Chris Potter (born January 1, 1971) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Potter has released a number of albums as leader and has performed and recorded with many leading musicians including Kenny Werner, Red Rodney, Marian McPartland, the Mingus Big Band, Paul Motian, Ray Brown, Jim Hall, James Moody, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Mike Mainieri, Steve Swallow, Steely Dan, Dave Holland, Joanne Brackeen, and many more.
Iain Ballamy (born February 20, 1964 in Guildford) is a British soprano, alto and tenor saxophone player. Renowned in Europe as the "Fantastic Englishman", Ballamy established himself playing alongside notables including Hermeto Pascoal, the late Gil Evans, George Coleman, Dewey Redman, Mike Gibbs and the New York Composers Orchestra. Touring extensively world-wide he has appeared at most international festivals and venues. Ballamy can be heard on over 40 CDs.
Eliane Elias (b. 1960) is a Brazilian jazz composer, pianist, and singer. Born on the 19th March 1960 in São Paulo, Brazil, Elias started learning to play the piano at the age of seven, and was transcribing solo portions of her parents’ jazz records by the age of twelve. After studying for six years (and teaching by the age of fifteen) at Brazil’s prestigious Free Centre of Music Apprenticeship, she continued her classical education with Amilton Godoy and Amaral Vieria.
Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene. Hersch began playing piano at a very young age and graduated from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. His teachers included Sophia Rosoff. He moved to New York City in the late 1970s where he soon found a place playing with notable artists such as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, and Charlie Haden.
Blast is Known as 10 different artists:
1) A Japanese Indies rock band from Nagoya. They formed in 2001 out of the ashes of Lamiel and disbanded in 2004.
Vo: 維那 (Yuina) (Lustair → Lamiel → Blast)
Gu: 依織 (Iori) (Phobia → Lamiel → Blast → siva → cocklobin)
Ba: 秀朗 (Hiderou) (Another you → Theia → Lamiel → Blast)
Dr: 響 (Hibiki) (ORPHEE → Lapse → Another you → kein → Blast → GULLET → Rick → The Studs)
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1969, James Carter began playing saxophone at age 11, first recorded with a Detroit student ensemble in 1986 and, by 1991, had recorded with legendary trumpeter Lester Bowie on The Organizer and contributed to the 1991 collection The Tough Young Tenors. Mastering a family of reed instruments, from sopranino to contrabass saxophones to contrabass and bass clarinets, James Carter mesmerized the jazz world after arriving in New York City in 1988 to play under the auspices of Lester Bowie.
The Orchestre National de Jazz is a French big band, the noted French jazz musician (also a musician living in France) to work in.
1986 was the Orchestre National de Jazz at the initiative of the musicologist Maurice Fleuret under Jack Lang as Minister of Culture founded. The orchestra is funded by the French Republic. The current artistic director, was raised an ensemble together.
Artistic director, were at first for a year, the saxophonist and flutist François Jeanneau, then the saxophonist Antoine Hervé (1987-1989)...
Terence Blanchard (born March 13, 1962, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American award-winning, internationally renowned bandleader, composer, arranger, film score writer, and jazz trumpeter. Blanchard is the most prolific jazz musician to ever compose for motion pictures.] He has been one of the top trumpet players in jazz since the 1980s, and has worked with some of the legends of the genre. He is known for his African-fusion style of playing which makes him unique from other trumpet players.
Maria Pia de Vito (b. 1960) is an Italian jazz singer, composer, and arranger. Born in Naples, de Vito studied opera, contemporary singing, musical theory, and harmony, and started her musical career in 1976 as a singer and guitarist (and, later, as a pianist) in groups specialising in music from the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Since the 1980s she has been active on the jazz scene as a singer, performing and collaborating with, among others, Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Towner, Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Steve Turre, and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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Jason Rebello is a British jazz pianist, currently part of Sting's live and studio band, who has recorded a handful of albums under his own name.
He won Pat Smythe award, and toured the US with Jeff Beck in 2006.
Rebello went to a school in London called John Griffiths.