Mulgrew Miller was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. As a child he played in churches and was influenced on piano by Ramsey Lewis and then Oscar Peterson. Aspects of their styles remained in his playing, but he added the greater harmonic freedom of McCoy Tyner and others in developing as a hard bop player and then in creating his own style, which influenced others from the 1980s on.
Claudio Roditi was a Brazilian jazz trumpeter. In 1966 Claudio was named a trumpet finalist at the International Jazz Competition in Vienna, Austria. While in Vienna, Roditi met Art Farmer, one of his idols, and the friendship inspired the younger trumpeter to follow a career in jazz.
Claus Ogerman was a German arranger, conductor, and composer best known for his work with Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, Michael Brecker, and Diana Krall.
Klaus Röder is a German musician and music teacher. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he currently lives and teaches in Langenfeld (Rhld.), Germany. Röder is married and has three children.
Diederik Wissels is a Dutch jazz pianist.
But Beautiful is a jazz album by the Bill Evans Trio with Stan Getz, recorded live in Europe in 1974 and released in 1996.
Sylvie Courvoisier is a composer, pianist and improviser.
W. E. "Buddy" Burton (1890–1976) was a multi-instrumentalist and band leader who appeared on many 1920s Chicago South Side jazz and Blues 78 rpm Phonograph records as vocalist and drummer, and also played washboard, piano, celeste, and kazoo. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky and went to Chicago around 1922. He first recorded with Jelly Roll Morton and sessions that were led by Jimmy Blythe. Burton released five sides under his own name in 1928, six sides with Marcus Norman, two sides as a duo with Blythe and one with Irene Sanders. He also backed blues singers Tillie Johnson and Mae Mathews, and played with the Dixie Four and The Harlem Trio. Other than five numbers in 1929, duets with pianist Bob Hudson in 1932, and the duet with Sanders in 1936, little is known about Burton's life after the mid-thirties although he was probably somewhat active. It is reported that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Vladyslav Sendecki, known as Vladislav Sendecki, is a Polish jazz pianist. In Polish, his name is spelled Władysław Sendecki. Since 1996 he has been permanently associated with the NDR Big Band as a composer and pianist. Sendecki is one of the top five pianists in the world according to the New York Village Voice.
Klaus Thunemann is a German bassoonist, considered "one of the finest bassoonists of his generation".
Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (HMTMH) is an artistic-scientific university in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It dates back to 1897. From 1962 until 2010 it was named Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, short: Musikhochschule Hannover. Since 2010, the president has been Susanne Rode-Breymann. As of 2013, the university has approximately 1,443 students, taught by 361 teachers in 33 courses for musicians, actors, music teachers, musicologists and media scholars.
Diane is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker and pianist Paul Bley recorded in Denmark in 1985 and released on the SteepleChase label.
Axel Dörner is a German trumpeter, pianist, and composer.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1980 in Norwegian music.
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1979 in Norwegian music.
Joe Haider is a German pianist and jazz educator.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1908.
Chris Gall is a German jazz pianist and composer.
Werner Heider is a German composer, pianist and conductor.
Wieland Götze is a German jazz drummer and singer-songwriter.
