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Cheryl Richards

Born: August 20

Vocalist Cheryl Richards moved to New York City in 2000 and has been singing jazz and improvised music since 2002. She studied with the great jazz pianist and improviser {{m: Connie Crothers = 6000}} for more than 15 years.

In the last several years, she has performed at venues throughout New York including the 55 Bar, the Stone, Greenwich Music House, Why Not Jazz Room, Cornelia Street Café, and Zeb’s in Manhattan as well as iBeam, Roulette, Galapagos Art Space, The Drawing Room, Mirror Teahouse, and Cafe Orwell in Brooklyn. Her newest CD, If Not For You—featuring guitarist Adam Caine and alto saxophonist Nick Lyons—was released on New Artists Records. Cheryl began singing at age 11 when she joined the award-winning Seattle Girls’ Choir.

Dom Minasi and Jack DeSalvo

Born: March 6, 1943

SOLDANO DIECI ANNI So here we are. Two guitarist who never played together and yet we decide to record an album. How does that work? I knew who Jack DeSalvo was because he put out The Bird The Girl and The Donkey II on his Unseen Rain record label, but I really didn’t know him as a guitarist till he said, “We should record together.” Immediately I went to YouTube and found him. Wow - what a player! I emailed and said don’t you think we should get together and play at least once? He agreed and came over and we played mostly free, but then I took out some of my straight ahead tunes and the magic began

Novas Trio

Novas Trio is Carlos Vera L. on Vibraphone, Jeff Miles on Guitar and Rodrigo Recabarren on drums. This baseless trio has a distinct and unique sound. Their debut album “Borderfall” has been cataloged as one of the best releases of 2012 by CriticalJazz.com. Novas Trio started in 2011 when Rodrigo and Carlos decided to perform without bass and investigate the possibilities this strange marriage of instruments might deliver. Jeff joined a year later, just before the recording of “Borderfall” in February 2012. The album was among the 100 best of the year list by Criticaljazz.com Gravity's Empire, the band's second album was released in 2016 on Discos Pendiente and it's available on all digital platforms.

Abigail Rockwell

Abigail Rockwell grew up singing and writing from an early age. She studied with Clara Burling Roesch, internationally known orchestra conductor, choral director and voice teacher, in New York City in her teenage years. She later trained at the Conservatory of Theater Arts & Film at Purchase, NY. After working at the Pioneer Square Theater in Seattle, Washington, Rockwell moved to Los Angeles where she focused mainly on voiceovers including national campaigns for Mercury Sable, Harrah’s Casino, and numerous series for PBS. After meeting renowned west coast vocal coach Gary Catona, she embarked on training and building her voice anew

Common Quartet

Common Quartet began as a band of friends in Brooklyn, hosting a weekly jam session in the culturally vibrant neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. Coming together every Monday to workshop original music and host the jam session has been a unifying ritual for the band and its audience. Their freshman release, "The Hive", featuring Steve Cardenas, is a product of that ritual, and a mile marker in a creative process that continues to evolve and flourish. The album title, "The Hive", is no accident. The music conveys an energetic and collective effort. The compositions are extremely varied in their style and mood, combining standards and lyrical original compositions in a modern presentation of the jazz tradition

Sergio Pereira

Born: March 10, 1959

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I started playing acoustic guitar (violao) at the age of 8 years old, influenced by my older brother who played the guitar and helped me with my first chords. I have also been influenced by the music of bossa- nova giants at the time such as Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Joao Donato, Marcus Valle and many more. Growing up in Rio in the 60’s and 70’s has contributed tremendously to the energy, groove and rhythms reflected in my music today.

Moving to New York in the 80’s has motivated me to, not only continuing playing the guitar, but to further enhance my knowledge of music and the guitar itself, hence I started to study with some of the jazz greats including Chuck Wayne, Sal Salvador, Alex Adrian, Hui Cox and Joe Carter. Since the beginning of the 90’s I have been travelling the world, playing with different bands and at various venues in many different countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere.

Nate Sutton

Born: January 23, 1974

Nate Sutton has been teaching music in public schools since 1998, and has been a professional musician since 1992. He currently plays trombone with a variety of bands around NYC, including Brother Joscephus & The Love Revolution, The Tickled Pinks, The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Stan Rubin Orchestra and Stan Rubin's Tigertown Five, Orqesta Sangria Nueva, The Stragglerz, Mary Edwards, and he subs with several other groups. A few of the artists Nate has performed with: The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha & the Vandellas, The Beach Boys, Harry Connick, Jr., David Sánchez, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Tito Puente Jr., Doyle Bramhall II, the Henry Mancini Orchestra, Burt Bacharach, Victor Lewis..

Zem Audu

Nigerian-born, London-raised, and Brooklyn-based Zem Audu is an award winning saxophonist, composer and producer with a fresh sound that blends contemporary jazz, and soulful grooves. In 2008 whilst still living in London he won 1st place in the Worshipful Company Of Musicians Jazz Competition. He was nominated for a Parliamentary Jazz award for Best Jazz Saxophonist, and was awarded the Yamaha Jazz Scholars prize. His musical journey began at childhood when he taught himself classical guitar and piano before choosing the saxophone as his main form of expression. Then he studied independently with Courtney Pine, and with Jean Toussaint at Trinity College of Music, graduating top of his class in 2008

UDEiGWE

Born: May 6

UDEiGWE (pronounced oo-DEE-gweh) is the stage name of Lawrence Udeigwe, a Nigerian-born, New York–based artist working at the intersection of music, mathematics, and cognition. His work explores how structure shapes the way we think, using sound and lyric to make sense of perception, identity, and lived experience.

Grounded in jazz, soul, and West African rhythm, his music balances warmth and sophistication with clarity and restraint. As a singer, composer, and pianist, he draws on groove, melody, and space to create performances that are both immediate and reflective, where the music is felt first and understood more deeply over time.

Eline Fleury

Born: January 28

Marie Eline Fleury was born on January 28 in Port – Au – Prince, Haiti. Eline is a Singer and Entertainer. She started to sing at home using the CD’s that was laying around the house. Her late father Errnest Fleury was a guitar player, but he was playing just for fun. At the age of 14, Eline joined the choir of her church where she started to discover her potential and the desire to become a singer. After High School, Eline went to study Economics at IHECE ( University) at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 2004, she starts her first radio show at radio Soleil, Haiti. A year later she joined the Radio Ibo team to host a show called Tchaka