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Keyboardist Aja Grant leads Phony Ppl, a group that mixes together funk, soul, r&b and World Music.
Named by his father after the Steely Dan record Aja, he began playing the baritone horn in fourth grade and then was largely self-taught on piano, eventually switching his main focus to the Fender Rhodes.
Grant co-founded Phony Ppl while a freshman in high school and, while he has worked in a variety of settings since then, it is still one of his main outlets.
On his LiveStream from Aug. 8, 2020, Aja Grant performs groove music on his keyboards in a set of duets with drummer Matthew Byas.
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Pianist Paul Cornish was born and raised in Houston, studying classical piano from the age of five.
He moved to Los Angeles to study at USC and is a graduate student at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA
On his LiveStream from Aug. 6, 2020, Paul Cornish displays impressive technique, a bright and swinging style, and his own voice on the piano.
He performs Benny Golson’s “Along Came Betty,” and Dave Brubeck’s “Strange Meadowlark,” improvises over a repeated fragment of Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You” (definitely an acquired taste), engages in an exploration of “Blowing In The Wind,” performs wo songs in which he interacts with a spoken word tape, and plays some originals; Paul Cornish is certainly an up-and-coming talent.
