Jeff Fineberg is a musician, composer and author of the book "Polymetric Puzzles".  He has played in a variety of ensembles which have included genres such as Progressive Rock (Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Gentle Giant, etc.), Jazz-Rock Fusion (Jeff Beck, Return to Forever, Jan Hammer, etc.), Popular bands (Police, U2, Led Zepplin, etc.). From a solo perspective, he has and continues to write and study piano works, as well as electronic compositions.

He began organ lessons (using a Magnus chord organ) with Karl Koch at the age of 12. After 2 years of lessons with Koch, he later took lessons from Jim Wozniak, a well known Buffalo Jazz and Blues Organist. Key skills that were obtained from Wozniak was an importance of music theory as it applies to performance, in addition to improvisational techniques and most critically, left hand bass.

As part of his college educational experience at the University of Buffalo, Jeff studied piano from Livingston Gearhart and attended several other classes, including electronic music, music theory and also Media Studies courses, such as Digital Arts, and Video Production. In addition to creating video and digital arts works as part of the curriculum, Jeff completed his BA degree via an Independent study, producing a video “Computational Affliction” with Tony Conrad as advisor. The music for the video was created by Jeff, Shaun Stevenson, and Gary Boch.

Jeff later returned to University of Buffalo for a Masters Degree in Computer Science. This experience has helped both in his career in Information Technology and with music production and composition.

Jeff’s instrumentation initially utilized organ (Hammond) and later migrated to the usage of synthesizers (Moog, Roland and virtual types), piano, dulcimer and computer generated sound, including both pitch and text-to-speech usages. In 2007, he became acquainted with Computer Music techniques utilizing Csound. The techniques utilized are both real time for performance and programmed. In addition to playing in Synthetic Factor with John Fatta and others, Jeff also composes and continues to work on piano technique, in addition to the current exploration of Computer Music. He is also working with Gary Bock on a project “Admin Zero” which utilizes improvisation and compositional structures to create music to transcend normal musical existence.

Los Angeles Musician/Composer.  I play jazz, fusion, classical, electronic and experimental music.

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Music is like painting - with an invisible and endless spectrum of colors which can only be heard and felt.

Alf Schumacher is a hobby composer, musician and certified audio engineer and living near Hamburg in Northern Germany with his soprano wife "Kirine".  

His tracks show a great variety and often a colorful mixture of (progressive) rock and blues, orchestral pieces, ballads, piano tracks and atmospheric melodies. The process of creating music and songs begins and develops from the heart and the soul, building up soundscapes from emotions - and hopefully generating emotions within the listener. 
Alf’s main focus is on the keyboards: he’s playing piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers, but partly also guitar and bass guitar. Everything is recorded, mixed and mastered in their home studio.

Learn more about Alf at: www.spektralfarben-music.com and you're welcome to also visit Kirine's website: https://www.kirine.me

If you like their music and are interested in a collaboration, just get into contact!

No doubt that Martin Sjöstedt is one of the most interesting musicians one the European jazz scene today. Not only is he one of the most indemand bassplayers around, he also plays the piano on the same level. This fact together with his skills for wrtiting music for all kind of ensembles, from producing small group albums to composing for big bands, you easily understand why everyone wants to be a part of his musical enviroment.

”He has develop into a major voice as a 
composer/arranger for big band.”
Jim McNeely (arranger/composer)


Story

Martin Sjöstedt was born in Uppsala, a wellknown Swedish universitytown, on april 9, 1978. Through his parents and family friends Martin grew up in an enviroment filled with profiles as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis. Martin started to play the piano at the age of 4, but his main instrument, the doubble bass, was introduced to him for the first time 10 years later by a friend of his father, who had heard of Martin’s passion for jazzmusic and therefore put a bass at his disposal.
Martin started out his proffesional carrier already at the age of 16, most of the time as a bassplayer together with local musicians from Uppsala but soon became increasingly well known on the Stockholm jazz scene. Three years later, in 1977, Martin left his hometown for studies at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm. Beacuse of all touring and concerts Martin had no chance to complete his studies and therefore left school already after one year. At the same time he was given the place as the bass player in Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, one of the major contemporary big bands in Europe. This oppurtunity gave Martin a great plattform, not only to develop his musical talent, but also his skills of writing and composing music. It also gave him the chance to meet and play with some of the greatest contemporary artists around; Joe Lovano, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Jim McNeely, Maria Scneider just to mention a few.
 
In 2002, age 22, Martin released his first album, Mondeo, as a bandleader. Featuring rising star saxophone player Magnus Lindgren, the album got a lot of attention in a time where people still were buying records. With the release of this record Martin became one of the major voices on the jazz scene.
 
With his style of playing he also changed the path of the bass tradition in Sweden. With early role models as Ray Brown, Sam Jones and Paul Chambers Martin reacclamied the acoustic and powerful sound of the double bass, often played without an amp. Together with a high sence for harmony and lines coming out from his piano playing in combination with his knowledge and passion for jazz Martin started getting attention from the international scene. Following years you could find Martin working with with big time names such as Joey Calderazzo, Tim Hagans, Joe Lovano, Dick Oatts, Eric Alexander, Dee Dee Bridgewater but of course also with major acts from Sweden like Viktoria Tolstoy, Bobo Stenson and Nils Landgren. Martin has since the release of Mondeo launched 6 records under his own name. As a bassplayer you will find him on more than onehundred records. See bass full discography or selected biography for more information.

The piano has always been a essential part of Martin’s musicianship. Beacuse of his huge success as a bassplayer it came as a big suprise and a bit of a chock for many when he chose to release his album ”Whereabouts” featuring Martin as a pianoplayer. This album presents one of Germanys finest trumpetplayers, Axel Schlosser and swedish tenor Karl-Martin Almqvist. With this release the Swedish jazz scene all of a sudden had a new strong voice among the pianoplayers. Find recordings filed under – piano selected biography.


"Imperfection has its own aesthetics, I guess  ;-) ..." 

I'm a hobby musician 
... covering songs, ...having fun playing the keys
and being thankful for having the chance to do that   :-))

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