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Pianist Gordon Webster has performed with Wycliffe Gordon, Grant Green Jr., Tim Hagans, Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Chris Parker, Steve LaSpina, Jim Rotondi, Adam Nussbaum, Ron McClure, Chris Potter, Joel Frahm, and Jim Black among others. His playing has been showcased in numerous New York City venues including the Blue Note, The Iridium, Sweet Rhythm, The Cutting Room, Cleopatra's Needle, Makor, 92nd Street Y, Mannahatta Lounge, Kavehaz, Triad Theater, Smalls, Cafe Vivaldi, The Bar Next Door, St. Nick's Pub, Night and Day, and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Webster graduated from the Manhattan School of Music Masters Degree in jazz studies program...

Max Webster was a Canadian rock band of the late 1970s. The band was formed in 1973 in Sarnia, Ontario and consisted of guitarist and vocalist Kim Mitchell, keyboardist Terry Watkinson, bassist Mike Tilka and drummer Paul Kersey. Mitchell, joined by Pye Dubois [aka Paul Woods], would write the majority of their material with Mitchell writing the music and Dubois writing lyrics. Kersey left the band after their self-titled debut album, to be replaced by Gary McCracken. After recording and touring for their second album, High Class in Borrowed Shoes, Tilka would follow suit and leave the band, being replaced...

Ben Webster (* 27. März 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri; † 20. September 1973 in Amsterdam, Niederlande; eigentlich Benjamin Francis Webster) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Musiker. Der Tenorsaxofonist war bekannt für seinen weichen, einschmiegsamen Sound (Subtone). Seine Spitznamen waren Frog und Big Ben. Ben Webster lernte als Kind das Violinspiel und von keinem Geringeren als seinem Nachbarn Pete Johnson Klavier. Nach dem Studium an der Wilberforce University begann er in Amarillo in Texas als Stummfilmpianist Geld zu verdienen. Sein Freund Budd Johnson brachte ihm 1928 während eines Engagements in Texas die Grundlagen des Altsaxophonspiels bei und Webster lernte schnell. Während seiner...

Brothers Enzo and Gianni Lo Greco have been having success with their band thanks to the customary, original and exciting blend of Nu Jazz, bossa, and lounge, which they have written and produced in many albums and compilations. Starting from their latest success obtained from the artistic production of the song “This is what you are” sung by Mario Biondi, a chart-topping artist in Italy and Europe, the Lo Greco brothers, also known as Soulstance, are considered the inventors of nu jazz. With the typical jazz sound of the 60’s and 70’s the Quintet evolves with this century’s metropolitan sounds,...