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Jerry Léonide

Born: May 3, 1984

Jerry Léonide is a young musician born 1984 in the beautiful island of Mauritius. He started to play music at the age of seven with the help of his father who is a guitarist. Very quickly ,his natural talent made him one the youngest pianists to be on stage playing with different bands in different styles. Jerry is mainly self-taught but at the age of 17 he felt the need to go to a music school to master the language of Jazz. He left his country 11 years ago to go to Paris to study music. He had the chance to study with famous teachers and at the same time experiencing the parisian scene. Jerry has built himself a reputation of being one of the most talented and versatile pianists of his generation

Floris Boere

Floris Boere is a young but skilled pianist and composer, with experience playing music for over 18 years. He is a writing member of the original pop band Rexford, plays jazz with his own quartet and holds a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from NYU, at which he served as an Adjunct Faculty member. Perceptive of the fact that an instrument does not impose limits on who can be your mentor, he studied music with pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, guitarist Wayne Krantz and drummer Tony Moreno. He moved from his hometown Amsterdam to New York to put his pursuit of a career in music in second gear

Kristina Moonlight

Born: February 4

Enoch Lee

Born: March 23, 1986

Enoch Lee (Seong Yeob Lee) Enoch Lee is a Producer, a Composer and a Jazz Pianist living in New York City. He received his Bachelors of Music in Performance from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). In addition, he graduated with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from New York University. Enoch believes that artist have to find and share the real beauty to give light to people’s heart in such circumstance, because humans get easily affected by what they see hear and think. (Enoch believes that, because people get easily affected by what they see and hear, it is the responsibility of artists to discover and share the true meaning of beauty, bringing light to people’s heart.) He attempts to express genuine beauty – the values people share in common even without education, such as compassion, kindness, care, sacrifice, love between parent and a child, and the wonders of nature – through his music

Khalif Neville

Khalif Neville, while being born in New Orleans, grew up in Western Massachusetts. Studying with his father from a young age, he has always had an appreciation for Jazz, particualrly BeBop. Some of his favorite pianists include: Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Red Garland, Eroll Garner and many more. He has played with his father for some time now, and has also played with New England greats such as: Avery Sharpe, Samira Evans, Jeff Pitchell and a number of others on occasion. His personal musical endeavors are far and wide, but he has a deep rooted love for Jazz, particularyl solo Jazz piano

Alex Conde

The singular music of jazz legend Thelonious Monk has been interpreted by countless players over the years. Great jazz pianists like Bud Powell, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Randy Weston, Barry Harris, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea have dealt with his unorthodox dissonances, angular melodic twists, percussive attack and dramatic use of silences and hesitations. Saxophonists from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane to Steve Lacy and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters from Miles Davis and Chet Baker to Woody Shaw and Wallace Roney have covered Monk’s music. Others like salsa king Tito Puente and trumpeter- conguero Jerry Gonzalez and his Fort Apache Band have interpreted Monk’s idiosyncratic rhythms through their own Afro-Cuban prism while the great Andalusian pianist Chano Dominguez has offered a passionate flamenco spin on Monk. What is it about Monk's music that makes it so 'ripe' for interpretation? “It’s because he’s so hip in so many ways!,” says the Valencia-born pianist-composer and current Bay Area resident Alex Conde

Peter Shu

Alex Mercado

Born: August 28, 1974

A pianist with astounding technique and boundless imagination, Alex Mercado is acclaimed for his ability to write striking compositions and create vibrant sonic landscapes that have resonated with critics and audiences alike in his native Mexico. On Symbiosis, his second trio recording after 2012’s The Watcher, Mercado takes us on a journey through a vibrant musical world full of engaging melodies and the dynamic improvisations that typify the finest in contemporary modern jazz. Featuring Antonio Sánchez on drums and Scott Colley on bass, this album will introduce jazz aficionados outside Mexico to a virtuoso instrumentalist without peer in his homeland where he is the “1st Call” pianist of choice for Magos Herrera, Sachal Vasandani, Bryan Lynch, Camila Meza and other visiting artists

Tony Castellano, Jr.

Karen Gordon