David King (born 8 June 1970) is a drummer and composer active in Minneapolis, Minnesota since the 1990s. He is a founding member of Happy Apple & The Bad Plus, both of which are jazz trios, although neither play traditional styles. He works simultaneously in around a dozen other bands, many in the jazz, electronic, indie and rock genres.
Dave Thomas is an English Pianist/Accordionist already familiar to many fans of French composer Yann Tiersen from his popular YouTube account - on which he covers, entirely by ear, works from the critically acclaimed Amelie soundtrack with an astonishing degree of musicality and touch. Dave is currently attempting to forge a solo career from a rapidly growing fanbase.
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor. He attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he earned a B.A. in music composition and an M.A. with special emphasis on both electronic and ethnic music. Sakamoto recorded his first solo album in 1978, which included the songs Thousand Knives and The End of Asia.
Barry Harris (born December 15, 1929) is an American bebop jazz pianist and educator. Born in Detroit, Michigan, on December 15, 1929, Barry Harris was influenced by Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Harris left Detroit for New York City in 1960. Harris has played with Cannonball Adderley, Illinois Jacquet, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, and Max Roach. As a lead artist, he has recorded over 14 albums.
Dan Webb (born August 13, 1989) is an Australian singer, keyboardist and songwriter. He has released two self-produced EPs to date: ‘Capitulation’ in March 2009 and 'Hyperspace Clearance' in September 2010. Both were recorded at Melbourne's Sing Sing Recording Studios with engineer Matt Voigt and mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London. Webb has garnered much attention for his spontaneous and energetic live shows.
Corinna Jane is a Franco-British singer-songwriter born in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, but did most of her growing up in Northamptonshire, England and was fortunate enough to grow up speaking English, French and German. However, fed on a diet of 90s MTV, her biggest passion has always been music. She began to play tunes by ear on the piano as a child, before taking up piano lessons at the age of 5. Not long after, at the age of 6 she composed her first piece "Rainy Afternoon".
Bots is a socially engaged Dutch language folk rock group from the southern city of Eindhoven that is successful in both the Netherlands and Germany. The band was formed in 1974.
There are at least two artists operating under the name Me. One's correct name and page is (me)™ (of 21st Century Protest Song, dv luvva, etc.). The other is Minco Eggersman (ME) who has made one album so far: "The wagon fair". It is his first solo recording on the Volkoren label. He is better known as one the members of At the Close of Every Day. The music can be qualified as Indie Rock or Americana. This is also sometimes used as a tag when someone scrobbles a song by themselves.
Frederic Rzewski (born Westfield, Massachusetts, 1938) studied music first with Charles Mackey of Springfield, and subsequently with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He went to Italy in 1960, where he studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and met Severino Gazzelloni, with whom he performed in a number of concerts, thus beginning a career as a performer of new piano music.