Barbara Casini (born 1954 in Florence) is an Italian jazz vocalist and guitarist. [1]
While studying piano, she was exposed to bossa nova at the age of 15, which had a marked influence on her musical life. After graduating with a degree in psychology from the University of Padova, she started performing in 1979. [1]
She has recorded and performed with Lee Konitz, [2] Phil Woods, Leo Walls, Francisco Petreni, Stefano Bollani, and Enrico Rava. [3] [1]
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British Vogue, Thurman starred in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). She rose to international prominence with her performance as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Often hailed as Tarantino's muse, she reunited with the director to play the main role in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2, which brought her a BAFTA Award nomination and two additional Golden Globe Award nominations.
Henry Grimes was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
Leon "Lee" Konitz was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer.
Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by the American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records. It compiles eleven tracks recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950.
Warne Marion Marsh was an American tenor saxophonist. Born in Los Angeles, his playing first came to prominence in the 1950s as a protégé of pianist Lennie Tristano and earned attention in the 1970s as a member of Supersax.
Roberto Gatto is an Italian jazz drummer, born October 6, 1958, in Rome.
Enrico Pieranunzi is an Italian jazz pianist. He combines classical technique with jazz.
Gil Goldstein is an American jazz pianist and accordionist. He has won 5 Grammy Awards and he was nominated 8 times.
Salvatore Joseph Mosca was an American jazz pianist who was a student of Lennie Tristano.
Ronald Ball was an English jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
Willis Robert "Billy" Drummond Jr. is an American jazz drummer.
Franz Koglmann is an Austrian jazz composer. He performs on both the trumpet and flugelhorn in most often in avant-garde jazz and third stream. An award-winning composer, Koglmann has performed or recorded with Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Bill Dixon, Georg Gräwe, Andrea Centazzo, Theo Jörgensmann, Wolfgang Reisinger, Enrico Rava, Yitzhak Yedid, Ran Blake, and John Lindberg; together with the bassist Peter Herbert he has often musically accompanied works of the Austrian artist Heidi Harsieber.
Margaret "Peggy" Stern is an American jazz pianist and synthesizer player.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1927.
Christina von Bülow is a jazz musician from Denmark who plays saxophone and flute.
Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet is a compilation album by saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan's Quartet with Lee Konitz featuring performances recorded in early-1953. The records on the album were originally released on 10-inch LPs Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Lee Konitz and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet on Pacific Jazz Records along with previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes.
Lunasea is an album by saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Peggy Stern which was recorded in 1992 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
Label Bleu is a French jazz record label founded by Michel Orier.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Lee Konitz.