Christian Epidemic | pt

Christian McBride começou a tocar contrabaixo elétrico aos nove anos, influenciado por seu pai e seu tio-avô, ambos contrabaixistas profissionais. Seu pai Lee Smith tocou com Billy Paul e o cubano Mongo Santamaria, e seu tio-avô tocou ao lado de músicos de avant-garde como Sun Ra e Khan Jamal. Aos 11 anos passou para o contrabaixo acústico, estudando a princípio música clássica com bons professores como Neil Courtney, coordenador da Philadelphia Orchestra. Aos 13 já atuava profissionalmente em bandas locais. Um ano mais tarde, Wynton Marsalis impressiona-se com o garoto de 14 anos e o convida a integrar seu grupo...

Taking his first steps onto the scene back in 2000, Christian snuck into the back room of a underground nightclub that some friends of his had rented for the evening to host a jazz night. There in the back was an abandoned DJ booth. Having tried, and failed miserably, to mix together ATB’s “9 P.M.” and the Matt Darey remix of Blockster’s “Grooveline”, Christian was hooked. He returned to Sweden for a one-week vacation, purchased a mixer and a deck, some 30 records and returned to Beijing. That following Thursday he auditioned at the now legendary Club VOGUE (88) and...

Christian Vander (born 21 February 1948 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne) is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma. Besides his work with Magma, he has also performed solo, with the Christian Vander Trio and Christian Vander Quartet, and in Offering. He is known both for his unique songwriting, virtuosic drumming, and shrill falsetto improvisational/scat singing. His compositions fuse jazz, rock, classical and opera influences, and draw on the work of musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Carl Orff. Vander's music is broadly classified as progressive rock, but the style is so unusual that it falls under its...

The Swiss harpsichordist Christiane Jaccottet (1937 - 1999) came from a musical family and began studying piano at the age of four. She continued her studies at the Conservatory at La-Chaux-de-Fonds and then the Viennese Musical Academy. At the age of 20, she won a competition sponsored by ARD Television in Munich. She developed her approach to performing on period instruments under Gustav Leonhardt. In 1964, she won the Soloist's Prize from the Swiss Music Society, and the following year she won the prize for harpsichord and basso continuo at the First International Music Competition in Bruges. Christiane Jaccottet has...