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William Hartzell

Born: November, 1966

I began playing saxophone at age 11, and added guitar a few years later. From 1984 to 1988, I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. At Berklee, guitar became my principal instrument. I majored in Commercial Arranging, studying many different composition and writing techniques for all styles of music. During my time at Berklee, I also was introduced to film scoring, jingle writing, and using computers in music. After leaving Berklee, I stayed in the Boston area, writing music for several independent films, playing guitar (and singing) in rock bands, and also doing live sound mixing for other bands

JC Harris

Born: October 29, 1958

It's been a lonnnnnng time getting here. A long time ago, there was this kid who only wanted to work on fishing boats in Galway, IE but somehow wound up in America--getting most horribly corrupted by that devil rock and roll. My family had such high hopes for me. So 'back in the day', I was all over the map as a musician. I started out as a founding member of the influential punk rock band Hüsker Du and then moved on to become a guitar and bass player for several Motown acts such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. Along the way I also played with many well-known jazz and gospel artists like Ramsey Lewis and The Winans and Broadway shows (Annie, Grease), wrote commercial scores (Lorzban: The Proven Way To Increase Crop Yields!) and even included a stint with the well-known public radio show A Prairie Home Companion. But then I tried to go straight, Ossifer

Dan Adler

Born and raised in Israel, Dan Adler studied jazz guitar, music and composition privately while learning the craft of Jazz by playing with some of Israel’s best known musicians while he was still a teenager. After moving to the US in 1986, Dan Adler has made New York City his home base and has studied, played and recorded with many of the finest players in the world. Dan Adler's first CD, All Things Familiar, featuring Grant Stewart on tenor saxophone has been recently released and has received rave reviews. Dan Adler's second CD, "Back To The Bridge", is an organ trio featuring Joey DeFrancesco and Byron Landham.

Paul Cohn

Born: May 9, 1989

Paul Cohn is a jazz guitarist and composer currently based in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of music degree in jazz studies from Bowling Green State University and has studied with Chris Buzzelli, David Bixler and Tad Weed. His first album, “The Dreamer,” is an original work featuring his quintet and was released in early 2012.

Eric Astor

Born: May 13, 1981

Los Angeles based guitarist Eric Astor is making his mark on the jazz scene with his debut CD, Coolfire. Featuring driving guitars and Latin rhythms, this album has a style like no other. From the country rock vibe of Route 74 to the driving Latin beat of Brooklyn, and the touching acoustic performance of Forever, Coolfire spans genres with something for every listener. Performing for more than 17 years, Eric started in school jazz bands, learning standards and core elements of big band, swing, blues, rock, funk, and Latin. Playing these diverse styles through high school and college--where his playing earned several accolades--enables Eric to play any genre of music today

Alvon

Born: September 9

Alvon Johnson: 2005 Guitar Player of the Year, Former vocalist with the Rock and Roll Hall of fame group "The Coasters", Regional winner of the Guitar Centers "King of the Blues" national contest in 2006 and 2007, his CD “The Blues Grew up was nominated for Outstanding Blues Album 2004 and Voted in top ten CD in Japan in 2005. His latest CD Guitars and Cars was voted in top ten CD’s of 2008 by the prestigious Blues magazine “Real Blues ”.
His early influences were Guitar players such as Wes Montgomery, Andre Segovia, Charlie Christian, and of course Jimi Hendrix. His vocalist influences were Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. Throughout his career he has performed with many well known artists, including The Drifters, The Shirelles, Bobby Day of Rocking’ Robin fame, Otis Day and the Knights, and Jimmie Rodgers of Country and Western fame

Dan Nettles

Based in the humid indie-rock haven of Athens, Georgia, Dan Nettles has supplied the world with his own unique blend of modern-jazz-meets-college-radio for well over a decade as guitarist and composer for the genre-bending ensemble, Kenosha Kid. Starting in 2004, he built the band on these principles: build a scene, write for people you know, and listen to your creative heart regardless of music idiom. A steady string of remarkable content has followed, in a variety or formations and flavors. From the ten-piece silent film score Steamboat (2008), the sci-fi future music of Fahrenheit (2009), the raw trio of Land of Obey (2010), to the companion releases featuring trio and three horns, Inside Voices (2015) and Outside Choices (2017) his music continues to delightfully defy expectations and expertly serve jazz purists, noise-rock hipsters, and funk loving jam fans alike

Charlie Apicella

Born: January 1, 1987

In 2014 Charlie Apicella was invited by Pat Martino to study improvisation, composition, and Pat’s unique method for learning the mechanics of the guitar. He has performed concerts and recorded with jazz legends Dave Holland, Sonny Fortune, and John Blake, Jr. Charlie began his music training in 1999 at the University of Massachusetts studying composition and improvisation with Yusef Lateef and music history with Archie Shepp. In 2005 he began studying under Dave Stryker who produced the Iron City records Sparks (2009) and The Business (2011).

Bret Ward

Born: July 14, 1987

Bret started playing music at the age of 10, then at 11 he learned the trumpet. Shortly after he discovered the guitar, but trumpet was his main instrument until college. His first year of college he discovered jazz and jazz guitar. He quickly picked it up and started playing in combos around his home town of Gainesville, Ga. Bret is a versatile guitarist who is willing to play any genre, and likes to experiment with sound waves, and other funky sounds.

Stan Ayeroff

Born: February 16, 1950

Dream Street Stan Ayeroff - Leader, Composer, Arranger, Guitars Stan started out playing twangy surf guitar with his Malibu buddies. He quickly emerged as a guitar-smashing heart throb on the teenage fair circuit with The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (Reprise Record’s first group). High school graduation brought sessions for cartoons and the film “Wild In The Streets”, recordings with Davy Allen and the Arrows , Billy Joe Royal, Bobby “Boris” Pickett, Wanda Jackson, The Beach Boys, and The Beatles, Cream and Jimi Hendrix Songbooks. Stan’s band, The Smoke, recorded on Capitol Records. While studying composition at California Institute of the Arts, Stan fell in love with swing music, especially Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France. During the 70’s and 80’s Stan led several swing bands and wrote books on Django, Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman