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  • Jazz pianist Eldar Djangirov – piano prodigy

    Jazz pianist Eldar Djangirov is a young prodigy – only 17 years old, he has already established his own voice in jazz. From an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Now an 11th-grader at Francis Parker School, he was the first-place winner at the 2001 edition of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. He has been…

  • Sara Gazarek jazz vocalist

    There seems to be a growing market for twenty-somethings who sing straight ahead vocal jazz. Sara Gazarek is another of these. According to this Seattle PI article, “she has won numerous honors, including the John Coltrane Memorial Scholarship, the Hilton Head Jazz Society Scholarship and the 2003 Downbeat Student Music Award for Outstanding Collegiate Vocalist,”…