2018 – Page 37 – The Music Syndicate

Year: 2018

Nedra Wheeler

Artist Profile: Nedra Wheeler Nedra Wheeler, bassist, composer, and bandleader, has been performing in Southern California and touring internationally for more than 25 years. Nedra is a recipient of the 2006 Jazz Legend of Los Angeles Award from the Dunbar

Artist, Drums, Vibes

Nick Mancini

Artist Profile: Nick Mancini Nick Mancini is, his own admission, most at home when behind the vibes and in front of a capacity crowd. As both a vibraphonist and as a bandleader, Mancini enjoys a reputation as one of

Artist, Keyboard

Nick Smith

Artist Profile: Nick Smith In 1981, during the encore of their show at the Front Row in Cleveland, George Duke and Stanley Clarke, as was their custom, called for musicians in the audience to come onstage and play with them.

Artist, Guitar

Nik Simon

Artist Profile: Nik Simon This show features Nik Simon Band at the 2002 San Diego Volkswagen Bluesfest at the Embarcadero Marina Park South at the San Diego downtown waterfront. Featuring Nik Simon on lead guitar and lead vocals, Karl Dring

Artist, Trumpet

Nolan Shaheed

Artist Profile: Nolan Shaheed Nolan Shaheed is a very busy trumpet player in the LA area. He has appeared with Ray Armando, Al Williams, Louie Cruz Beltran, among many others Nolan began to be noticed as a player when he

Artist, Drums

Oscar Seaton

Artist Profile: Oscar Seaton One fantastic drummer – Oscar Seaton has played with George Benson, Lee Riteneour, David Garfield, and many many more luminaries. Oscar Seaton has been playing drums since he was five years old. Growing up in Chicago,

Artist, Piano

Osmany Paredes

Artist Profile: Osmany Paredes Osmany Paredes González is a pianist, composer and arranger whose style blends jazz with his Afro-Cuban rhythmic heritage using a technique derived from years of classical education. Born in Santa Clara, Cuba, his father began

Artist, Keyboard, Piano

Otmaro Ruiz

Otmaro Ruiz Born in Caracas, Venezuela, June 27th. of 1964. Otmaro Ruiz started his musical studies at the age of eight at the “Juan Manuel Olivares” Conservatory, where he covered academic classes (theory, harmony, ear training, history & aesthetics, analysis)

Artist, Vocalist

Pamela Stonebrooke

Artist Profile: Pamela Stonebrooke Pamela Stonebrooke, also known as the Intergalactic Diva, is a wild-child jazz vocalist, songwriter and recording artist. Her contralto voice is deep, lush and textural, and as a songwriter, she is an urban journalist with an

Artist, Guitar

Pat Kelley

Artist Profile: Pat Kelley Guitarist Pat Kelley has recorded eight CD’s as a leader, toured in more than thirty countries, worked as a Los Angeles studio guitarist on hundreds of sessions for records, television, commercials, and motion pictures, and composed