January 2018 – Page 21 – The Music Syndicate

Month: January 2018

Rick Braun

Artist Profile: Rick Braun If you can define the essence of cool jazz, then you can imagine the soft and sultry sounds of Rick Braun. We recorded Rick Braun at the Baked Potato in North Hollywood with Carl Verheyen on

Artist, Harmonica, Vocalist

Rick Estrin

Artist Profile: Rick Estrin Sacramento-based blues stalwarts It’s been 30 years since world-class guitarist Little Charlie Baty and harmonicist/vocalist/songwriter Rick Estrin first teamed up to form Little Charlie & the Nightcats. Jump and swing jazz mix with hard Chicago blues,

Artist, Guitar

Rick Hirsch

Artist Profile: Rick Hirsch Musician/composer and BMI songwriter, Rick Hirsch‘s roots are imbedded in the antebellum South, Georgia and Alabama to be specific. It was there, on the Gulf Coast, that he grew up in the land of Drivin’ Miss

Artist, Sax

Rick Rossi

Artist Profile: Rick Rossi Rick Rossi is a multi-talented performer, composer and arranger. He plays all of the saxophones, flutes and clarinets. He has composed and arranged music for film and television soundtracks, as well as for various artists, bands

Artist, Drums

Ricky Lawson

Artist Profile: Ricky Lawson Within a few short years of starting to play the drums at the age of 16, Ricky’s natural talent skyrocketed him into a major career. Since then he has played with names like Phil Collins, Michael

Artist, Guitar

Rob Block

Artist Profile: Rob Block Job security and fat paychecks aren’t obvious perks of a career in jazz. In St. Louis, as in most cities around the country, jazz is a niche market, a tiny section of the live-entertainment scene. Too

Artist, Drums

Rob Hart

Artist Profile: Rob Hart San Francisco Bay Area native and Berklee College of Music graduate Rob Hart is a consummate musician, teaching and performing regularly with the Rob Hart Trio in Bay Area venues. Rob has also performed/recorded with renowned

Artist, Keyboard

Rob Whitlock

Artist Profile: Rob Whitlock Rob Whitlock, a naturally gifted musician, finds himself equally comfortable writing, arranging and producing music, soloing spontaneously or comping supportively behind other soloists, making them sound even better themselves. It’s easy to see that Rob enjoys

Artist, Vocalist

Roberta Gambarini

Artist Profile: Roberta Gambarini Born in Torino, Italy into a family where jazz was very much appreciated and loved, Roberta Gambarini started listening to this music as a child. She began singing and performing at the age of 17 in

Artist, Piano

Roberta Piket

Artist Profile: Roberta Piket Pianist Roberta Piket has forged an eloquent, deeply personal voice out of a rich mix of influences in jazz and classical music. She has absorbed the influence of such pianists as Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Herbie