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Ramon Climent

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Ramón Climent plays a wide repertoire of own compositions aand own arrangements of well known versions of Jazz and Latin tunes : Swing, Blues, Balade, Latin Jazz, Jazz-Rock & Traditional BeBop Ramón Climent Composer & arrangeur Phone +34 659 900 024 E-mail : [email protected]

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Cayla Brooke

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Cayla Brooke, the award-winning singer-songwriter, found her voice after a decade-long silence. Her music and story people of all ages to rediscover their strength. Best known for "Plush Red Chair," her debut album acclaimed by No Depression Magazine. Now in Alberta, she's crafting her second album, "Simplicity."

Cayla Brooke's journey is one of unwavering determination. Despite early life trauma and a turbulent path, she rediscovered her voice and purpose. Her debut album, "Plush Red Chair," garnered critical acclaim and established her as a must-have in the music industry. Now based in Alberta, Cayla is shaping her second album, "Simplicity," a concept work that lets music shine with two instruments and vocals per song. Beyond music, she empowers listeners through her story, offering tools and permission to reclaim their inner strength.

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Jamie Taylor

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Between 2007 and 2009 Jamie was Course Leader for Jazz at Leeds College of Music (the UK's largest conservatoire), where he remains a principal lecturer on the jazz faculty. He has worked with leading jazz musicians like Baptiste Herbin, Sheryl Bailey, John Stowell, Roni Ben-Hur, John Goldsby, Wayne Escoffery, Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Sebastiaan DeKrom, Andrea DiBiase, Steve Watts, Matt Fishwick, Steve Fishwick, Richard Iles, Steve Brown, Pete Whittaker, Gary Potter, David Lyttle, Laura Jurd, and Tori Freestone. In the field of popular music he has contributed to projects involving Mercury Music Prize nominee Richard Hawley, CANDID recording artist Sarah Mitchell, and Leeds-based indie band "The Pigeon Detectives"

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Cobbs

Cobbs is a fusion jazz group hailing from Brooklyn, New York City. The group was founded in
early 2022 and is led by award-winning drummer Ben Friedkin. Completing the group are renowned keyboardist/pianist Julia Chen, innovative guitarist Omri Bar-Giora and virtuoso bassist Noam Tanzer.
Cobbs began as a tribute act to the fusion jazz greats, and overtime, through developing a
close musical connection within the band, shifted its focus to original music, with materials
written by all group members.
Their debut EP "First Attempt" (recorded live in Brooklyn) was released on November 2023.

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Ken Stout

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Ken Stout is a veteran jazz/rock musician, director, educator, and studio musician performing Jazz, Blues, Rock, Classical, Latin, and all musical styles of music for over 43 years.  Ken founded Live Music Center in Vacaville in 1987, promoting,  advocating, and saving music arts education in the local public schools in Northern California until 2005.  Ken has toured, performed on stage and recorded with many legendary Jazz, Motown, and Rock Music artists and groups: The Live Lawrence Welk Show, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Bobby Short Jazz Orchestra, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Mary Wilson and The Supremes, The Platters, The Contours, Jackie King(Willie Nelson guitarist), Pete Christilieb(Saxophonist, Natalie Cole), Mark Little(grammy nominee Pianist), Stan Marks(Trumpet, Stan Kentons Big Band), Mic Gillette(Tower of Power)and many others

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Bobby Rozario

Bobby Rozario is an exceptional guitar virtuoso of Indian / Brazilian-Portuguese descent known for his wizardry on the guitar. With a background and education in Indian Classical music (Hindustani Classical) and coming from a family of musicians where his mother was an Indian Classical / Semi-Classical singer, and father--a drummer and great grandfather a band master in a fleet of the Brazilian Army.

Growing up performing live and being mentored by his parents since the age of 12 alongside receiving training and mentorship in Classical Indian music by Ustad Nasir Khan in New Delhi, India in the early 1990's. Bobby is known to have an idiosyncratic style of interpreting melodic lines of Indian Raagas along with fast musical motifs at times blended into captivating lines of Blues and Jazz Rock fusion guitar playing. He has established himself as a stylistically distinctive guitarist, also skilled in generating and performing an acoustic guitar style of playing which emulates the sound of Classical Indian Instruments such as the Sarod and Sitar on a brass/steel body resonator guitar style showcased on his first album named Rudra which is a bow to the legendary guitarist John McLaughlin and the fusion group Shakti.

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Greg Fundis

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Greg Fundis is a highly sought-after Chicago-based drummer known for bringing energy, groove and chops to his live performances spanning a multitude of musical genres. Currently touring with internationally known tribute group Led Zeppelin 2 as well as world renowned guitarist Fareed Haque, he has shared the stage throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Israel, Caribbean Islands, Indonesia and Japan along side other notable artists such as George Benson, Joey DeFrancesco, Paquito D'Rivera, Roy Hargrove, Louis Bellson, comedian Rich Little, Joe Lovano, Bob Brookmeyer, Tom Harrell & Tony Monaco.  
Greg has been recognized in Downbeat Magazine as a notable jazz alumnus holding a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from DePaul University in Chicago and a Bachelors from Millikin University. While at Millikin, Fundis became an internationally published percussion composer at the age of 19 with his book of compositions, "Contemporary Audition Solos for Percussion"(Studio 4 Music/MostlyMarimba). His teachers and mentors have included Steve Smith, Louis Bellson, Jim Chapin, Steve Houghton, Brian Justison and Kim Klickna.
In addition to relentless performing, Fundis is a music educator, ensemble director and clinician in the Chicago area where he has held positions at Roosevelt and DePaul universities and currently teaches percussion classes at Whitney Young High School and coordinates world percussion activities for over 3,000 area youth with JCC of Chicago.
Greg Fundis plays Ludwig drums, Paiste cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, Humes and Berg cases and Remo drum Heads.

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Peter Knoll

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GERMAN - AMERICAN GUITARIST PETER KNOLL Winner of GuitarPlayerZen Magazine’s Award (November 2008)... „Peter is a world class player, and even better, he has his own unique style and voice. Something that rarely one finds.“ His improvisational playing is truly inspiring!" Working with greats like Bassist Mark E. Peterson (Cassandra Wilson, Lyle Lovett, Joan Baez) as well as Percussionists Hahlil (Roberta Flack), Gerardo Velez (Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Spyro Gyro) and Mike D. (Beastie Boys). On a rare occasion, he has been performing for German Countess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis

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Elias Meister

Born in 1983 in Munich (Germany) guitarist Elias Meister is based in New York city since 2007. His numerous interests in different styles and ways of expression have led him to perform in a broad variety of musical settings. He leads his own groups, such as the Experimental Rock and Groove band Spacepilot with Leo Genovese and Joe Hertenstein, that performed at the Moers Festival and the XJAZZ Festival (Berlin) in 2017 among their shows in three tours to Germany and neighboring countries. They released their debut vinyl 'Exophonia' in 2016 (which the Süddeutsche Zeitung described as 'dancing and floating in zero gravity') and their second vinyl 'Particle Horizon' (feat

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Tom Collier

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In a career spanning 60+ years, Tom Collier celebrated his first public performance playing the marimba at the age of 5 in 1954 and marked the 60th anniversary of that performance with a 2014 concert at Meany Hall Studio Theater on the University of Washington campus. The concert featured several guest artists including guitarist Larry Coryell, mallet virtuoso Emil Richards, clarinetist William O. "Bill" Smith, drummer Moyes Lucas, pianist Marc Seales, and longtime musical cohort/electric bassist Dan Dean. After a six year gap between album projects, Tom released "The Color Of Wood" (Summit Records, April 2022) comprised of mostly original compositions written for and performed exclusively on the marimba


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