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Jordi Matas

Personal Esparraguera studies and continued his musical education with the Bachelor of Music and Modern Jazz at the Taller de Barcelona José Luis Gámez, Victor de Diego, Horacio Fumero, Alfons Carrascosa. He also attended the "International Seminar of Igualada Jazz" with Sam Yahel, Benny Golson and Idris Muhammad, and the "International Seminar at the Palau de la Musica de Valencia" with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Nasheet Waits, Ben Street, Bruce Barth and Michael P. Mossman. He studied with José Luis Gámez, Jordi Bonell, Rick Peckam, Ben Monder, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Peter Bernstein. He has received awards: • Artist's revelation in 2003 by the Association of Musicians Jazz and Modern Music of Catalonia. • Best Guitarist in 2004 by the Association of Musicians Jazz and Modern Music of Catalonia. • 2005 Frontier spokesman with the HAT group. Highlights: La Plata Jazz Festival 2005 -La Plata Argentina , JazzFestival Mechelen, Belgium, Getxo Jazz XXXVII, Festijazz 2004 La Paz Bolivia, End Jazz Art 2003 Cologne, SpañJazz 2005 Gran Canaria, 2005 Jazz Today Villa-Real, 12th Jazz Festival Figueres, 14th Jazz Festival Time "memorial Tete Montoliu, Jazz Teruel 2004, Jazz Festival Malaga 2005, Jazz Show 2005 Girona, Jazz Show XII Blanes, XIII Jazz Festival Banyoles, Mas y Mas Festival . Discography: • All That Matas Jordi Matas Quintet (Fresh Sound New Talent 176) • Corners Jordi Matas Quintet (Fresh Sound New Talent 236) • There HAT (Fresh Sound New Talent) • Collaboration of disk MIRAGE (Fresh Sound New Talent 244) Currently leads groups Jordi Matas Quintet, Jordi Matas "Organic Trio" and ETS

Joe Giglio

Jazz guitarist/vocalist Joe Giglio lives in Manhattan, where he teaches improvisation. He performs throughout the NY/Metro area, across the U.S & abroad. He has an MFA from Purchase College, and a BA from SUNY New Paltz. Discography: Rainbow Shards-Duo w/Joe Diorio; Sound Scape; 3 Spirits; Clairvoyant Avenue; Flashback Premonition; Inside Out; Disassembly. Performances w/ jazz greats Houston Person, Joe Beck, Jack Wilkins, Howard Alden, Vic Juris, Carmen Leggio, Ralph Lalama, Joe Wilder, Ron McClure, Yoron Israel, John Purcell, Gerry Hemingway, Wayne Andre, Bucky Pizzarelli, Bobby Buster, Ryan Kyser, Lew Tabackin, Joe Puma, Peter Bernstein, Gene Bertoncini, Russell Malone, Frank Vignola, Bill Crow, and with Pop Legend Bobby Rydell, Broadway Star Melba Joyce, and Jazz Divas Judy Niemack, Barbara Sfraga, Amy London and Carla White, among others. A prolific composer, with pieces featured regularly in “Just Jazz Guitar Magazine”, he is currently recording his next trio CD, and has just completed a soon to be published collection of jazz etudes, and re-harmonized standard tunes. Joe Giglio can be found on the internet @ www.joegiglio.com & www.youtube.com/joegig

Peter Lerner

Peter Lerner was born and raised in the multi-cultural, diverse Hyde Park area of Chicago. This is an area rich in musical history: Ahmad Jamal lived across the street and the AACM were only a few blocks away. His earliest musical influence was his mother, Ruth, who played and sang folk songs for the civil rights movement. By the age of eight, he had composed his first song, and his musical journey began. Lerner credits Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana for inspiring him early on. In high school, Lerner fell in love with jazz after hearing Stanley Turrentine’s 'Sugar' on which guitarist George Benson played

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Luís Lopes

Averse to any linearity, the Idiosyncratic Luís Lopes, a musician connected to Jazz, improvised and experimental music, has been building his career, a simple and singular story, characterised by a unique voice, free of corsets, formal ties or constraints and mannerisms regarding strict stilistical implications. He is an unfollower… experiments himself through paradoxes. Invokes teachings by following standards of subversion to any possibility of pre-established idea. Eminent self-subversion… Introspective timeless trance. Running Multi-international groups, especially his Humanization 4tet (with Portuguese Rodrigo Amado and Texan’s Aaron and Stefan Gonzalez), Lisbon Berlin Trio (with Germans Christian Lillinger, Robert Landfermann), and his “Noise” or “Love Song(s)” Solos, plus his highly recommended records he is growing as an international artist, playing at important Festivals and venues not just in Portugal but in Europe and U.S. Coming from a rock/punk and blues background, while studying at local classic and rock schools, he began studying Jazz at Hot Club Portugal School and then was finalist at Escola de Jazz do Barreiro/Lisbon

Giacomo Merega

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Lou Reed

Born: March 2, 1942

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1965, he co-founded the Velvet Underground, a rock band managed by Andy Warhol. Reed went solo in the 1970s, scoring a hit with the song "Walk on the Wild Side" and releasing more than 16 albums, including Coney Island Baby and Berlin. He died on October 27, 2013, at age 71. Early Life Lou Reed was born Lewis Allan Reed at Beth El Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on March 2, 1942. He spent most of his childhood in Long Island, where he grew up in a Jewish family. Reed took an early interest in music and played guitar in several bands during his high school years. During this period, he underwent electroshock therapy intended to cure him of his bisexuality. The Velvet Underground Reed and Cale recruited Reed's college acquaintances, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker, to join a band they called the Velvet Underground. The group soon caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol, who incorporated them into his regular parties and introduced them to the New York art scene. Warhol claimed some ownership of the band, compelling them to take on European model Nico as a singer on their debut album. Despite their resistance, the first Velvet Underground album, called The Velvet Underground & Nico, is considered one of the most influential in rock history. Some of Reed's songs, including "Heroin," addressed his growing drug use. The volatile combination of personalities within the band could not coexist peacefully for long. By the time the band recorded their next album, White Light/White Heat, both Nico and Warhol were no longer participants. Cale and Reed clashed, driving Cale from the band. The Velvet Underground released two more albums with more pop-oriented tracks by Reed, including "Sweet Jane." In 1970, Reed left the band, retiring to his parents' home on Long Island. Solo Career Lou Reed briefly worked at his father's tax accounting firm before signing a solo recording contract with RCA Records. His first album, Lou Reed, contained re-recorded versions of unreleased Velvet Underground songs, and was not a commercial or critical success. In 1972, Reed released Transformer. Co-produced by David Bowie, the album contained the hit single "Walk on the Wild Side," which paid tribute to the hustlers and transvestites Reed had met through Andy Warhol, and the song "Perfect Day." The record is widely considered to be the pinnacle of Reed's solo career. Following Transformer, Reed recorded a number of albums with wildly differing styles and cultivated an antagonistic and erratic persona. Reed graduated from Syracuse University, where he studied writing and film. After college, he moved to New York City and began writing songs for Pickwick Records. In 1964, Reed scored a minor hit with the parody single "The Ostrich." Pickwick hired a band, including future Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, to back Reed's vocals. The two became friends, collaborators and roommates.

Chico Pinheiro

One of the leading figures in modern Brazilian music, guitarist/composer/arranger Chico Pinheiro, was born in São Paulo. Self-taught, Pinheiro started playing the guitar and the piano when he was 7 years old. After starting to perform professionally at age 15, he rounded out his musical education with a stay in Boston, where he received his music degree from Berklee College of Music (Summa cum laude), studying with legendary teachers Mick Goodrick and Hal Crook and winning several academic/ musical prizes there during his studies. Not only an exceptional guitarist with a wonderful sound and great fluidity, Chico Pinheiro is a unique composer of originality and maturity, qualities that stand out on his solo recordings

Kyle Asche

Guitarist Kyle Asche arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1998, and has since become an integral and in-demand part of the city's jazz scene. The Kyle Asche Organ Trio continuously perform at many of the famous venues in Chicago including the Green Mill, Hothouse, Andy’s Jazz Club, Pops for Champagne, and Pete Miller’s. Mr. Asche was awarded as a semifinalist in the prestigious 2005 Thelonius Monk International Guitar Competition. In 2005 Kyle Asche’s debut album as a leader was released, The Hook Up (Origin/OA2), and was very well received throughout the USA in the media and radio. Jazz Times stated, “Asche displays a beautiful sound and a well-developed melodic sense." Mr