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2022 Composer's Collective

Active since: 2015

2022 Composer’s Collective is the Austin Texas based jazz quintet dedicated composing and performing original works. Their debut album, The Heights Life, is an eclectic, soulful, & imaginative collection of songs for the modern jazz quintet. Featuring Gil Del Bosque: tenor & soprano saxophones, and E.W.I; Dan Andersen: guitar; Dan Redner: piano & keyboard; Eric Ross: bass, and Mike Fonseca: drums.

Foundation of Funk

LABtrio

Active since: 2007

LABtrio (Lander – Anneleen – Bram) are three musicians with strong personalities, endowed with a fresh and adventurous approach to music. The trio’s acoustic universe conceals an urban jazz that flirts with electronic, underground and hip-hop cultures. Since the Trio’s founding in 2007, they have received several awards and prizes (including a superb double – Audience Prize and Grand Prize – at the prestigious Avignon ‘Tremplin Jazz’ festival in 2011). Thanks to this price, they recorded their first album at the Studio la Buissone, Pernes-les fontaines in France. Their first album “Fluxus” released in October 2013 (Outhere records) – a real gem – constitutes testimony to what is the jazz of today, seen by this new generation of musicians. In 2014, LABtrio participated at the 12 points festival in Umeå, and received a lot of positive feedback

Peppe Jalava Band

Active since: March 1, 1993

Peppe Jalava Band is a quintet of five professional and creative musicians. The ensemble plays progressive jazz compositions by Pertti "Peppe" Jalava. Many of his Jazz compositions as well as orchestral and chamber works have been awarded internationally. The current line-up is Jaakko Martikainen: saxophones, Antti Hermaja: trombone, Ari Polojärvi: guitar, Mikko Multamäki: bass and Pertti "Peppe" Jalava: drums and keyboards has been performing since 2010 and has released two albums: Go to the Beach (2010 Alba) A Guided Tour in the Kuiper belt (2016 Pilfink) __________ See also: http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/Pertti%20Jalava-drums

Oakland Jazz Choir

The Oakland Jazz Choir got its start in 1992 as an offshoot of its namesake city's other popular choral group - the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Stacey Hoffman, Executive Director of Living Jazz (the organization that produces the beloved Jazz Camp West) had nurtured the Gospel Choir until it took off to form its own organization. Soon after she initiated the Oakland Jazz Choir as another project of Living Jazz. In the 13 years that ensued, the choir experienced a wonderful evolution (as well as some growing pains) that took it from a 50-voice community choir to a 20-voice semi-professional choir

eMPathia jazz duo

Active since: November 11, 1996

Mafalda Minnozzi and Paul Ricci were natural born jazz artists: she for her curiosity, her restlessness and her creativity which was fulfilled by the free spirit of that “different” music that she heard and that enchanted her since she was a child in Italy. He by passion, by choice, by natural inclination and also by destiny considering the time and place of birth - 1958 in New York which was dominated by the sound of Jazz. Of different origins and upbringings they shared an irrepressible common need: live for the music and with the music. Studies, rehearsals, concerts on big and small stages, numerous television appearances, international tours, collaborations and experimentations with musicians and artists from around the world…

La Resistencia

Active since: 2013

Melissa Aldana, tenor sax Sebastián Jordán, trumpet Nicolás Vera, guitar Pablo Menares, bass Félix Lecaros, drums

Gaucho

Active since: 2002

Gaucho is a masterful Bay Area band that combines the influence of gypsy jazz of 1930’s Europe with the rhythmic drive and collective improvisation of New Orleans swing music, gutbucket blues and elements of ragtime. Their sound, a uniquely American concoction, blends instrumental acuity and lighthearted humor that keep their audience coming back for more. As founder, guitarist, and main composer Dave Ricketts says, the band is “in love with the music of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Jimmie Rodgers, as well as the stories, the life styles and the foot steps of hundreds of other great jazz, blues, country and rock musicians that created the sound of American Music from roughly 1900-1950’s”

Led by eminent guitarist, Dave Ricketts, the group has been a San Francisco mainstay for over fifteen years, and one of the busiest bands in the bay area playing 5 to 10 gigs a week

The Royal Bopsters

Fresh from their successful debut at the Newport Jazz Festival, The Royal Bopsters is a jazz vocal quartet made up of New York’s finest jazz singers/music educators that specializes in Bebop and Swing music. Their highly acclaimed break out release on Motema Records allowed them to sell out a week at NY’s Birdland Jazz Club and garnered them 4 ½ stars from Downbeat Magazine as well as making many top picks for 2015. Their eagerly awaited second recording will be released this Spring and once again features the true jazz royalty of Sheila Jordan and the late Bob Dorough, each lending their iconic voices and stylings (not to mention their writing) that has garnered such praise as, “If this disc featured just the quartet, it would be sensational