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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2008. [6] On March 24, 2009 EmArcy released his debut album Sounding Point to favorable reviews. [7] [8] It was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award Best Contemporary Jazz Album. His second album, Gladwell, was released April 26, 2011, to positive reviews.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, [3] Walt Dickerson graduated from Morgan State University in 1953 and after two years in the Army he settled in California. [2] There he started to gain attention by leading a group with Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille , [ 3 ] but it was Dickerson's later period in New York City when he gained ...
Robert Glasper. Robert Andre Glasper (born April 6, 1978) is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. His music embodies numerous musical genres, primarily centered around jazz. Glasper has won five Grammy Awards from 11 nominations.
Cole is a classically-trained jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, keyboards, guitar and bass, sings, and produces his material. [ 16 ] [ 3 ] [ 15 ] His work contains elements from a diverse range of music genres such as jazz, funk , pop, avant-garde , electronic, lo-fi (early) and grindcore (with Clown Core).
In 2017, Garcia released her debut EP Nubya's 5ive via the label Jazz re:freshed. [11] That year, her band was an opening act at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival in Sète; [12] the following year she played at the NYC Winter Jazz Festival [13] and the JazzFest Berlin.