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Edda Borg

There is sweet irony in the title, No Words Needed by Edda Borg. Best known for her trademark jazz and pop vocals, on her new CD Edda leads a brilliant ensemble of world-class players through suite of songs built that are first and foremost instrumentals. The sounds of the ensemble are rich and supremely smooth, as an airtight rhythm section supports rippling guitars, ringing keyboards and elegant horns across sophisticated solos and stylish instrumental interludes. Classically trained from age six, Edda was deeply influenced by the jazz records that her father, an accomplished jazz pianist and music educator, would play

Nathaniel Reed

Born: July 12, 1952

Amit Gothivarekar

Born: July 17, 1982

Kuba STANKIEWICZ

Johnny Taylor

Johnny was born in London and studied classical piano and clarinet from a young age, playing in orchestras and gaining an ABRSM diploma in piano performance. Upon moving to Ireland, he became a music scholar at Trinity College and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in 2006. After studying with a scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Johnny returned to Dublin and began playing jazz full time. He currently leads his own piano trio as well as playing in the groups of various notable Irish musicians including Nigel Mooney, Cormac Kenevey, Alex Mathias and Suzanne Savage and Louis Stewart

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Ryan McCaffrey

Born: January 24, 1984

Ryan McCaffrey is a graduate from Birmingham Conservatoire and has performed all over the world at festivals in Russia and Norway and trade fairs in Germany. He has played from London’s top nightspots such as The Jazz Cafe, Ronnies Bar and the 100 Club, to private events such as Wayne Hemingway's 25th Wedding Anniversary as well as at prestigious venues such as Chatsworth House and hotels such as The Corinithia, Haymarket Hotel, and Great Hall at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London where he performed after stand up comic Jo Brand.  He has held residencies at Bar Epernay, a champagne bar in Birmingham, Mr

Bruce Baker

Born: December 4, 1958

Bruce's ambition is to reach people through his compositions in the hope that they will love listening as much as he loves composing. Bruce Baker was born and raised in Los Angeles and still resides there with his wife and daughter. Bruce is known for his ability to write many jazz styles such as straight-ahead, bebop, latin, blues, and Broadway- style vocal melodies, yet maintaining a unique and recognizable sound of his own. He loves composing melodies that can be easily sung. Currently, he is writing and performing his own jazz compositions with his newly assembled "Altered Presence Jazz Band.” Bruce has been exposed to jazz music since he was a child through his father (and jazz drummer) Irwin Baker

Stephen Prutsman

Stephen Prutsman has been described as one of the most innovative musicians of his time. Moving easily from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist, composer and conductor, Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground and relationships in the music of all cultures and languages. From 2004-2007 Stephen was Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, where he conducted concertos from the keyboard, performed in chamber ensembles, conducted works of living composers, developed and arranged collaborations for their Engine 408 series of contemporary and world music, and wrote several new works for the orchestra

Dino Massa

Born: September 26, 1964

Born September 26, 1964, earned his undergraduate degree in composition in 1990, earned graduate degrees with honors in piano and jazz music in 2000, at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples, under the guidance of M Bruno Tommaso. From 84 performs in concerts both as a jazz musician and performer of classical, which alternates to the profession of teaching jazz piano at various music schools including the CPM network Space Music Pomigliano d'Arco (Na). '84 Winner of the competition organized by musical Euterpe of Pompeii as a pianist jazz composer, has participated in numerous exhibitions both nationally (Naples, Salerno, Orsara, Pomigliano, Benevento, Teramo, Isernia, Campobasso, Martina Franca, Camerota, Ischia , Portici, S