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Bill Marconi

Born: July 1, 1951

Since completing a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance Bill has persued a wide range of performing experiences including: The Jimmy Bruno Trio, The L.A.Jazz Workshop Big Band, Trio Nova, The Magic Casino Orchestra (Zurich)and various orchestras and opera companies. Bill has performed with performed with The Bamboo Jazz Quartet,fusing jazz rhythms and Indian ragas,The Mighty Little Big Band & Lorraine Barrett and Main Line Jazz. Bill has studied drumset with Jeff Hamilton, Greg Bissonette, Armand Santarelli, among others. He has studied with world percussionists Tony Vacca, Randy Crafton and Ustad Mohammed Lutfi. Bill also has extensive classical experience having been Principle Percussionist& Timpanist for 7 years with The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey.He has also done stints with The Haddonfield Symphony, Bridgeton Symphony And the Whitewater OPera Company. He can be heard on the 2002 Trio Nova release "Parallel Lines",and Adam Berenson's 2002 release, " Stand In The Corner And Breathe" also the 2009 duo recording with Adam Berenson "A Way Out" Bill can also be heard on "An Experiment In Blind Chaos."

Steve Habib

Born: December 4, 1946

Steve has been playing drums of all types for almost 50 years. A former student of Marvin "BU-GA-LU- Smith's,Elvin Jones, Art Blakey,Emeka Iganou (Nigeria) he has performed with Joshua Breakstone, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Hugh Brodie, George Braith, Nat Dixon, Melting Pot Drum Group an all drummer group as a co-creator, Roy Campbell, Christopher Dean Sullivan, Murali Coryell, Bobby Santiago, Fred Jacobs Jacobs Ladder, Escalera at Shadowland in Ellenville, Narrowsburg Theater, Luna Performing Arts,Montclair, NJ, Howland Center, Beacon, Town Hall, Visiones, Sweet Basil's, Half Note, Village Vanguard, Focus Two, American Cathedral, Paris, France

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Orlando "Q" Rodriguez

In his varied musical career, latin percussionist Orlando “Q” Rodriguez has worked and /or recorded with artists in all styles of music: Jackie McLean, Walter Becker and Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, Frankie Valie and the Four Seasons, Ashford and Simpson, Gha'il Rhodes Benjamin, Max Roach, Paul Shaffer, Kathie Lee Gifford, Johnny Colon, Jay and the Americans, Ismael Miranda, Warren Benbow, Nancy Wilson, Sam Wooding, Bill Saxton, James Brown, Chocolate, Ted Daniel, Ben E. King, Rickie Byars Beckwith, Barry Rodgers, Ralfe Pagan, Jay and the Americans, Lonnie Smith, Gloria Lynne and Aaron Neville. Besides spending time in Puerto Rico, while in New York, Mr. Rodriguez's Congas, Bongos and assorted percussion instruments have been heard on commercial jingles and film soundtracks; including Mr. Rodriguez working as a recording consultant for Daiichi Kosho and Rock Videos International, which is a multimedia corporation, with offices in the United States, and in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, percussionist Mr

Celio Vasconcellos

Born: October 7, 1963

Celio Vasconcellos is a versatile percussionist and composer. His work is unique in the sense that his performances and recordings (www.soundclick.com/celiovasconcellos) achieve a high level of expression, with the deployment of real time interactive software applications connected through a computer network with electronic percussion interfaces.

Frank Colon

Born: October 13

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Eric Frazier

​ Eric Frazier was born in Harlem, New York City. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York in a family of eight children. He ran track and road races for 27 years. His love of the physical culture and creative expression led him to the study of the Conga Drum, Djembe Drum and African Dance. He has since expanded his artistic endeavors to singing, trap drums, tap dance, and percussion.  His recordings exemplify a world of music including Jazz, Swing, BeBop, Salsa, R&B. Calypso, Blues, Broadway, Reggae, Reggaeton, World Music and Afro beat. Eric hosted his own television talk show called "Cultural Horizons" on Queens Public Access Cable TV in 1998

William Ruiz

Born: December 26, 1968

About Taino Percussionist William Ruiz "Thanks to Will Ruiz for dedicated assistance with coordination throughout the Cerebral Caverns project." -Reggie Workman. "Percussionist and Log drummer William Ruiz is preserving the music of indigenous people." C.N.N News. " Best of NYC" the village voice. October, 2003. " ....music is creative " Latin Film Festival. Madison Square Garden. "New York's percussiont Number one" Hot 97. William Ruiz (bandleader, solo percussionist,Mayahuacan, Master Log drummer, hand drummer), is one of today's most talented modern improvisational world music artists. Based in NYC, this young spirited Native American Taino Puerto Rican artist is the creative force behind a unique blend of improvisational world tribal percussion sounds

Carlos Maldonado

Felle Vega

Born: October 18

Fellé Vega, is a well respected Dominican artist; percussionist native of Santiago De Los Caballeros who defines himself as an “Imaginary Folklorist.” Percussionist, composer, inventor, instrument designer, who over the course of his multi-faceted 25-year career has shared the national and international stage with many notable artists, has participated in numerous jazz festivals, has led several musical groups, and has served as instructor and lecturer at percussion workshops in addition to being a composer and designer of musical instruments. This craftsman of rhythms and varied instruments exhibits in his music a strong ethnic fusion that is the result of the African, Spanish and Taino influence ever-present in the Caribbean. Devoted to finding “the sound of life,” Fellé has distinguished himself by his experimentation with recyclable materials and everyday objects that have percussive possibilities, such as pails, lids and pots, which he then turns into musical instruments