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Quartet

By Janne Tuomi

Label: Mustik Motel Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Nokia Calling; Peace Piece; ETS; Piilo; Sydän Kurkussa; Saari; Hulva-tone

Marie-Paule Franke

Born: April 10

Marie‑Paule Franke is a Belgium‑based jazz singer‑songwriter with German roots. Her music moves between improvisation and intimate, narrative songs. Her voice is defined by subtlety, spaciousness and emotional clarity — a place where silence carries meaning and expression unfolds in small, deliberate gestures.

Early projects

Her debut album Tales from a Lonely Room, with pianist Erik Vermeulen and bassist Jouni Isoherranen, marked the beginning of her recording career. It established the foundations of her open, lyrical and atmospheric style.

With the EP All Is Love her vocal and artistic language became further refined.

International work

The Scornful Four

Active since: 2023

The Scornful Four is a multi-generational jazz quartet from Meanjin that features repertoire that is entrenched in the history of jazz with a uniquely Australian approach, evoking the incomparable vast landscapes and vistas of our home.

This group reveres the bleak counterpoints of the classic Mulligan-Baker Quartet, and the jazz hero-worship continues with nods to the legendary pianoless groups of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane’s fiery 1960s ensembles. But the enigmatic beauty and undeniably Australian rasp of Bernie McGann, the intensity of Mark Simmonds and Scott Tinkler, and the genre-breaking excursions of Sandy Evans are the prevailing elemental sounds that drive the Scornful Four to bring you new explorations of the jazz vernacular. 

Yasmine Azaiez

Born: October 16, 1986

World renowned Tunisian/Indian Violinist, singer and Composer Yasmine Azaiez studied at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK then went on to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Specializing in World music and Contemporary, she has performed in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall UK, Bimhuis in Amsterdam, The Cultural Center in Beijing China, The Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, Jordan Hall in Boston USA, and Royal Omani Opera house amongst many others. Yasmine and her band have also played at the prestigious National festival Carthage Festival in Tunisia, which was attended by 7000 people. Yasmine has performed with many legendary musicians such as Naseer Shamma, Mistlav Rostropovich, Guinness book of world record holder Cory Pesaturo, Kinan Azmeh, Apollo Liberace,  Ramy Ayach and Rami Khalifa . She has been sponsored by Wood violins, Volta Violins, Roswell Pro Audio and in 2017 by
Samsung Tunisia.
In 2019 Yasmine Azaiez created the first large violin competition in Tunisia, sponsored by
the British Council, created to encourage the Tunisian youth to pursue their passions in music.
In Tunisia, Yasmine has been recognised for her many achievements. She was invited to play the National Anthem at the Presidential Palace in front of the Late President, Beji Caid Essebsi, elected one of the 100 Future Leaders of Tunisia in 2017 and was on the Jury of Miss Tunisia.
Yasmine Azaiez currently resides in Los Angeles. Her new 2025 Album 'Shivas Shoes' was produced by Ashish Manchanda { who's credits include the late Michael Jackson Album 'Invincible' } The music is a  vibrant blend showcasing North African/Indian heritage with complex yet danceable rhythms,  passionate melodies while highlighting her Classical technique.
Yasmine's band consists of 6 award winning musicians which include two percussionists, a bassist and guitarist. 

Raffaele Fiengo

Raffaele Fiengo was born in September 1998 and, from a very young age, was immersed in music—particularly jazz—thanks to his father.

After acquiring his first musical foundations in his local town band, he began studying saxophone at the Civica School of Music L. Piseri in Brugherio, attending professional courses in Jazz Saxophone and History of Modern Music under Antonello Monni, Jazz Piano with Marco Detto, and Modern Theory with Barbara Gervasoni, earning a Diploma in Jazz Saxophone in June 2016.

He later studied at CEMM (Centro Educazione Musica Moderna) in Milan, deepening his knowledge of jazz language, improvisation, composition, and arranging through masterclasses and workshops led by internationally renowned musicians including Walter Donatiello, Tiziano Tononi, Bruno Chevillon, Roberto Gatto, Giovanni Tommaso, Enrico Pieranunzi, and Antonio Faraò.

Dorian May

Born: April 28, 1957

Dorian May’s piano artistry shapes together classic, modern and Latin jazz with Bach harmony, world and poly rhythms and he is equally at home in world music and classical music as he is with hard-swinging bebop, Cuban Salsa and down-home blues. At his shows you may hear anything from classical to TV/movie themes, children’s tunes, traditional jazz, folk songs to Cuban boleros.

His diverse collection of influences include a degree in classical piano performance, keyboardist in a touring Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute band, high-school band director, world percussionist/accompanist at world music and jazz festivals and currently leader & arranger for several Mendocino and Sonoma-county based jazz and Latin bands.

Billy Hart Quartet Birthday Bash

by Chris DeRosa
December 6, 2025

Billy Hart Quartet Multidirectional Album Release & Hart's 85th Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club November, 30, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa, and this is what I heard... The show took place at the legendary New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. ...

Lori Bell

Brooklyn native Lori Bell is a flutist and composer of admirable depth and broad musical sympathies.  A resident of San Diego, she has contributed to the development of higher standards of performance while earning acclaim from both peers and critics for her artistry on stage and in recordings. 

Bell plays with confidence and taste, with a proclivity toward the more subtle means of emotional expression.  Her playing inherently has a many-layered depth that reveals a more meaningful art.  She renders ballads with exceptional sensitivity while bringing wonderful nuances to swing and be-bop, which she plays with power, agility and a natural élan.  Her phrasing, evocative of birds, shows the strong influence of Eric Dolphy, yet is rendered with such purity of tone and range of timbre that it is clearly of a different ornithology.

Lori Bell is a three time Global Music Award recipient recognized for her recordings, compositions, and arrangements.

In 2016 Lori paid heartfelt tribute to her family and birthplace on her critically acclaimed album Brooklyn Dreaming earning four star ratings from Jazz Journal UK, Jazz Times, the Los Angeles Times (four and a half stars) and Downbeat, which chose it as “Best Albums of 2016.” Huffington Post also chose Brooklyn Dreaming for their “Best of Jazz 2016”.  Bill Milkowski wrote in the March 2016 issue of Downbeat: “Bell flaunts prodigious chops on both C flute and alto flute, though her pen might be mightier than her sword.  Her originals all reveal a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing.” Veteran jazz critic Scott Yanow chose it as one of his Top 25 Best jazz CD’s of 2016.  It also won a Global Music Award for Outstanding Achievement for compositions and arrangements.

Lori has toured throughout the United States playing festivals and clubs such as Birdland NYC, The Blue Note NYC, The Jazz Bakery LA, Catalina’s LA, The Gene Harris Jazz Festival, Jazz Summit 2 LA, and Jazz in the Pines festival

Quartet

By K Prouty

Label: DK Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bioluminescence; Moonglow: Discovery paradox; Past becomes future; Hidden truths; Patterns and pathways; Engineering a better future; In the mood; Black tide;