- Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (9 September 1927-18 May 2004) was one of the most influential jazz drummers of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and then played in a Detroit houseband led by Billy Mitchell. He moved to New York in 1955 and worked as a sideman for Charles Mingus-Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis. - Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams (born Park Adams III on October 8, 1930 in Highland Park, Michigan - died on September 10, 1986 in Brooklyn, New York) was one of hard bop's most significant baritone saxophonists. His dark, hearty tone on the horn and driving rhythmic sense provided the antithesis to the lighter, floating (and consequently more popular) styles of Gerry Mulligan. His family moved to Rochester, New York when he was young and in that city he began his musical efforts. - Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist. He was born in London from English mother and Belgian father. He began playing in the 60's with Lou Bennett then with Dexter Gordon and Stéphane Grappelli. He was then a member of Jean-Luc Ponty quintet, right after he recorded his first CD (Stream, produced by Frenchman Sacha Distel) in 1971. A year later, he met John Scofield, Ran Blake, George Benson and more musicians in Boston. - Frank Foster
Frank Foster (b. 23 September 1928) is an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, arranger, and composer, who is best known for his work in different periods with the Count Basie orchestra, as well as under his own name. His playing style has been influenced by that of John Coltrane, but has remained very much his own. Foster was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at Wilberforce University. In 1949 he played in Detroit with local musicians such as Wardell Gray, … - Bill Holman
Bill Holman (born May 21, 1927 as "Willis Leonard Holman") is an American songwriter, conductor, composer/arranger, and saxophonist working primarily in the jazz idiom. Born Willis Leonard Holman in Olive, California, near Santa Ana, Holman took up clarinet in junior high school and tenor saxophone in high school. By his late teenage years he was leading his own band. After serving in the United States Navy, where he studied engineering, … - Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD. - Chris Lightcap
Chris Lightcap (born April 23, 1971) is an American jazz bassist from Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He has performed or recorded with Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Craig Taborn, Mark Turner, Joe Morris, Sheila Jordan, James Carter, Butch Morris, Ben Monder, Tom Harrell and others. Lightcap released an album called "Lay-Up" on the Fresh Sounds New Talent label in 2000. It features Gerald Cleaver on drums and Tony Malaby and Bill McHenry on tenor saxophones. - Jesper Thilo
Jesper Thilo (born November 28, 1941) is a Danish jazz tenor and alto saxophonist and clarinettist born in Copenhagen, perhaps best-known for his work with Ernie Wilkins from in the 1980s called "Ernie Wilkins's Almost Big Band". Thilo also appears on the Miles Davis album "Aura" recorded in 1985. In 1991 he worked with Hank Jones in a quintet on an album that was released on Storyville Records. - Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins (born December 19, 1964) is a jazz trumpeter, singer and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He has been heavily influenced by Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Eddy Jefferson. Ruffins accompanies a large portion of his songs with his own vocals, and he says that the highest note he can hit on trumpet is a fortissimo C note. Most of his bands perform New Orleans jazz standards, though he also composes many of his own pieces. - Alex Blake
Alex Blake is a post bop jazz bass guitarist who began his career with Sun Ra in his band Arkestra. He has since established himself as a successful recording artist as leader of his quintet. His most recognizable recording was a live performance compilation released by Bubble Core Records in 2000 titled "Now Is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory". The album featured his own quintet that included Pharoah Sanders, Victor Jones, John Hicks and Neil Clark. - Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson (born 11 November 1935 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress. Bibi Andersson studied acting at the Terserus Drama School and at the legendary Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm. After completing school, she agreed to join the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, which she remained a member of for 30 years. Her first collaboration with Ingmar Bergman was in 1951, when she participated in his production of an advertisement for the detergent "Bris". - Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Fossey, born March 11, 1947 in Tourcoing, Nord, France, is an actress. The daughter of a schoolteacher, she was only six years old when she was cast by director René Clément to star in his film, "Forbidden Games". Fossey's performance of an innocent child orphaned by World War II was widely praised by critics and audiences alike. - Felix Weingartner
Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (June 2 1863 - May 7 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist. Weingartner was born in Zara, Dalmatia (today's Zadar, Croatia) to Austrian parents, and the family moved to Graz in 1868. His father died that same year. He studied with Franz Liszt in 1883 and was among Liszt's later pupils. Liszt helped produce Weingartner's opera "Sakuntala" for its world premiere in 1884 with the Weimar orchestra. - Kris Defoort
Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born in 1959 in Bruges. He is very active as both a musician and a composer. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort (saxophonist and composer). He entered in 1978 the Antwerp conservatory to study ancient music and flute. He graduated 4 years later and he then decided to study contemporary music and jazz at the Liège conservatory. - Coleridge Goode
Coleridge George Emerson Goode (born November 29, 1914) is a former British Jamaican-born jazz bassist most noteworthy for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott. Goode was a key figure in Harriott's innovatory jazz quintet throughout its eight year existence as a regular unit (1958-1965). He was also an important contributor to Harriott's later pioneer fusions of jazz and Indian music. - Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies is the bassist for Welsh post-hardcore quintet Funeral for a Friend. He uses Fender basses, but only used a Fender Jazz Bass during the post Hours era. He is not related to frontman Matt Davies despite popular belief. Before joining Funeral for a Friend, he briefly played bass for South Wales quartet Dopamine. - Alexander Arutiunian
Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (b. Yerevan, Armenia, September 23 1920) is an Armenian composer and pianist. In 1949, he was awarded the USSR State Prize for the "Motherland" cantata, a graduation piece he wrote as a student at the Moscow Conservatory. He has continued to win acclaim at home and abroad for his works, many of which are quickened by the folk traditions of Armenian music. - Nina van Pallandt
Baroness Nina Van Pallandt is a Danish singer and actress. Born Nine Magdelena Möller, she married Frederik, Baron Van Pallandt in 1960. They formed a singing duo, "Nina & Frederik", and achieved worldwide popularity with their calypso-style songs. They had three children: * Floris Nicolas Ali, Baron van Pallandt (1961) * Kirsa Eleonore Clara, Comtesse van Pallandt (1963) * Ana Maria Else, Comtesse van Pallandt (1965) They divorced in 1975. - Paula Kelly
"Paula Kelly" (October 13, 1919 -April 2, 1992) was an American big band singer. She was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania. In her early career, she sang with orchestras led by Dick Stabile, Artie Shaw, and Al Donahue. In early 1941 she joined Glenn Miller's orchestra, replacing Dorothy Claire. (Marion Hutton, who was Miller's main female vocalist, was on a leave of absence, and Claire had been brought in to replace her, but didn't satisfy Miller.) Kelly performed solo, … - Julio Medaglia
Julio Medaglia is a composer, arranger, and conductor. Born in São Paulo in 1938, he studied theory and conducting with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, and privately with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sir John Barbirolli, with whom he worked as assistant conductor. After his return to Brazil in 1966, he established a solid reputation as a conductor, … - Claire Richards
Claire Richards (born Claire Anne Richards, 17 August 1977, Hillingdon, Middlesex) is an English singer famed for her membership in the pop quintet, Steps. - Zdeněk Fibich
Zdeněk Fibich (December 21 1850 - October 15 1900) was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, the most famous probably The Bride of Messina; melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, … - Elfrida Andrée
Elfrida Andrée was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. Andrée was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be officially appointed in Scandinavia. She began work in Stockholm in 1861 and became the organist at Gothenburg Cathedral in 1867. For her services, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Andrée's organ symphonies are still performed today. - Gaetano Braga
Gaetano Braga (June 9, 1829 - November 21, 1907) was an Italian composer and cellist. He was born in Giulianova in Abruzzi and died in Milan. Braga's works include compositions for the cello (two concertos, a quintet, a quartet, works for cello and piano) and the operas: *"Alina" or "La spregiata" (1853, Naples) *"Estella di San Germano" (1857, Vienna) *"Il ritratto" (1858, Naples) *"Margherita la mendicante" (1859, … - Evgeny Golubev
Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev (February 16 1910, Moscow - December 25 1988, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet composer. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958. His own compositions included at least twenty-four string quartets, seven symphonies, three piano concertos the last dedicated to and recorded by Tatiana Nikolayeva, concertos for violin, cello and viola, … - Sandy Mölling
Sandy Mölling, known professionally as Sandy, is a German pop singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional presenter and actress. Mölling debuted in 2000 as a member of the all-female "Popstars" quintet No Angels, whose 2001 debut album "Elle'ments" and the single "Daylight in Your Eyes" propelled them to stardom. The group eventually became a quartet, emerging as the most successful German girl band to date with several hit singles, … - Anjan Dutta
Anjan Dutta is a popular artist of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by "anyodharar gaan" (alternative songs). He passed his childhood in St Pauls School,Darjeeling, a Himalayan township of West Bengal. He holds an MA degree in English literature from the University of Calcutta, in India. Anjan started his career as an actor in Bengali cinema. His first film was "Chalachitro" directed by Mrinal Sen, where he won the prize for the best newcomer actor, … - Mazhar Alanson
Mazhar Alanson is a Turkish pop musician, member of the legendary Turkish pop music band MFÖ and an actor. He was born to a family of musicians in Ankara, Turkey, where his father was the head trumpeter in the State Philharmonic Orchestra. He continued his high school education in İstanbul following his father's death. After the high school, he attended the State Conservatory in Ankara and graduated in performing arts, in particular (theater). - Özkan Uğur
Özkan Uğur is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor. He started his musician career in the Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu Orchestra as a bass guitarist. In 1971, Özkan joined Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner in the duo "Kaygısızlar" ("The Unworrieds") The band was dissolved in 1972. Between 1972 and 1975, Özkan played Anatolian rock music with Barış Manço in his band "Kurtalan Ekspresi", in "TER" of Erkin Koray, "Dostlar" of Edip Akbayram, … - Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent Internet news source. In addition, Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last five years. - Jim Kaufman
- Rita Shaffer
- Nelson Harrison Quintet
Nelson Harrison Quintet - 1964 Nelson Harrison brought his new quintet into the Grill for 9 days. Members: Nelson Harrison - leader-trombone, Joe Kennedy, III - French horn, John Heard - bass, Freddie Tooks - piano, Alphonso "Bumpty" Washington - drums. - Francisco Pais Quintet
- Kris Kimura Quintet
vocal jazz - from dixie to funk. - Karma Quintet
KARMA QUINTET Enrique Galán (voz), Igor Intxausti (guitarra), Bea Hurtado (piano, teclados), Eusebio Soria (bajo eléctrico), Ixak Oiartzabal (baterÃa, percusión) Karma Quintet, es un grupo de jazz vocal, en donde se unen influencias de la música pop y de la música de raices brasileñas. - Joe Fonda Quintet
Joe Fonda Quintet : Full Circle Suite - Scott Kyle Quintet
Scott Kyle has played with many top jazz performers, including Louie Bellson, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Sammy Nestico, Clark Terry, George Duke, Bob Magnuson, Charles McPherson, Roger Kellaway, John Patatucci, Tom Kubis, Wayne Bergeron, Jay Anderson, and Eric Marienthal. Scott’s first CD as a leader, Full Circle, was a collection of standards, released in 2005, which is also available on CD Baby. It featured Christopher Hollyday on alto sax. - Nicholas Payton Quintet
Nicholas Payton Nicholas Payton was born in 1973 in a musical family. His father is a jazz and classical bassist, his mother is a former opera singer and classical pianist. Both graduated from Xavier University . His father began to teach Nicholas the trumpet when he was 4. At 9, Nicholas had the opportunity to play with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band. At 12, Payton impressed Wynton Marsalis, who was calling his father, with his trumpet over the phone. - Anders Quintet
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