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Kenny Wesley

Born: September 1

He is a songwriter, pianist, vocalist with a range spanning more than four octaves, and a linguist who speaks five languages. His name is Kenny Wesley. With three acclaimed projects, numerous accolades, collaborations, compilation features, and high-profile performances under his belt, including a win as a finalist, and the United States representative, for the 2013 Montreux Jazz Festival’s Shure Vocal Competition, Kenny has firmly placed his stamp on the burgeoning modern music movement.

His songs, fusing elements of electronic, jazz, funk, classical, folk and gospel, have been prominently featured on radio, film and TV – including the FOX series So You Think You Can Dance.  A welcomed guest to festivals and legendary venues across the globe such as SXSW, The Kennedy Center, Southport Weekender, Jazz Cafe London, Blues Alley, A-Trane, Montreux Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scotts, The White House, National Cherry Blossom Festival, Jazz à Vienne, The Blue Note, Bohemian Caverns, and The Apollo Theatre Cafe, he has shared the stage with numerous artists and musicians including Maysa (Incognito), the B52s, Vinx, Rachelle Ferrell, Kurt Elling, Sheila Jordan, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Giacomo Gates, Vikter Duplaix, Leela James, Charnett Moffett, Frédéric Yonnet (Prince, Stevie Wonder), Mino Cinélu (Miles Davis, Weather Report), Federico Peña (Marcus Miller, Meshell Ndegeocello), Stephanie Mills, Regina Belle, Zo!, Carmen Rodgers, Phonte (Little Brother, The Foreign Exchange), Alice Smith, Eric Roberson, Kindred and The Family Soul, N’Dambi and Syleena Johnson.

Heniu

songs to sing along - search for melodies somewhere between jazz, singer/songwriter and rock, between people, landscapes and different places. HENIU stands for a band who is experimenting with soundscapes and melodies, captivating the audience, inviting to linger and thereby makes forget time and space. HENIU’s sound-world resembles slightly film music themes. partly dreamy, partly rock-oriented, sometimes playful, but always with a good deal of self-irony, the compositions allow plenty of room for improvisations, which make heniu, without being over-the-top, whole. hans arnold - wurlitzer piano sebastian liedke - doublebass julius heise - drums

Diego Pinera

The drummer Diego Pinera grew up in Montevideo (Uruguay) and has now been living in Germany for several years. He studied drumming at the Berklee College of Music (USA), at the University of Music in Havana (Cuba) and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. He received lessons from Danilo Perez, Bob Moses, Jose Luis Quintana ‘Changuito’, and Kenwood Denard. Back in Uruguay he founded the Diego Pinera Trio and recorded the CD Buscando with the Perro Andaluz label. He eventually returned to Germany, where he founded the Berlin Quartett and recorded Reflexiones feat. Tony Lakatos

Katya Sourikova

Born: July 18

Katya was raised in St Petersburg and London. Now based in Berlin, her musical and cultural background has always been diverse. After training as a classical pianist at the prestigious Guildhall School and then the Royal College of Music, she switched to Jazz and found her musical voice both as a composer and improviser. Katya made her first recordings in North America with Ivan Bamford and Remi-Jean leBlanc. In 2005, the trio performed at the Baku International Jazz Festival alongside heavyweights such as Joe Zawinul and Greg Osby. At the Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop in 2006, Katya’s mentors Dave Douglas and Marilyn Crispell helped her focus her creative energies

Sebastian Schunke

Sebastian Schunke was born in 1973 and began learning classical piano when he was six. His main influences in the early stages were Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Debussy. At the age of 12 he began studying Latin jazz as well, being influenced initially by Eddie Palmieri and later by Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chick Corea and Danilo Perez. In 1996 aged 22 Sebastian Schunke made the move to New York. It was a special challenge for Schunke as an European to not only come to grips with the rhythmics of Latin America but also to avoid following them in a traditional manner and instead to let them transform into a new groove in irregular measures, while at the same time colouring them with the influence of his European roots, so enabling, along with native New Yorkers and European and Latin American musicians, something new and original to emerge. Sebastian dived into the New York Latin Jazz scene and studied with Garry Dial, Manhattan School of Music, Sonny Bravo, Hilton Ruiz and Alan Gampel

Ralf Krebs

“I see it as a big personal challenge, to expand the feasabilities of the guitar in my own compositions and arrangements. The more I explore new paths, the more ways, techniques and sounds are revealed to me, all lifting the guitar as an eminent instrument of Jazz on a higher level.“ (Ralf Krebs) The native Berliner began his musical career at the age of 11, taking lessons in drumming and latin percussion. He was much in demand as a drummer and percussionist in numerous local bands and counted amongst his influences Salsa, Fusion and the Jazz Rock of the 70s and 80s. His love of harmony and melody led him to undertake the transition from drums to guitar

Tom Kessler

Born: August 12, 1983

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tom began playing at an early age. His music lies in the intersection of conceptual composition and soulful improvisation. His work overlaps many genres such as jazz, free improvisation and the blues. Since 2008 he has been active in the jazz and improvisational music scene of Mexico, USA and Central America, working with musicans such as Gustavo Nandayapa, Brian Allen, Hans Glawischnig, Blair Latham, Gabriel Puentes, Tyler Mitchell, Pablo Aguirre, Elliott Levin, Adonis Rose and many others. From 2012 to 2018 he was a faculty member at the Jazz and popular music program at UNICACH in Tuxtla Gutierrez Chiapas

Alac Sanders

Born: February 5, 1988

Entdeckte seine Stimme im jugendlichen Alter von 13 Jahren als Schlagzeuger der Geraer Jazzband Black&Blue.Seit 9 Jahren arbeitet er an seiner eigenen Stimme und erhielt Unterricht und Einfluesse unter Anderem von Ingeborg Sadlik, Sabine Kuehlich, Sheila Jordan, Josee Koning, Judy Niemack und Bob Stoloff. Alex ist unter dem Kuenstlernamen Alac Sanders derzeit Saenger verschiedener Jazz-, Country- und Bigbands in Deutschland und den USA. Dazu zaehlen die Landesjugendbigband Thueringen, das Hessian-State-Youth- Jazz-Orchestra, JazzCabOnDuty und das Jazztrio TRIJAZZA, sowie die Alac Sanders-Showband. Durch viele Konzertreisen, beispielsweise nach Frankreich, Italien, Ungarn und verschiedene Staaten der USA, bekam er die Moeglichkeit mit Groessen wie Liz Mc Comb, Christian Frank, Bob Lanese, Sheila Jordan, Jiggs Wigham, Wolfgang Diefenbach, Josee Koning und Georg Maus zusammen zu arbeiten.

Johannes Fink

Since the age of five,he received lessons on the instruments piano,drums,jazz- guitar,cello and double-bass. living since 1998 in berlin/germany with live-concerts and cd-productions with musicians like lee konitz,joachim kühn,marc ducret,alex von schlippenbach,tim berne,kurt rosenwinkel,john hollenbeck,aki takase and many others...

Alan Steward

Born: April 30, 1961

"Electronic World Fusion", an exotic mix of funk, jazz, world music and electronica" Alan Steward is a producer, songwriter and recording artist who produced hits for Grammy-winning and Platinum-selling artists like the multi-platinum selling Baha Men and five-time Grammy winners Dennis Edwards and Eddie Kendricks, both original members of the The Temptations. Their single, "Get It While It's Hot," co-written by Jermaine Jackson, became a club hit and went on to spawn four remixes.

Steward is credited by many as one of the early pioneers for electronic dance music, touring with an elaborate setup of 13 or more keyboards, synthesizers and rhythm boxes (at a time when the drum machine wasn't even invented yet). Unlike the other pioneers of electronica like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, Alan's music was always very danceable, full of R&B and soul influences and indeed the forerunner of what is now termed House Music. Alan's musical style today is best described as electronic world fusion, as it combines exotic instruments and voices with jazz and funk grooves and electronica.

As a producer, Steward recorded hits for David Black (Capitol/EMI Records), who went on a world tour opening for Mc Hammer and also appeared on his album Too Legit to Qui; Isaac Adams (former vocalist for both the Bar Kays and Cameo)