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Cleveland Jazz Orchestra

The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice since 1985. Led by award-winning composer and trombonist Paul Ferguson, the CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts featuring a stellar line-up of jazz luminaries, arrangers, composers, and educators. At a CJO concert, you will enjoy "the best jazz you've ever heard and the best jazz you've never heard." Through inventive, original music and effective, innovative Educational Outreach, the CJO shepherds young and up-and-coming musicians and provides our region with unique and important cultural experiences.

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Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra

Active since: February 12

At the forefront of Brooklyn’s burgeoning big band scene, the Japanese-born composer Asuka Kakitani has attracted some of New York’s finest jazz artists with her adventurous, melodically charged charts. After several years of regular performances around New York City, the dynamically supple 18-piece Asuka Kakitani Jazz Orchestra makes a stunning debut with Bloom, due out January 26 on Nineteen-Eight Records. Outside of Lincoln Center, virtually all jazz orchestras exist as a labor of love. Kakitani has fostered the necessary dedication among her peers with writing so bright, vivid and personal that it inspires some of New York’s leading improvisers to wondrously expressive heights

Insight

“Insight” has a new beginning. After six years of working together around the world, they have grown to learn that the world is in desperate need of a wake-up call. “Insight” will try to be that alarm. World events and research fuel the energy in their music while love has become their purpose. As with all American music, their concept is African-based with influences from Puerto Rico, Cuba, South and Central America, Europe and Asia. The result has a profound impact on the listeners allowing them to experience a powerful new interpretation of musical expression and communication. While the members of “Insight” collectively produce a sound that is fresh, individually, they are or have been side-men for some of the greatest musicians alive such as Herbie Hancock, Eddie Palmieri, Jimmy Greene, David Valentin, Ralph Peterson, Brian Lynch, Gary Burton, and Donald Harrison

SwingSet Quintet

Traditional based jazz quintet rooted in blues and swing with an uncluttered style of jazz that pays homage to Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter. SwingSet Group, Inc is actually "SwingSet Quintet" a jazz group performing together for over fourteen years. Brought together from neighboring colleges and universities in Florida, Robert Rucker, Alex Mincek, Vincent Gardner, Greg Williams, and Roy Dunlap formed the band in 1994. After playing the local scene in Florida, we decided to make way to New York City. We pondered this move to New York and the angst of being geographically apart from each other

SnapDragon

SnapDragon's 2008 debut CD, "Stealing a Moment", features ten original contemporary jazz songs that evoke comparisons from Joe Sample to Weather Report. Two tracks feature the guitar wizardry of guest artist Richard Smith. The title track of the CD broke the Top 100 in U.S. radio airplay (Mediabase Smooth Adult Contemporary chart). One of the album's songs, "Black Onyx," was a featured Daily Download by the All About Jazz website. EchoSmoothJazz.com chose "Stealing a Moment" as it's featured CD for April 2008. Sam Mims is SnapDragon's music director and keyboardist, Carl Stutevoss plays bass, and Steve Glaeser is on drums

Wayward Monks

Wayward Monks cook up a cauldron of original jazz fusion and progressive rock with odd-meters, improvization, and strong melodies-- fiery and passionate sometimes, spacy and cerebral other times. WINNER OF HONOR AWARD for their instrumental Polyunsaturated--8th Annual Great American Song Contest.

Sound for the Organization of Society

Sound For the Organization of Society is a creative music ensemble founded in New Orleans in 2004. The group plays original music by all of its members, and presents works which equally balance composition and improvisation. The music draws from a variety of traditions and musical styles: jazz, classical, the avant-garde, and various ethnic musics. The unusual instrumentation of the band mirrors variety of its members, who hail from various cities across the U.S. and Europe and have wide-ranging backgrounds from classical composition and performance to rock and free jazz. These disparate styles and the unique instrumentation lead to a distinctive and intriguing group sound. The band was originally organized in 2004 for a concert at Loyola University New Orleans

Paul King and The Rhythm Society Orchestra

The RHYTHM SOCIETY, featuring vocalist Paul King, is a 16-piece dance band specializing in true vintage swing music. Their sound is heavily influenced by Count Basie and Harry James. Although based in Detroit, this band covers the top swing venues throughout the Midwest. Crooner Paul King describes his style as "a mixture of Mel Torme, Joe Williams, and Frank Sinatra - with a dash of Cab Calloway thrown in". Detroit's Metro Times jokes "His voice has been banned in some nightclubs for inducing public displays of affection on the dance floor." Mr. King has been featured on a number of local television and radio programs

Group X

Group X was founded in September 2006 while the members were attending the University of Northern Iowa. Since then the group has played a number of shows and they just finished recording their first album; Kick the Can. Heavily influenced by many genres of music, Group X mixes jazz, rock, funk, and hip hop to create a sound and style of there own.

Bad Touch

Bad Touch is a new music collective made up of alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor. Originally formed under the highly unique, yet controversial name The Loren Stillman Quartet or The Loren Stillman Organ Project, Stillman relinquished control in 2007 when his band mates staged an uprising and voiced their interest in having a cooperative leadership role in the foursome. Being the sociably minded person that he is, Stillman willingly ceded his responsibilities as band leader and became ecstatic in knowing that the risk of leading a band would now be dispersed amongst four rather than one