Kazumi Watanabe　

Oded Tzur　

Kenny Dorham　

Kenny Dorham had a deeply moving, pure tone on trumpet; his sound was clear, sharp, and piercing, especially during ballads. He could spin out phrases and lines, but when he slowly and sweetly play ..more

Terumasa Hino　

Simone (Simone Kopmajer)　

Steve Kuhn　

Steve Kuhn has had an interesting career. A talented jazz pianist, he has worked in many types of settings through the years. He began classical piano lessons when he was five, studied with { ..more

Weldon Irvine　

Keyboardist Weldon Irvine looms large in the pantheon of jazz-funk, profoundly influencing the subsequent generations of hip-hop artists for whom he served as collaborator and mentor. Born in ..more

Riyoko Takagi　

Blue Mitchell　

Owner of a direct, lightly swinging, somewhat plain-wrapped tone that fit right in with the Blue Note label’s hard bop ethos of the 1960s, Blue Mitchell tends to be overlooked today perhaps beca ..more

Wa Yo Set　

Roy Hargrove　

Roy Hargrove is a hard bop-oriented musician (and acclaimed Young Lion) who became one of America’s premier trumpeters during the late 1980s and beyond. A fine, straight-ahead player who spent ..more

Arooj Aftab　

Hank Jones　

The oldest of the Jones brothers, Hank Jones has been a supreme accompanist and underrated soloist. He’s among the most accomplished sight readers in jazz, and his flexibility and sensitive style h ..more

Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong　

Mahavishnu Orchestra　

One of the premiere fusion groups, the Mahavishnu Orchestra were considered by most observers during their prime to be a rock band, but their sophisticated improvisations actually put their h ..more

Kikuchi Masabumi　

Masabumi Poo Kikuchi was a Japanese jazz pianist of legendary stature with a vast discography that ran the gamut from straight-up post-bop and vanguard classical to fusion recordings, solo synthe ..more

Art Farmer　

Largely overlooked during his formative years, Art Farmer’s consistently inventive playing was more greatly appreciated as he continued to develop. Along with Clark Terry, Farmer helped to po ..more

Vince Guaraldi　

Vince Guaraldi, the widely acclaimed jazz pianist best known for his cheerful, uplifting work with Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang, got his start in the music biz with a record entitled ..more

Clifford Brown　

Clifford Brown’s death in a car accident at the age of 25 was one of the great tragedies in jazz history. Already ranking with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis as one of the top trumpeters ..more

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