Steve Klink is an American

United States

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 pianist

Pianist

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Steve Klink's funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

y piano style together with his distinct songwriting and arranging abilities makes for a striking blend of jazz, gospel

Gospel

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, swing

Swing

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, blues

Blues

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 and folk music

Folk music

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Steve has performed extensively for television and radio with his Steve Klink trio, and in the last 6 years alone has performed over four hundred concerts. He also performs with his wife Slovenia

Slovenia

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n jazz vocalist Mia Žnidarič

Mia Žnidarič

Mia Žnidarič is a Slovenian jazz singer.- History :Mia's jazz career started, when Mia met Slovenian composer and actor Nino de Gleria at age 27. Mia has moved from Maribor to Ljubljana with him and started singing jazz at bars. She took solo singing lessons with Nada Žgur and Jasna Spiller...

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Steve Klink trio have released 12 CDs.
In 1999, with the support of ACT Music's Ziggy Loch, Steve was able to release Blue Suit with drummer Gregory Hutchinson. In 2000 Steve was invited by Minor Music label chief Stefan Meyner to produce a series of CDs featuring songs by two of today's most revered and venerable songwriters, Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

 and Randy Newman

Randy Newman

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

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Partial Discography of Steve Klink trio

• Invisible Orchestra
• Blue suit
• Feels like home
• Places to come from, places to go
• Too close for comfort
• Under the influence
• Iskre
• Pobarvanka
• I wish I knew how
• Hold my hand
• Live in Concert

Their latest album is Searching the Blue.