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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

Binker Golding

Binker Golding is best known for playing saxophone in the jazz duo Binker & Moses. He’s also played & recorded with Zara McFarlane, Mr. Jukes, Moses Boyd’s Exodus, Sarah Tandy, Ashley Henry, Maisha & others. His current projects also include a free jazz duo partnership with pianist Elliot Galvin, with whom he has recently released the album “Ex Nihilo”. The Binker Golding Quartet however is his most recent & detailed musical venture. In recent years Binker has picked up four awards with Binker & Moses; a MOBO award for best jazz album, two Jazz FM awards & a parliamentary jazz award

Solo Funk

Solo Funk, formed by Shane Hill and Paul Downing, create original compositions with smoking grooves and blistering solos. A new fusion of contemporary jazz and funk intertwined with the original improvisations of some of the world's finest Jazz musicians. Shane Hill : Electric and acoustic guitars, Keyboards Paul Downing : Bass Guitars, Keyboards Dick Pearce : Flugel Horn & Trumpet Mark Allaway : Saxophones & Flute Produced by : Shane Hill & Paul Downing Engineering & Programming : Paul Downing Assistant Mix Engineer : Jamie Orchard-Lisle Artwork : Jackie Lewin

Dave Kelbie

Born: May 6, 1964

Dave Kelbie has devoted his professional career to playing rhythm guitar. Over the last 30 years he has been a prominent accompanist to many of the world’s leading jazz soloists and possibly every celebrated guitarist in the Gypsy jazz world.

His Quartet Lejazz and Fapy Lafertin released the iconic CDs Swing Guitars in 1994 and Hungaria in 1996, two seminal recordings that are as majestic for their music as they are for their sound – and viewed by many as the definitive Gypsy jazz albums since the last recorded releases of Quintet of the Hot Club of France

Colin Webster

London based saxophonist Colin Webster is quickly establishing himself on the European avant garde scene. Collaborating with some of the key figures in improvised and experimental music, Webster is known for working from extreme sonic palettes – from minimal to maximal, constantly pushing boundaries.

Bev Lee Harling

Born: July 24, 1990

Bev Lee Harling’s love of music and cooking combine in the Kitchen Sink Band where chopping boards, cheese graters, glass orchestras, colanders and a dog bowl are used along with music boxes, a musical saw and a 1950’s typewriter to create a musical, organic experience. Sometimes dark, sometimes frivolous, always engaging and human spirited, her songs’ common bond being the luscious, pure vocals that thread their way through the highs and lows of life experience.