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(August 30, 1973 – June 9, 2012) Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1973, Abram Wilson grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana where he attended the New Orleans Center For Creative Arts (NOCCA), a school specialising in jazz and classical music. After graduating from NOCCA and high-school, he studied classical trumpet with Larry Griffin at Ohio Wesleyan University. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in music education, he continued studying music at the Eastman Conservatory in Rochester, New York where he got his masters degree, studying jazz performance and composition with Ralph Alessi, Mike Cain, and Fred Sturm, and classical trumpet...

Muhal Richard Abrams (Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American free jazz pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist and educator. Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago. By 1946, he enrolled in music classes at Roosevelt University, but "I didn't get too much out of that, because it wasn't what I was hearing in the street". He then decided to study independently: "I've always had a natural ability to study and analyze things. I used that ability, not even knowing what it was (it was just a feeling) and started to read books." The books of...

Also known as the critically acclaimed artist Shuttle358 on the NY based label 12k and Fenton on the Japanese imprint Plop, Dan Abrams is among a new wave of artists bringing the aesthetic sensibilities of digital technologies to bear upon the styles of environmental space music first explored by the likes of Brian Eno, David Parsons, Michael Stearns, and Robert Rich. Abrams created quite a stir in the US minimal electronic scene with his debut release Optimal.lp in 1999 in which he seamlessly blended the soft sounds of ambient music with the granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism. This release...

Casey Abrams is one of the top 24 contestants in Season 10 of the FOX reality competition series American Idol. He was eliminated in 6th place on April 28th, 2011. Casey auditioned in Austin, Texas and graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2009. He is currently a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is majoring in music. Casey Abrams currently living in Idyllwild, California, but is originally from Wilmette, Illinois. Casey Abrams is 20 years old. Idol Performances: ** Top 24: Personal Choice - I Put a Spell on You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) ** Top 13:...