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Benjamin Kaufman

Born: November 23, 1987

Years of Experience: 7 years The reason he started performing: I began playing music because I loved the way it made me feel. It allowed me to express myself on a level that was unmatched by anything else. With my introduction to jazz and the unlimited about of creativity and improvisation, I was hooked. I began playing guitar because I wanted a challenging and versitile instrument. Guitar allows me to play constantly. Other instrumentalists are often taking turns. I also noticed how tightly knit the rhythm section players were and that was appealing to me. What he is doing musically right now: I have become very serious in my Jazz Studies

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Peter Curtis

Born: April 24, 1970

Peter Curtis is a guitarist and composer. He has performed or recorded with notable jazz musicians including Claudia Acuna, Lynn Arriale, Seamus Blake, Don Braden, James Carter, Freddy Cole, Barbra Morrison, Eldad Tarmu and Ron Westray of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He has played in some of the top jazz clubs in Los Angeles as well as in New York’s Carnegie Hall. In addition, he has performed on Black Entertainment Television. In Europe, some of the venues at which he has appeared include A- Trane in Berlin, Sounds in Brussels, The Jazz Garden in Budapest, Jazz Club in Florence, Der Regentenkammer in the Hague, Jumpin’ Jazz Ballroom in Milan, Studio Des Islettes in Paris, Reduta in Prague and The Gig in Zurich. With his group, the Peter Curtis Quartet, he recently released his debut album Swing State, which is available at cdbaby.com

Mark O'Leary

Born: October 20, 1969

Mark O'Leary was born in Cork City Ireland.Being mainly auto didactic on guitar, he played with a number of local bands including; Midway that led to joining the cult band  Interference for a brief period and Mandrake Root with Brendan O'Connor of RTE and a Synth-Pop band called Voltaire with initial influences The Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. Björk is an influence. A-ha are also an influence on his Synth-Pop Concept. Bill Laswell has influenced Mark. One of Mark's primary formative influences were Kraftwerk and he alludes to his electronic music as Post-Kraftwerk. He is also influenced by Tangerine Dream and has produced the In Search of Hades Series (II-IV). Depeche Mode are an important Electro Synth Pop Influence. Ryoji Ikeda is a major influence. His electronic music contains influences of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Joy Division were the primary influence for his first bands. Japan were a formative influence on his embryonic work and also David Sylvian. Gary Numan has influenced his Electronic music. He was also influenced by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Mike Oldfield was a formative influence. He Studied the tape-loop experiments of Steve Reich at Musicians institute, Los Angeles, and Steve Reich has influenced his album 4 Urban Landscapes. He also studied Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tape Music Collages at Musicians Institute and counts him as a major influence. His ambient work is influenced by Brian Eno. Ligeti is also a significant influence. He has also been influenced by Philip Glass. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to study at Musicians Institute,from where he later graduated. He was the guitar/music teacher of academy award winning best actor Cillian Murphy. He has presented his music in 29 countries and has played at some of the worlds top Jazz festivals and the Kennedy center twice, Knitting Factory, Tonic, CBGB's, Nublu, Luciano Pavarotti Centre, and the Bowery. He had the distinction of performing in the Kenny Wheeler quartet, performed with David Murray and Larry Coryell. He toured Europe and was a member of Canadian Pianist Paul Bley's Last trio where he replaced Bill Frisell. He recorded White Album with Paul Motian, If I see Further than you with Joey Baron and Michael Formanek, as well as A Simple Question with Marc Johnson and Bill Stewart. All on the TIBProd Italy imprint. He toured and recorded the seminal Awakening album with Steve Swallow and Pierre Favre, which earned a review in Jazzwise UK alluding to O'Leary as the most creative guitarist in Ireland and Ireland's best kept secret. He recorded Levitation with Tomasz Stanko and Billy Hart. Mark O'Leary also performed in a historic Duo concert with Tomasz Stanko in the Titanic bar, Cobh Co. Cork performing O'Leary's composition; Titanic Murals, The Titanic Bar was the final sailing point of the RMS Titanic. His album Waiting with Cuong Vu and Tom Rainey which Brian Morton has termed magnificent and had John Fordham of the Guardian praise O'Leary as a superb acoustic guitarist.

Calvin Keys

Born: February 6, 1942

Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1943, Calvin Keys' musical legacy began early with his father Otis Keys, a man who is still described as Omaha's greatest natural drummer. Early on in his own musical career Calvin auditioned and played guitar with such greats as Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and bassist Gerald Holts. At age 17, he first hit the road with sax player Little Walkin' Willie and then followed in his father's footsteps to Kansas City, where his first gigs were with Preston Love of the Count Basie Orchestra and The Frank Edwards Organ Trio. That foundation led to working with one of the greatest organ trios of all time‚ The Jimmy Smith Trio, and then on to working with several other organ greats: Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, and Groove Holmes. In 1969, Keys headed for Los Angeles

Vinicius Cantuaria

Singer, guitarist, composer, drummer, and percussionist, Vinicius Cantuaria is a well-known Brazilian musician in the sphere of Bossa Nova and Jazz. Born in Manaus, Amazonas, he grew up in Rio de Janeiro, and after several successful records, he moved to New York in the mid-90s. He has proved himself in a number of fields, directly or indirectly linked to Brazilian music. Leader of the rock band “O Terco”, he released six albums in Brazil in the 80s and with his album “Sol na Cara” (Grammavision), was a pioneer of the neo-Brazilian music in 1996. He then became one of the most important downtown New York figures, multiplying collaborations with artists as eclectic as Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, Brad Mehldau, Arto Lindsay. As a composer, Cantuaria has had many successes, with “Lua e Estrela” (recorded by Caetano Veloso in 1981), “Coisa Linda,” “So Você,” and “Na Cançao”; as a sideman, he has performed with Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, to only name a few. In New York, he has released five internationally recognized studio albums “Sol Na Cara”, “Ê“,”ÊVinicius”, “Horse & fish”, “” and signed an artist contract with Naïve in 2008 which released his album “Cymbals”, recorded with top New York musicians, Brad Mehldau, Michael Leonhardt, Dave Binney, and Erik Frielander… Keeping his New York musicians for «ÊSamba cariocaÊ» (2010), Vinicius Cantuaria successfully returned to his Brazilian roots which once again proved to be numerous

Freddie Williams

Born: July 26, 1986

Born July 26, 1986, Freddie is a young jazz musician just emerging into the jazz music world. Since 2005, Freddie predominant career has been work with jazz groups Control Point 11 and Who Invited Shady as a songwriter,percussionist, and guitarist. Freddie's studies in music began in Jacksonville, Florida through the International Baccalaureate music program. Recently studying at the University of Florida, Freddie hit the mainstream jazz scene. With a foundation in the drums and jazz guitar, Freddie has became an innovator in Jacksonville's own Jazz movement. Freddie Williams' current project is with jazz contemporary Adam G

Jan Zehrfeld

Born: March 3, 1977

Studied jazz guitar at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria (with Karl Ratzer), the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (Raul Björkenheim), at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Germany (Peter O’Mara), and was a member of the National Jazz Orchestra (under Peter Herbolzheimer). He has performed with Klaus Doldinger’s Passport, Uwe Ochsenknecht and band, the Hilliard Ensemble, Wolfgang Schmidt, Roberto DiGioia, Martin Schmitt, Wencke Myhre, The Croonettes, etc. Zehrfeld formed Panzerballett in 2004 driven by a desire to combine his hard rock roots with his deep understanding of and extensive experience with jazz and thereby find the common denominator within the two essentially different sound aesthetics.

Daniel Molnar

Born: April 3, 1981

Baron Tymas

Born: February 6, 1960

A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Baron Tymas is a skilled and passionate performer, composer and educator who plays regularly with various artists in the southeast and abroad. In addition to the Trio, Baron currently works with the Nebulous Jazztet, led by trombonist Mitch Butler. Baron is an alumnus of F.R.E.N.S. (r&b/funk/jazz quintet, Richmond, VA), Cross Currents (fusion quartet, Washington, DC) and Black Sheep (reggae band, Washington, DC). He is an assistant professor of music at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. At NCCU, he heads the guitar program and is Assistant Director of Jazz Studies