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Joerg Sommermeyer

Born: October 14, 1947

JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) started at the tender age of ten with a dust-ridden 'beater' Harmony six-string acoustic dreadnought passed down from his father. While growing up in South Germany he first cut his teeth every evening around sundown while playing for his family. Later, he played in a band, hit the local scene and studied classical guitar with Victor von Hasselmann and Anton Stingl. Eclecticist in the positive sense, in broadest terms between Classical Music, Blues, Country, Folk, Rock, transforming himself into the entire variation of styles, with elements of Jazz, without fear of venturing into Pop, for the past five years, JS (Joerg Sommermeyer) has been performing with his group The Black Djemba. The band has enjoyed playing to their ever-increasing following in the Southern Germany Area and has gotten favourable reviews

John Sund

Born: January 1, 1957

I've played and worked with a large number of artists including, The Danish Radio Big Band, Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, Thomas Clausen, Creme Fraiche Big Band, Mads Vinding. Was one of the first �jazz� musicians who received the prestigious Jacob Gade�s Grant. As a leader I've recorded the following CD�s: �John Sund & The Danish Radio Big Band � A Fusion Symphony� (Olufsen Records) and �Special Venture - Special Venture� (Intermusic) with his own band Special Venture and latest �John Sund & Acoustic Sense � New Gems� (Cope Records), which includes among others the Ghanaian percussionist Ayi Solomon & Serbian accordion virtuoso Lelo Nika

Johnnie Valentino

Born: September 2, 1957

Born in 1957 in a South Philadelphia neighborhood filled with a history of jazz guitarists that starts with 1920's legend Eddie Lang continuing through to today's jazz guitar legend Pat Martino. Johnnie studied privately as a young man with Dennis Sandole, Joe Sgro and Pat Martino. Also during that time he studied composition at Rutgers University while doing local club dates and recording sessions at Alpha recording studio for Philly World Records. In 1984 Johnnie relocated to Los Angeles where he has been musically active in many facets such as writing,,recording, scoring, performing and sound designing for TV, films and recordings. During these years he has recorded with some of today's leading contemporary improvisers including , Alex Acuna, Bennie Maupin,Vinny Golia,Wadada Leo Smith, Billy Drewes, Oscar Brashear, Andy Lester, Kermit Driscoll, Sherman Ferguson, Luis Conte, Mick Rossi, Alphonso Johnson,Delmar Brown and Pat Martino. At the 2000 International Monitor Awards in LA he was awarded the Best Sound Design Award

John Dierckx

Born: June 17, 1964

Dutch born, Christchurch New Zealand based guitar player. Have played with many musicians in the Netherlands and New Zealand. Available for solo jazz guitar gigs, duo settings, and groups, both existing and free lance. Private guitar tutoring as well as jazz theory and improvisation.

John Howland

Born: May 9, 1977

John Baboian

Born: December 24, 1955

Guitarist/Composer, John Baboian, has been on the faculty at Berklee College of Music in Boston since 1980. Before beginning his teaching career at Berklee, he received his bachelors degree from the school and later received a masters degree from New England Conservatory Of Music. Although best known for his work in the jazz & swing idioms, John has performed in the classical, blues, rock, R&B, latin and ethnic music genres. His performances include concerts, clubs, recordings, radio and television throughout the US and Canada, as well as performances in Japan, Central America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union including his ancestral home, Armenia

Joe LoPiccolo

Joe LoPiccolo is a guitarist and composer whose work is influenced by Classical, Jazz and World Music styles. Dan O'Heron of the Pasadena Weekly states his music is "Soft spoken eloquence, fascinatingly improvised." and "The music is comforting and visual, it takes you to a better place, a paradise found." Guitarist Andrew York, formerly of the Grammy Award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet states "Having exceptional ability in both classical and jazz genres is very rare; Joe excels in both styles." Andy Ellis, senior editor of Guitar Player magazine stated "LoPiccolo's impeccably executed, imaginative arrangements reveal his mastery of the guitar and its most subtle timbres." Joe LoPiccolo is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts, receiving his BFA in Jazz Guitar and his MFA in Guitar Performance

Joe Charles

Born: September 20, 1974

Plays Jazz guitar.

Jim Robitaille

Born: April 25, 1960

Guitarist and award winning composer, Jim Robitaille, has performed and or recorded and shared the bill with Dave Liebman, Karl Berger, Bob Moses, Joe Beck, Gerry Gibbs, Santi Debriano, Julian Lage, Esperanza Spalding, Oscar Stagnaro, Kate McGarry, the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, and has appeared on over 20 recordings as a leader and sideman.

His television and live performances include: The BET Jazz Channel, The Time Warner Music Choice Jazz Channel, PBS Television, The Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C, The Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, N.Y, The Wang Center, Boston, MA, The Knitting Factory and Smoke in New York, and performances in the U.S, Canada, and the West Indies

Jim DeAngelis

Born: April 1, 1953

This New Jersey born guitarist has plied his trade internationally for more than forty years. A die hard mainstream jazz enthusiast, he has dedicated his life to the rules of straight ahead jazz. Jim's loyality to his chosen idiom is matched by his fidelity to musical friends. Flutist Tony Signa is a twenty five year associate.Jake Kulik more than ten years. DeAngelis has performed for long periods of time with many of the jazz legends i.e. Howard Mcghee, Albert Daily, Maxine Sullivan, Joe Carrol, Sam Jones, Arthur and Red Prysock, Walter Bolden, Calvin Hill, Ted Curson. He has performed all over the east coast of the USA and in England, and has a limited but outstanding Grammy nominated record discography on the Statiras and Stati record labels