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Transparent Sky

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: Santa Monica Samba; Random Journey; Nightingales & Fairy Tales; Living in Limbo; God Bless the Child; Chromatic Chronicles; Fall Upon a Miracle; Infinite Tango; Extraordinary Everyday Things; Transparent Sky.

Nathan Borton

Born: March 11, 1993

Hailing from Wichita, Kansas, Nathan Borton is a Michigan based Jazz guitar player that draws heavily from the mid-western tradition of bebop and the blues. Nathan has played with and alongside names such as: Rodney Whitaker, Michael Dease, Paul Keller, Diego Rivera, and Tom Knific. He has also performed at various music festivals including: the Detroit Jazz Festival, the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, the East Lansing Jazz Festival, the Michigan Jazz Festival, and the Wichita Jazz Festival. Currently, Nathan is releasing his debut album, “Each Step” through Origin Records. The record, produced by Randy Napoleon, is set for release January 2022, and has already gained praise from the likes of trombone giant Michael Dease and Benedetto CEO Howard Paul

Henry Darragh

Born: July 30, 1976

About Henry Darragh Henry Darragh is a talented multi-instrumentalist and composer currently working in Houston Texas while doing graduate studies at Moores School of Music. In addition to being a first-rate trombonist, Darragh can also play jazz piano, sing, compose, arrange, lead, educate, and inspire. To hear his debut CD Tell Her For Me one might think of him as an up and coming jazz songwriter who swings and croons vocals, but that would only be the latest chapter in his story. Born and raised in Pasadena Texas, Darragh was surrounded by music from a young age, and felt he might eventually become a classical trombonist

Judith Nijland

Born: March 2

Judith is a jazz singer and composer. She likes to create stories and songs. And her concerts are little journeys with food for thought and a lasting smile. FROM CLASSICAL LANGUAGES TO JAZZ Judith is music. Starting at a young age she participated in talent shows with her own songs. The piano at home is often played and used for private try outs and classical lessons. After graduating in Greek and Latin, Judith studied Jazz at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. She now mainly focusses on writing her own material and creating new versions of old songs. Jazz remains her true love. VOICE AND PERFORMANCE Her clear and warm voice with a wide range is very flexible

Kathy Ingraham

Born: December 15

Kathy Ingraham is an eclectic American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer based in New York. Originally from a coastal town in Maine, she is highly regarded for her intimate vocal delivery and inventive genre-blending compositions. 

Career Highlights

• Early Success: Her 2017 debut album Cool Night established her presence, blending jazz and pop with elite New York studio musicians.
• Film Exposure: Her original song "Little Things" was featured in the 2019 film The Professor, bringing her music to an international audience.
• Discography: She has released four distinct albums dedicated to the genre, including Paper Doll (2020) and Everlasting Cool (2022) and Cool Night (2017). 
• Latest Album: Jazz Dreams (2026)

David Burnett

Born: April 29, 1979

Venues David Burnett has performed at include The House of Blues, Carnegie Hall, and various others across the US and world. David Burnett has an extensive tour history including 45 states and international locations including UK, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Japan and others.

Tahina Rahary Malagasy Roots

The project emerges from Tahina’s need to highlight the varieties of influences acquired throughout his musical activity, both in music writing and his guitar technique. It took some years of experimentation, study, research and all the persistence to get the desired results. And it all comes together in the form of the Malagasy Roots, which in its deepest essence aims to merge all the ingredients of many musical styles - having Malagasy music and its peculiar rhythm and melodies as the fundamental basis, going through Portuguese music and Jazz, which is one of the main influences on Tahina training as a musician.

Arielle Carvajal

The Jake Leg Jug Band

The Jake Leg Jug Band bring you the authentic sounds of 1920's and 30's America - Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Ragtime - and put their own twist on it. Songs of murder, betrayal, gambling, liquor and redemption. Signing to one of the UK's most prestigious Jazz labels ‘Lake Records’ they recorded albums as part of the 'Vintage Recording Project' essentially recording all live around ribbon microphones, as it would have been back in the 1930’s. Four albums released in five years; ‘Cotton Mouth’, ‘Next Stop!’ ‘Everythin's Jake’ and ‘Break a Leg’ all met with rave reviews; ​ The band followed up 'Fifth Avenue', their debut release for the Green Bullet record label in late 2018. ​ January 2020 saw the release of album number 6, 'Goodbye Booze' which commemorates 100 years since the start of the American prohibition, again released on the Green Bullet label and in 2021 the album saw it's vinyl release on Coastal Light Records

Marco de Tilla

Born: October 8, 1977

In about 25 years of career, Marco has played alongside most of the jazz musicians of Campania and beyond, gaining experience in every artistic field, from jazz festivals to theaters, from recording studios to television studios.

For several years he was professor of Jazz Double Bass at the Conservatories of Naples and Potenza, collaborating for a long time with the National Institute for Musical Development in the South (Ismez).

Graduated with honors in Jazz Music and Jazz Composition, he studied and followed masterclasses with some of the most important double bass players in the world, including Larry Grenadier, Dave Holland, Scott Colley, Furio Di Castri, Rino Zurzolo, Ermanno Calzolari, Aldo Vigorito, Piero Leveratto.