A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instruments, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra. Other music ensembles consist solely of singers, such as choirs and doo wop groups. In both popular music and classical music, there are ensembles in which both instrumentalists and singers perform, such as the rock band or the Baroque chamber group for basso continuo and one or more singers. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles. Some ensembles blend the sounds of a variety of instrument families, such as the orchestra, which uses a string section, brass instruments, woodwinds and percussion instruments, or the concert band, which uses brass, woodwinds and percussion.
Nu jazz, also known as jazztronica, is a genre of jazz and electronic music. The term was coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, electronic music, and free improvisation.
Dub Narcotic Sound System (D.N.S.S.) is an Olympia, Washington based indie-funk musical group founded by Calvin Johnson, signed to K Records.
Avishai Cohen is an Israeli jazz double bassist, composer, singer, and arranger.
Bradford Alexander Mehldau is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Alfred Harth, now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H, is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who creatively mixes genres.
Chris Morrissey is an American musician, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Morrissey plays the bass and has played and recorded with a number of bands:
Gretchen Parlato is an American jazz singer. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke.
Mark Guiliana is a Grammy-nominated American drummer, composer and leader of the band Beat Music. He is known for his playing with Avishai Cohen, Brad Mehldau, David Bowie, Meshell Ndegeocello, Gretchen Parlato, Jason Lindner, Lionel Loueke, Dhafer Youssef, Tigran Hamasyan, Matisyahu, the European piano trio Phronesis and his own band, Heernt.
"Remote Control" and "Three MCs and One DJ" are songs by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, from their fifth studio album, Hello Nasty. The two were released as a double A-side single, serving as Hello Nasty's fourth single.
Donald Paul McCaslin is an American jazz saxophonist. He has recorded over a dozen albums as a bandleader in addition to many sideman appearances, including on David Bowie's final studio album, Blackstar (2016).
Shai Maestro is an Israeli jazz pianist.
The Malta Jazz Festival is an annual musical event held every July in Malta, organised by Festivals Malta. It is held outside Our Lady of Liesse Church, on the Valletta waterfront.
Respected internationally as an ‘art-first’ tastemaker, that releases culturally trenchant projects, Motéma Music’s diverse catalog spans genres, cultures, and generations and has received GRAMMY ® recognition for over twenty-five albums in jazz, Latin-jazz, reggae, and R&B. Founded by label president and recording artist Jana Herzen, it was Motéma that first brought soul/jazz superstar Gregory Porter to international acclaim with his GRAMMY® nominated first albums, Water and Be Good and his hit song 1960 What?. The label is also noted for launching international careers for jazz piano star Joey Alexander, modern soul singer Deva Mahal, and Cuban music innovator Pedrito Martinez, among others. Also in the label’s catalog are recordings by established jazz icons including Randy Weston, Geri Allen, David Murray, Monty Alexander, and Charnett Moffett, alongside releases by exciting leaders in contemporary jazz innovation including Donny McCaslin, Mark Guiliana, Jihye Lee, and NEA Jazzmaster Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science, whose much-talked-about Grammy-nominated activist album Waiting Game garnered 2020 Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and Artist of the Year accolades from Downbeat among other awards and recognition.
Storage 24 is a 2012 British science fiction-horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Noel Clarke, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Colin O'Donoghue.
Chris Jennings is a Canadian jazz double bassist, composer, arranger and educator.
Mehliana: Taming the Dragon is an album by Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana released on the Nonesuch label in 2014. Mehldau's solo on "Sleeping Giant" was nominated for Best Improvised Jazz Solo in the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Stu Brooks is a Grammy nominated bassist, composer, producer, musical director and co-founder of the genre-bending, experimental group Dub Trio. He is known for playing and/or recording with the Saturday Night Live Band, Lady Gaga, Mike Patton, Mark Guiliana, Dr. John, GRiZ, G-Unit, Matisyahu, Pretty Lights, and Meshell Ndegeocello,.
Dark Territory is a studio album by trumpeter Dave Douglas which was released in June 2016 on Douglas' Greenleaf Music label. The album is named after Fred Kaplan's book Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War released in 2016.
Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! is a studio album by Mark Guiliana, released April 12, 2019 on Motéma Music. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.
