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Samara Joy McLendon [1] (born November 11, 1999) is an American jazz singer. She released her self-titled debut album in 2021 and was subsequently named Best New Artist by JazzTimes . Her second album, Linger Awhile (2022), reached number one on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. [ 2 ]
July 4 – Rick Laird, 80, Irish jazz bassist (Mahavishnu Orchestra) [41] July 31 – Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, 93, Polish jazz musician and composer [42] August 28 – Francesc Burrull, 86, Spanish musician and composer [43] September 16 –George Mraz, 77, Czech-American jazz bassist [44] September 28 - Dr. Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz Hammond ...
Live from Emmet's Place is a weekly video-streaming broadcast and concert produced by Emmet Cohen consisting of Cohen and his trio along with invited guests. Guests on Live From Emmet’s Place represent a multigenerational cross section of jazz from the jazz masters such as Houston Person, Joe Lovano, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Eddie Henderson, Steve Davis, Sheila Jordan and Victor ...
Born December 16, 1933 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Died: January ... 1933 – January 19, 2021) was an American jazz guitarist and singer. [1] Early life
William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist. [1] He first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. [ 2 ] He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a participant in the Downtown Scene in New York City, where he formed a long working relationship with ...
Jon Batiste was born in Metairie, Louisiana, to a Catholic family. [1] [11] He grew up in Kenner, Louisiana. [2]Batiste is a member of a New Orleans musical dynasty, the Batiste family, that includes Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, Milton Batiste of the Olympia Brass Band, and Russell Batiste Jr. [12] [13] At the age of eight, he played percussion and drums with his family's band, the ...
Culbertson plays Mason & Hamlin pianos and Roland keyboards [9] and has appeared at the NAMM Show. [10]In 2013, he announced on his blog that he was working on his fourteenth album, [11] the album Another Long Night Out was released on February 25, 2014, and was going to revisit his earlier roots in contemporary jazz.
Thielemans was born in Brussels on 29 April 1922. [5] His parents owned a café. [4] He began playing music at an early age, using a homemade accordion at age three. [6] During the German occupation of Belgium beginning in 1940, he became attracted to jazz, but was then playing on a full-size accordion or a harmonica, which he taught himself to play in his teens.