alto-saxophonist. In 2012 I finished Donetsk State Musical Academy as a saxophonist, jazz faculty. I have participated in jazz festivals-contests and jam-sessions in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.”
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sax-tenor, study in musical college, regularly visit and conduct jams.”
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Mariliis (born 1990) is an estonian drummer, who began her drum set studies in 2000. In 2004 she was already actively playing in a funk-rock group named Funktion, with whom she received a „Best drummer“ title at WintFest concert.
In 2006 Mariliis joined a rock ensemble called Cramp. The band toured in Estonia and had a brief project in Belgium. Cramp also issued an LP called „Tuld!“[...]

“My father is a great fan of jazz. He instilled me love to this style.
I finished Kishinev Theatrical Lyceum, Kishinev Musical school named after Styrchi as a pianist, and then entered into Kishinev Conservatorium to mainstream-jazz vocals faculty and finished it successfully in 2011.
I am a soloist of jazz-group «HIT&BOSSA».
My favourite singers of the past are Ella Fitz[...]

Ilya is a musician, composer. He likes jazz-fusion and improvising very much. He released a solo album.
"I prefers playing guitar but also like different instruments in different ways" - says Ilya.[...]

s debut at “Kvadrat” jazz-club in 1997. In 1998 he became a winner of the young performers contest “Autumn Marathon”, which was held by St. Petersburg jazz music Philharmonic. He performed as a member of different ensembles, representing various kinds of music, such as Alexey Kanunnikov jazz-band, big-band conducted by Sergey Gusityanskiy. In 2006 he probated in the USA as a participant of the program “Open World”, where he played as a participant of the Russian Eight with musicians from Moscow.
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ygeniy Kitayev is a Transnistrian bass-guitarist, arranger and composer, who performs music of different genres.
Accompanied to such musicians as Alexey Kuznetsov (Russia), Vladidmir Danilin (Russia), Yuriy Kuznetsov (Ukraine), Lee Andrew Davidson (USA), John Daniel Walter (USA), Giovanni Falzone (Italy), Edith Steyer (Germany) etc. on Jazz sessions. He took part in the international project “Trigon(Moldova) / Jason Webley(USA) / Gheorghe Livaroi(Moldova - Kahul) / Evgeny Kitaev(Moldova-Tiraspol)”.
He is the leader of his own jazz ensemble he performs with in different international festivals.
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nrey Pletnev is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, one of the organizers and a conductor of jazz jam-sessions in the Yekaterinburg “EverJazz” club, the leader of Anrey Pletnev’s quintet, the conductor of the Afro-Cuban music orchestra “Muchachos Band”, the leader of the project “Old School”, which performs jazz music of 50-60th, the soloist of the big band of Yekaterinburg theatre of mainstream music.

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fer Assaf, jazz saxophonist, composer and educator, member of the Bernie Worrell Orchestra (P-Funk and Talking Heads) was born in Israel where he attended the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts dividing his time between music and dance. In 1991 he won the Israeli National Competition in Jazz and Contemporary Music for young musicians. He was a saxophonist with the Air Force and IDF Orchestras in the Israeli army before moving to New York and studying at The New School University's jazz program.

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is Mark Rosen. I am 42, married and father of two children.
I am a senior saxophone player, playing tenor saxophone, alto and soprano.
I started playing at the age of 16. I learned in the Conservatory and continued studying with the best teachers in Israel.
I participated in many television shows, festivals in Israel and abroad, among others I participated in numerous international jazz festival in the Red Sea with top artists such as Roy Young, Arieh Volonits and others,
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composer. She finished Ukrainian National Musical Academy named after P. I. Chaykovskiy in Kiev in a class of special piano and history of foreign music.
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I am a jazz guitarist and educator from Jakarta, Indonesia. I graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Degree in Performance in 2008. In 2009, I returned to Jakarta and co-founded The Shadow Puppets Quartet.
I've produced two albums with this group, which received positive feedbacks from listeners and critics in Indonesia.
We have performed in many festivals and venues around Indonesia.
I've also collaborated with few musicians/ groups, such as: Joe Lovano in Boston (2008);
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Musina Ebobisse and I play the tenor saxophone for 14 years.
I studied classical music at the Conservatory in Strasbourg for 8 years before entering the jazz department. I graduated from the conservatory last year. Since 7 years, I've been involved in different musical projects, playing jazz, reggae, funk and blues.
My influences in the jazz fields are John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano, Steve Coleman and many others.
I'm also member of the reggae band TND in Strasbourg.
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Yekaterina Vasileva is a vocalist from Odessa (Ukraine). Since 4 years she has been engaged in music. Besides music she is also interested in cinema and literature. She finished Odessa College of Culture and Arts named after K. Dankevich in jazz piano. She is a prize-winner of numerous International and all-Ukrainian jazz festivals and contests. Currently she studies in Germany at Folkwang Univers[...]

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>My name is Rustam Artikov. I have a classical education. In my young days I heard the play of great jazzmen Dizzy Gillespie and Arturo Sandoval and fell in love with Jazz! That is why Jazz art became my life-work.
I played in The Tour Concerts as a participant of wind instruments bands in the Musical Festival on the cities of France in 1996.
In 1999 I graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory. From 2000 to 2008 I worked as a solo performer in the group of trumpeters in the variety-symphonic orchestra of the state broadcasting company. In 2009 I participated in the International Wind Instrument Competition in Markneukirchen (Germany).
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С детства занимаюсь музыкой (школа, Хабаровский колледж искусств) играю, пишу."
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>Alain Claude Mbena Ongolo (bass, Cameroon)
My alias is Alino. I was born on the 17th of November of 1965 in Paris. At the momentI live in Yaound?,Cameroon. I play bass guitarandupright bass.
I am interested in Jazz and Jazz-rock musicand Martial Art: Pride FC and MMA. Research in spiritual matters since 35 years...
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lumnus of the special musical school named after P. S. Stolyarskiy. He has graduated from the National Musical Academy named after A. V. Nezhdanova. He has been a postgraduate student there. At the moment he works at the department of special piano.
Andrey has been a winner of different international contests as a classical pianist. He was a participant of “JazzFest” in Odessa in 2012.
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lya Zyrianov is a young jazz-musician, the New Guitar School representative. He’s the prize-winner of the contests and the participant of the international jazz fests. He has appeared on stage and recorded together with famous musicians of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ilya Zyrianov's quartet represents a fusion of jazz, Latin American music and rock music. The band performs both author's music, and well-known jazz compositions, cooperates with the prominent St. Petersburg jazzmen – Maxim Nekrasov, Nikolay Sizov, Olga Ponomareva, Sergey Nagornym.
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sician and guitar virtuoso Doug Munro is an established veteran of the New York music scene. Since 1987 he has released eleven albums as a leader and has appeared on over 50 recordings as a sideman, producer, and arranger working with a diverse array of artists including Dr. John, Michael Brecker, and Dr. Lonnie Smith. Doug has over 75 original published compositions and over 300 recorded arrangements performed by some of the finest players in the world. His current CD “A Very Gypsy Christmas” is a swinging “Django” style interpretation of 15 of your all time favorite Christmas songs. (mor[...]

Aziz is a violinist graduated from conservatory. He works in the Turkmen State cultural center as the soloist of a variety orchestra. From early age he liked to improvise and experienced very strong influence of the violinist Jean Luc Ponty as well as more ingenious violinist Subramaniam Lakshminarayana. In his performing one can hear their influence and a manner as he like to combine a folk music[...]

Adedeji is a prolific singer, guitarist and composer, who was born and raised in one of the largest cities of West Africa, the vibrant and funky city of Lagos. A career in Music wouldn't have been a choice for him, as survival is usually meant to be the priority of most people Up there. However, music found its way to his heart at the early age of 5 before he joined the church choir. By the age of[...]

Clyde Lightning George is a virtuoso steelpan player born in the birthplace of steelpan, Laventille, Trinidad. His high caliber of musicianship and his vast repertoire of music shows how deep his passion for music runs. Clyde George received his sobriquet “Lightning” because of his ability to quickly learn tunes. His teacher and inventor of the double tenor steel pan, Bertie Marshall, gave hi[...]

What kind of Music is the most natural and also the most difficult for performing nowadays by your opinion? Yes. It is ... the Silence! Silence as Quietness, as Harmony of Human and Environment. As soon as Performers or Listeners produce some rustling or disquiet Music goes wrong.   We wish you to have time for pausing, for timely taking a fresh breath within the rhythm and tempo of your [...]

anish born Kristian Borring, now based in London, has in recent years built his name as a skillful guitarist with great melodic sense and sophisticated harmonic understanding, equally mastering the standard repertoire as well as original material “A guitarist of enormous technical ability who utilizes his considerable gifts thoughtfully and tastefully.” (THE JAZZ MANN).
In 2011 Borring received numerous reviews when releasing his album “Nausicaa” displaying also his compositional skills. “An assured and confident debut, demonstrating Borring's talents as a composer and player…impressive first release.” (ALL ABOUT JAZZ).
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mitriy Bondarev is a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, bright representative of Ukrainian and Russian jazz stages. He participated in numerous jazz festivals of Ukraine (Za-Jazz, Jazz in Kiev, Alfajazz etc.), Russia (Usadba.jazz, MuzEnergo etc.) and Poland (Ukrainian culture festival in). The winner of the Grand Prix of young jazz trumpeters contest named after Yevgeniy Savin (Dubna, Moscow district,2010), Grand Prix of competition at the festival “Usadba.Jazz” (Moscow, 2010), the 1st prize of International Young Jazz Performers Competition named after Kim Nazaretov (Rostov-on-Don, 2011). In 2011 he worked on probation in Warszawa (Poland) as part of the scholarship program 'Gaude Polonia'.
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Rit Xu have enchanted local and overseas audiences at events such as the annual Chingay parade, the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, Spotlight Singapore at Cape Town and Bratislava, the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown Party and Grand Opening of the Marina Bay Sands. Currently at his third year of studies at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, He was the first Southeast Asian to win the United St[...]

I'm a jazz guitarist born in Jakarta. I started by learning classical piano and guitar at the age of 9 and stayed digging it until 10 years later, but then decided to switch to jazz because I needed a convenient space where I can unleash my passion in total freedom.
I was raised in 60's-70's styles of rock progressive ranging from Mahavisnu Orchestra, Gentle Giant, ELP all the way to Soft Machine, thanks to my father. This scene made me familiar with complex music which are rich in details. Not only progressive rock, I also familiar with contemporary music from maestros such as Debussy, Bela Bartok and Krzysztof Penderecki that has been influencing me in terms of composing something with odd melodies.
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I'm a music teacher in a university and I'm also a PhD student. I'm a composer/arranger/trumpeter and I have one album out (Bobby Rice “Sandunga”) and I have a Latin jazz big band which regularly features the great Cuban pianist Hilario Duran, among numerous other great Canadian jazz players. (mor[...]