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Walter Kemp 3

Born: December 25

Viscount-endorsed artist, Walter Kemp 3 owes much to his father, a classical and gospel composer, who sparked Kemp's early interest in piano. Seeing and hearing his father's compositions performed at Carnegie Hall, opened Kemp's eyes to a world of music. He soon began studying classical piano. After a brief interest in drums, he gravitated toward jazz, continuing to play gospel organ. Kemp, lead composer/pianist for (most recently) the Black Whole, Kemp + the Reyvolation, and the Walter Kemp 3oh! has won widespread critical acclaim for his classic and compelling compositions which experiment with traditional chord progressions with inventive finesse

Keith Brown

Born: August 13, 1983

Keith L. Brown is an accomplished composer, educator, and pianist, who has established himself as one of the most sought-after pianists in contemporary jazz. He was born in Memphis, TN, and raised in Knoxville, TN, where he began playing piano and bass at a young age. Keith grew up in a musically inclined family, where both his parents were musicians, and many of his aunts and uncles possessed exceptional musical talent. His father, Donald Brown, is a world-renowned jazz pianist/composer, having performed with many greats, and his mother, Dorothy, is also a pianist who plays various woodwind instruments.

Wendy DeWitt - Queen of Boogie Woogie

From Seattle to Paris Wendy spreads the gospel of Chicagobased blues piano and boogie woogie. She’s well steeped inthe stylings of Otis Spann, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim andAlbert Ammons - the greats of boogie and blues, and honedher skills working with contemporary artists Steve Freund,Otis Rush and the late Hank Ballard who’s love of the bluesshowed in all of his rock classics.

Wendy has appeared with Charlie Musselwhite, Otis Rush,and Etta James and has been featured at Berkeley’s historicvenue, Freight and Salvage.  She performed at the CincinnatiBlues Fest at the internationally acclaimed Arches Pianostage, headed to Boston with Hank Ballard and theMidnighters for a performance at the Boston Symphony Halland played before a sold out audience at the San DiegoMuseum of Art with Hadda Brooks in what proved to be one ofHadda’s last shows.  Wendy has performed at many majorfestivals including Peer in Belgium, San Francisco BluesFest,  and Monterey Blues, and Jazz Fests.

Paul Joseph

The Paul Joseph Quartet is known for its unique jazz arrangements of classical music, as exemplified in their performance with New York’s Nova Philharmonic of Mozart Meets Jazz. As well as their Classical Jazz programming, they’ve concertized extensively the past several years doing a variety of American Songbook composer-theme programs featuring Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Kern, Van Heusen, Ellington and even Holiday, Italian and St. Patrick’s Day Jazz. Pianist/composer Paul Joseph has taken enthusiastic audiences on an inspiring musical journey through the passionate world of his classically-oriented compositions in orchestral, choral and ballet performances, as well as all-original solo piano concerts

Greg Goebel

Greg Goebel was born in Oregon and began playing piano and composing music from an early age. Upon graduation from the University of Oregon, the school said of his achievements, “Greg has personally done more to elevate the performance level of our jazz students than any other person, graduate or undergraduate, who has attended the U of O in at least the last fifteen years.” While at the University of Oregon, he received numerous awards including a Composition award in Downbeat Magazine. Greg then moved to Portland, OR where he quickly became one of the most in demand pianists in the area

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)