Kevin Eubanks Musician – All About Jazz
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American jazz guitarist who has been the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno since 1995. He played with Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Slide Hampton, and Sam Rivers before starting to lead his own groups in 1983. Like his brother […]
Mark Whitfield Musician – All About Jazz
Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music in 1987 where he studied composition, arranging, film scoring and conducting as well as all styles of guitar performance. Later on that year, he returned to his native New York, and immediately began his professional career. Within a few months, he had begun to perform […]
Dan Andersen Musician – All About Jazz
Dan Andersen is an Austin, Texas based guitarist who performs with the Temple Jazz Orchestra. Some of the Austin venues which he has worked include The Elephant Room, Brass House, One-2-One Bar, and Central Market North. Additionally, he has performed at the Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival, and Houston’s premier jazz club, Cezanne. As a leader, […]
Charlie Byrd Musician – All About Jazz
Charlie Byrd jammed with Django Reinhardt, recorded with Woody Herman, studied with the great Segovia, and with Stan Getz introduced the Brazilian bossa nova to international audiences. He then proceeded to form a super guitar trio with Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis. His musical interests took in virtually every form in which the guitar found […]
Tal Farlow Musician – All About Jazz
Tal Farlow was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was brought up in a musical atmosphere. His father played several musical instruments, including some of the fretted ones, while the piano in the house was played by his mother and his sister, who became a fine classical pianist. Tal trained as a signwriter and continued […]
Greg Chako Musician – All About Jazz
Cincinnati-born jazz guitarist Greg Chako took his first music lessons at the age of 9 on the accordion. With Hendrix as an admired hero, guitar then became his primary focus; and after just 1 year of guitar lessons, Greg won 2nd place among more than 1,000 contestants in the American Guild of Music competition. The […]
Jonathan Kreisberg Musician – All About Jazz
Performance / Tour The Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet European Tour 2011 Source: Two for the Show Media November 15, 2011 December 4, 2011 Hnita Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet (featuring, Will Vinson, Orlando Leflemming, and Colin Stranahan) Heist op den Berg, Belgium December 5, 2011 Sounds Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet (featuring, Will Vinson, Orlando Leflemming, and Colin Stranahan) Brussels, […]