and performance. Some of his tunes are built around strong melodic hooks that have the instant appeal of a cleverly constructed pop song. Others hang on the barest of harmonic pegs and are instead pinned to an insistent, pulsating rhythm (or series of rhythms). Silvery piano melodies, thumping bass riffs, rolling rhythms, and spiky, sometimes ferocious percussion breaks"Jessica Nichols The Age 13/07/05

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Vox Populi

There are a few bands recognized by this name: Serbian hardcore punk, Irish post-kraut instrumental, Ukrainian rock, Italian electronic, American psychobilly and Norwegian punk band. If you're listening to experimental French band, fix your tags to Vox Populi!. If you're listening to bossa nova Brazilian band, fix your tags to Vox Popüli. 1. Vox Populi, a Serbian group from Belgrade. They began playing in the summer of 1994.

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Louis Demetrius Alvanis

Louis Demetrius Alvanis is a classical pianist. He is of Greek origins. Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which have been recorded on CD with Meridian Records.

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Chucho Valdés

The son of the noted musician Bebo Valdes, Chucho began playing piano when he was three and by the time he was 16 he was leading his own group. In 1960 his father defected from Cuba but Chucho stayed behind. In 1967, he formed the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and, in 1973, he founded Irakere, the top Cuban jazz orchestra; among its original members were Arturo Sandoval and Paquito D'Rivera. Valdes has been Irakere's musical director almost from the start and has recorded with the full band, in small groups, and as an impressive solo pianist.

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Chris Hopkins

Chris Hopkins was born N.J. (the USA) to 18.4.1972 as a son of a German nut/mother and an American father in Princeton, spent however the majority of its youth in Germany. It enjoyed first classical training on the Cembalo, discovered then however at the age of 13 years the jazz as its passion. Hopkins piano style is rooted in the tradition of the Stride and Swing pianist Fats Waller, teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Mel Powell, Nat King Cole and many other jazz pioneers, whose style characteristics he acquired himself on the basis the thorough study of old schallplattenaufnahmen.

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Stuart Mitchell

Scottish pianist and composer Stuart Mitchell, currently lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. His most recent classical compositions have been inspired by his passion for subjects concerning nature and geometry.
In 2006, The Rosslyn Motet, was realized in collaboration with his father Thomas J Mitchell after 15 years of research and study of the symbolic carvings within the Rosslyn Chapel. This project attracted widespread media attention and brought his music to a worldwide audience.

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