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Matt Panayides

Matt Panayides is a jazz guitarist and composer based in the New York City area whose music blends lyrical improvisation, dynamic interplay, and deeply expressive original compositions. Drawing inspiration from guitar greats like Jim Hall, John Scofield, Wes Montgomery, and Joni Mitchell, he has developed a distinctive voice that balances melodic sensitivity with harmonic sophistication. Panayides is a regular presence on the New York jazz scene, leading his own groups and collaborating with many of the city’s top musicians.

His discography includes several acclaimed recordings on the Pacific Coast Jazz label, including Field Theory (2021), Conduits (2015), and Tapestries of Song (2011), as well as the trio album With Eyes Closed (2024) featuring bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Anthony Pinciotti. His latest project, Present Echoes (forthcoming in 2026), showcases new original music for quartet with Rich Perry on tenor saxophone, Steve LaSpina on bass, and Mark Ferber on drums, exploring themes of reflection, resistance, and renewal.

Rolf Sturm

GRolf’s guitar playing has earned the praise of Joe Pass, Jim Hall, John Abercrombie, and Bill Frisell. He appears on over 60 CDs. He has performed with or played on recordings that feature: Tony Trischka, Loudon Wainwright, Anthony Braxton, David Johansen, John Medeski, Billy Martin, Glen Velez, Maggie Roche, Jorma Kaukonen, Roswell Rudd, Dave Douglas, Ike Willis, Eddy Arnold, Pablo Aslan, Catherine Russell, Giora Feidman, and members of the Grateful Dead. He is a member of “Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult” and he co- leads the NYC trio “Tricycle”. Rolf is also a member of the “Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble” and the “Walter Thompson Orchestra”. Rolf has toured the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, and the UK, performing at dozens of jazz, jam band/rock, folk, and blues festivals (including the World Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, the JVC Jazz Festival, the Boston Folk Festival, the Syracuse Jazz Festival, Ripplefest, Music On The Mountain Festival, and the Toronto Jazz Festival.)

Lane Garner

Born: October 21, 1987

Lane grew up in the Kansas City area studying with local musicians such as Rod Fleeman, Jake Blanton, Danny Embry and Bobby Watson among others. Lane moved to Denton, Texas in 2006 to attend the prestigious University of North Texas Jazz Studies program where he was awarded a competitive jazz scholarship. During this time he studied with many great teachers such as Fred Hamilton, Richard McClure, Stefan Karrlson, Lynn Seaton, Ed Soph, Poovalur Sriji, Jose Aponte, Noel Johnston, Tim Goynes and many more. He had the chance to take lessons and play with guitarists visiting UNT such as Jonathan Kreisberg, Lage Lund, Miles Okazaki, Gilad Hekselman, John Abercrombie, John Stowell, Oz Noy and others

Jamie Ruben

Born: January 28, 1980

Born into the lack of turbulence of the Toronto suburbs in 1980, Jamie’s life as an imaginative daydreamer, artist, creative voice and, eventually, an adventurous musician, composer and journeyman began. From the start, Jamie’s approach to music was tirelessly eclectic and his approach to life was daring and unconventional. While having not yet achieved wide recognition on his home continent of North America, Jamie made a living for 7 years performing jazz full time around the Far East in places as remote as Kathmandu and Siem Reap, as well as Bangkok, Shanghai, Koh Samui and many more. Recently, Jamie returned to Canada to fully realize a body of work that he had assiduously composed and arranged over the past few years abroad

James Keepnews

douglas bradford

New York based guitarist and composer Douglas Bradford was born in New Orleans, and currently resides in Brooklyn. His debut CD ‘:atlas obscura’ was released on Fresh Sound New Talent Records in May 2012. He began playing guitar in high school and was educated at the world famous New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts by Clyde Kerr Jr. He received a scholarship to attend the University of New Orleans where he studied with seven-string masters Hank Mackie and Steve Masakowski. In the “Big Easy,” he performed at venues from the Funky Butt to Snug Harbor with local artists including Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, Mike Lemler, The Hot Club of New Orleans, Loren Pickford, Ricky Sebastian, Tom Fitzpatrick & Turningpoint, The Charles Brewer Trio, Bill Huntington, Adonis Rose, and Micah Herman’s KCNO Jazz Cooperative.
 In the year following Hurricane Katrina, he relocated to New York to finish his studies at NYU, graduating with an MA

Joe Knipes

A graduate of William Paterson University, Joe Knipes has been performing in the metropolitan area for over 10 years. Joe has performed both as a leader and sideman in various settings including a 2-guitar quartet co-led by fellow guitarist David Hessel. Knipes also joined the popular Blues Jumpers for a tour of Canada and upstate New York where the band thrilled audiences with its unique blend of early R&B and jump blues. Joe has studied with New Jersey guitar guru Vic Juris, as well as artists like Howard Alden, Ed Cherry and David Gilmore. His influences include jazz guitar masters Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, and Grant Green

Phi Yaan-Zek

Music for Phi Yaan-Zek is a deep on-going journey of self-discovery and surrendering to creativity. Each of his five solo album releases so far have been like a collection of diary pages and personal sketches from moments in that journey. Expanding on his Indian/French/British multi-cultural roots, Phi's dynamic creative vision dances yin-yang style between the polarities of passionate, dark intensity and warm, otherworldly playfulness. As such his unique musical voice has made him much in demand both as a guitar player and composer. Over the years he has recorded and performed with such inspirational musicians as Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai), Marco Minnemann (Steve Wilson, The Aristocrats), Bumblefoot (Guns N' Roses), Bryan Beller (Steve Vai, The Aristocrats), Steve Lawson, Andy Edwards (Robert Plant, IQ) and Lalle Larsson (Karmakanic, Agents of Mercy) whom he met in the early 90s as a fellow student at the American Institute of Music in Vienna Austria.

Thomy Jordi

Luciano Suarez

Born: October 10, 1964

Website: http://www.lucianosuarezmusic.com