Jazz

Gábor Szabó was a Hungarian guitarist who made jazz, pop, and rock music.   In 1961, Szabó started his career as a member of Chico Hamilton's quintet.  Chico Hamilton was a famous jazz drummer and a bandleader who made his mark in the '50s…

Makoto Matsushita is a Japanese singer and composer.  His passion for music started in high school, and he studied guitar and music theory in college.  He studied at the Nem Conservatory in Japan, and a lot of his curriculum revolved around…

Özdemir Erdoğan is a Turkish singer, songwriter, and composer from Istanbul, Turkey.  He was exposed to music at an early age through his mother and his uncle.  His mother was a classical pianist, and his uncle was a pianist and a…

Cécile Frenette is a singer from Montreal, Canada who sang in the '70s and the '80s.  She started her career as a singer in The Cooper Brothers band.  The Cooper Brothers band was a Canadian rock band that formed in the mid-'70s. …

Dean Fraser is a Jamaican saxophonist from Kingston, Jamaica.  At 12 years old, Fraser started playing the clarinet.  At 15, he switched to the saxophone.  In his 20s, he started his first band, The Sonny Bradshaw 7.  In 1978, he released…

Dave Valentin was a Puerto Rican jazz flutist from the South Bronx.  He was born and raised in New York City, and he was playing music by ten years old.  First, he played the conga and the timables for the majority of his teenage years. …

Frank Mills is a Canadian pianist an singer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  He grew up in a musical family; his mother was a pianist, and his father was a singer.  Mills started playing the piano at three years old.  However, he didn't…

Giannis Spanos was a Greek composer who recorded in the '60s and '70s.  At 17, he moved to Athens and studied piano at The National Odeum.  In the early '60s, he moved to Paris.  While there, he was mainly a piano accompanist.  He worked…

Roberto Nicolosi was an Italian composer and orchestra leader from Genoa, Italy.  Before the music, he obtained a degree in medicine, then he completed his diploma in composition at the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory.  After a successful…

Hubert Eaves III is a keyboardist, songwriter, and producer from St. Paul, Minnesota.  In the '70s, he made his presence felt.  Eaves started his career as the session keyboardist for Mtume.  Then he played the keyboard for artists, like…