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Cliff Goldmacher

Born: February 27, 1968

In the music business for over thirty years, GRAMMY-recognized songwriter, Cliff Goldmacher is also a producer, engineer, author and owner of recording studios in Nashville, Tennessee and Sonoma, California. A multi-instrumentalist and session musician, Cliff has recorded, played on and produced thousands of recordings for major and independent publishers, record labels, from up and coming songwriters to GRAMMY winners.

Cliff has worked as a staff songwriter for a major Nashville publisher and his songwriting collaborators include multi-platinum selling and Grammy winning artists Ke$ha, Keb’ Mo’, Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead), Chris Barron (Spin Doctors) & Lisa Loeb. Cliff’s songs have been cut by major label artists in genres ranging from country, pop and jazz to classical crossover. His music has also been used on NPR’s “This American Life” and in national advertising campaigns. Along with multiple songs in the top 40 on the jazz charts, Cliff’s song "Till You Come To Me,” went to #1. Most recently, Cliff’s song “Cold Outside” - a collaboration with Keb’ Mo’ - was included on Keb’ Mo’s GRAMMY-nominated album, “Oklahoma.”

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Maikel Garcia

Born: March 31, 1981

Born in Cuba, saxophonist Maikel Garcia grew up in a home alive with bossanova, funk, classic, and Cuban music. He combines jazz with his Latin roots and funk to create a unique fusion of rhythms. After graduating from music school in Santiago de Cuba, he founded several successful bands in Cuba...TGMay, La Alianza and Orbita 1. In 2009 he relocated to Ambergris Caye, Belize, where he founded the well known trio Banda Cubana, and played with the "Omolewa Osain Project", the Cuban-Garifuna Jazz band of legendary Cuban percussionist Carlos Perrote. In July 2013, he launched his debut album, "Para Suerte Mia"

Martha Crawford

Martha brings a sophisticated, cool-but-spicy, swingin' style to the clever lyrics and timeless melodies of the Great American Songbook. She loves seeking out lesser-known tunes which show off both her wit and her warm, rich tone. A professional actor, she honed her interpretive skills working in both film and theater in Los Angeles. Currently she does voice acting for apps and radio and TV commercials, as well as corporate video narration, and audiobooks. 

She began her jazz studies under well known SF Bay Area vocalist Wanda Stafford, and has attended multiple seasons of Jazz Camp West, where she was selected for the Advanced Vocal Intensive with Kate McGarry. At the Stanford Jazz Vocal Intensive she was coached by Madeline Eastman and Dena deRose. She has also worked with a variety of renowned jazz artists through the California Jazz Conservatory.

Her cabaret training includes two years at the St

Zan Stewart

Born: March 29, 1944

In 2009, when he was 65, Zan Stewart felt it was time for a major life change. He decided to leave daily journalism – where he had worked as a jazz writer for close to 30 years at The Los Angeles Times and the Newark Star-Ledger – to focus on music. “It felt like it was time to see what might happen if I devoted myself to the horn, to writing music, and to teaching, seeing where they might take me,” says Stewart, a student clarinetist at age six and a tenor saxophonist since 1966. “I had done a ton of writing – around 2000 profiles plus many more reviews and other short pieces

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Dan Krimm

Born: 1955

Dan Krimm began studying music formally with classical violin lessons (and brief study on piano as well) while in elementary school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the 60s. He concentrated on violin through high school, also picking up acoustic guitar informally in junior high.

While in college at Princeton in the 70s, he got hooked by the contemporary developments in jazz, especially including Chick Corea's 'Return to Forever' group and a host of artists recording for ECM Records. In 1975, he bought his first electric bass, and began learning the instrument, the jazz form and improvisation, and composition.

Norman Landsberg

Norman Landsberg has been part of the bay area music scene for many years. Though trained in classical piano, he was able to draw upon the cultural diversity of his native New York City to develop a familiarity with a wide range of musical tastes and styles. His professional career started as one of the founding members of the rock group MOUNTAIN, featuring guitarist Leslie West. (Samples from songs Norman co-wrote as a member of Mountain have found a new life in current hits by such artists as Jay-Z and Kanye West, winding up in films like "Barbershop" and "The Taking of Pelham 123”). He first came to the bay area with his group “Hammer” to record an album for Bill Graham’s San Francisco Records, and subsequently moved here permanently, becoming vocal arranger and music director for the Pointer Sisters, touring extensively and making numerous television appearances with them

Carlos Henrique Pereira

Born: November 5

Carlos Henrique Pereira is an accomplished composer, piano and acoustic guitar player from one of the most influential and dynamic musical regions of South America, the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. An instrumentalist trained in both classical and jazz traditions, Carlos ventured into composition early in his life and without any formal training was named the youngest composer to have a work selected for the Brazilian Contemporary Music Biennial in Rio de Janeiro in 1983, where his music was played alongside some of the greatest Brazilian modern composers. Carlos debuted his first L.P