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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] At the 2023 Grammy Awards, she won the awards for Best Jazz Vocal ...
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, [5] formerly Christian Scott) [6] is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards [7] and is a two-time Edison Award [8] winner.
March 19 – Cristián Cuturrufo, 48, Chilean jazz trumpeter (COVID-19) [35] March 28 – Malcolm Cecil, 84, British jazz bassist and record producer [36] April 7 – Sonny Simmons, 87, American jazz saxophonist [37] May 8 – Curtis Fuller, 88, American jazz trombonist [38] May 15 – Mario Pavone, 80, American jazz bassist, composer and ...
Kat Edmonson. (Aarhus Jazz Festival, Denmark, 2013) Born and raised in Houston, Edmonson is the only child of a single mother who enjoyed songs from the Great American Songbook and traditional pop from the 1940s and '50s. She wrote her first song at age nine while riding the school bus. [2]
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 ...
Emmet Cohen was born in Miami, Florida. [1] He began studying piano at the age of three using the Suzuki method. [2] Cohen was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School. [3] While in high school, he was a part of The Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble where he met future collaborators Bryan Carter, Benny Benack III ...
On June 18, 2021, Washington released a new song "Sun Kissed Child" as part of The Undefeated ' s Music for the Movement series. [15] Also in 2021, Washington and his band contributed a cover of the Metallica song "My Friend of Misery" to the charity tribute album The Metallica Blacklist. [16]
Sonny Simmons at Keystone Korner, San Francisco CA 10/22/80. Simmons was born on August 4, 1933, in Sicily Island, Louisiana. [2] He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the English horn. [3] (. Along with Vinny Golia, Simmons was among the few musicians to play the instrument in a jazz context.)