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Swing That Cat

Born out of a simple idea and a love of good music, ~ Swing That Cat! ~ is on a mission, with a message: Dance Your Tail Off! What more could you ask for from a band that sounds like Jump Blues swizzled in Horny Swing, with a splash of Bourbon Street and dash of Cabaret. Front and center is Michele Peraino,, a modern-day Rita Hayworth meets Catwoman, with a vocal range and style drawn from another era, blending the sultry Jazz sound of Sarah Vaughan, and Rosemary Clooney, with the bawdy early Rock and Roll roar of Etta James. On stage, her voice combines with a penchant for performing, as Michele creates a hypnotic expression of the rhythm that entrances the audience and engages them in the performance. But hang on for the twist - Swing That Cat! also features Hugh Alan Luck on flute as their Lead Guitarist

Burum

Active since: June 16

Award winning trumpeter Tomos Williams leads the Welsh jazz/folk band Burum Burum (meaning 'yeast' in Welsh) play Welsh traditional music, adapted and re- imagined for a modern jazz sextet. Burum's music fuses a deep respect for the original folk melodies themselves with the flexibility and dynamics of jazz improvisation. Beautiful, melancholic melodies are performed alongside fiery solos and deep grooves. Burum are an experienced band having toured India twice (2014, 2015), and played at major festivals in France (Festival Interceltique de Lorient) and the USA (Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC, 2009) as well as the Goa and Kolkata Jazz Festivals. Burum have headlined Wales's premiere jazz festival the Brecon International Jazz Festival (2009, 2014) have performed at Teignmouth Jazz Festival (2014), and other festivals. Tomos leads the band with his brother Daniel Williams on tenor sax, both arranging all the music which aims to discover a sound and form of expression within jazz that is more rooted to their own experiences and landscape

Amherst Jazz Orchestra

Active since: 1996

Begun in 1996, the Amherst Jazz Orchestra was created by musical director, Dave Sporny. The AJO is a professional big band whose mission is to explore and preserve the music of America's original art form. The membership includes the finest jazz musicians in the area. The group has had distinguished guest conductors such as Gunther Schuller, Herb Pomeroy, David Berger and Andrew Homzey. The AJO was in residence at the Amherst College Duke Ellington Symposium.

The music presented, from rare and historical big band works to some of the newest original music for contemporary jazz orchestra, makes the Amherst Jazz Orchestra a unique ensemble.

NoMad Dreams

Nomads. Strangers from different corners of the earth who’ve come together in Boston. They carry with them a large suitcase filled with quiet Russian lullabies heard in distant childhood, Middle Eastern tunes and African rhythms, French torch ballads and the Spanish penchant for the dramatic. Their songs reveal by turns a sense of humor, glimpses of pain and darkness, and a kaleidoscope of different music styles they’ve picked up on the way. Singer Vlada Brofman and pianist Georges Nile started performing and writing songs together nearly 5 years ago. Along the way, they were joined by drummer Wing La

Jazz Composers Alliance

Lionel Hampton Big Band

The Second Approach Trio

Active since: September 1, 1998

The Second Approach project's origin is Russian culture, if we mean Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Marc Chagall and Slavic songs. Their style of improvised music was definitely and unmistakably born in Russia. What the band performs seems to go beyond standard definitions. It provokes controversy, interest and liking. The leader of the trio is an experienced composer, master of piano improvisation, {{m: Andrei Razin = 55620}}, a unique singer, member of well-known Gypsy band "Romen", Tatyana Komova, and one of the key acoustic bass players in Russia, Igor Ivanushkin, complete the band

Al-Jiçç

Active since: January 1, 2005

Band created in 2007 by Gonçalo Lopes on clarinet-bass and Nuno Damião on trumpet with the purpose of creating and improvising melodies within the diversity of scales and rhythms of Mediterranean music. Initially Al- jiçç collaborated with several percussionists in rehearsals and performances and in 2011, with bassist Francisco Artur and drummer Vitor Costa, was recorded the first cd 'Mostar', named after the Bosnia-Hezergovina city. Mostar ' was well received by critics (Time Out, Jornal de Letras, radio Antena 2) and was promoted at festivals such as Andanças, Avante, Junta-te ao Jazz and at several venues in Lisbon as the MusicBox, Bacalhoeiro and Cafe Tati. In 2013, Nuno Damião wrote a set of songs inspired by the novel 'Snow ' by Orhan Pamuk, which resulted in the CD ‘Estórias de Kars’

Melomatic Orchestra

Active since: 2013

Melomatic Orchestra was founded in the Fall of 2013 by Trumpeter Rickard Slotte who acts as leader and composer for the group. The Ensemble has a traditional set up with Trumpet, Tenorsaxophone, Piano, Drums, and Double Bass. The music can be described as quite Melancholic and is influenced by various styles of music. However, the sound and approach is quite Jazzy where improvisation is essential.

The Luis Delias Ensemble

Active since: May 30, 1987

The Luis D’Elias Ensemble Contemporary Venezuelan Fusion Right at the crossroads between Venezuelan folklore and contemporary music lays the soul of the Luis D’Elias Ensemble (LEDens for short). The New York based multi-cultural ensemble has dedicated its musical craft to developing a true blend of modern jazz harmonies, classical structures, rock and roll energy and Latin grooves, having South American and Venezuelan folklore as the melodic and rhythmic anchors of the ensemble’s repertoire. Founded in 2012 within the melting pot of Boston, the group is conformed by Venezuelan composer and guitarist Luis D’Elias; pianist and composer Evan Waaramaa; drummer and percussionist Brendan Pajak; and bassist P.J