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Why I Must Be Careful

Two men from Portland, Oregon playing white-knuckle, umami-jazz for the post-1st world. ]ohn Niekrasz: drums & voice 5eth Brown: rhodes & voice

Catrina Daimon Lee

Born: July 21

Was Domina Catrina Lee. Guitarist & Composer. Born in Singapore. Currently alive in Singapore. While local jazz musicians and the arts community pretend not to know her, Catrina quietly and faithfully goes her own way, creating new worlds of vision and music as she goes, undaunted by the ignorance and greed surrounding her life circumstances. Catalog of current self-produced, self-released albums 1)The Book Of Worlds - second edition (2009) remastered. An aural book of musical possibilities spanning ambient, beyond jazz, fusion, avant-garde, post-minimalism, jazz-pop, and progressive rock genres. 2)On The Practice Of Stopping Time (2009) -a study in ambient/world meditation music in pure just intonation for MIDI virtual instrumentation. 3)Songs From The Breastbone Drum (2010) -well reviewed and critically acclaimed third album, the most illegally downloaded album in the catalog, so far

Leo Ferguson

Born: August 22, 1977

Leo Ferguson, Composer & Drummer www.leoferguson.net I have been a drummer since I was 15. Born and raised in New York City to a Black jazz saxophonist and a Jewish artist from a family of classical musicians. I studied jazz theory, performance, the history of African-American composers and mallet percussion at Hampshire College and Amherst College under the legendary Yusef Lateef, as well as Margo Simmons and Andrew Jaffe. Although I quickly fell in love with writing music, I started composing largely out of frustration. I felt hemmed in by jazz that was often formulaic or stultifyingly anachronistic and a classical tradition that was incapable of addressing or integrating the experiences of African- Americans (let alone bi-racial Black/Jewish kids). I want to swing

John Korsrud

Honored with the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Music for 2012, John is a composer, producer, trumpet player, and educator based in Vancouver. He is the leader and principle composer of the 17-piece Hard Rubber Orchestra, a highly active jazz/ new music ensemble that has toured to Europe and across Canada, released two CDs, and is the recipient of Canada’s largest arts prize, The Alcan Arts Award. As a composer John performed on his own trumpet concerto, Come to the Dark Side, at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2010, commissioned and performed by The American Composers Orchestra

Bani Haykal

Born: July 4, 1985

bani haykal experiments with music + narratives. He has read / presented works in several festivals including The Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival, Singapore Design Festival, Singapore Arts Festival and The M1 Fringe Festival. His work with music includes being the vocalist and principle songwriter for alternative rock band, b-quartet, writer to performance / music collective, mux and a relatively new, unnamed, audio-visual collective. Presently, he is researching on music and culture, whilst developing several alternative systems pertaining to storytelling and music, mirroring modern day Singapore

Bob Levy

Bob Levy is an multi award winning ASCAP songwriter. His career started in New York City when he was twenty-two, co-writing with singer-songwriter Ronny Whyte. That songwriting partnership continues today creating jazz songs that have been performed at many New York clubs like Birdland, Pangea and The Kitano and have also been featured in major television programs. Bob's collaboration with Australian born singer/songwriter Karen Jacobsen, "THIS TIME" was a 2009 MAC (Manhattan Assoc. of Cabarets) nominee for song of the year. Bob also collaborates with multi-talented New York composer and musical director Alex Rybeck and their song, "HE REMEMBERS, SHE REMEMBERS", recorded by Joyce Breach, was a 2014 MAC nominee for best song

Ron Westray/Thomas Heflin

Recorded at The Elephant Room over the course of two in nights in Austin Texas, this album embrace be!bop sensibilities with a modern feel. The seven songs fill over an hour’s worth of acclaimed music and showcase Ron W estray and Thomas Heflin at the top of their game. Ron Westray is the lead trombonist for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra which is lead by Wynton Marsalis. Rising star Thomas Heflin has already gained a fan!base internationally with his style and command of the trumpet. The two are supported by a band consisting of Peter Stoltzman, Neil Caine, David Sierra, Adonis Rose, and Eric Revis, providing the final ingredients for a truly remarkable jazz experience

Joseph Daley Earth Tones Ensemble

Born: August 6, 1949

“Music stimulates the mind as it nourishes the soul” After nearly 40 years of recognition as one of the consummate sidemen on the adventurous music scene – with remarkable artists like Sam Rivers, Carla Bley, Gil Evans, Charlie Haden, Taj Mahal and so many more – Joseph Daley stunned musicians and fans alike with his brilliant CD, The Seven Deadly Sins, released in 2011. The album also received rave reviews and made several Best of 2011 lists. Featuring his Earth Tones Ensemble (a full Jazz orchestra augmented by six additional low-toned horns, and including a seven-member rhythm section and four special guests), this powerfully innovative music mines the same rich vein of musical expression as that of immortals like Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and George Russell

Kenny Love

Born: January 16, 1958

After a 20-year career as an international radio/video promoter and media publicist for independent recording artists, Kenny Love returns to his first loves of music composition and music production. Kenny began his foray into music by learning the trumpet in the sixth grade and performing throughout his high school years. During this same time, he also learned a bit of bass guitar and piano, and concentrated extensively on music composition. He went on to attend Prairie View A&M University as a Music Education major for two years, opting after his sophomore year to serve in the military. After four years of military service, Kenny became an independent recording artist. During the early part of his professional music career, he was signed by the notable major label R&B producer Aubrey "Skip" Gravatt, who is also credited with having discovered disco queen Evelyn Champagne King

Alan Chan

Born: May 5, 1978

Working musicians in some large ensembles can be forgiven for zoning out from time to time between their assigned parts, as long as they come through on cue. But when you’re performing the challenging big band music of Alan Chan, there's a good chance you’ll mess up if you’re not constantly on alert. “I like there to be surprises in my pieces, places where the music doesn’t go where or how you’d expect,” says the leader. Shrimp Tale, the captivating debut album by the Alan Chan Jazz Orchestra—one of the brightest of recent additions to the Los Angeles jazz scene—is full of unexpected turns and instrumental combinations