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Guy Klucevsek - Composer/Accordionist. Jenny Scheinman. She grew up in Petrolia, California, a remote area of Humboldt County near Cape Mendocino and currently resides in New York City. She has two children, Bellamy and Rosa. She is the niece of robotics pioneer Victor Scheinman, and the granddaughter of Telford Taylor, Chief Prosecutor at the United States war crimes trials at Nuremberg. Discography[edit] Live at Yoshi's (Avant, 2000)The Rabbi's Lover (Tzadik, 2002)Shalagaster (Tzadik, 2004)12 Songs (Cryptogramophone, 2005)Crossing the Field (Koch, 2008)Jenny Scheinman (Koch, 2008)Mischief & Mayhem (self released, 2012) With Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe, 2008) With Bill Frisell With Christian McBride With Madeleine Peyroux Standing on the Rooftop (Decca, 2011) With Lucinda Williams References[edit] External links[edit]

Jenny Scheinman - Mischief & Mayhem - 2 dates in December 2010. Zeena Parkins. Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion. She is currently a guest faculty member for composition courses at Mills College.[1][2] Born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, she studied at Bard College and moved to New York City in 1984.[2] Parkins has often worked with dance companies and choreographers, including the John Jasperse Company, Jennifer Monson, Neil Greenberg, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh,[5] and Jennifer Lacey, and has won a Bessie Award for "sustained achievement in composing scores for dance. She has also worked with video artist Janene Higgins[6][7] and visual artists Daria Martin, Cynthia Madansky and Mandy McIntosh.[1] Discography[edit] Solo studio albums[edit] Video[edit] Roulette TV: Janene Higgins & Zeena Parkins. (2001) Roulette Intermedium Inc.April in New York - Bobby Previte (2007) Independent Notes[edit] References[edit]

Zeena parkins. Eyal Maoz. Eyal Maoz (born 1969, Haifa) is an Israeli-born American guitarist, bandleader, solo performer and composer. His music is described as a synthesis of rock, jazz and avant-garde, tinged with deep electronic and radical Jewish-middle-eastern music. John Zorn is quoted as saying “A cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot…keep your eyes and ears on this guy... [Eyal is] a vital member of the New York downtown Scene.” He leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon, and Crazy Slavic Band. He also co-leads the Maoz-Sirkis Duet, the Maoz-Masaoka Duet (with koto player Miya Masaoka) and Hypercolor (with Lukas Ligetiand and James Ilgenfritz), and is a guest member of John Zorn’s Cobra. His music was featured in the movies Keepers Of Eden by Yoram Porath, Israeli’s Cinema History documentary by Raphael Nadjari, as well as at the MTV show “Undress. . ” [1] Eyal Maoz's website.[2] Edom's website.

Welcome to Eyal Maoz Music. Elliott Sharp. Elliott Sharp (born Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.[1] A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s,[2][3] Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He pioneered the use of personal computers in live performance with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s.[4] He has used algorithms and fibonacci numbers in experimental composition [5] since the 1970s.[6] He has cited literature as an inspiration for his music and often favors improvisation.[5] He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet.

Sharp has led many ensembles over the years, including the blues-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon.[7] Biography[edit] Sharp was classically trained in piano from an early age, taking up clarinet and guitar as a teen. Discography[15][edit] Solo[edit] Elliott Sharp. Satoko Fujii. Satoko Fujii (藤井郷子, Fujii Satoko? , born 1958) is a Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. Fujii started playing the piano at age 4, receiving classical training until she was 20, when she became interested in improvisation and jazz. She went to the United States in 1985, graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1987, returning to the US in 1993, achieving a graduate diploma in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1996.

She returned to Japan with her new husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, leader of Gato Libre. Satoko Fujii. Kaze - Tornado (Circum-Libra 202) Natsuki Tamura - trumpet Christian Pruvost - trumpet Satoko Fujii - piano Peter Orins - drums Best list in 2013 best concerts of the year "Satoko Fujii, Briggan Krauss, Natsuki Tamura, Nels Cline, Michael TA Thompson" at the Stone on August Kaze, “Tornado” Outside-Inside-Out’s Top 10 of New York City Jazz Free Jazz Coll Best Jazz Album Le Top 30 2013 de Délire actuel / Délire actuel's 2013 Top 30 Satoko Fujii Solo, “Gen Himmel” All About Jazz Editor’s.

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