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Mambo Legends Orchestra

The former musicians of the Tito Puente Orchestra have come together as the Mambo Legends Orchestra. The Mambo Legends Orchestra brings all of its incredible musicians together under their new name to bring their music to an international audience and to further explore the music which they have been masters of playing for over 30 years. The Mambo Legends Orchestra is led by John 'Dandy' Rodriguez, musically directed by Jose Madera, with Mitch Frohman, each having spent over 25 years working with Tito Puente. The focus of the band is driven by their dedication to keeping the sound of the 50's and 60's Palladium era music thriving and moving forward

Steve Hall

Born: November 11, 1945

Steve Hall is a veteran keyboard player who has performed on the West Coast for decades. He has played in restaurants, hotels, and bars with a wide variety of bands including Willie Bobo’s Latin Jazz Band, the Drifters, Tom Harrell, and his own bands. He has released four CD’s, one vinyl album and is releasing a fifth CD (“Follow The Sunset”) in December, 2015. He grew up in Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He studied guitar with Jack Peterson and Bill Leavitt and piano with Deal Earl while at Berklee. His time at Berklee was interrupted by a stint in the US Army that included a year in Vietnam

Beep!

Beep! is a musical collective comprised of pianist Michael Coleman, bassist Nate Brenner and drummer Sam Ospovat. Their music is based on concepts of group interplay, free improvisation, song writing and orchestration in a piano trio setting. While rooted in the jazz tradition, the trio's compositions fuse rock, folk, jazz and classical music to create their own personal and energetic sound. Variety is cornerstone for the trio and each composition utilizes different rhythmic feels and sonic textures as well as a variety of instruments including keyboards, effects, glockenspiels and even the human voice

Alicyn Yaffee

Graduate of Kelseyville High School.Student at California State University Sacramento. Double Jazz Studies Major. Guitar and Voice.

Painted on Water

SERTAB ERENER has been among the most acclaimed female artists on the Turkish pop music scene for over 15 years. A conservatory-trained coloratura soprano, Erener’s versatility in opera and pop styles has won her an army of devoted fans, and global sales of over four million records. Erener’s unique vocal and stage presence have led her to duets with international artists as diverse as Jose Carreras and Ricky Martin. In 2003, she represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, Latvia, and became the first Turkish singer to win the Eurovision first prize with “Every Way That I Can,” co-written with her partner in PAINTED ON WATER, Demir Demirkan

Nicola Conte

To comprehend fully Nicola Conte's music originality and sensibility we should refer, together with his productions, to the unavoidable Fez's activity, a cultural movement founded by Conte himself in Bari in the early nineties. A real melting pot of several creative musicians, who first of all are friends and grew up together with the same intellectual, music and political similarities. Cultural trouble-makers, emotional dreamers, Jazz enthusiasts of the fifties and sixties, deep "nouvelle vague" connoisseurs, compulsive vinyl collectors, design and graphic experts, people crazy for cultural beat and books written by revolutionaries like Jean Paul Sartre and Boris Vian. The atmosphere at Fez seemed to be the same detectable at Tabou, the legendary "caveau" in Saint Germain de Pres, described by Vian himself

Rebel Alliance Jazz Ensemble

Born: June 30

Dallas-based big band formed in June '08--currently plays regularly every Tuesday night at Pearl in downtown Dallas. 2038 Commerce Street.

David Panton

Born: 1946

David Panton was born in the 1940s in the English Midlands where his formative musical experience revolved around singing in the local church choir and later with a mixed voice choir and an amateur operatic society. He began teaching himself 'classical' piano from the age of twelve and by fifteen had begun to compose by improvising at the keyboard. At seventeen he joined the army as a bandsman, taking up the oboe and being posted for a year to Kneller Hall, the Military School of Music (1964-65); later attending Birmingham School of Music for piano tuition under the late William Fellowes (1966-67)

Miguel Serrat

Born: January 3, 1979

Miguel Serrat is an active Multi-Instrumentalist, Lyricist & Recording artist. His musical concoction is a mixture of Jazz, Rock Latin music. Miguel has developed an unequal independent music sound. He first began playing Latin Percussion and after listening to some of the greater player out there, became enamored with other instruments & genres looking for a greater repertoire of expressions. He first entered into the music scene anonymously helping new band by lending a hand in the studio and playing anywhere he could get hired. Miguel then began playing in a numbered of unnamed bands in private parties, weddings, church and with friends where he developed his particularly unique style of music and became a fully independent musician in the process.

Steve Moore

Born: January 9, 1976

Steve Moore (aka Stebmo) is a multi-instrumentalist hailing from Seattle, WA. Known as a pianist, with a love for wurlitzers, casiotones and bells, he is also a trombonist and composer. As a studio musician and sideman, he has a resume that reads like a cult top-10 list with artists as diverse as songwriter Sufjan Stevens, jazz hero Bill Frisell and black metal mavericks sunnO))).

Moore's formative years were spent playing jazz and free improvisation in the pacific northwest and briefly in New York City. A rich scene, it allowed collaboration and study with some of jazz's modern masters including Julian Priester, Steve Turre, Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz. Eventually, he met and recorded with producer Tucker Martine in 1997 -- this meeting had a profound impact on the direction of Moore's music and career. Together they have collaborated in the ambient collective Mount Analog and on dozens of albums ranging from the far-left twang of Jim White to classic Seattle rockers Mudhoney.