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Adam Michael Neely (born 1988 [ 4]) is an American bassist, YouTuber, and composer. His YouTube channel is described as containing " music theory, music cognition, jazz improvisation, musical performance technique, musicology and memes". [ 5][ 6][ 7] He also creates "Gig Vlogs ", which give insight into his life as a professional musician in ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Lists of musicians by birthday" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 365 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Dave Brubeck. David Warren Brubeck ( / ˈbruːbɛk /; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, tonalities, and combining different styles and ...
Surrounded by jazz, he was influenced at an early age by bebop and musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Lester Young. [12] He came into possession of a drumset at age 11, [13] and would occasionally play drums for the rest of his career. [14] Corea developed his piano skills while exploring music on ...
Matthew Whitaker (born April 3, 2001) is an American jazz pianist. Blind since birth, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the Apollo Theater, where, at 10, he was the opening performer for Stevie Wonder's induction into the Apollo Theater's Hall of Fame.
David Bryan Benoit (born August 18, 1953) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Benoit has charted over 25 albums since 1980, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. [ 1] He is also music director for the Pacific Vision Youth Symphony (previously known as the Asia America ...
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.