Yelena Eckemoff s an internationally renowned Russian-born pianist, composer, poet, and visual artist who organically blends classical elements with jazz improvisation in evocative and uniquely distinctive works that strike a delicate balance between through-composed frameworks and open-ended exploration and improvisation.
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Olavi Louhivuori
Finnish jazz drummer and composer
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Arild Andersen
Norwegian jazz musician
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Tommy Smith
Scottish saxophone player
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Peter Erskine
American musician
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Mads Vinding
Danish jazz musician
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Marilyn Mazur
Danish musician
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Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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Thomas Strønen
Jazz drummer
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Jon Christensen
Norwegian jazz musician
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Drew Gress
American musician
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Larry Gray
American musician
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Paul McCandless
American musician
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Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Nils Petter Molvær
Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer and music producer
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Myra Melford
Jazz pianist and composer
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Ben Street
American musician
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Weather Report
American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s
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Elmo Hope
American musician
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Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
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Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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Mark Feldman
American violinist
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Hiromi Uehara
Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)
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Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Gary Husband
British musician
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David Virelles
pianist
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Verneri Pohjola
Finnish jazz composer and trumpeter
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Avishai Cohen
Israeli jazz bassist, composer, singer and arranger
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Lisa Hilton
American musician
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Shirley Horn
American singer
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Cindy Blackman
American musician
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Harmen Fraanje
jazz musician
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Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
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Ralph Towner
American musician
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Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
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Jaco Pastorius
American jazz bassist, producer, educator
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John Clayton
American jazz and classical double bassist
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John Taylor
British jazz pianist
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Stanley Clarke
American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever
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Barbara Carroll
Jazz pianist, composer and vocalist.
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Eliane Elias
Brazilian jazz pianist, singer, arranger and songwriter
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Jim Hall
American jazz guitarist, composer