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John Shannon

Bethany Cosentino

Born: 1987

Best Coast is an American indie pop trio based in Los Angeles, California. The band is recognizable for their fuzzy, low-fidelity sound in the vein of surf rock formed by songwriter and frontwoman Bethany Cosentino, formerly of Pocahaunted, and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. The band's first two drummers were Jennifer Clavin (of Mika Miko and Cold Cave) and then Adam Garcia. Ali Koehler had performed as the band's live drummer, before she officially joined in July 2010 after leaving the Vivian Girls. The band released several 7" singles and EPs, including Make You Mine and Black Iris, and they released a music video for their single "When I'm With You." Best Coast's single "Boyfriend" was named by Pitchfork Media as a "best new track." Their first full-length album, Crazy for You, was released in July 2010 on the Mexican Summer record label

Magnolia

Imagine if a soundtrack came before the film. If the music was already there, and the pictures were woven between the notes. This is Magnolia. Spontaneously formed in 2009 by long time friends, an afternoon of Lanois-inspired playing turned into the making of a record. Collectively their resume includes The Bamboos, The Cat Empire, Paul Grabowsky, Missy Higgins, the Melbourne Symphony, The Raah Project, Washington, and many more.

Robby Krieger

Born: January 8, 1946

Robert Alan Krieger, born January 8, 1946, in Los Angeles, is a musical performer and The Doors guitarist. He attended UCLA. “The first music I heard that I liked was Peter and the Wolf. I accidentally sat and broke the record (I was about seven). Then I listened to rock ‘n’ roll – I listened to the radio a lot – Fats Domino, Elvis, The Platters. “I started surfing at fourteen. There was lots of classical music in my house. My father liked march music. There was a piano at home. I studied trumpet at ten, but nothing came of it. Then I started playing blues on the piano?no lessons though

Philip Rasmussen

Born: December 16, 1990

Born in 1990, PJ Rasmussen entered a world where jazz seemed reserved more for intellectuals than real people. Picking up the guitar at age 10, he spent more time learning Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton than working his way through the Real Book. While his passion for rock and blues never waned, his eclectic taste and exploratory spirit never stopped looking for new music to learn; soon enough he was practicing Joe Pass and Yardbird alongside Slowhand. He has never looked back, studying Jazz Performance at William Patterson University as well as with performers such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Paul Meyers, and Gene Bertoncini. These experiences have recently resulted in his Avionics EP, recorded with the PJ Rasmussen Quartet

Muirhead Quartet

Born: January 9, 1973

BMusHons UCT Cape Town Jazz Festival 2007 as ‘The Muirhead Quartet’ Cape Town Jazz Festival 2008 with ‘Bepop Guitar Summit’ Collaborative work exhibiting at the Sasol Museum in Stellenbosch, ‘Moeder Natuur Mother Nature’ opened Nov 2010. Composer and band leader for rap/jazz crossover group ‘The Illuminate Getuies’ Co-creator of band and music for ‘Black Market Trio’ with Andrew Lilly (Jazz lecturer at UCT) Played with in concert: Winston Mankunku; Sibongeli Khumalo; Judith Siphuma; Nonthuthuzela Puani; Buddy Welles; Kesivan Naido; Emily Bruce; Jason Reolon Continuous gigging on the Cape Town jazz circuit. Played internationally in various musical performances. Composed music for nature films such as ‘Squid vs Whale’; ‘Swimming Scared’; ‘Last Lioness of Liuwa’..... Composed music for the 2010 FIFA World Cup together with Grant Mclachlan.

John McKeon

Born: March 15, 1954

Film and guitar

Domina Catrina Lee

The music of Domina Catrina Lee combines through composition practice with improvisation and creative innovation. Eschewing simple genre classification, this music is rooted in music's deepest past and aspires to being timeless, fashionless, trend-bucking, holistic, personal, and global. She rejects all labels as being contrived and political. Singapore born and self-tutored in composition, Domina Catrina Lee, has studied jazz guitar briefly far back in ther personal past, and still considers it a primary instrument (and stylistic influence), of sorts, but she feels she is called to composition. She presently freely experiments in virtual instrumentation exclusively, due to social, economic, and musical constraints

Paul Shumsky

Born: March 6, 1955

B. M. in Jazz Guitar Performance, New England Conservatory, 1978. Additional studies at Berklee College in Music Synthesis; Eastman School of Music, Jazz Studies ('75-'77). Species counterpoint, composition and piano studies with Dr. Avram David 1981-1990, Craig Najjar, Sonny Kompanek. Jazz guitar studies with Mick Goodrick, Barry Galbraith, Charlie Banacos, Gene Bertoncini, Chuck Wayne. Over 700 performances with Boston-based worldbeat band Wildest Dreams, throughout New England to Aruba 1989-2000 Currently have an active, private teaching studio in East Hartford, CT at BeyondBasicsGuitar.com Past guitar faculty positions: U Mass Dartmouth ('92-'98) South Shore Conservatory ('79-'99) Najjar School ('94-'97) Northeastern University Summer Program ('86-'87) Private instructor at various private secondary schools ('74-'99)

Organic

Organic �" Band Biography John-Paul Gard �" Hammond Organ John-Paul is well known on the British jazz circuit, and has recently played live with such stellar guitarists as Andreas Oberg and Alex Hutchings. He is influenced by players such as Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff, as well as modern burners like Joey DeFrancesco. Dominic Norcross �" Tenor and Baritone Saxophone Dominic is a regular on the jazz scene and has shared the stage with Dave Weckl, Mornington Locket, and Don Weller, to name a few. Nigel Williams �" Drums Nigel played for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames for a number of years and has toured North America drumming for Van Morrison