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Miki Hayama

Miki Hayama is a GRAMMY Nominated piano/keyboard player, arranger and musical director, born in Kyoto, Japan, lives in NYC.

She graduated from Osaka College of Music where majored in classical piano, and studied jazz piano with renowned jazz pianist Sadayasu Fujii in Kyoto. After graduated from College, she started to work at many Jazz clubs in Kansai area. Her ambition to pursue Jazz didn't stop her but made her move to New York. Since 2003, Ms. Hayama has been busy making quite a respected name for herself on New York's jazz scene. She has toured and shared the stage with many greats —Kenny Garrett, Ralph Peterson, Sean Jones, Tia Fuller, Michael Dease, Vincent Herring, Bruce Williams, Roy Hargrove, JD Allen, Greg Osby, Cindy Blackman-Santana, Nnenna Freelon, Jazzmeia Horn, Christian McBride, Eric Harland, Gary Thomas, and even the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin to name a few. Her own 2006 sophomore release "Prelude to a Kiss" received a five-star rating in Swing Journal. Her 3rd studio album "Wide Angle" got Swing Journal's Gold Disc Award in March 2009, Best Production Award in January, 2010. She plays on many recordings as a side person includes on Tia Fuller's "Pillar of Strength" and "Healing Space", Sharel Casity's "Evolve", Mimi Jones's "A New Day" and "Balance", Michael Dease Big Band's "Relentless", Nnenna Freelon's "Christmas". She worked as a musical director as well as an arranger and keyboardists on Nnenna Freelon's new studio album " Time Traveler " which was released on May 21, 2021, and won the Grammy nomination.

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Eddie Moore

Born: October 9, 1985

Jazz runs deep in pianist and bandleader Eddie Moore's veins. Raised in Houston Texas, he began his musical journey at Texas Southern University where he later earned a Bachelors in Arts and immersed himself in the Houston music scene. As a lifelong musician traversing a number of bands and styles he relocated to Kansas City to study under Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he received a M.A in Jazz Studies. After forming Jazz/Fusion group Eddie Moore & The Outer Circle in 2012, diversity and inclusiveness have become to define Moore as an artist. His debut album,"The Freedom of Expression", was given 3.5 stars from Downbeat jazz magazine who has stated "Moore's compositions exude a sophisticated soulful elegance that create a tastefully fulfilling venture into a range of dynamic pieces, with the musicianship to match.” Moore’s third album as a leader "Kings & Queens" incorporates elements of soul, r&b, rock and hip-hop into his take on contemporary jazz

Steve Shapiro

Born: 1963

A busy producer, composer, and session musician in New York City, Steve’s credits span many areas of the music & recording business — including major jazz and pop artists, television, feature films, commercials, multimedia, and education. He has led multiple releases as a contemporary jazz vibraphonist.

Steve has recorded with artists such as Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Ornette Coleman, Pat Martino, Regina Belle, They Might Be Giants, Roberta Flack, and SpyroGyra. He appeared on Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, which received 4 Grammy Awards including Album-of-the-Year. He also composes music for many television series, films, TV commercials and trailers, and is a long-time producer/arranger for the Walt Disney Company, with credits on an array of projects related to over forty feature film releases.

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Cezary Ostrowski

Born: September 30, 1962

Cezary Maciej Ostrowski (born 30 September 1962) is a Polish composer, musician, songwriter, author, visual artist and journalist. Ostrowski was born in Brzeg, Lower Silesia. He is best known for his work as a leader of the critically acclaimed new wave band Bexa Lala, established in 1983. Before that, he had fronted the groups: Taz and Leo Patett in the early 1980s, bands renowned for their rough, and violent sound influenced by free jazz, electronica, and post-punk. In 2001, he formed the jazz duo Trzaska & Ostrowski that released the album Blades. In 2003 his another duo Swietlicki & Ostrowski released the album Crawl

Safety Squad

Born: March 16, 1992

Forming in 2015, Safety Squad started as a ten piece Snarky Puppy cover band, and over the last four years the personnel and sound has changed drastically. Now Safety Squad rocks a five-to-seven piece outfit and plays original music by bandleader and composer Danny Bauer. With 2 albums available online and a third to be released by the end of 2019, Safety Squad is a force in the modern jazz world to be reckoned with. The Squad plays a genre of music they call Adventure Jazz - a dynamic blend of jazz, funk, rock, video game music and everything in-between. Watch out for the Safety Squad national tour to happen in 2020

Plague Doktor

Born: March 10

The nom de plume of an electronic music composer who prefers to disassociate his (primarily analogue) body of work from these forays into digital electronica, Plague Doktor generally self-publishes (or hands-off those honors to friends) his offerings on YouTube or similar free-access services. Additionally, as requested, Plague Doktor offers these EDM and Sequencing projects/experiments freely for use by both amateur and professional visual artists working in various mediums.

Eva Brandner

Born: December 22, 1990

Jean-Marc Foussat

Born: March 19, 1955

Né Jean-Marc Foussat en 1955 à Oran, c’est tout d'abord avec la guitare, au milieu des années 70 que je crée plusieurs groupes aussi expérimentaux qu'éphémères pour peu à peu lui préférer le synthétiseur & le papier réglé, prenant autant de plaisir à trafiquer la bande magnétique, en solitaire. Fin 79, j’ai 24 ans et je travaille en studio, à la suite de quoi, je choisis d'enregistrer la musique improvisée en concert et collabore avec Incus, hat Hut, Po-Torch, Rift, Rec Rec, Celluloïd…. En 81, je termine "Abattage", mon premier disque solo qui sera finalement édité en Mars 83. Dix ans plus tard, grâce à « Marteau Rouge », je reprends le chemin de la scène et du public avec mon synthétiseur analogique en compagnie de Makoto Sato à la batterie et de Jean-François Pauvros à la guitare électrique. En 2005 je fais la connaissance de Sylvain Guérineau, saxophoniste, avec qui nait « Aliquid », ce qui petit à petit, va m’entrainer à jouer de plus en plus régulièrement avec de nombreux acteurs des musiques improvisées…