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Ian East

Ian has been musical director and/or composer for numerous bands over the years including Balkanatics (Balkan brass) and psych-prog legends GONG (alongside Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage and Gilli Smyth). He also works as a sideman and session player in numerous other projects such as with Reem Kelani (Arabic), Abdelkader Saadoun (north African/Meditteranean), Rosco Levee (blues/country/southern rock), and performs in various other jazz, world and improvised music settings like Inspiral Trio (with Gong's Dave Sturt and kavus Torabi). He also composes, arranges, records, mixes and produces music from his own studio.

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Kate Blossom

Born: August 1

Kate Blossom is a London based musician who performs both classic and contemporary Jazz standards and writes original songs. Growing up in the Blue Dandenongs – the forested hills outside Melbourne, Australia – Kate listened to her grandmother play her repertoire daily at the piano. She instantly fell in love with music, and at the keys of that same piano made up melodies, tiny songs and simple poems that would form the nascent roots of the sophisticated and sensual style that she has grown into today. Inspired to focus her original musical output through jazz, lyrics and songwriting, Kate´s musical seeds were sown

Loretta Heywood

Loretta Heywood is a soulful songstress, best known for her ethereal vocals with 90’s electronic band Bomb The Bass. In 1991, after 9 years in Japan where Loretta recorded ‘Tribe of Love’ & ‘Touch Me Take Me’ for Tosh & Kudo (Love TKO / Major Force), Tim Simenon heard her recordings and asked her to sing on the next Bomb The Bass album. The result was the hauntingly beautiful Winter In July, co-written by Tim, Loretta and Guy Sigsworth. It subsequently became a major hit in Europe, featuring on countless Chill Out compilations, and earned its place in dance music history as one of the classic records of that time

Agata Kubiak

Born: February 15, 1987

London-based Polish singer and violinist Agata Kubiak fuses Jazz, Classical, Rock, Folk, Sung Poetry and her own Polish roots to create music that is genuinely unlike anything else. Her sound is first and foremost emotionally-driven, not afraid to show vulnerability or passion, whether singing in English or Polish. Agata’s background is exceptionally diverse, touring across Poland in a punk band aged 15, studying Classical music at the London College of Music, and working as a session violinist in London. Her two quartets, string and jazz, come together for her debut recording, released in May 2014.

Tim Bowness

Born: September 29, 1963

Tim Bowness is a British musician, primarily known as vocalist/co-writer with the band no-man, a long-running collaboration with Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree). In addition to releasing six studio albums and a documentary dvd with no-man, Tim has worked with popular Italian artist Alice, Robert Fripp, Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), OSI and Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera (amongst many others), and is a member of the bands Henry Fool, Memories Of Machines and Slow Electric. Tim recorded the album Flame (1994) with Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree/ex-Japan), co-produced/co-wrote the acclaimed Talking With Strangers (2009) for Judy Dyble (ex-Fairport Convention), and continues to collaborate with Peter Chilvers (Brian Eno/Karl Hyde). He has also released two solo albums, My Hotel Year (2004) and Abandoned Dancehall Dreams (2014). Since 2001, Tim has co-run the specialist online label/store Burning Shed with Pete Morgan.

Tom Millar

Tom Millar is a London-based pianist, composer and bandleader. He was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up in London. After reading Music at King’s College, Cambridge, he studied Jazz Piano and Composition for a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and with Django Bates in Bern, Switzerland. His debut album with his quartet, Unnatural Events, will be launched on September 20th 2017 at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London. It is coming out on independent jazz label Spark!, and was recorded with funding from an Emerging Excellence Award (Help Musicians UK), the Jazz Services’ Recording Support Scheme, and a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter

Paul Abrahams

Born: June 11, 1947

School At secondary school I pass all my exams except music! There’s a message here somewhere, as music has been my profession since 1967! ‘Proper’ job Still living at home after leaving school, my parents are not of the opinion that music is a career, so I join the Civil Service as a tax officer. By night I’m playing organ in R&B and soul bands. Starting out My first pro job is a month-long residency at the Star club in Hamburg. I then play in various backing bands for singers including Percy Sledge, P J Proby and Joe Brown. My own band In the early 70’s I form my own band called Listen

Carleen Anderson

Born: May 10, 1957

One of the most powerful vocalists today, 2013 Jazz FM UK Vocalist of the Year Carleen Anderson has been a favorite of audiences and fellow artists alike for over two decades: "For live performances, you absolutely have to see Carleen Anderson - at least 3 times in your life!" (Amy Winehouse) Carleen Anderson was born in Houston, Texas, 10th of May 1957, and reared up on the sounds rooted in Gospel music inherited from the Pentecostal church where the pastor, David Anderson, Sr., her paternal Grandfather, and her Grandmother Alberta, raised her from an infant. Since 1973, her biological Father, Dr

Jon Mapp

Jon Mapp sounds like no other bassist. He uses a bass guitar, a wooden box and a laptop to record layered pieces, creating music that is expressive, compelling and indelible. Jon is quickly emerging as a truly individual voice on the bass, known for his unorthodox technique and creative approach to improvising. A bassist since the age of thirteen, Jon spent much of his teenage years making experimental electronic music on his computer, before deciding to focus exclusively on the bass. He went on to study jazz at Trinity College of Music and the London College of Music. In 2013, having spent several years writing music for others and his trio, Jon began composing for solo bass with live-layering