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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.

Tristan Gianola

Born: February 27, 1991

For Tristan Gianola there is always an impulse to create, and a feeling of joy in organizing musical projects. As we tiptoe further into the 21st century, Gianola finds a sense of grounding and stillness in a stack of blank sheet music, a guitar and some pedals.

As a musician Gianola studied classical composition and conducting at Cornish College of the Arts in their hometown of Seattle, WA (where they founded the Cornish Contemporary Ensemble), only to be thrust into the music industry as a guitarist in a multitude of projects, including a steady presence in the experimental jazz scene of Seattle under the mentorship of composer Wayne Horvitz. Described as “flagrantly virtuosic” (Dave Segal, The Stranger), Gianola’s guitar vocabulary has become integral in their approach to their projects regardless of what style, most notably the regular use of electric guitar in classically-inspired chamber music. His own work as a composer and arranger continued throughout the Seattle years, informed by their developing skills in audio engineering, music engraving, professional transcription, venue managing and continuous exposure to an eclectic music scene.

Vusi Mahlasela

Vusi grew up in the Mamelodi township, just outside of Pretoria, South Africa, where he still resides. As Vusi tells it, he grew up a happy kid and was blind to the injustices in his country. His grandmother operated a Shebeen behind their home. Due to the cultural boycott inflicted by Apartheid, black South African music was hard to come by and was banned from being played on the radio. So, they played American records in the pub. James Brown. Motown. The Commodores. And whatever South African and African recordings they could find: Mahotella Queens, Mahlatini Queens, Miriam Makeba, Dark City Sisters, Fela Kuti

Ben Eunson

One of a new generation of guitarists who seek to redefine the sound of the guitar for both the present moment and the future, Ben Eunson is beginning to establish his presence as a newly emerging guitar voice in the NYC music scene. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Eunson began focusing on the guitar from age 10 onward. During his teenage years, Eunson was accepted to study music at the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School – a school that provided him the opportunity to study with some of Australia's finest musicians. During this time, he began to perform regularly at live music venues throughout Melbourne, playing regularly with figures in Australian Jazz such as Tony Gould and John Hoffman. Eunson relocated to the United States in 2011, receiving a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory in Boston

Mark Edward Fitchett

Born: October 4, 1957

I am passionate about improvisation in all styles of music. This is my love, my joy, my high in life. I get the most satisfaction from this aspect of my live performances. The creativity experienced, especially when I’m “on,” is something I don’t experience in normal everyday life. I had been playing the guitar for a couple of years as kid and was just starting to listen to Santana, Johnny Winter, Led Zeppelin and The Allman Brothers when one of my friends mentioned that the guitarists were making their solos up on the spot. That just floored me, I couldn’t believe it! I knew right then and there that I had to be able to do that too; thus starting my lifelong quest to perfect the art of improvisation on the guitar. Beginning with garage/basement bands, my friends and I got together and jammed for hours at a time on modal one chord jams, simple progressions and blues

Tim Jago

Born: February 16, 1984

Australian guitarist/composer/educator Tim Jago began performing in jazz ensembles at the age of 21. He completed a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and was awarded the Melville Toyota Scholarship for the most outstanding final year jazz student (2006). The following year he became an adjunct guitar tutor at the same institution. Also in 2007, Tim was selected as a finalist in the National Jazz Awards to perform at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival. In 2010 he was a selected candidate for the Freedman Fellowship in Australia. Tim relocated to the United States in August 2010 to undertake the Master of Music program in Studio Music and Jazz with a major in jazz guitar performance at The University of Miami Frost School of Music

Álvaro Domene

“Domene has his own voice that is both in your face and laden with subtleties.” – Mike Borella (Avant Music News) Álvaro Domene is a Madrid-born, New York based guitarist and composer operating at the convergence of various styles of contemporary creative music. His sound and compositions are influenced by the avant-garde jazz and western contemporary classical traditions, as well as metal music. He has performed and taught internationally, and recently worked with Joe McPhee, Karl Berger, Elliott Sharp, Vinny Golia, Henry Kaiser, Briggan Krauss, Michaël Attias, Jim Black, Ben Goldberg, Michael Bisio, Sam Newsome, Colin Marston, Mike Pride, Ches Smith, Scott Amendola, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mat Maneri, Tim Dahl, Weasel Walter, and Billy Martin. He has released 22 albums as a leader and/or co-leader and is an active performer in New York’s creative music scene, leading various groups in addition to working with numerous artists. His work has been positively reviewed by Jazzwise, The Wire, New York City Jazz Record, All About Jazz, RTVE Spain, Guitar Moderne, El Intruso, Pop Matters, Angry Metal Guy, Tomajazz, The Free Jazz Blog and many other specialized media outlets like Avant Music News, on which a recent release, “Synaptic Self” by the trio dMu, was included in the list of “Best Albums of 2016”

Ottmar Liebert

Born: February 1, 1959

Liebert’s incredible global success on a musical level often seems like a simple outgrowth of his cultural background and powerful wanderlust in his formative years. Born in Cologne, Germany to Chinese-German father and Hungarian mother, he began playing guitar at 11, and traveled extensively through Europe and Asia intent on fully absorbing each musical tradition he encountered. After pursuing his Rock and Roll dreams first in his native Germany and then in Boston, he abandoned the frustrations of the East coast and settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. By 1989, he had founded the first incarnation of his new band Luna Negra

Erik Caldarone

Born: May 2, 1990