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K Prouty

Born: November 29, 1974

Composer, producer, multi instrumentalist and guitar virtuoso. K Prouty has shared stages with shred and metal greats, played festivals and sold out concerts, been featured in magazine, podcasts and radio world wide. His music has been the sound of clothing brands, and been featured in film.

2023 was a time to change and embarking on several different paths, with a soundscape album release "Soundscapes from the dying world", a David Bowie cover album "Heathens Reality", both under his other project moniker "Building Upon The Revelation" and shifting of direction to Jazz and a reworking of original tunes under K Prouty

Matt Jardim

Born: October 21, 1962

Matt Jardim is a guitarist with extensive experience and exceptional versatility. Matt has studied with Ted Dunbar, Kevin Eubanks, Eddie Berg, Dr. Ana Marie Rosado and earned a B.A. in Jazz performance from Rutgers University. He subsequently earned an M.A. in music education and after a long and storied career recently retired as a music educator with 32 years teaching in public schools. Matt's outstanding guitar ensembles from Elizabeth and Mountain Lakes High Schools garnered much praise and teen arts awards. As a performer, Matt continues to play with various bands such as Epic Soul, Yacht Rock Gold Experience, Random Acts of Soul and with his jazz trio or as a fingerstyle soloist.

Tolga During Liberdjango

Tolga was born in Istanbul in 1977 but grew up on a small island in the north of Holland. When he was eight years old he started studying classical guitar, and some years later he switched to electric guitar, and soon after started playing gigs with local rock bands. At age eighteen he moved to Amsterdam where he discovered Jazz and Django Reinhardt's Gipsy Jazz. He took lessons from time to time, but is mainly self-taught.

His first personal album 'Bohemia' (1999), was a big success, opening doors to many national and international festivals. Since then, he has played at some of the most prestigious festivals like the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland, and did numerous of concerts for radio and television. He got many invitations to play in Italy, and in the spring of 2005, he decided to move there all together.

Billy Marrows

Born: January 23, 1994

Billy Marrows is a London-based award-winning guitarist and composer/arranger. He leads the Billy Marrows Band, the Billy Marrows Big Band and a new chamber jazz ensemble Grande Família. Billy is a member of projects across a broad spectrum of the London jazz scene such as Huw V Williams’ Di-Cysgodion, OK Aurora and the Tom Ridout Quintet. He has toured in the UK and Europe with Chelsea Carmichael, the Tom Barford Group, Patchwork Jazz Orchestra and Tom Ridout and has appeared on a number of albums, including Amsterdam-based Sam Newbould’s Bogus Notus and Tom Barford's Bloomer, released on Edition records.

Slow the Band

Born: December 12, 1969

Slow the Band, a Poland based group of passionate jazz musicians fresh off of recent shows across Middle Europe, celebrates their first concert album, Live in Dresden, released May 2024.
To the surprise of its 2 founding members - guitarist Tomasz Kaczmarczyk and pianist Krzysztof Werminski - what started as a hobby musical adventure in 2010 has since turned into a serious fusion jazz project involving some of the finest Polish musicians around. The surprises continue with enthusiastic international reviews after each new release.
 

Jeff Miley

Always a willing collaborator, guitarist Jeff Miley has partnered up with a slew of talented artists over the past few decades - resulting in a steady stream of original music releases from the likes of The Odd Dogs, bug, Suburban Alphabet, Code 3, The Three Jazzmen, Inga Swearingen, and Altered. Reviews of his music and his guitar playing have appeared in JazzWise Magazine (U.K.), Guitar Player Magazine (in which he was a Spotlight Award Winner), Gendai Guitar (Japan), and The Himalayan Times (Nepal), among others. He has performed all over the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia.  Jeff received his Bachelor of Music Degree from California State University, Northridge, where he was a recipient of the Andres Segovia Performance Award from the American Guitar Society. During this time he was also a member of the first guitar ensemble to ever perform at the Tokyo International Chamber Music Festival.  In addition to his original projects, he has enjoyed performing with a wide-array of other artists, including Ron Miles, Tim Ries, Jon Anderson (Yes), Ernie Watts, Bob Sheppard, Bobby Shew, Andy Martin, Diane Schur, Adam Benjamin, Mitch Forman, Bob Reynolds, and many others.  

Tomer Sasson

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1994, Tomer Sasson is an accomplished young guitar player living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. As a highly sought-after sideman, Tomer has been a frequent band member with many notable Israeli musicians such as Dan Benedikt (drums), Gadi Stern (piano), Alon Benjamini (drums), and many more. Sasson is currently collaborating with the acclaimed award-winning international band Salosh as part of a weekly residency at Tassa club in Tel Aviv. In addition, Sasson is an artist in residence at the prestigious Israeli world-renowned venue Beit-Haamudim (one of the best jazz clubs in the world, according to DownBeat) and at the Jazz Mirage Kissa club