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Mike Connors

Pete La Roca

Born: April 7, 1938

Pete La Roca (born Peter Sims) was an American jazz drummer. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career when he was a timbales player in Latin bands. Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. During this period, he twice recorded as leader, firstly on Basra (Blue Note, 1965) and also on Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967), also issued as Bliss under pianist Chick Corea's name on Muse

Greg Williamson

Born: January, 1965

BIO - The Short Version

Greg Williamson, drummer, percussionist and composer, has toured as amember of the swinging big bands of Woody Herman, Glenn Miller andHarry James. He has appeared on over 30 CDs, including the recent"JazzIn It" by singer Dee Daniels, which charted #1 across Canada. Hetravelled several years with Steve Allen and Tonight Show Live withlegendary pianist Paul Smith. He has performed with Seattle's own andwidely renown vocalist Ernestine Anderson since 1991, acting in lateryears as her musical director. He has led his own groups ranging fromGreg Williamson Quartet to the Pony Boy All-Star Big Band, and recentlyformed an organ-quartet "The Young Lizards" bringing jazz sounds to thealt-club scene. He also focuses on large scale multi-media projects,including the award winning "Conversations & Deconstructions" the "1909AYP - Jazz Music For Seattle's World's Fair." Greg's early experiencescame from hanging out with the cats on the scene - legendary jazzers likeBuddy Catlett, Ray Brown, Red Kelly, Bill Ramsay and Jay Thomas. In1994 he founded Pony Boy Records which has produced 40 releases, theannual Pony Boy Records Jazz Picnic, and the weekly series Jazz &Sushi. He is the musical director for Boxley's Jazz Club in North Bend,WA, which features music nightly, and hopes to continue to foster jazzmusic, and hang out with the cats on the scene

Tom Cohen

Drummer Tom Cohen has been a staple on the Philadelphia music scene for over 40 years having carved out a niche in a city known for its wealth of prodigious musicians. Though primarily a jazz musician, Tom's versatility has been his hallmark, leading him to contribute his talents in a myriad of musical genres.

Born in Newark, NJ Tom began playing drums at the age of seven and studied rudimentary basics and reading with Gene Thaler. Growing up in the NYC area eventually afforded the opportunity, when Tom was in his teens, to make sojourns to jazz clubs to hear the greats of those times and their influential sidemen. One of those times was hearing Stan Getz and his band and it presented the chance for Tom to introduce himself to Tony Williams, which soon thereafter led Tom to be accepted as a student..albeit after a short audition!

Eric Rosenthal

Drummer Eric Rosenthal is based out of the Boston area. The former student of Ed Blackwell has studied and performed more than American jazz drumming; he has also delved into West African traditional and South Indian classical percussion. Rosenthal has performed and improvised with Anthony Braxton, Mat Maneri, Pandelis Karayorgis, Mario Pavone, and the Either/Orchestra. He has performed all over North America and Europe, and appeared in Greece at the Patras Jazz Festival, at Montreal's North Sea Jazz festival, even at Finland's Pori Festival. Besides producing his own improvised music recordings, he also appears on CDs with the Hypnotic Clambake and the Zairean soukous band Freestyle.The late '90s found Rosenthal busy in the group Naftule's Dream. The band has two releases on John Zorn's Tzadik label, Search for the Golden Dreydl and Smash, Clap!

Thomas Taylor

Born: August 10, 1967

Drummer and teacher Thomas Taylor, Jr. was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. Thomas is one of the southeast's most in demand drummers. Jazz artists, Eli Yamin, (piano), Cedar Walton, (piano), Bill Charlap, (piano), Mark Levine, (piano), Tom Browne, (trumpet), Mark Whitfield, (guitar), Larry Coryell, (guitar), Eric Alexander (Tenor Sax), Don Braden, (Tenor Sax), Fred Wesley, (trombone), Joe Chambers, (percussion), Kevin Mahogany, (vocal), and Vanessa Rubin, (vocal), are some who have performed in the Southeast and called on him to help the music swing. Thomas began teaching at North Carolina Central University in 1996 and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2004

Sylvia Cuenca

Sylvia Cuenca is an active drummer on the New York jazz scene who is contributing outstanding performances in a variety of situations. She has had the honor of sharing the bandstand with saxophone legend Joe Henderson for 4 years and trumpet legend Clark Terry for 17 years. The Joe Henderson quartet toured frequently in European countries Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, England, Switzerland, France, Italy and Germany and venues across the U.S. In a trio setting she performed with Joe Henderson and Charlie Haden in 1989 and with George Mraz in 1994. She performed with the Clark Terry Quintet and Big Band at Village Vanguard, Birdland, Blue Note, Queen Elizabeth 2, Royal Viking, S.S

Stefan Pasborg

Born: December 6, 1974

One of the most personal and versatile young European drummers / bandleaders – from groove to abstract! Three time Danish Music Awards-winner and ”Gudman Award-winner” STEFAN PASBORG is a highly energetic drummer from the melting pot of Copenhagen, and after getting a snare drum, a cymbal and a high-hat at the age of three from renowned jazz drummer Alex Riel, he has developed into a very personal musician on the European jazz scene. He has performed and recorded with musicians like: John Tchicai, Marc Ducret, Ellery Eskelin, Tomasz Stanko, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Palle Danielsson, Anders Jormin, Miroslav Vitous, Michael Formanek, Carsten Dahl, Jesper Zeuthen, Alex Riel, Dawda Jobarteh, Mikko Innanen, Liudas Mockunas, Kjetil Møster, Lotte Anker and Peter Friis Nielsen among others….And has toured the most of Europe and in USA, Canada, Africa and Asia – in more than 30 countries, on 5 continents, from Shanghai to Vancouver, from Monte-Carlo to Moscow, from Varanger to Casablanca, and from New York to São Paulo – both as a leader and as a sideman. He is the founding member of successful bands like: Ibrahim Electric, Pasborgs Odessa XL, Toxikum, Firebirds, Free Moby Dick, Delirium … Besides his many bands and projects, he also performs solo-concerts regularly. At Danish Music Awards 2004 he was voted ʻNew jazz-name of The Yearʼ…and his release ʻToxikumʼ was voted ʻJazz Discovery of the Yearʼ. His first release as a leader – TriplePoint (ILK 2007) – was selected into worldwide TOP 5 ‘Best Debut Albums of 2007’ by the American magazine The New York City Jazz Record, and his release ‘Pasborg Odessa X-tra Large’ received a ‘’grammy’’ at Danish Music Awards 2011. He is the founding member of the record label and collective ILK Music. During 2011 Stefan Pasborg was chosen to be Artist-in-Residence at Copenhagen Jazzhouse, and in 2012 the national Danish television (DR) showed 5 documentary programs about him and his bands / projects. Pasborg has won prices like f.ex

Martina Almgren

Born: March 20, 1962

Drummer and composer Martina Almgren is described as a colourful addition to the contemporary Swedish jazz scene. Her passion for playful improvisation, enticing rhythms and expressive melodies reflects her drumming as well as her compositions. She has through the years been involved in several international collaborations -with the the British pianists Zoe Rahman and Nikki Iles, the Scottish alto player Laura Macdonald (album Open Book 2008), pianist Steve Hamilton to mention a few- and has composed commission works for the Swedish Jazz Radio and for contemporary ensembles. For many she is previously known as a colourful leader of Martina Almgren Quartet and the tentett Oh Yeah Orchestra

Dion Parson

Born: June 11, 1967

Dion Parson is one of New York's finest young drummers. Born in St. Thomas, Dion's musical foundation ranges from classical, reggae, calypso, jazz, African, and pop music. Parson's first musical instrument was the trombone, but at the age of 15, he began playing drums, and was awarded a grant from Virgin Islands Council of the Arts to study at Interlochen Music Academy in Michigan. Upon returning home, he was selected to be the VI representative in the McDonald's All-American High School Band. Dion later attended Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he studied percussion with Keith Copeland and William Moersch, receiving his B.M