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Duncan Millar

Born: April 1, 1965

Duncan's music has been called “a rarity: Smooth-Jazz with soul”. Duncan's no stranger to Soul music having played as a session-musician with UK soul-star Geno Washington and artists on Paul Weller's Respond label, but, as a Berklee grad raised on Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock, his musical soul was always really in Jazz. Arriving back in London, his next musical foray was in a pop duo (Blue Mercedes), an unexpected move maybe, but it produced a five-week #1 U.S. Dance Hit. Later, as a producer, he had further club-hits, including, under the name Exoterix, the first-ever release on hip EMI dance label Positiva, and worked with many different acts including an embryonic Down To The Bone

Jeff Rodrigues

Jeff is a Jazz/Classical/Flamenco Guitarist based in the London. He performs throughout the UK - in both solo and various ensemble settings - and is an active teacher.

Francesco Lo Castro

Born in Salerno, Italy in 1974, guitarist and composer Francesco Lo Castro started studying guitar late in life, aged 25. He developed his guitar styles and technique under the tutoring of the great south Italian maestro Gianni Cataleta. He quit his Economic Studies (and a full time job in marketing) to fully focus on music in 2004. Two years after, he graduated with honors in music performance from a BMus at Thames Valley University (London). In the same year, he won the Best Guitarist Award at the Guitar Institute in London where he attended tutoring classes by Shaun Baxter and Iain Scott, among others

Christian Brewer

Zeeteah Massiah

Born: December 24, 1956

Zeeteah Massiah is a singer. She was born in Barbados and grew up in the UK. She had a No. 1 dance hit in the US and has sung and toured with artists like Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Sting, Paul Weller and Johnny Hallyday.

She has since recorded three albums with producer husband Paul Caplin.

Zeeteah and Paul are about to release their first album as a duo: Caplin & Massiah. Paul was the song writing member of 80s rebel popsters Haysi Fantayzee.

Caplin & Massiah love playing around with different genres like afrobeats, electronic pop, dancehall, reggae and disco. 

Antonio De Lillis

Born: April 4, 1977

Antonio sings Jazz with several bands performing on television and at numerous gigs, concerts, and festivals whilst holding down a career teaching jazz improvisation, scat singing, and contemporary vocal techniques.

Initially trained as a guitarist Antonio attended the most prestigious schools in Italy, C.P.M. in Milan, Università della Musica and Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, and The Licinio Refice Conservatory of Music in Frosinone, where he graduated with a first class degree in Jazz Music.

Beginning his career in '96 as a session singer, Antonio has collaborated with many international instrumentalists and has performed with the bands Animacustica, Francesco Saguto Sextet, The Antonio De Lillis Trio, The Antonio De Lillis Quintet and The Whimsy Sounds Vocal Trio

Richard Sadler

Born: August 6

Works as musician, composer and sound engineer.  Plays all genres of music - jazz, pop, blues (even country!) In studio and onstage as session musician (eg Ray Davies (Kinks), Paul Weller, Tom Jones).  Has played at major festivals in the UK (Glastonbury, The Big Chill, London Jazz Festival etc)  Has played in major venues in UK from Queen Elizabeth Hall to Ronnie Scott's, etc Played at jazz clubs and festivals in USA (Rochester), Canada (Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto), Australia (Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) , New Zealand (Auckland, Queenstown) Thailand, most of Europe (not all tho!!)... TV - Later With Jools Holland, RTE Eire Radio - sessions for BBC Radio 3 and 6 (Jazz Line Up and Tom Robinson) Tiny bit of teaching (one week a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama summer school!)

Antonio Marrone

Antonio Marrone is an italian musician, he was born in Italy in 1978. At the age of 14, he starts playing bass guitar with his cousin, Max Leggieri (Clap Rules), who gave him the very first rock and jazz basis. Very keen on contemporary music, Antonio starts to experience his own style, performing with bands and musicians. He studied with many private teachers and attended several master classes ...with musicians from all over the world: Paul Bollenback, Jeff Richman, John Stowell, Roy Patterson, Steve Trovato, Jamie Findlay, Royce Campbell, Scott Henderson, David Friesen, Vic Juris, Jimmy Bruno, Bob Ferrazza and many others… In 2006 he moved in London, where he worked as a demonstrator for Mark Bass in "London Guitar Show" and also played with many artists in UK. In 2008, after having met Gianfranco Continenza, he moved back to Pescara, focusing his attention to the modern jazz theory and practice at the C.M.A

Pedro Velasco

Pedro Velasco is a London-based guitarist who specialises in improvised music. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, he began playing piano at age nine and, inspired by the Brazilian music he was surrounded by at home, picked up a guitar at age 12. Under the tutelage of renowned Portuguese guitarist Mario Delgado, he began turning to the sounds of jazz and improvised music. He moved to London in 2003 to study at Middlesex University with Nicki Isles, Chris Batchelor and Stuart Hall and in 2007 he graduated with a first-class honours degree in Music (Jazz Performance). He now performs not only on guitar, but on other string instruments as well, including double bass, portuguese guitar and oud, playing prolifically across London and the UK, and he’s also toured Europe with the free-improv group, Splatter

Ser Franklin

Born: July 16, 1983

Born in Brazil in 1983, Ser Franklin was adopted by an italian family at the age of 10 months. He grew up in a small country named Baragiano, up until the unitiming death of both of his adoptive parents. At 19 years old, Ser Franklin decided to leave the town he grew up in to go studing in Bologna, at the University of Languages and Literatures, where thanks to a scholarship, he had the chance to go abroad for a year and a half, in Denver, United States. Ser Franklin was always obsessed with music and singing ever since he was a child, and in Denver he was introduced to jazz and soul music, falling in love with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Donny Hathaway and many others