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Clarence Penn

Born: March 2, 1968

Clarence Penn is one of the busiest jazz drummers in the world, a leader of multiple bands, a composer, a prolific producer, and an educator. Since 1991, when he arrived in New York City, Penn has placed his unique blend of mega-chops, keen intellect, and heady musicianship at the service of a staggering array of A-list artists—a chronological short-list includes Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, Stanley Clarke, Steps Ahead, Makoto Ozone, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider, Luciana Souza, Richard Galliano, and Fourplay. Penn’s impressive discography includes several hundred studio albums (including the Grammy-winning recordings 34th and Lex by Randy Brecker and Concert in the Garden and Sky Blue by Maria Schneider) representing a 360-spectrum of jazz expression, and he’s toured extensively throughout the United States, the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia

Tim Kuhl

Born: June 24, 1982

Tim Kuhl is a drummer, composer, percussionist, producer, and band leader. Born and raised in Baltimore, MD as one of five boys in a musical household, he studied classical and jazz forms before leaving home for New York City. He has toured and recorded with a diverse range of artists in addition to having been a full time member of many NYC bands like The Izzys, Christian Gibbs, Invisible Familiars, Sean Lennon’s The GOASTT, Margaret Glaspy, and the experimental group Little Worlds, whose Bela Bartok interpretations have garnered international critical praise. As a composer he has released a number of self-produced jazz and experimental records culminating in 2012’s St

Gil Graham

Performances - Jazz and Show Music

• 1970 - Present ~ Active member of the music scene in Boston, including club work, dance music, concerts, shows and recording. House drummer at two resorts in the Catskill Mountains, playing dance music and backing singers and comedians. Employed by three cruise ships: the Norway and the Starward for Norwegian Caribbean Line, and the Carnivale for Carnival Cruise Lines, backing such artists as Clark Terry, Zoot Sims and Wild Bill Davidson.
• 1994 ~ King Richard's Faire, Carver, MA. Peter Moore, Entertainment Director. Performance series accompanying The Commonwealth Brass.
• Foxborough's Actor's Collaborative, Jacquelin Goudy, Music Director: City of Angels, Funny Girl, Bye Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees, Carousel, and How to Succeed in Business
• Company Theater, Michael Joseph, Music Director: Oklahoma, It's a Wonderful Life.
• Arlington Friends of Drama: City of Angels
• Newton's Turtle Lane, Merrilee Maferra, Music Director: South Pacific.
• Reading's Colonial Chorus, Matt Wulfe, Music Director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Ron Turso

Born: July 29, 1948

Drummer Ron Turso was born July 29, 1948 in New York City, into a musical family. His talent emerged at age 6 when he started beating out time with an old pair of wire brushes on a large tin can. By age 9, he had his first set of Ludwig and was studying seriously and gaining experience sitting in with his father Don Turso's band and his brother Turk Mauro, both saxophonists. He spent his teens sneaking into jazz clubs to hear the greats and playing wherever he could. A stint in the army band in the late 1960's landed him a gig with Albert Mangelsdorf's avant guard group at the Berlin Jazz Festival

Jochen Rueckert

Born: May 13, 1975

Jochen Rueckert is a Jazz drummer, composer, band leader, and Oxford Comma-enthusiast born in Germany in 1975, currently residing in New York City.

Besides a decade of touring with his own quartet with Mark Turner, Lage Lund, and Matt Penman, Jochen is known for his work in 12 years of the Marc Copland trio, the mid-2000 Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet, all of Nils Wogram's Root 70, recent work with the Melissa Aldana trio and Fred Hersch, his electronic music programmed under the alias "Wolff Parkinson White", as well as his series of ebooks aptly titled "Read the Rueckert- travel observations and pictures of hotel rooms".

Billy Mintz

In an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years, drummer Billy Mintz has played with some of the biggest names in the jazz and pop worlds.

Mr. Mintz was born in Queens, New York in 1947. By the age of 15 he was firmly entrenched in several of the show bands of the Catskill Mountain resorts, and as his musicianship developed he would eventually tour with jazz artists such as Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mike Garson, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, and the Kim Richmond Sextet. He also toured and recorded extensively with Bobby Shew.

At the same time, his credentials grew in the pop arena, leading to tours with Juliette Prowse, James Darren, Gloria Gaynor, and a stint with the show band for the Merv Griffin Show.

In 1986, Mr

Dave Christianson

Born: July 28, 1957

Here's some biographic information about singer-songwriter, producer-arranger, drummer and piano player Dave Christianson. Dave has played, sung, and recorded jazz, blues, and soul music styles with many outstanding musical artists, and many more rather mediocre musical artists. Dave holds a BA in Music from Central Washington University, 1980; and a BA in Radio-Television Studies from Eastern Washington University, 1983. Additionally, Dave has composed sync-to-picture music for visual media, and he was once a national award-winning composer-arranger and producer of broadcast advertising music serving regional accounts around the Northwest

Alvin Atkinson, Jr.

Born: January 20, 1972

Alvin Atkinson, Jr., six-time Jazz Ambassador, drummer, bandleader and Jazz educator, has traveled the globe performing America’s classical music. As an ambassador of jazz, Atkinson possesses the characteristics of a diplomat whether he’s performing in front of a large audience in Saudi Arabia, working with college students in Jordan, or working with middle school children in New York City. Atkinson formed Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants in New York City in 2004. The group combines jazz and blues influences with inflections of various rhythms and melodies from around the world. The group's first recording project, Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants, received nominations for "Best International Jazz Song" from the First Annual 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards and "Best Jazz Song" from the Seventh Annual Independent Music Awards in 2007 for the composition “Dance of the Emirates.” In 2007 and 2008, Alvin Atkinson and the Sound Merchants, traveled to the Middle East and Russia

Ron Vincent

Born: October 18, 1951

A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, Ron moved to Boston, MA. in 1969 to attend the renowned Berklee College of Music, graduating with a BA in Music Education in 1973. After touring the U.S. with a variety of jazz groups, and three years in Kansas City (79-82), Ron settled in New York City in 1982. Since then, Ron has become a veteran of the New York City jazz scene. Working often as a sideman, Ron has recorded for labels such as GRP, Concord and Palmetto records, the latter where he has been producer as well as co-producer for a number of projects. Ron was a member of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Mr

Martin France

Born: March 29, 1964

Martin France began his recording career at the age of 19 for ECM records. Born in Rainham in Kent, France dismissed music college in preference for on the road tuition. He, with his friend and music cohort Django Bates, had been performing with Evan Parker and Kenny Wheeler, and through their friendships had been introduced to ECM. France went on to record several albums for the label, and toured with some of their bands throughout the 80s and 90s. A further turning point for France was his role as a member of the famously democratically organised 80s big band Loose Tubes where he began long standing partnerships with many of its members