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Michael Arlt was born in Bünde, Westfalen, Germany on July 1, 1960 and began playing guitar as a teenager. From the beginning, he was interested in a musical gamut, playing in rock, blues, fusion, and free bands. Going to Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-Eighties, he studied at Berklee College of Music, took private lessons from Mike Metheny, and then continued his studies in the Netherlands at the Amsterdam Academy of Arts under Wim Overgaauw.
Since that time, Michael has performed in a variety of ensembles with musicians like Maria de Fatima, Jerry Granelli, Sigi Busch, Rick Hollander, Leszek Zadlo, Wolfgang Ekholt, Joris Teepe, Paquito D’Rivera, Herbert Joos, and Luciano Biondini. He has recorded with Roman Schwaller, Houston Person and Red Holloway. He founded his own trio and the group Brassless with who he recorded. With Don Kostelnik and Duck Scott he forms the organ trio We Three who recorded several albums.
Arlt has been a part of the Lemongrass and Weathertunes music projects, which were founded by the brothers Roland and Daniel Voss. Since the late 1990s, Arlt has been playing with Rick Hollander, in the trio of Reinette van Zijtveld and in a duo with Christian Eckert. As a lecturer, he has taught jazz guitar and harmony at the University of Music in Würzburg since 1990. Guitarist Michael Arlt continues to explore and perform in the genre. of modern jazz.
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Aubrey Frank was born on June 3, 1921 in London, England. He started playing alto saxophone at fourteen, then switched to tenor the following year. HIs first gig was with Jack Harris, then joined the RAF but continued playing with Ambrose, Johnny Claes, Geraldo, Lew Stone, and George Evans. He was in the first Ted Heath band and the RAF Fighter Command Band. During World War II he played with Sam Donahue and Glenn Miller.
Leaving the RAF, he continued to work with Ambrose until 1947, as well as the Skyrockets and the Squadronnaires. From 1949 to 1954 a member of Jack Nathan’s band alongside Ronnie Scott and Harry Klein. He freelanced and became a staple on early British bebop dates where his adaptability allowed him to play in any type of band, from Dixieland to modern jazz.
He recorded with the George Shearing Sextet, Harry Hayes, Alan Dean All-Star Sextet and had a long career regarded as a first-class session musician but was a jazzman at heart. With the advent of bop, his style changed little, leading the Aubrey Frank Modern Music Sextet consisting of Hank Shaw or Wyatt Forbes, Harry Klein, Andy Denits, Stan Wasser, and Douggie Cooper. Tenor saxophonist Aubrey Frank passed away on his seventy-second birthday in 1993.
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Pierre Favre was born June 2, 1937 in Le Locle, Switzerland and originally was a self-taught drummer. He went on to study classical composition and immersed himself in the diverse percussion music of the wider world, particularly those of India, Africa, and Brazil. Gradually he consolidated all of this new information in the “sound-color poems” he was writing for his Singing Drums group.
He recorded the album Singing Drums for ECM in 1984 with Paul Motian, Fredy Studer, and Nana Vasconcelos. Over the course of his career, Pierre has recorded twenty-nine as a sideman working with John Surman, Tamia, Michel Godard, Mal Waldron, Paul Giger, Jiří Stivín, Michel Portal, Samuel Blaser, the ARTE Quartett, Barre Phillips, Irene Schweizer, Philipp Schaufelberger, Manfred Schoof, Joe McPhee, Dino Saluzzi, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Stefano Battaglia, Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu, Jon Balke, Denis Levaillant, Yang Jing, and Andrea Centazzo.
As a leader, drummer and percussionist Pierre Favre has recorded seven albums and continues to perform and record.
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Chip Jackson was born on May 15, 1950 in Rockville, New York. He became a jazz bassist and over the course of his career, he became a member of the Chuck Mangione Quartet, Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Pratt Brothers Big Band, Red Rodney Quintet, The Danny Gottlieb Trio, The Super Septet, Woody Herman And His Orchestra, Woody Herman And The Thundering Herd.
As a sideman and session musician, he has recorded with Al Di Meola, Teddy Edwards, Danny Gottlieb, Elvin Jones, Jack Walrath, Ernestine Anderson, Michael Wolff, Liza Minelli, Sonny Fortune, Anita O’Day, Ian Shaw Chris Connor, and Gerry Mulligan among others.
Bassist Chip Jackson, who was Billy Taylor’s favorite, continues to perform and record.
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Oscar Valdambrini was born on May 11, 1924 in Turin, Italy and his professional career didn’t begin until the late 1940s when he played with Rex Stewart. Soon afterward he co-led a small ensemble with Gianni Basso and his association with Basso would continue through the early 1960s.
He also arranged and played as a sideman for Armando Trovajoli toward the end of the Fifties. During the 1960s he played with Gil Cuppini, Duke Ellington, and Giorgio Gaslini, and by the early Seventies, he was working with Maynard Ferguson.
Joining forces once again with Basso the two performed together from 1972 to 1974. He went on to also play with Franco Ambrosetti, Conte Candoli, Dusko Goykovich, Freddie Hubbard, Mel Lewis, Frank Rosolino, Ernie Wilkins, and Kai Winding in the 1970s.
Growing increasingly sick from the middle of the 1980s, trumpeter and flugelhornist Oscar Valdambrini, had a central role in the emergence of a modern jazz movement in Italy, receded from active performance and passed away on December 26, 1996 in Rome, Italy.
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