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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

Diego Bruno

Born: January 14, 1968

Argentine guitar player,acually live in Salvador,Bahia (Brazil).Diego has played with the most important jazz musicians in his native Argentina and recorded a jazz album "Reflejos".Today he is dedicated to show this work with his own band in Salvador,Diego Bruno Quartet

Elizabeth Brinkofski

Born: February 29, 2000

Background Guitarist Elizabeth Dodd grew up in the South Plainfield NJ and was first exposed to Jazz while studying with Legondary guitar guru, Harry Leahy. Leahy toured the world as Phil Wood's guitarist. Under Leahy's legendary tutelage, Bethany began listening to the great Jazz guitarists and was active in New Brunswick Jazz Youth Orchestra. Upon receiving a Jazz guitar scholarship to Rutgers University, she received a music degree in guitar performance from the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Bethany had the privilege to study with other Jazz greats like, Kenny Baron, Larry Ridley, Terrance Blanchard, Ted Dunbar and Professor Fielder