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Josep.h.

Born: December 9, 1981

Howard Love

Listened to Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross literally as an infant. Parents were spinning it & many others of that period. New every change & part in my head. It was jazz straight ahead from there. Met Mr. Hendricks years ago backstage @The Blue Note & told him the story...Got my father on the horn and he & Jon spoke. Talk about coming full circle! My 9th or 10th birthday was asked by Granny what I wanted. The music of "Peter Gun"! Let's go buy me the record! She took me to Corvette's downtown Brooklyn & found that album by The Aaron Bell Orchestra including Burrell on gui-tar

John Campbelljohn

Roy Michael Smarr

Born: July 26, 1951

Jeff Mironov

Staffan William-Olsson

Ron Nocella

Bio/Background: Ron Nocella began playing guitar at age 8. After listening to the likes of Wes Montgomery from his Dad’s bakery shop radio, he was inspired to learn and study jazz guitar. In the mid to late 70's, South Philly was an area thriving with professional musicians and teachers. Al and Billy DelGovenatore, Dennis Sandole, Joe Sgro, Al Stauffer, and Jimmy Bruno were all were major inspirations. At 15/16 years of age, he often went to the Bijou Cafe on his own to see the likes of McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Bill Evans and Pat Martino. Ron's formal guitar studies began in his teens, studying initially with Frank DiBussolo teaching him the essentials in guitar studies

Scott Rosen

Born: June 8, 1957

Sidney Selby

Born: July 28, 1931

Sidney Selby is a true blues man. He also goes by 'Bone Crusher' and 'Guitar Crusher', names he earned throughout his career. Born in rural Hyde County N.C. in 1931 during the height of the Depression, he toiled in the cotton fields during his youth but set aside Sundays for exercising his rich baritone in the choir of Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church, continuing a tradition which gave rise to a whole generation of blues singers of his era. He moved to New York in the 50s, found a job and started singing in Church again. However. encouraged by his friends, he soon formed his own band, the Midnight Rockers and began attracting a large following. The year 1960 marked the beginning of a decade of performances with The Drifters, The Isley Brothers, Ben E

Gene Oates

Gene Oates entered the Seattle scene with Quarter2Blue which provided the melting pot for his unique blend of rock, jazz, blues and country guitar. A few years later after seriously studying jazz and jamming with some great Seattle jazz musicians Gene took his creative sound to Mavi, a jazz funk combo and Lexington Avenue jazz quartet. For the past ten years Gene has played regularly in two of the hottest Seattle big bands, Mach One Jazz Orchestra and Eastside Modern Jazz Orchestra rounding playing straight up 30s – 50s swing, to contemporary jazz.