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Ali Jackson

Award-winning musician, composer, arranger, educator, and percussionist Ali Jackson developed his talent at an early age. A virtuoso, Ali has contributed significant musical works as a composer and arranger and he holds the distinction of being the first percussionist to perform and create music across the entire spectrum of musical styles. He began playing drums at the age of two and piano by the age of five. As a child growing up in Detroit, Ali found himself immersed in serious study alongside his father, the great jazz bassist Ali Jackson Sr., who gave him an intense introduction to music, taking him on gigs where he began playing professionally at eight years old. Ali’s natural ability and passion for music bloomed and by the age of 11 his aptitude flourished as a result of a steady stream of lessons and mentoring from an all-star lineup of music legends, including Max Roach, Milt Hinton, Dr

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John Anter

JAMBa began in 2010 as a collaboration of studio musicians, headed by John Anter and Marty Ballou. Their first album, “If You Need Me” featured the world’s most recorded drummer, Bernard Purdie. Bernard’s credentials are too numerous to list but we’ve mentioned a few below. For the OFF WHITE project, we recruited studio veterans Bruce Bartlett, Sonny Barbato, Dave Zinno, Joe Klimek and, once again, Bernard Purdie. Collectively, these seasoned studio players have worked and/or recorded with: James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, Hall and Oates, John Scofield, Nelson Riddle, Marian McPartland, NRBQ, Miles Davis, Slide Hampton, Paul Simon, John Medeski, Adam Nussbaum, King Curtis, Peter Wolf, John Hammond, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Cobb, John Hicks and many others….

Guillermo McGill Ferrari

Born: September 23, 1965

Guillermo McGill Bio Drummer, percussionist, professor, composer and producer, has played with many outstanding artist from Jazz and Flamenco: Enrique Morente, Dave Liebman, Tete Montoliu, Juan Manuel Cañizares, John Abercrombie, Wynton Marsalis, Marc Johnson, George Mraz, Niño Josele, etc. Member of Chano Dominguez trio together with Javier Colina from it´s creation in 1991, he takes part on Fernando Trueba´s film Calle 54. He has published five recordings as a leader, plus more than 70 recordings as a sideman. Played at some of the most important theaters and auditoriums in the world such as Carnegie Hall, The Marinsky Theater, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Teatro Real, Auditorio Nacional, etc. Drum and ensemble teacher at the mos important jazz schools in Spain since 1984: Taller de Músics de Barcelona, Taller de Músicos de Madrid, Escuela de Música Creativa, Musikene.

Paul Gavin

Born: 1850

Paul Gavin is a Drummer, Teacher, Composer & Arranger in Tampa, FL. Since graduating from the University of South Florida in 2015 Paul has made his living exclusively as a freelance musician. By playing all kinds of music all around the state of Florida, teaching privately and in schools, and writing for school programs and his own original music he maintains an active schedule. Paul has played regularly with great musicians in the Tampa bay area including trumpet player James Suggs, singer Gloria West, and bassist Michael Ross. He also plays regularly in the Fort Myers area with trumpet player Dan Miller, guitarist Dan Heck, bassist Brandon Robertson, and the Stardust Memories Big Band. After almost 4 years of supporting others’ musical projects Paul is now focusing on building his own

Jeremy Dutton

Drummer. Writer. All around artist striving to affect change on a sonic and social level using the gifts of humor, rhythmic ingenuity, and personal insight.

Chris Parker

Born in Chicago, Chris was playing drums at age three and began performing his first professional gigs at eleven. At nineteen, Parker began recording and touring with blues great Paul Butterfield and broke into the New York studio scene in 1970, doing records, movie scores and filling the drum chair at Saturday Night Live. Toph, as friends know him, recorded platinum, gold and Grammy winning albums and CDs with many artists, including the original Brecker Brothers, Bob Dylan, Cher, Donald Fagen, Ashford and Simpson, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Salt 'n' Pepa, Stuff, Miles Davis, Patti LaBelle and Michael Bolton

Rick Nair

Born: April 20, 1970

Rick Nair is a versatile drummer, bandleader and writer based in Minneapolis. A native of Manhattan, Rick has played with hundreds of artists, including several internationally recognized musicians. Performance credits include cross-genre innovator Moby, rapper Speech (of Arrested Development), Jamaican rock and pop legend Phil Chen, and the great bassist Ron Carter. Rick's current projects include jazz-funk quintet President Flow, classic reggae outfit The Skruffians, dub-jazz trio Prince Leia, the gypsy-style Carluster Crumplebee Orchestra, Kairos Alive, the Sarah Streitz band, the Chris Hagedorn Quartet, Emoji Virtuosi, the John Seymour Trio, and a number of other groups

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Joseph Branciforte

Born: June 11

Joseph Branciforte is a multi-instrumentalist, producer/engineer, and composer. As engineer/producer, he has worked on over 100 releases for some of the most well-respected names in the NYC creative jazz scene including Ben Monder, Vijay Iyer, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Nels Cline, Tyshawn Sorey, Dan Weiss, Tom Rainey, Matt Mitchell, Jen Shyu, and many others. His work can be heard on ECM Records, Sunnyside Records, Pi Recordings, Cryptogramophone, Fresh Sound, and Clean Feed. He co-leads, composes for, and play drums in THE CELLAR AND POINT, a "garage-chamber" septet formed in 2010