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Michael Janisch

Born: February 2, 1979

Michael Janisch has established himself as a tireless creative force across the developing international spheres of contemporary improvised and experimental music.  Based in London (originally from the USA), he successfully traverses this creative topography as a first-call electric & double bassist, MOBO-Award nominated solo artist, composer, prolific producer, and owner of Whirlwind Recordings, which has become one of the world’s premiere indie labels of the last decade.  Janisch’s previous solo albums have been nominated for multiple industry awards, while getting radio spins on Gilles Peterson, NPR, WDR, BBC, JazzFM shows as well as coverage in Jazzwise, Jazz Thing, Downbeat & Concerto Magazines, The NY Times & Guardian and beyond to international acclaim.  His new album Worlds Collide is an electro-acoustic album of original material recorded at Abbey Road Studios and has been described as combining contemporary jazz heavily influenced by both the London/New York scenes alongside free improvisations and soaring melodies over multi-metered grooves, paying hommage to artists such as Feli Kuti & Afro-Beat and the electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin

Andrea Mann

Andrea Mann's relaxed and smoky vocal style has been compared to those of Diana Krall and Julie London. But her mixture of classic material from the Great American Songbook, Brazilian bossa novas and arrangements of pop songs by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Coldplay - as heard on her debut album 'Photograph' - makes her approach to jazz singing unique as well as accessible and easy on the ears. Andrea has been singing professionally for just four years. Based in London, and working with some of the finest musicians in the UK, she now performs at jazz venues, private parties and corporate functions all over the country - and the places she has played include the Oxford Jazz Festival, 606 Club, Kensington Palace and the Royal Society of Arts

Fred Thomas

Born: May 12, 1985

Fred Thomas is one of London’s most sought after multi-instrumentalists and composer/arranger/producers, known for his breadth of musical styles as well as for specialising in creative re-interpretations of J.S. Bach.

Thomas has collaborated with a huge variety of artists worldwide including Brian Eno, Yo-Yo Ma, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jordi Savall, Meredith Monk, Jarvis Cocker, Rachel Podger, Elizabeth Kenny, Ethan Iverson, Larry Grenadier, Benoît Delbecq, Kit Downes, Tamara Stefanovich, Abel Salaocoe, Leo Abrahams, Kadialy Kouyate and Olivia Chaney. He has released a large discography of albums across various genres, particularly classical and jazz, and is published by Spartan Press and Edition Wilhelm Hansen.

Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings, a saxophonist, band leader and composer, part of London’s community of younger jazz musicians as well as the city’s thriving improvised music scene. For Hutchings, composition is a chronicle of the zeitgeist inhabited by a composer; an exposition of his or her search for meaning and the structuring of experiences in aid of recognising this meaning when it appears. As part of the Caribbean diaspora, he sees his role as that of pushing the boundaries of what musical elements are considered to be Caribbean. Constantly evaluating the nature of his relationship with musical material and tradition, he describes his attempts at composition as wrestling matches with questions of where and how the Caribbean can be encoded, and what happens when it is exposed to the western classical music cannon. Hutchings was born in 1984 in London

Jeanie Barton

Born: August 18, 1978

Jeanie is a jazz singer/songwriter.

Born in Nottingham, England, she started her musical career as a principle with the National Youth Music Theatre and continued her education at the University of Warwick.

Having studied jazz harmony at Morley College in London and bebop improvisation with BBC award winner Anita Wardell, Jeanie gigs regularly to sustained acclaim with her quartet and in other ensembles. She is proud to work with some of the best musicians on the British jazz scene today performing standards alongside her compositions around the UK and beyond. She also fronts the function band "Jazz and Cocktails" and is compere for the Laurie Morgan Trio. She now resides Crouch End, North London.

Grand Union Orchestra

About Grand Union Orchestra

Grand Union, the UK's original and most diverse world/jazz orchestra was established in 1984.  Grand Union  is the acknowledged pioneer and leading exponent of original, cross-cultural music making. It assembles musicians from virtually every part of the world to create and perform new work drawing on their own experience, culture and musical background.

In Britain today it is more important than ever to bring people of all ages and cultures together to create work that reflects and responds to our country's ever-widening demographic, creating unity and healing division.

Carlos Lopez-Real

Carlos Lopez-Real sax Carlos’ involvement with the F-IRE collective includes recording and touring with Justin Quinn (featured on his award-winning album ‘Before I Forget’), Tom Arthurs’ Centripede, Jonathan Bratoeff’s Quintet, Barak Schmool’s Meta Meta and the F-IRE large ensemble. He has collaborated with Zoe Rahman, Gary Husband and the Nicolas Meier Group. Carlos studied Indian music and held the sax chair in John Mayer’s classic band Indo-Jazz Fusions. He also features with salsa king Roberto Pla and the Tito Puente orchestra. Carlos is the founder of ‘e17 jazz’, a new East London-based collective spawned out of both F-IRE and LOOP associations, whose members include Brigitte Beraha, John Turville, Adam Bishop, Will Collier and Dave Manington

Adam Glasser

Born: September 20, 1955

Originally from South Africa Adam Glasser plays piano & keyboards. Is also one of the UK's leading chromatic harmonica players, appearing on many gigs, sessions and recordings. some major gigs include... Joe Zawinul, Sting, the Eurythmics, BBC Concert Orchestra, Celebrate South Africa, Trafalgar Square Numerous pop and jazz session recordings include: Zizi Possi (Bossa for Universal Artists, Brazil), Dominic Miller (Second Nature & Fourth Wall), Carl Orr (Absolute Freedom featuring Billy Cobham), Incognito, Anita Wardell.

Anthony Everest

An Internet artist has held the No1 position on UK Jazz Charts ARTISTE for an incredible 15 weeks and No1 Global Jazz Charts Artiste for 4 Weeks, simultaneously; beating Jamie Culum (No4), James Morrison, James Blunt and was Higher than, Usher, Rhiannna and Madonna by at least 10 places, or more in the All Genre Charts between Oct 2008 to Jan 2009. Singer/songwriter Anthony Everest is relatively unknown except to his fans and the hundreds of people who have downloaded his track Follow Your Dreams, but it was doing just that which led to his change of fortune. “I learn from falling, then I rise, and rise and rise again...” Everest is an extra ordinary talented artiste (Songwriter) whose vocal dexterity stretches across Jazz, Folk, Pop, Blues, Soul music and even Motown

Jerry Wigens

Born: February 10, 1955

I was inspired to start playing in the late 60s/early 70s by British progressive bands such as Soft Machine and avant American jazzers and jazz rockers like Coltrane, Miles Davis and Chicago. Guitar has always been my main instrument but I have been involved in the London improvisation scene for nearly twenty years or so as a clarinetist in addition to playing guitar and mandolin. I worked my way through various bands in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s and now enjoy a varied and diverse range of musical activities from the free-jazz explorations of the band Glowering Figs (with Ivor Kallin (bass/vocals) and Dave Fowler (drums) to various stable combinations of improvisers, notably a trio with violinist Sylvia Hallett and flautist/vocalist Thomas Kumlehn, Esha Jotwe Teka