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Jesse Cook

Born: November 29, 1964

Born in Paris on 29 November 1964 to photographer andfilmmaker John Cook and television director and producerHeather Cook, Jesse Cook spent the first few years of his lifemoving between Paris, Southern France and Barcelona. As atoddler he was fascinated by the guitar and tried to emulatethe sound he heard coming from his parents' recordings ofManitas de Plata, a famous Gypsy guitarist from the region ofSouthern France known as the Camargue.

After his parents separated, Cook and his sister accompaniedhis mother to her birth country, Canada. Recognizing themusical aptitude of her son, lessons followed at Toronto’s EliKassner Guitar Academy. Kassner's other famous pupil wasclassical guitarist Liona Boyd.

William Tyler

I met William Tyler on the Exeter line out of London, and never such an autodidact had I met. He’ll tell you about James Kunstler, about Rudy Wurlitzer, about how Michael Cimino got a raw deal with Heaven’s Gate. We were both far hungover and lugging plenty gear, guitars and records and books, more than we could carry. William Tyler comes from good Southern stock, a Nashville lifer who’s played with Lambchop, the Silver Jews, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Charlie Louvin, Candi Staton. People love this man, rightfully so. When you meet him, you’ll feel that compulsion. William’s father Dan came from Mississippi; he wrote songs and lawyered around Music Row in the 1970s and later worked with Eddie Rabbitt, who toted a monkey on his shoulder and smoked grips of weed

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Terence I. Culpepper

Born: March 15

Composer, guitarist and bassist Terence Culpepper has been involved with several groups in the New York metropolitan area before starting "Since When?" He began his studies at The Guitar Study Center in New York and later with jazz guitarists Pat Martino and Bill Connors (of Chick Corea's "Return to Forever" fame). While attending college at St. John's University he began writing music and soon thereafter began to lead his own groups during the early 1980's. His first outing as leader was a five-piece group, "Exposure" and has performed in The Atrium at CitiCorp Center, The Cellar Restaurant, the 1984 Harlem Week Festival (which featured the future EMI/ Manhattan recording artist Najee), Downstate Medical College, Bistro Filipino and at The Manhattan Proper Cafe

Mike Miller

Mike Miller was born into a musical family in Sioux Falls, S. D. on May 8th, 1953. He started playing bass with his father’s jazz combo at age 12, becoming the third of four bass playing brothers. About the same time, he began playing guitar in a series of bands of his own making. At 15, he was accepted into the Sioux Falls Symphony playing string bass. In 1972 he moved to Colorado, where he met and played with guitarists Robben Ford, Bill Frisell, and Larry Coryell in many varied musical situations, including playing bass with rock guitarist Tommy Bolin, opening for the Rolling Stones with ATCO recording artists “60,000,000 Buffalo,” playing with the avant-garde jazz groups “Fly and the Zippers,” and the “Orchestra of Clouds”

Randy Everett

Energy runs through everything Randy Everett does. As a record producer and engineer, Randy has worked on projects that have earned multiple GRAMMY® nominations and wins. Now, after helping so many others make albums, he’s stepping out from behind the console to make his own. “My Flying Dream” is a portrait of a lifelong guitarist exploring the endless world of composing music and improvising jazz. Randy pulls in musical influences from around the globe and from the place he was born, Mississippi. Randy also paints, and his visual works vibrate with the same life, wit, and singular vision that drive his music

Isaac Lausell

Born: March 20, 1976

Dr. Lausell leads the guitar program at SIUC School of Music where he joined the faculty in the Fall 2012. At SIUC Lausell teaches classical and jazz guitar, Fretboard harmony, Guitar ensembles, Sight-reading for guitar, Studio class, History of fretted instruments, and plays with the Jazz ensemble in residence the New Arts Jazztet. Prior to his appointment at SIU Dr. Lausell taught at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Consevatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, Escuela Especializada Ernesto Ramos Antonini (public music school grades 7-12), State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of North Texas (Community music program), Ridgecrest Elementary School in Houston, Texas, Escuela Libre de Música de Humacao (public music school grades 7-12) and Academia de Música Peña in Puerto Rico. Dr

Barry Wahrhaftig

The Hot Club of Philadelphia was started in 2001 by guitarist Barry Wahrhaftig. They are an acoustic ensemble, dedicated to playing 'Gypsy Jazz.' That's the term used to describe the music pioneered by the legendary original 'Hot Club of France Quintet,' which was led by guitarist Django Reinhardt and Violinist Stephane Grappelli. Django and Grappelli were attempting to do their own version of American 'Hot Jazz,' as played by stars like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. They used acoustic guitars, bass and violin, rather than horns and drums. Grappelli and Django added some French and Gypsy flavor and created a blend of music that is quite popular and accessible

Chris Bell

Born: February 2, 1972

Chris holds a Master’s degree in Composition (Jazz) from Texas State University and spent three years in private study with the great New York based Jazz guitarist Richie Hart. Chris has been teaching at the Austin School of Music since 2002 where he specializes in Jazz guitar, performance, theory and improvisation with a heavy accent on the Blues. He has shared the stage with some stellar musicians including Ron Wilkins (Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie) organist/producer Ron Levy (B.B. King, Roomful of Blues) and drummer Jeff Salisbury (Albert King, Chuck Berry) as well as Austin locals Kellye Grey, Alex Coke, Dexter Walker, Chris Maresh, John Vogelsang, and Doug Hall

Eric Carbonara

Eric Carbonara is a Philadelphia based guitarist, whose search for raw aural expression has led him far and wide--from noise & electro-acoustic music to taking deep root in the bounty of the wooden guitar.

Carbonara’s playing draws on the rich musical styles from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani & North African folk to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease. He has developed a unique idiom of gypsy music for non-existent cultures by combining rogue self-taught, free-form classical and flamenco techniques with those learned from formal studies in India.