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Bob Smith - Guitar

Charlie Tresca

Born: October 25, 1953

Charlie began playing clarinet at 8 years old, and guitar at age 10. He started playing jazz guitar at age 18. Charlie believes that music study is a life-long pursuit and that music education provides the seeds for developing instrumental skills and creativity. The individual musician and his/her outside musical influences determine the overall artist's contribution. He was blessed to have Billie Holiday's former pianist, Carlton Drinkard, as a mentor in college while becoming a member of the college's jazz workshop. Carlton introduced him to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and I was asked to sit in at their performance at Stockton State College, Pomona, New Jersey back in 1977

Rick Mareske

Born: April 25, 1953

Began playing folk music and rock in 1968 as a singer songwriter. Became interested in jazz in college and have continued studying and playing throughout my life. Recently my love for standards has won out. I love everything from gypsy jazz to Miles. In Last Free Exit I play guitar, steel pans and sing and am joined by a bassist and mandolinist who loves Jethro Burns and Django. I also play in the Cynthia Van Roden Trio. Cynthia is a top notch vocalist who likes to add the verses to some of the old tunes. I also love to play with some of our city's best bassists.

Mike Denny

Mike Denny received his BA in Music History and Theory from City College of New York in 1992. In 1995 Denny received his MA in Music History from the University of Oregon. Denny is an instructor of jazz guitar, and has been on the UO faculty since 1995 and the Lane Community College faculty since 1994. Denny also works as a clinician for jazz events and master classes at the University of Oregon and other institutions. After lending his blues-rooted guitar stylings to the jazz scenes of New York City, Washington, D.C., Denver, Portland, Paris, and Barcelona for many years, Denny returned to his Oregon roots to complete his MA in Music History at the University of Oregon

Mike Seal

Mike Seal is a musician and guitarist based out of Nashville. Originally from Bridgewater, Va., he played out of the East Tennessee region for the last ten years, touring and recording with a wide variety of bands including: The Black Lillies, Jeff Sipe Trio, The Jeff Coffin Mu-tet, Ike Stubblefield, Robinella, Larkin Poe, and the bluegrass group Mountain Soul, among others. Currently he is part of the Jerry Douglas band. Mike has performed and recorded on many other projects as a guitarist, pianist and Dobro player. His background is primarily in jazz, but you will hear him performing a wide range of music spanning many genres.

Mason Razavi

Born: April, 1983

Jazz guitarist Mason Razavi is an artist with a growing profile in the SF Bay Area and beyond. Based in San Jose, CA, Razavi’s groups have performed at SF Jazz and San Jose Jazz as well as many Bay Area jazz clubs and concert series. He regularly performs with the area’s top players and has also played with Anton Schwartz, John Stowell, Carl Saunders, and Charles McNeal, among others. His albums have often featured ambitious original music that has been warmly received by jazz radio worldwide. An avid educator, Razavi is the jazz guitar professor at West Valley College and Chabot College

SKNAIL

Born: April 8, 1973

SKNAIL is a Swiss composer and music producer. In collaboration with 6 professional jazz and classical musicians, he has reinvented the jazz band by replacing the drummer with the sighs of broken printers, the creaking of worn out machinery, computer crashes and other sounds generated by mistreated machines. SKNAIL composes and arranges everything, and records the confrontations between musicians and machines. He will let both sides improvise and experiment with the cutting-edge. These unbridled fights, included in the first album, called “glitch jazz”, have lead to totally new and amazing sounds different from what we have heard until now, varying from jazz and free jazz to contemporary and minimal electro to glitch electronica music

Andrew Renfroe

From Jupiter, Florida, with a Master of Music from Juilliard (2016), Andrew Renfroe credits much of his sound to his development at The Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz in Hartford, CT, where he earned his Bachelor of Music in 2013.

He has performed in the bands of Steve Davis, Nat Reeves, Javon Jackson, Terrace Martin, Mike LeDonne, and J.D.  Allen.  Currently, he is a member of many working groups including those led by veterans Carmen Lundy, David Weiss and Ned Goold, as well as groups led by his peers Braxton Cook, Jonathan Barber, Jonathon Pinson, Luke Sellick, Arnold Lee, and countless others.

Paul Jarret

Born: May 13, 1985

Born and raised in Paris, France, Paul Jarret is a young guitarist and composer playing mostly jazz and improvised music. Playing the jazz standards as well as radical free improvisation, he is involved in many projects as a leader, a co-leader or a sideman.

In 2010 he has founded the band Pj5 which became his main project, a new kind of lyrical and modern jazz mixed with rock/pop sounds and improvised music. With this quintet he has been touring in France and Europe, won several awards (Jazz Migration #2, Jazz à La Défense 2012, and more), is very recognized by French jazz journalists and professionals and released three albums : WORD (2013), TREES (2016) and I TOLD THE LITTLE BIRD (2018).

Pat Pratico

Born: 1955

Recorded his first CD "FOR MY JAZZ MENTORS"under his own name, jazz guitarist Pat Pratico has worked in the Trenton, N.J. area since the mid-1970's. Currently performing monthly with John Ashcraft's Midnight Sun Orchestra at Havana in New Hope, Pa. and with Carole Lynne at Jester's Café in Bordentown, NJ. I am also working with my own thing, "THE PAT PRATICO LITTLE BIG BAND". I have adapted arrangements for my 9 piece group to do a show featuring THE SOUNDS OF SINATRA.