JOSHUA TAZMAN, SCATTING BEBOP TO DELIVERING CLASSICS
Already an accomplished jazz musician, 17-year-old vocalist and pianist Joshua Tazman can do everything from scatting bebop to delivering subtle renditions of classics, all with a tinge of contemporary style that makes his music both mature and surprising.
The young artist has recently won the 2016 DownBeat Student Awards (vocal jazz solo high school division), the 2016 PDX Jazz Forward competition (high school vocal solo division), and has been honored by numerous other organizations such as Michael Feinstein's Great American Songbook Initiative and the National YoungArts Foundation in 2015. Joshua has performed with a wide variety of well-known jazz artists, most notably in an opening set for Universal Consciousness, a group that included great saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Ravi Coltrane, in 2016. He has also sung with Great American Songbook interpreter Michael Feinstein, bassist Marcus Shelby, Brazilian pianist/composer Jovino Santos Neto, saxophonists Dave Koz and Michael Zilber, and vocalist Sandy Cressman.
The young artist has recently won the 2016 DownBeat Student Awards (vocal jazz solo high school division), the 2016 PDX Jazz Forward competition (high school vocal solo division), and has been honored by numerous other organizations such as Michael Feinstein's Great American Songbook Initiative and the National YoungArts Foundation in 2015. Joshua has performed with a wide variety of well-known jazz artists, most notably in an opening set for Universal Consciousness, a group that included great saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Ravi Coltrane, in 2016. He has also sung with Great American Songbook interpreter Michael Feinstein, bassist Marcus Shelby, Brazilian pianist/composer Jovino Santos Neto, saxophonists Dave Koz and Michael Zilber, and vocalist Sandy Cressman.
