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Francesco Saiu

Born: June

Francesco Saiu sin da piccolo si appassiona alla musica e inizia lo studio della chitarra sotto la guida del padre. Seguendo varie situazioni musicali in contesti differenti approda alla musica jazz all'età di 20 anni. Si trasferisce dalla Sardegna nel “97, e approfondisce i suoi studi musicali presso il conservatorio L. Marenzio di Brescia sotto la guida del M° Corrado Guarino. Nel frattempo partecipa ai seminari di Ravenna con Jim Hall, Mike Stern, John Scofield e successivamente con John Stowell, Paolino Dalla Porta, Sandro Gibellini, Miroslav Vitous, Tony Scott, Bebo Ferra, etc. Partecipa a vari festival quali l'Eddy Lang jazz festival nel 2000, Nuoro Jazz festival, Time in Jazz di Berchidda con la formazione Crossnotes Ensemble, Roccella Ionica jazz festival, Moncalieri jazz, Piacenza jazz ed altri. E' Vincitore del 3° premio al Moncalieri jazz festival Novembre 2002 con un trio a suo nome. Nell'Agosto 2003 suona nell'orchestra che si esibirà al festival di Roccella Ionica diretta da Butch Morris. Nel 2004 è tra gli 8 finalisti al concorso Nuovi Talenti del Jazz Italiano tenutosi durante il Piacenza jazz Festival. Dal 2004 partecipa ai laboratori di improvvisazione diretti da Stefano Battaglia a Siena con una formazione in quartetto. Attualmente svolge attività Concertistica con formazioni a proprio nome in solo, trio e quartetto e svolge Seminari nel nord Italia e in Sardegna. Collabora inoltre con diversi altri musicisti fra cui Pietro Ballestrero con il quale ha inciso di recente il disco in quintetto LINNAS. Attualmente è docente di chitarra e improvvisazione jazz al CEM di Bergamo e presso l’Accademia Musicale di Cellatica. Ha collaborato con: Bebo Ferra,Gianluigi Trovesi, Butch Morris, Pietro Ballestrero, Giulio Corini, Achille Succi, Aya Shymura, Francesco Ganassin, Andrea Ruggeri, Corrado Guarino, Walter Mascia, Valentino Meloni, Paolo Damiani ed altri……

Jason Green

Born: July 25, 1973

Jason Green was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1973. He began playing guitar at the age of 15 and was immediately bitten by the blues and jazz bug. By the time he was 17, he was already playing professionally in local clubs, with guys more than twice his age. After a few years in college studying music theory and composition, Jason decided that his education would be better achieved learning the business in bar rooms and through meeting elder jazz and blues men. It is a decision he does not regret. At 21 he decided to make music a full-time career and has been at it ever since. In 1995, Jason joined the JIMMY LEY blues band(former piano/harp player and bandleader for Robert Lockwood Jr.) and for 4 years toured both regionally and nationally, as well as recording several Cd's with Jimmy for SLIPPERY NOODLE RECORDS (an Indianapolis blues label)

Rick Haydon

Born: June 24, 1950

Rick Haydon is a Professor of Music at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where he is Director of Jazz Studies and head of the Guitar Program .He teaches Advanced Jazz Improvisation, Rhythm Section Workshop, Private Applied Jazz Guitar, supervises the Jazz Combo System, and directs the Jazz Guitar Ensemble. Rick has served on the summer faculties of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Band Director Academy, the Birch Creek Music Center and the Jim Widner Summer Jazz Camps. Rick has been playing guitar for forty-nine years and has studied with many of the Masters of Jazz Guitar. Among these are, Johnny Smith, Howard Roberts, Pat Martino, and most recently Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string). Professor Haydon has been performing professionally for over thirty-five years and has played in a variety of situations

Avi Granite

Born: January 5, 1978

Avi Granite is a guitarist and composer best known for his Toronto based improvisational sextet Avi Granite 6. Granite calls New York City home where his work is performed by his quartet Verse and experimental project Graphic Tongue. His most recent effort “Together Song - The Improvisations of Daniel Carter and Avi Granite Vol.1” features Granite in duet with multiinstrumentalist and NYC free music scene legend Daniel Carter.

Granite has performed around the globe and studied with some of the best. He completed his undergrad at Humber College in Toronto and received his masters from NYU. As a composer he has been commissioned by play-writes and string quartets. He has composed for commercials, tv shows, and film. Honored as guest lecturer at several universities Granite has also developed creative workshops for corporate education. He is sole proprietor of Pet Mantis Records.

Mikkel Ploug

Born: May 11, 1978

Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug (b.1978) has performed all over Europe, Brazil and the US with his bands Mikkel Ploug Group, Mikkel Ploug Trio and Equilibrium. He has recorded 12 albums for internationally reknowned labels such as Sunnyside Records (USA), Whirlwind (UK) Fresh Sounds New Talent (ES) Songlines Recordings (CA). Mikkel has performed as a soloist with The Royal Ballet in Copenhagen and works with american choreographer and dancer Tilman O’Donnell.

His solo album Alleviation has over 2 million plays on Spotify and his 2018 album “Faroe” was selected for the Grammy category “Best Instrumental Jazz Album”.

Oren Neiman

Born: January 11, 1978

"The fallacy of being lost in ornamental doodling is the risk of every jazz guitarist, but it's completely absent in Neiman's almost ascetic play. This doesn't mean that his playing is simple; far from it..." --Jakob Baekgaard, All About Jazz Guitarist Oren Neiman's music is both innovative and in the forefront of today's jazz styles, as well as being celebrated for his technical precision. His compositions explore a combination of Jazz sensibility with Middle Eastern rhythms and melody. Born in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and raised in Toronto, Canada, and Israel, he grew up listening to many different kinds of music, He started playing mainly in rock bands, but soon became interested in jazz

Bill Rayner

Dr. William S. Rayner has been a musician since he was a child growing up in Amityville, Long Island. At an early age, he took piano lessons and then began to play the drums as a teenager. When he was 16, he was introduced to the music of the legendary blues guitarist BB King, as well as classic rock artists such as Jimmy Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. He gradually fell more in love with these artists and began to play guitar at the age of 18. Since then, the guitar became his primary instrument. Dr. Rayner attended Emerson College alongside famous colleagues such as Denis Leary, Steve Wright, and founder of MTV, Doug Herzog

Mike Allemana

Born: July 2, 1969

Born and raised near Chicago, in Elmhurst, IL, Mike became interested in jazz at age 12 after being introduced to George Benson by his guitar teacher at Perry’s Music in Villa Park, IL. In high school he performed the York High School Jazz Band, directed by Kurt Merrill, which inspired him to pursue jazz guitar as a career. He enrolled at Northern Illinois University, where he studied with Bobby Roberts and Fareed Haque. After earning a B.M. in Jazz Performance in 1991 Mike spent two years in Cincinnati, Ohio, spending many nights hanging with local guitar greats Cal Collins and Kenny Poole

Matt Chandler

Born: June 15, 1977

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Gary Tu

Born: October 17, 1976

"Gary Tu is a talented young jazz guitarist, whose style reminds one of a Wes Montgomery (sans the octave doubling) with just a dash of Metheny. On "Look East," the artist displays his guitar, composition and arrangement talents in a trio setting with drummer Andre Beasley and Bassist Kurt Schweitz - and it is a quite engaging set that is the end result. Intriguingly divided into a first half of original tunes and a second half of jazz classics, "Look East" allows plenty of opportunity for Tu to display his graceful, mostly-uneffected single string charms. The opening title track is enhanced by the guitarists wind chime harmonics and robust riffing over a sure-footed rhythm section