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Nathan Sanders

Born: August 3, 1982

Nathan Sanders is an American jazz keyboardist from Berkeley California. Nathan has worked with his brother Tyrone Sanders on albums and producing other artists. Nathan is also cousins to Elijah Baker from the group Tony, Toni, Toné. Nathan resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ed Neiderhiser

Born: May 27, 1947

Ed was raised in Erie PA. He has been playing trumpet for more than 50 years. At age 5 he attended a high school band concert that featured a trumpet soloist. This event stuck with him and he started playing trumpet in 7th grade. He was involved with concert and marching band at McDowell High School in Erie and also in the Erie Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. “I was introduced to jazz by my music teacher who played Maynard Ferguson records for me. I quickly found my way to Miles, Duke, Monk, and Trane and was hooked for life.” Ed attended Thiel College in Western PA graduating in 1969, with a major in history and minor in Greek

Yoav Eshed

Yoav Eshed is an award-winning guitarist and and composer born in Israel, based in Brooklyn, NY. Yoav started to play the piano at the age of 3 and displayed prodigious abilities playing Haydn, Bach and Mendelssohn. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13 and found his unique way to play the guitar with a pianist approach. Since then he has been performing around the world with top Israeli jazz musicians. He has annually received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships for Jazz since 2008. Received scholarships from the ‘NY New School for Jazz’ and won the ‘Prestigious Dean Award’ from Berklee College Of Music as well as the Guitar Achievement Award from Berklee for an outstanding musicianship

Konstantin Glouzman

Aaron Lehr

Born: September 25, 1978

Bert Jackson

Born: January 14

Guitarist and composer Bert Jackson is influenced by the adventurousness of John McLaughlin, the groove of Wes Montgomery, and the passion of British Blues greats like Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. While sophisticated, his playing is approachable, fun, and always a little outside the norm. You will find Bert singing and playing jazz, blues and latin all around the Southeastern Massachusetts/Cape Cod region - from hot music spots to outdoor concerts to the best community events.

Paul Westlake

Born: April 10

Paul Westlake: Basses and Guitar

Born outside Los Angeles, Paul, son of a pianist, started piano as a child, becoming focused on bass at 13. Paul has a bachelor’s degree from The University of North Florida in Jazz Studies. Paul has performed with Nat Adderly, Jimmy Bruno, Ira Sullivan, Harold Blanchard, Lynne Arialle, Jim Snidero, Conrad Herwig and more.

Performance venues include but are not limited to, Disney’s Pleasure Island Jazz Club, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Ormond Beach Jazz Festival, Springing in The Blues jazz and blues festival, LaSalle Jazz Festival, Sharp Nine Jazz, and more.

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David "Harmonica" Miller

Born: May 4, 1961

Ron Davis

Born: August 22

“One of the great minds in jazz.” - Jazz FM JUNO AWARD nominee RON DAVIS. Pianist, composer, CBC and BBC Radio repeat performer, international favourite, solo artist, critics’ choice. Ron is a Canadian jazz visionary. His music blends genres and pushes boundaries, building on his jazz and classical training. He seeks new textures, new forms, new compositions, new formations and new ways of presenting his signature sound without losing a connection to audiences. The music is diverse in a characteristically Canadian way. Ron has released 13 critically acclaimed albums. His 12th, SymphRONica UpfRONt was honoured with a 2020 JUNO AWARD (Canada’s Grammy or BAFTA awards) “INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR” NOMINATION. Ron has travelled the world playing his innovative, fresh music

Randall "Big Daddy" Webster

Born: December 22

Randall "Big Daddy" Webster's Bluesography Growing up in Wheaton, Illinois (also home to Jim and John Belushi), he snuck into the Windy City’s most notorious Blues clubs. They soaked in the music of Muddy Waters, Otis Span, Junior Wells, Big Joe Turner, and other Blues legends holding school on stage. Webster would often jump the “L” (elevated train) to Maxwell Street where itinerant Bluesmen plied their trade on the corner. Webster’s first guitar, a Harmony Stratatone, came from Duke’s pawnshop north of the old market. He scavenged record bins for vintage vinyl from his new Blues heroes