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Yorgui Loeffler

Rahul Mukerji

Rahul is a musician based in Maryland. Born in India, he has been performing live for over fifteen years. He has had a varied performing career that has included stints in Chicago, Boston, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C. and India. Rahul has been featured on a wide array of recordings. His pieces were featured in a movie in Singapore. His music was also featured on the DC local Tri-state Radio. In 2012, his music was featured in various animations and was used as the official score for the Fractal Forums web episodes. Rahul was featured in Guitar Player magazine in Editors Picks and people to watch in 2008

James Green

Born: February 29, 1968

James Green hails from one of the capitals of jazz, Kansas City. Starting out primarily a rock and blues player, James branched out to jazz in the last 10 years. He is a student of Danny Embrey. James is the leader of the group, Blue Fountains, a jazz quartet located in Kansas City, Missouri

Bernhard Sperrfechter

Born: September 5, 1960

German guitarist, producer, teacher. Working with national and international musicians, singers and songwriters.

Nikolaj Bugge

Born: October 26, 1989

Nikolaj Bugge is a young, Danish guitarplayer, featured in bands like Røgsignal, I Just Came From The Moon and Yune.

Owen Boxwell

Owen Boxwell is a guitarist and co-leader of the Boxwell / Feldman Group. He began playing guitar at the age of 8. He fell in love with jazz when he heard Bill Evans' album "Explorations" and joined the jazz band at Hamilton International Middle School. He was soon winning outstanding soloist awards at many different jazz festivals including University of Portland, Clark College, Bellevue College, and Lionel Hampton. In 2014 he won the Ralph Patt full tuition guitar scholarship to Mel Brown jazz camp. In high school he began playing professionally as a leader and sideman with many Seattle musicians including Milo Petersen, Alex Dugdale, D'vonne Lewis, Jared Hall, Susan Pascal, Randy Halberstadt, and others

Phil Townes

Born: 1948

Peter Frank

So says New York-bred and based musician and composer Peter Frank, who’s currently performing in select, intimate venues throughout the five boroughs of New York City, solo, and with his band, Lucky Flamingo. This Doo-Wop, folk-inflected rock ‘n roller has a unique, dual musical presence — he’s as facile on woodwind instruments as he is as a guitarist and vocalist. Peter has been involved with music since he realized what music was, and meant, as a soloist, a side man and a member of original bands. He has been reinventing himself as a solo artist with (or without) backup, writing songs alone and with a partner

Octavio Hernandez

Born: March 13, 1977

Octavio D. Hernández is musician that happends to play guitar from the Canary Islands, so to say Islander, nowadays rooted in Barcelona. His relationship with music begins at an early age from two very different ways of influence: on one side the Canary Islands folklore and on the other, jazz, blues and rock. Beign self-taught in 2001 he moved to Barcelona where he receive hands-on classes from musicians as relevant in the Catalan and Spanish music scene as Jordi Bonell, Viçens Solsona or Dani Pérez and begins his studies in the Taller de Musics where he completes part of his jazz studies. In addition to his studies at the Taller de Musics he participated in seminars and master classes with Chris Higgins, Seamus Blake, Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Friesen, Perico Sambeat, Javier Colina, Iñaki Salvador, Lage Lund, Peter Bernstein among others. In 2005 he moved to New York City where he studied with Johnathan Kreisberg and Peter Bernstein. In 2012 he finishes his complementary studies of music in the Superior School of Music of Catalonia, ESMuC, obtaining the superior title of Jazz and Modern Music (JiMM) with his degree project on the figure of Frank Zappa. In the professional field he has participated in many projects from his own jazz quartet, "Now Quartet", with which he has shared the stage with musicians such as Santi de La Rubia, Mariano Steimberg, Tom Warburton, Joan Terol, César Joaniquet or Miguel Serna, hiphop with IFS-Crew, funk and Cuban music with Mel Semé, "mestizaje" with Radio Malanga or afrobeat with Alma Afrobeat Ensemble among others. He has had the opportunity to share the stage at the Canarian Jazz Festival with the Charlie Moreno Group, at the Canarias Jazz Showroom with Aldo Caviglia and Paco Perera at the Canarias Jazz Showroom in 2013 presenting his latest solo work on the figure of Thelonious Monk with a great reception, in 2015 with Takeo Takahashi Quintet at the Festival Noorpas de Finalndia, Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, and many clubs throughout Spain. In 2015 he participates as professor in the seminar of Jazz and Modern Music of Tenerife together with Abe Rábade, Chris Cheek or Joe Magnarelli among others. He leads his own quartet, OH4t, with Kike Perdomo on sax, Audun Waage on trumpet, Giampaolo Laurentaci on bass and Juan Luís Castaño on drums and in the Haziram Trio trio with Aldo Caviglia and Giampaolo Laurentaci. As sideman he plays regularly with Kike Perdomo with whom he recorded his last work, Roots and with the Big Band of the Canary Islands, with which they participate in his last album, Hangin'Out, with the arrangements of the Danish pianist Soren Möller

Daniele Cordisco