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Taurey Butler

Hailing from East Orange New Jersey, Taurey began studying piano at the age of seven. He loved playing, but by the time he reached the age of fourteen he found that the musical direction he was heading in was not fulfilling - something was missing. During his last year of high school, a prescient teacher, who was also a distinguished percussionist, Barry Centanni handed Taurey a CD of Oscar Peterson and advised him to listen. He did, and from then on, he knew where he was going. " I didn't know a piano could do that!" he recalls and began to focus more on jazz studies. Taurey went on to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he studied Japanese and majored in Electrical Engineering - he left with a BSc and BE and saw himself as, "a Japanese-speaking electrical engineer who loves playing jazz piano." He decided to return to New Jersey to develop and grow as a musician and found himself attending jam session in New York

Cava Menzies

Bay area native Cava Menzies hails from a long line of musical talents; her grandmother, a pioneer in the New York Jazz scene as a dancer at the Cotton Club, her father, Eddie Henderson, an accomplished jazz trumpeter and early member of the Herbie Hancock sextet, and her mother a classically trained flautist. Cava is a classically trained jazz pianist who has performed throughout the Bay Area and abroad. In 2001, Cava received a BA from the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she studied jazz piano and music education. In 2008, Cava received her MM from the University of Miami where she studied composition and music production and recording

Jeffrey Chin

Jeffrey has been playing piano since the age of six, when he began his formal musical training in classical piano under the tutlelage of Julia McCaslin and Samuel Rodetsky. During that time, he won numerous scholarships and awards, performing regularly in many open competitions and recitals. After eight years of private lessons, his interests began to blossom; he branched out and taught himself to play many other styles and types of music, including what would eventually turn out to be his passion...jazz. Jeffrey currently owns and runs his own recording studio, production company, music publishing company and independent record label (the latter two with his long-time friend and business partner, Steve Creason). Past touring, recording and performance credits and clients include: Sylvester and the Two Tons Of Fun, Bill Summers and Summers' Heat, Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), Tremaine Hawkins, Chris Issak, Teddy Pendergrass, Little Milton, Ray Charles, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Dolly Parton, Don Johnson, Everett Chambers, Orrin Keepnews, Malo (w/ Jorge Santana), Second Wind, Attitude (w/ David Brown and Mike Carabello of Santana), Little Anthony and the Imperials, Los Mocosos, DubAddxx, Columbia Artists ("Love, Janis"), Oracle, Adobe, Netscape, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, KRON, KTVU, KQED, KMEL, Casio, TCI, the San Francisco 49ers, BMW, Filmworks, Inc., San Francisco Fire Department, Anubis Entertainment, the Oakland Raiders, the Oakland Atheletics, San Francisco Symphony, Sinocast, Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, Pacific Music Camp, NAACP and the San Francisco Department of Parks & Recreation. Armed with an array of keyboards and synthesizers or with nothing more than an acoustic piano, Jeffrey is available for your recording sessions, tours and live performances

Matt Treder

Born: February 6, 1972

Matt Treder is an Oregon-based jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and producer. He arranged, performed on and co- produced Halie Loren's "They Oughta Write a Song," winner of the JPF 2009 Vocal Jazz Album of the Year award, and her latest album "Heart First," winner of Japanese magazine Jazz Critique's top prize for best vocal jazz album in Jazz Audio Disc Awards 2011. At home in almost any musical milieu, Treder has toured in country bands, composed music for video games, collaborated with Dove and Grammy award-winning producer Christopher Stevens, and performed regularly with Satin Love Orchestra, the Deb Cleveland Band (voted 2008’s best blues vocalist by Eugene Weekly readers), The Essentials (2009 Register-Guard readers’ choice for Best Band), Michael Tracey (2007 Northwest Harmonica Champion), the Emerald City Jazz Kings, Don Latarski, Amy Clawson, the Inspirational Sounds, and the University of Oregon jazz, vocal jazz and gospel ensembles

Mel Nusbaum

I'm originally from Chicago (played blues guitar and bass with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Mike Bloomfield, jazz guitar with John Klemmer and Hart McNee); Madison (co-founded the Original Imitations and Sebastian Moon; played with Michael Moss, Ben Sidran, Roscoe Mitchell); currently live in Tenafly, New Jersey; I have played jazz, funk, Latin and fusion guitar with the groups of Cecil Payne, Harold Ousley, Chico Hamilton, Howard McGhee, (including McGhee's big band with George Coleman), Patato Valdez, Cliff Dukes, The Brecker Brothers, Booker Ervin, Tom Malone, (producer of my first album, "Further Adventures of Sebastian Moon" with pianist Jose Hunt, drummer Rudy Lawless, and saxman Joe Ferguson)

Oscar Hernandez

Born: March 22, 1954

Oscar Hernández has long been considered one of the most gifted and prominent pianist/ arrangers on the contemporary latin,latin-jazz and salsa music scene. Since its inception in the early 1980's, Oscar has been responsible for charting the musical course of the Rubén Blades Band. Increasingly in demand as a pianist, arranger and producer ,the Bronx native has produced such artists as Ruben Blades/Willie Colón "Carabali", Daniel Ponce, Rafael Dejesus, Eddie Torres, Phil Hernandez, Steve Kroon,etc. and has made a more personal statement with the debut CD's "Decision" and "Alternate Roots" by his band Seis Del Solar the Rubén Blades Band sans Rubén, and now with his Grammy Award nominated band ”The Spanish Harlem Orchestra”. In addition to being Rubén Blades pianist, arranger and musical director, Oscar Hernández has enjoyed a prolific musical career recording and performing with such world renown artists as Latin music king Tito Puente, Queen of Salsa Music Celia Cruz, Latin Pop Star Julio Iglesias, Juan Luis Guerra, Ray Barreto, Earl Klugh, Dave Valentin, Johnny Pacheco, Ismael Miranda, Pete "Conde" Rodriguez, Oscar De'leon, Luis "Perico" Ortiz, "Libre' "Grupo Folkorico Experimental", Willie Colón, Kirsty MacColl, etc....

James Reynolds

Born: February 5, 1982

Jamie Reynolds is a Canadian pianist, keyboardist and composer who has lived in New York City since 2005. He graduated with honors from the University of Toronto in 2004, where he studied with David Braid, Mike Murley, Phil Nimmons, and many others. Jamie moved to New York in 2005 when he was awarded multiple Canada Council grants to study privately with Fred Hersch and Craig Taborn. He has also received professional development grants for touring in 2012 and for recording his album Counterpart in 2013. Jamie has performed at New York's top jazz clubs and has toured extensively in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival

Chris Plansker

Born: 1971

Chris Plansker is a composer,pianist and session musician based in the united states. His work has been featured on various recordings,television shows and commercials globally.Trained in classical and Jazz piano Chris holds a degree in music composition from the University of North Texas. When not composing, Chris also performs on a regular basis with his group as well as the long time keyboardist with Detroit singer/songwriter Stewart Francke. It has been with Francke that Chris has arranged for Motown's Funk brothers and opened for acts such as Brian Adams, Rick Springfield and Bob Seger.

John Crawford

John Crawford was born in London of English/Spanish Parents. His father played Blues piano, and this is the first thing he learnt to play. His mother would introduce him to Latin music of all kinds, and he has gone on to perform at Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Getxo Jazz Festival, Ronnie Scotts, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the 606 club, and Royal Albert Hall amongst others. .. .. In the Latin world he has worked with percussion legends Airto Moreira and Giovanni Hidalgo, Eumir Deodato, Ed Motta, Tito Allen, Herman Oliveira, Henry Fiol, Luis Felipe Gonzalez, Frankie Morales (Tito Puentes last singer), Jimmy Bosch, Bobby Matos, Adalberto Santiago, Luisito Carrion, Mariano Civico, Cano Estremera, Jack Costanzo, Nancy Abalos and Carlos Irigoyen, Maelo Ruiz, Johnny Blas, Jesus Alemany's Cubanismo, Orlando Watusi and Danny Silva, as well as UK based artists like Snowboy, Guida da Palma and Jazzinho, Negrocan, Sirius B, Manteca, Shantijazzworld, Nois, Liliana Chachian, Gustavo Marques, Jandira Silva, Mr Hermano, Orquesta La Clave, Roberto Pla, Robin Jones, Samara and Viramundo

Joseph Salack

Joseph Salack, pianist, bassist, and composer has been playing jazz and creative improvised music for over 35 years at venues in Chicago, San Francisco, Taos, and Santa Fe. He studied piano with Erwin Helfer and Kevin Zornig; bass with David Parlato; and harmolodics with Don Cherry. In 1996, he formed the Salack/Pearlman Quartet in Santa Fe with trumpeter Dan Pearlman. Over the five plus years that the quartet was together and performing, the rhythm section included Marco Topo, Lee Steck, Raymond Blanchet, J.B. Sutherland, Dave Wayne and Zimbabwe Nkenya. Joseph joined flutist Mary Rose in 2002 to form the flute and bass jazz duo Deuce, and they performed at venues in Taos and Santa Fe including The Adobe Bar, The Cloud Cliff Restaurant, and The CD Cafe, as well as private parties. He has performed twice at The Roost Creative Music Series in Albuquerque: in 2009, he played bass with The World We Dream, playing all original compositions, with Shawn Woodyard on woodwinds, Sean Buckley on guitar and Phil Scollard on drums; and in 2010, in a tribute to the music of John Carter and Bobby Bradford, he played with the group Stand Up and Blow which consisted of Dan Clucas on cornet, Shawn Woodyard on woodwinds, Joseph Salack on bass and Milton Villarrubia III on drums. Joseph currently performs at The Starlight Lounge with The Jazzbians, a jazz duo with himself on piano and Gayle Kenny on bass with occasional guests, and with the Alto Street Band, which plays Americana at various venues in Santa Fe