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Curtis DuBois Fuller (born in Detroit, December 15, 1934) is a United States jazz trombonist. Fuller's parents were Jamaican and died when he was young, so as a result he was raised in an orphanage. While in Detroit he was a schoolfriend of Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd, and also knew Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones and Milt Jackson. After army service between 1953 and 1955 (when he played in a band with Chambers and brothers Cannonball and Nat Adderley), Fuller joined the quintet of Yusef Lateef, another Detroit musician. In 1957 the quintet moved to New York, and Fuller recorded...

Curtis Stigers is an American jazz vocalist / saxophonist / guitarist / songwriter born on 18 October 1965 in Boise, Idaho, USA. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably "I Wonder Why", which reached #5 in the UK and #9 in the US in 1991. He is signed with Concord Records. He had his début self titled album in 1991 which sold 1.5 milllion. In his solo career, his most famous songs are 'I Wonder Why' and 'You're All That Matters To Me'. He has also worked with Elton John, Eric Clapton, Prince, Bonnie Raitt,...

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,...

Em 1971 surgiu em Pernambuco um grupo musical que traçava um novo caminho para a MPB. Diante da indecisão no cenário da música nacional, após a irrupção do movimento tropicalista, o QUINTETO VIOLADO apresentava uma proposta fundamentada nos elementos musicais da cultura regional, através de trabalhos de pesquisa e da própria vivência de cada um dos seus integrantes, originários da região Nordeste do Brasil. Conseguindo extrair das mais simples manifestações populares a sua essência rítmica e melódica, o Grupo criou uma nova concepção musical, cujo traço fundamental é a interação entre o erudito e o popular, sem desfiguração, reafirmando a...