Don Byron - Random Dances & AtonalitiesAruan Ortiz, who grew up in Santiago, Cuba, and has lived in the U. S. since 2002, is among the most creative pianists on jazz's landscape. As a boy he was performing Cuban popular music. His studies broadened to include jazz, first in Europe, and finally New York, where he now lives. In Don Byron, Ortiz has found an unparalleled clarinetist, whose classical training and exquisite technique anchor a career spanning an unusually broad range of music

often unsaid hurt behind day to day events

present and future inhis 'Dubplate Style' LP

Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music

electronic and sound-art songwriting

thanks to an in-depth knowledge of historical performance practice

The 1967 recording made by Karl Krueger with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra made large cuts in the first and last movements

We were against everything and everyone

who released their first single on his first own marque

Chihiro Yamanaka

This Synth-AOR stadium rock band from the 80's would have been incredible to see opening up for Steve Taylor or Daniel Amos during their peek years or even as an opening act for MUSE or The Killers

the gold-certified Fitz and The Tantrums [2016]

performed by all the leading players of the day such as Clifford Curzon