Soul jazz recording artist Frank McComb, who is well-known for his exquisite voice and piano playing, was named one of the top 27 keyboard players of all time by MusicRadar.com. Frank's third, but first independently written, produced, and recorded album, "Straight From The Vault," took home the inaugural Soultracks Reader's Choice Award for "Best Album of the Year." The Peacock feature... read full bio
Laval Smith is an American singer of blues, jazz, swing, and bebop music. She tours internationally with her 8 piece band known as her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. She has been known as The Queen of Classic Jazz & Blues. She has been touring extensively since the late 1990's and has performed in over 40 states and many countries including... read full bio
With a unique instrumental sound bringing together elements of funk, R&B, rock and electric jazz, legendary keyboardist Jeff Lorber helped pioneer the music genre now formatted under such names as NAC and smooth jazz. With Kickin It, his debut recording for Samson Records and his first studio album in two years, Lorber teams with top-producer and fellow Philadelphia native,... read full bio
Time For Three is a string trio that is classically trained but performs more than just classical music. Their style ranges from bluegrass to jazz to rock to hip hop. They refer to themselves as a classically trained garage band. They are known to dress casually even when performing at an elegant venue such as Carnegie Hall. This group of... read full bio
Bill Cobham is a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader. He was born in Panama and immigrated to New York as a child. After attending New Yorks High School of Music and Art and playing in an Army band during the mid-late sixties, Cobham stumbled on the jazz-fusion world and worked with the Brecker Brothers, guitarist John Abercrombie, and the legendary... read full bio
When Ottmar Liebert released Nouveau Flamenco in 1990, I believe he took the musical community completely by surprise. Here was not only a brand new way of playing the flamenco guitar, but also a masterpiece of melodic composition from a relatively unknown artist. Because he was so new, most critics (and certainly the people who control nominations for the Grammies),... read full bio
Formed by Winter in 1967, the Paul Winter Consort became one of the earliest exponents of world music, combining elements from various African, Asian, and South American cultures with jazz. The Consort has evolved with time, changing its voice but not its aims. Early members such as David Darling, Paul McCandless, Ralph Towner, Glen Moore, Collin Wolcott, Nancy Rumbel and... read full bio
In the 20-year span of his recording career, Andreas Vollenweider has sold over eight million albums worldwide with his trademark sound. He invented the electro-acoustic harp in 1975 and helped launch an entire musical genre. Since the first album from Andreas Vollenweider & Friends Behind the Gardens, Behind the Wall, Under the Tree caused an international sensation in 1981, Vollenweider's... read full bio
Lindsay Mendez is a Broadway actress and singer known for her role of Elphaba in the Broadway show Wicked. She has also appeared in Godspell, Everyday Rapture, and Grease. She played the role of Rose Fenny in the off-Broadway performance Dogfight, for which she was nominated for the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, the Outer Critics Circle Award for... read full bio
Total Exposure is a thirteen-piece dance band, who performs three hours nonstop high energy, everything from MoTown, Rock to Beyonce and anything in between. Band leader Lauren Barnett states that the group has been “performing, writing and producing music for as long as [they] can remember… because music, performing and making an audience smile, stirs [their] souls.” Other band members... read full bio
Down To The Bone following on from the success of his remix he teamed up with Think Twice keyboard player, Simon Greenaway, to put together a string of songs. This resulted in the first release on a 12” single of “Staten Island Groove”. This resulted in rave reviews for the single and club and radio play in the U.K. Wade... read full bio
Pianist/Composer/Arranger Emily Bear is one of the most remarkable and prolific musical talents of our time. She is capable of writing, arranging, and playing in an incredible variety of musical styles. She has performed in several of the world's most renowned locations, including Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Ravinia, and the Hollywood... read full bio
Dave Samuels is an American vibraphone player, who has worked with various jazz and fusion artists, such as Spyro Gyra. He played with Oscar Peterson on An Oscar Peterson Christmas in 1995. Currently, he plays in an ensemble called The Caribbean Jazz Project, a Grammy-winning jazz-Latin music group. He played with Eddie Palmieri in a tribute to Cal Tjader with... read full bio
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, or simply The Big Phat Band, is an 18-piece jazz ensemble based in California and led by Gordon Goodwin. Goodwin composes most, and arranges all, of the group's performance pieces, as well as playing piano and occasionally tenor saxophone. While using a similar instrumentation to the traditional big bands of the 1930s and '40s, the... read full bio
What can you say about Everette Harp, smooth, real smooth sax playing!!! Everette Harp started playing piano at two and began practicing saxophone at the age of four. The youngest of the eight children of a minister, gospel music was one of Harps earliest influences. Harp started playing jazz in high school, and graduated from North Texas State University... read full bio
From putting down his own words and sounds to developing other artists, Dar'rell Green represents the best of what is music and the music business. The smooth, strong sounds of his art embody not only his presence in this business but also in life. Growing up in Indianapolis in a family with deep roots in the south - his father from... read full bio
The Cactus Blossoms started out as a duo comprised of two brothers named Jack Torrey and Page Burkum. They hadn’t planned to start a band when they began making music together, but they ended up playing music with friends on a weekly basis at a local venue called the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota. They were inspired by the... read full bio
Kenny Cetera, brother of Peter Cetera, an original member of the band Chicago, has made a name for himself with new concert series ‘Kenny Cetera’s Chicago Experience’. Drawing on his involvement as a contributor to the album ‘Chicago 17’, Cetera is ready to revive Chicago’s most relevant work. Cetera and his 7-piece horn band present Chicago’s music in this show.... read full bio
Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker make up the band Tortoise. Their sound is hard to pin down; it displays itself as a mixture of jazz, dance, techno, rock, and classical, with not one genre overtaking the other. Their musical identity is fully formed, remaining distinct among other performers. Tortoise creates music to appeal to... read full bio
Sons of Kemet are a jazz group from London. They use a variety of instruments to create their sound, including saxophone, clarinet, tuba, and drums. Each of the members comes from a different background. Shabaka Hutchings, Oren Marshall, Tom Skinner, Seb Rochford, and Theon Cross combine the genres of jazz, rock, Caribbean, and African music. The group has been featured... read full bio
