Music production and licensing for broadcast video and filmmaker industries. Composers and songwriters create new original music to score independent film and video productions. >>read more
Cannonball Adderley: after his music studies in Tallahassee(1944/48) he became a high school band director at the Dillard High School/Fort Lauderdale (1948/50)in his native Florida , following in the footsteps of his educator-father(a trumpet player),before moving to New York in 1955. He initially planned to pursue graduate studies in Manhattan;... >>read more
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Pianist Steve Kuhn's website features reviews, sound bites, recordings, biography.
Brooklyn-born Steve Kuhn was fascinated with jazz very early in his life. He began classical piano lessons at age five and soon began to "improvise and syncopate the classical repertoire."
In his early teens, Kuhn studied with legendary... >>read more
Jazz profiles from NPR: Johnny Hartman.
Johnny Hartman was the quintessential romantic balladeer. The only singer to record with John Coltrane, Hartman was mostly known only to true jazz lovers during his lifetime. It took a movie soundtrack -- released 12 years after his death -- that took Hartman to the top of the jazz charts.
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