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Will Ackerman

Born: November 16, 1949

Juampy Juarez

Born: May 6, 1970

Juampy Juarez is one of the most versatile, original and innovative players of his generation, He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Juampy can play jazz, rock, fusion or heavy metal with equal facility.He tooks lessons with great Pat Martino, Jack Wilkins, Gene Bertoncini, Jonathan Kreisberg, Barry Harris, Sid Jacobs, Paul Meyers, Bruce Arnold, and his main mentor, Pino Marrone. He has played in such important cities as New York, Buenos Aires, Sao Pablo, Bangkok ,Barcelona , Madrid , Girona (Spain), and Paris with the likes of John Stowell, Jack Wilkins, Gene Bertoncini, Peter Mazza, Ben Monder, Howard Alden, Joe Giglio, Tony De Caprio, Russ Spiegel, Pino Marrone, bassist Steve La Spina, Sid Jacobs, Sheryl Bailey, Jim Silverstein, Dan Adler, Tosh Sheridan, Matt Butterman, Tony Romano, Marco Opedissano, Rick Stone, Jim Hershman, ex- former Pat Metheny group singer and composer Pedro Aznar, Paul Meyers, trombonist Jim Masters, Bassist Thomson Mckneeland, Tom Dempsey, Joe Berger, Israel alto sax player Gilad Atzmon, Matt Askinazof, Eric Leboucher radiguet(France), Luis Sanchez Trio(Spain) among many Argentina top stars like Los Piojos, La Renga, and Ciro Martinez, Axel, and Luciano Pereyra. He played in the most importants venues of Buenos Aires, as wordly famous and prestigious Teatro Colon, Rock’s temple Cemento, and jazz clubs like Jazz&Pop, Bebop Club, Clasica y Moderna and Thelonious Club. In NY, he have been playing at the prestigious 55 Bar, Smoke and Bar Next Door. Juampy has been teaching for the past 25 years, privately and at different universities from Bangkok to Buenos Aires. He is a clinician too, with around 20 videolessons for the great american web site mikesmasterclasses.com , 35 videos on Juampy’s modernguitarlessons on youtube.com, plus many music’s magazines. He has written four books called “Contrapuntal Improvisation”, “Guitar Explorations”, “Improvisacion avanzada III”and !Poliphonic Imporvisation”

Zac Selissen

Zac Selissen is a guitarist, arranger and teacher whose performance of the guitar has earned him mastery of a wide range of music – from rock to jazz, bossa, and bluegrass, from classical to tango and flamenco. He spends his time arranging for his guitar duo, Duo Symphonious, his Argentine tango band, Tangonero, the University of St. Thomas Guitar Ensemble, and Out of the Chamber Arts Collective. Until his recent move to NY, he was on the guitar faculty of Community Music Center in San Francisco and New Mozart School of Music in Palo Alto. As a member of Duo Symphonious, he was awarded the CMC Shenson Award for their original adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet, and was awarded the Certificate of Honor by Mayor Gavin Newsom for their performance at San Francisco City Hall

Nick Millevoi

Nick Millevoi is a guitarist and composer whose music searches for the sonic cracks between jazz, rock and roll, noise, and modern composition. An intrepid composer, Millevoi confronts everything from maximal electric power trio music to chamber music to large scale improvisation heavy ensemble pieces, and everything in between. With his band, Desertion Trio, featuring bassist Johnny DeBlase and drummer Kevin Shea, Millevoi approaches the many styles of American electric guitar music from an avant garde angle. He also co-leads Hollen-voi, with guitarist Matt Hollenberg, formed to perform new compositions by composer John Zorn. Nick was a member of the collective power trio Many Arms, releasing five full-length records, including two for John Zorn’s Tzadik label, played guitar in the Hassidic-based doom metal band Deveykus (Tzadik), and was a member of Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band, contributing to the band’s critically acclaimed The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)

Gerry Thomas

Whether a themed corporate party, special event, or festival for thousands, “The Jam Band” is da-bomb! Playing the great Blues, Funk, classic rock tunes, Traditional Standard tunes and more, “The Jam Band” delivers fun for every event! Many say show producer and band leader, Gerry Thomas, has a sixth sense that combines good music, sound and lighting and featured talent with the audience for maximum listener entertainment! Joined by Gerry’s personally selected Jam Band members, “The Jam Band” often engages “Friends” as Cameo Artists to customize and enhance the show. Their unique sound will put your event over the top! If you’ve got the space and your gig is big enough, “The Jam Band” brings in the horn section, full stage lighting, full sound system and sound /lighting technicians for a professional “Vegas” style show! Book the band now for your event – you’ll be glad you did! It’s all about the music! [email protected] 740-653-1728

Gary Clark, Jr.

To sum up Gary Clark Jr.is more challenging every day. He’s a musical universe unto himself, expanding at a nearly immeasurable rate, ever more hard to define — as a mind-blowing guitarist, a dazzling songwriter and engagingly soulful singer. With his debut album Blak And Blu he has just become the first artist ever recognized by the Recording Academy with Grammy Award nominations in both the rock and R&B categories for the same album in the same year, winning the latter: Best Traditional R&B Performance” - “Please Come Home”(from the album Blak And Blu). And the day after claiming those honors he provided one of the highlights of the highlights-filled “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles,” with sparks flying as he dueled with Joe Walsh on an incendiary “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” Dave Grohl behind them pounding the drums. But that barely scratches the surface

Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen

Born: September 23, 1978

Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen is an award-winning Finnish composer, arranger, musician and producer. One of the leading young jazz artists of the vibrant Helsinki scene, he is the founder and leader of jazz-sextet Dalindèo and the 17-member all-star outfit Ricky-Tick Big Band. His style of jazz can be defined as “contemporary-classic”: roots in the tradition of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong while eyes and ears clearly in the 21st century. He has studied jazz composition in Helsinki, Paris and Rotterdam and lived for extensive periods in Berlin and London as well. Originally a guitar player, he also plays piano, old Casio-synths and electronics

Riley Daley

Born: January 1, 1971

Anthony T. DeCarlo

Born: August 31, 1990

Anthony DeCarlo is a musician from Philadelphia, PA. Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Anthony began playing guitar at age 6, under the guidance of his teacher, Ernie White, of whom he would study under for the next 12 years. He eventually crossed the bridge to Philadelphia to pursue a degree at University of the Arts (2013 graduate) and learn the roots of Philadelphia!!

Jan Rivera

Jan Rivera is a graduate from both the A.A. and bachelor’s programs (Electric Guitar Performance – Contemporary Styles) at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, CA; where he studied with Alex Machacek, Antti Kotikoski, Chris Juergensen, Greg Howe, Scott Henderson, and also worked as a Teaching Assistant.

He was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where he started his formal education by obtaining a B.M. in Musical Education and a B.A. in Music (Classical Guitar) from the Universidad Interamericana of Puerto Rico, San German Campus. He also finished all coursework for a Masters in Music Education before moving to Los Angeles, where he still resides.