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Brian Culbertson (born January 12, 1973) is a smooth jazz musician and instrumentalist from Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of jazz band director and trumpeter Jim Culbertson, Brian's instruments include the keyboard and trombone.
Heavily influenced by funk, much of Culbertson's material is funk-based instrumental, but in recent years has called upon vocalists such as Trey Lorenz, Kenny Lattimore, Will Downing, Faith Evans, and Avant, to add to his pieces.
Culbertson has released twelve albums so far. The first three were on the Blue Moon label: Long Night Out (1994), After Hours (1995) and Modern Life (1995). After moving to...
Yellow Magic Orchestra è una band di electropop giapponese, formatasi nel 1978. Ha raggiunto la seconda posizione nella classifica dei migliori artisti giapponesi stilata da HMV.
Il gruppo è considerato uno dei pionieri del Synth-pop e dell'Electro-pop, insieme ai tedeschi Kraftwerk. I membri principali sono Haruomi Hosono (basso, tastiere) Yukihiro Takahashi (batteria e percussioni, voce principale) e Ryuichi Sakamoto (tastiere),reduce dal debutto musicale a suo nome con il lavoro Thousand Knives.
L'idea iniziale era di creare un album con suoni orientaleggianti ed elettronica insieme. In seguito, il successo del primo disco convinse i musicisti ad accantonare le proprie carriere soliste...
La Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) è un gruppo rock britannico sorto a Birmingham nel 1969 dalle ceneri della "beat band" dei Move, fondato dal frontman Jeff Lynne e dall'istrionico Roy Wood, e piuttosto noto specialmente nella seconda metà degli anni '70.
La musica appartiene a un genere rock-sinfonico melodico (nella band è presente anche un terzetto d'archi) con evidenti influenze "beatlesiane" (Lynne lavorerà a lungo dagli anni '80 in poi con George Harrison) e talvolta vicino alla disco music. .
Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra...
Luca Pernici...
Brian Tichy (born on August 18, 1968 in Denville, New Jersey) is a drummer, guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. Since 2009 he has been the drummer for Foreigner. Tichy began playing drums at age eight and started playing guitar at age 12. His earliest influences include Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Van Halen.
After attending Berklee College of Music from 1986-1990, Tichy has toured/recorded with a multitude of artists including Billy Idol, Ozzy Osbourne, Seether, Velvet Revolver, Foreigner, Pride & Glory, Glenn Hughes, Sass Jordan and Slash's Snakepit. .
