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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.

Steve Fell

Guitarist, and composer Steve Fell is a fixture on the Boston music scene, performing with many groups in a variety of settings from free jazz and experimental, to funky organ combos, to west African and Carribean ensembles, to straight ahead jazz, and multi-media performances combining visual art and sound. He has performed internationally at festivals and clubs in Europe, Korea, Japan, and Canada, where he has appeared at the Montreal Jazz Festival. He can often be heard several nights a week in and around the Boston area.

Przemyslaw Straczek

Born: August 15, 1976

Przemysław Strączek – jazz guitarist, composer, producer and band leader. Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, honored with, among others, the Special Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2013) and the Award of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship in the field of music (2015). For over two decades, he has consistently pursued his own artistic path, based on dialogue between cultures, styles and personalities. Searches in the sphere of music take place on many levels: in the approach to harmony, aesthetics, sound or tone color

Kim Prevost and Bill Solley

Kim Prevost and guitarist Bill Solley has been racing the high road to success since winning the 1999 "BET on Jazz" Jazz Discovery Award. Individually and together, they've performed with musical greats like Arturo Sandoval, Bobby McFerrin, Nicolas Payton, Nine Inch Nails, Oleta Adams, Ed Calle, Sammy Figaroa, Kirk Whalum, Matt Lemmler, and Allen Toussaint. Both artists are natives of the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans. They have appeared at numerous festivals, and have toured extensively from England to the Netherlands, Japan, Denmark, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, Germany, the United States with plenty stops in between

Wyatt Moss-Wellington

Born: 1983

"Challenging preconceptions of song structure, guitar and vocal techniques, subject matter and stylistic homogeneity ... bounced between satire and aching tenderness, power chords and delicate finger-picking - sometimes all within one line! Moss-Wellington makes most of his peers sound like they have never fully considered the breadth of options open to them." John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

Zjaca

Biography Guitarist / Performer / Composer / Recording Artist / Educator Ratko Zjaca is considered a very gifted stylist, assumes many roles in his macrocosm of music: contemporary guitarist, composer, performer and educator. His unique musical vision absorbs and reflects all manner of music while retaining an enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from quiet intimacy to searing intensity. Diverse musical backgrounds, which include jazz, world music, and free improvisation. He has been working on original compositions as well as crafting beautiful and haunting improvisations

Brian Clark

Born: June 19, 1967

Guitarist with the Winnipeg jazz trio TABLE 4 THREE.

Ken Avis

Born: May 3, 1959

London, Paris, Geneva, Washington DC! Guitarist/vocalist, Ken Avis, never imagined he would live in these cities after growing up in a Northern English coal mining town close to Liverpool. After travelling in over 80 countries, across four continents, he is now based in Northern Virginia with his wife, the stunning French Canadian vocalist {{m: Lynn Veronneau = 31434}}. Together they are putting their world experiences to good effect in the eclectic, multi-national music of their band Veronneau. Meeting in Geneva, Ken and Lynn debuted together at a festival in the mountains of France, they continued to perform and record internationally as a duo before forming a group (called simply Veronneau ) in 2010 with Brazilian jazz guitarist David Rosenblatt and drummer Pete Walby

Joshua Stauffer

Joshua is a jazz musician based in Philadelphia. Building on a rigorous training in classical violin, Joshua found himself drawn to the harmonies and textures possible on the guitar. After a not-so- brief infatuation with rock and roll he found his musical home in the rich language of jazz. He studied performance and composition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and now works as a free-lance performer and educator in the tri-state area.