Trumpeter
Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Carnegie Hall
to the Kennedy Center, in addition to touring throughout Europe and Japan. He
is a member of Dave Holland’s two time GRAMMY Award-winning big band and the
late Mulgrew Miller’s band, Wingspan. Duane was born into a family of gifted
musical talent: his mother, Vera Eubanks is an accomplished pianist
who was notably
Kenny Barron’s first piano teacher; his brothers — renowned trombonist Robin
Eubanks and guitarist Kevin Eubanks, former bandleader of the “Tonight Show
with Jay Leno”; as well as his uncle, the late legendary pianist Ray Bryant—saw
his potential at a young age and encouraged him to pursue music. He has worked
with a long list of major jazz artists including Elvin Jones, Mulgrew Miller,
Dave Holland, Doug Carn, Avery Sharpe, Abraham Burton, and Marc Cary, as well
as contemporary artists such as Rhonda Ross, Kirk Franklin, Alicia Keys,
Wu-Tang Clan, and Talib Kweli. His recent album releases: the critically acclaimed Things of That
Particular Nature, DE3: Live at Maxwell’s,
and Duane Eubanks Quintet: Live at
Small’s have been well received by Jazz aficionados all over the
world. Duane’s short film on jazz and
music education was screened at several film festivals including the Copenhagen
Jazz Film Festival.
Duane is an official Yamaha Performing Artist and currently on faculty at Brooklyn Music School.
TMO Entertainment Proudly presents, Bob Gluck...
Gluck’s life story is as interesting as his music. Raised in New York City, he political activist/Julliard trained pianist eventually developed an interest in music as diverse as Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett’s American quartet, Jimi Hendrix, seventies era electric Miles Davis groups, Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi band and Weather Report.
Following a long absence from the music scene, during which time Gluck was engaged in a religious life as a rabbi, Gluck returned to music, first electronic and, in 2005, to his most expressive instrument and first love, the piano.
Bob Gluck is a pianist and composer in the tradition of jazz’s truly great creative individualists. His approach as a pianist, composer and improviser is one that merges intuition with a broad sonic palate where lyricism and abstraction find a shared home. Gluck’s two quartets include Infinite Spirit, featuring drummer Billy Hart, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, and bassist Christopher. Dean Sullivan; and the Bob Gluck Quartet, with bassist Michael Bisio, drummer Tani Tabbal, and saxophonist Adam Siegel. Also an educator, Gluck is Professor of Music at the University at Albany.
"Gluck ranks with the likes of Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor... completely original, artistically spontaneous, and intellectually challenging." -Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
"an accomplished jazz pianist. Mr. Gluck performed... with virtuosic fluidity" –Allan Kozinn, New York Times
"...a brilliant improviser... [his recording of 'A Remark You Made' is] arguably the most touching and memorable take on it since its initial version."-Jay Collins, Cadence
TMO Entertainment Proudly Presents, James Zollar...
James Delano Zollar began his musical career at age 9 playing bugle in his hometown, Kansas City Missouri. At 12, he graduated to the trumpet where he began to discover his musical voice and focus. After high school he continued to study at San Diego City College and then the University of California at San Diego. At the same time he honed his chops with various funk and jazz bands and lead his own straight-ahead quintet. In, 1984, he moved to New York City and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman’s motion picture “Kansas City”, in Madonna’s music video “My Baby’s Got a Secret”, as well as Malcolm Lee’s film “The Best Man”. He played on the sound truck of “The Perez Family” and is proud to be included in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford University Press 1999.) James was also a featured soloist with Jon Faddis and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra as well as Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He remains New York based where he stands out in a wide range of musical settings. Today, he’s playing with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Count Basie Orchestra, Don Byron’s Bands, The Marty Ehrlich Sextet and working with the Latin piano master Eddie Palmieri. “James is a really nice guy and very personal-sounding cat with a unique approach. He’s absorbed the history of the music, and he plays it with great care and warmth. And he doesn’t try to sound like someone else” says Ravi Coltrane his periodic jam-session partner.
TMO Entertainment Proudly Presents, Matija Dedic'...
Born in Zagreb on March 2nd 1973., Matija started playing classic piano at the age of five. After he finished Music high school «Vatroslav Lisinski» in 1991., went to Graz to Jazz Academy where he graduated in 1997. under prof. Harald Neuwirth and private lessons with J. Taylor in cologne, Hal Galper, Bill Dobins and Barry Harris.
Since he was raised in the family surrounded by pop and traditional musicians, he began to listen to all kinds of music very early, soon discovering jazz and finding that it allows him abstract and more personal musical point of view.
TMO Entertainment proudly presents, KLYMAXX...
The all-female band (AFB) with the 80’s R&B/Pop musical hits, “Meeting In The Ladies Room”, “The Men All Pause”, and “I Miss You” Billboard Magazine’s #3 song of 1986, as now being performed under the musical direction of the legendary original guitarist, Cheryl Cooley, with a revealing experience of professional high energy, commanding funky rhythms & sensual melodic movements. A musical journey you will never forget.
TMO Entertainment proudly presents, Craig Robinson...
Craig E. Robinson was born in Warren Ohio. Craig is a leading producer/ songwriter of the generation that emerged in the wake of the influences of The Ohio Players, Steely Dan and George Benson. While studying at The University of Dayton (where he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.) he was introduced to the music arena.
During the 80?s and 90?s he worked as a producer/guitarist with such artists as Melba Moore, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Slave and Bell Biv Devoe. His current work includes touring with Mark A Wood Jr. of Lakeside as lead guitarist & vocalist and as an artist (RENEGADE). Crobb?s abilities as a vocalist and guitarist have kept him active as a musical force. His experience will enable him to transfer knowledge, inspire new generations and assist young musicians and artists in the new millennium.
LINIAGE Blues Legend Robert L. Johnson?s mother Julia Major and my grandmother Clair Belle Major were sisters. Thanks to my Mom and Dad Eugene Major/Robinson?.ITS IN MY BLOOD!!!!
Discography EMI Recording artist group DAYTON (albums) 1982 Hot Fun & 1983 The Sound of Music. Capital recording artists Melba Moore?s 1983 Love?s Comin? at ya and George Clinton?s Atomic Dog. Cotillion records artist Sedan 1985 album Sedan. Atlantic Records artist Merriwether?s 1988 album (Body Like That). Renegade?s single, A Fine Time (to Discover) re-released in 2016 in the international market YouTube and the Lifetime movie (The One That Got Away). 2010.song (Windows)