Chris and Stevie Martinez, aka The Martinez Brothers, are two brothers living in Bronx, New York. The duo are also sometimes referred to as TMB.
Trevor Beresford Romeo OBE (born 26 January 1963, Hornsey, North London, England), better known by his stage name Jazzie B, is a DJ, music producer, and entrepreneur. He is a founding member of the musical group Soul II Soul. He was born in London, the ninth of a family of 10 children, several of whom [...]
Hailing from Zagreb, Eddy & Yannah (Eddy Ramich and Jana Valdevit both from Croatia) prove further that there is a creative, dynamic e-jazz scene in South Eastern Europe with their album “Just Like…”, revealing cool broken beats…
Lee began producing in 1988, after founding his first label, the now extinct Republic Records. After creating a string of acid house tracks as part of the M-D-Emm production team, Lee became one of the first to incorporate disco samples starting with “Together Forever”…
…Eric D and Thomas met at a party (where else?) in LA, through a mutual friend working at a clothing and disco unit called Sarcastic. Random chance and coincidence soon found the two of them together on the other side of the continent, pumping beats into the heart of New York City’s underground scene.
…Is an American house music producer. Trent’s father was a disco DJ. He recorded the track “Altered States” while still a high schooler, releasing it on Armando’s Warehouse Records in 1990. The track became a club hit among devotees of techno, despite Trent’s grounding in the Chicago house scene.
…Is a techno/house musician based in Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Washington, DC. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois listening to jazz musicians like Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and George Gershwin. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of the Arts and went to study at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Dennis Ferrer is a New York-based DJ, producer and remixer. He currently resides in Union City, New Jersey. A veteran of soulful house music production…
James has ancestors from Panama and Ireland and grew up in Brooklyn on. Growing up with hip-hop and soul, he felt drawn to jazz in his own words, about Nat King Cole and especially John Coltrane , whose “Equinox, he interpreted”. He alternates between New York and England, where he was the producer and disc [...]
Roy Ayers could very well be the best jazz/R&B artist you don’t know. In his 40-plus years as a vibraphonist, he has produced a string of soul and funk classics, like “We Live In Brooklyn Baby” and “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” that has arguably made him the second-most sampled musician in hip-hop, after James Brown.
