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Walker Adams

Born: August 17, 1983

Walker Adams is an NYC-based drummer known for his creative, energetic playing. Adams fuses traditional rock, jazz, and funk with modern electronic and hip hop grooves to produce rich, complex, danceable beats. He writes and performs original music, tours with Miggs, and plays with The Ludlow Thieves and Fairytales for the Fatherless. Past gigs include St. Vincent and bassist Percy Jones from Brand X and Brian Eno. Born and raised in rural Vermont, Walker’s early influences were the sounds of nature and his parents' vinyl collection. He moved to a suburb of NYC at age twelve and played in his high school jazz band and with local rock bands

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Taru Alexander

Taru Alexander is American jazz drummer, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of jazz legend Roland Alexander, an American post-bop jazz tenor saxophone player from Boston, Massachusetts. Taru started to play drums at the early age of seven years old surrounded by the greatest jazz musicians like Freddie Hubbard, Reggie Workman, Gary Bartz and Kiani Zawadi. At the age of nine he was studying drumsunder the leadership of master drummers Rudy Collins, Andre Strobert and Walter Perkins at the New Muse music school in Brooklyn, New York. By the age of thirteen, Taru started to perform professionally with his father Roland Alexander's quintet (Roland Alexander-tenor saxophone, Kiani Zawadi-trombone, Hilton Ruiz-piano, Paul Brown-bass)

Francesca Prihasti

Originally from Indonesia and now based in New York City, pianist Francesca Prihasti is jazz pianist/composer on the international jazz scene. Prihasti graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2012 (BMus) and New York University in 2018 (MMus), during which time she studied privately with the likes of Judy Bailey and Mike Nock (AUS) as well as Kevin Hays, Alan Broadbent, Peter Bernstein, Drew Gress, Ari Hoenig and Alan Ferber (USA) Prihasti has performed in Indonesia, Australia and the United States at various jazz venues and festivals such as Motion Blue Jakarta, Java Jazz Festival, Jazz goes to Campus, Jazzgroove Association, Venue 505, Colbourne Avenue, Manly Jazz Festival, Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, The Sound Lounge, Provincetown Playhouse, Silvana, Shrine, Club Bonafide, and ShapeShifter Lab. In 2017, Prihasti was selected as a promising artist to represent the New York University jazz department with performances and masterclasses in Costa Rica. Prihasti has released two albums of original compositions to critical acclaim with prominent New York jazz musicians

Micha Gilad

Born: July 11, 1992

Micha Gilad is an Israeli pianist, keyboard player and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Micha received his bachelors degree from the Newschool for Jazz and Contemporary music, as a part of the prestigious collaboration program between the Newschool and the Israeli Conservatory. Micha studied with some of the most known teachers in the city’s Jazz scene such as Sam Yahel, Matt Mitchell and Jon Cowherd, while also studying classical music and composition. His piano playing shows a unique voice, deriving from the Jazz vocabulary and heritage, but always exploring to find new colors. His playing and compositions are influenced of jazz, classical and even pop , blues and electronic music, mixed together to create different sound worlds and interesting surfaces for improvisation

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Aimée Allen

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vocalist and composer/lyricist Aimée Allen's connection with music began as a child. Her childhood was scored with classic jazz, because her mother kept the music on the family turntable. Aimée first began singing jazz professionally with a cappella groups in college. After graduation, Aimée moved to Paris where she performed in jazz clubs and festivals and formed, with other musicians, Les Bossa Novices, a Paris-based group dedicated to bossa and jazz. 

Now based in New York, she tours regularly in the U.S. anad abroad

Mareike Wiening

Mareike Wiening, percussionist and composer, spent six years in Brooklyn, New York, where she cultivated her musical career. Since 2019, she has been commuting between the United States and Cologne, Germany, while actively participating in the international jazz scene.

Her career as an independent jazz musician encompasses a diverse array of projects and ensembles in New York and Europe. Since 2022, she has been serving as a lecturer in jazz percussion at the Zurich University of the Arts.

The Mareike Wiening Quintet, featuring longstanding musical partners Rich Perry, Glenn Zaleski, Alex Goodman, and Johannes Felscher, was nominated for the 2022 German Jazz Award. In November 2023, their third album, Reveal, is set to release on the renowned New York label of Dave Douglas, Greenleaf Music.

Andromeda Turre

Born: December 5

Vocalist and composer Andromeda Turre has honed her craft over a lifetime immersed in music. Born into a family of Jazz musicians, she was formally trained at The Boston Conservatory and Berklee College of Music. Her talents have taken her around the world, from touring with Ray Charles, to headlining festivals with her own music in 17 countries worldwide. In addition to her vocal talents, Andromeda is an accomplished composer whose original works have been featured in film, television, video games and theater. Andromeda hosts her own show on the SiriusXM Real Jazz channel every Saturday and Sunday from 11am-5pm EST. Her upcoming album, From the Earth, is a programmatic jazz suite illuminating the pressing issues of environmental justice and the precious bond between humanity and the earth. Releasing July 26, 2024, the album is made possible by grant funding from Jazz Road, Doris Duke Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts and ArtsWestchester.

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Freddie Maxwell

Born and raised in Malone, NY, Freddy Maxwell is no small town boy. His career as a professional trumpet player, arranger, composer and a music educator has touched the lives of literally millions of people worldwide. During his career that spans over two decades, Freddy toured with megastars Alicia Keys, Lionel Hampton, and the Glen Miller Orchestra among numerous other bands, performing in major cities throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, the UK and the US. His impressive versatility has brought him to fans of nearly all music genres, including pop, rock, R&B, jazz, funk, big band, world, Latin, and classical