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Ermel Arroyo

Anthony DeCarlo

Anthony DeCarlo is a musician from Trenton, NJ. He began playing the guitar at the age of 6 under the instruction of Ernie White. He was exposed to the great roots of blues and rock in Trenton. He played seriously throughout his childhood and wanted to take it a step further. He crossed the bridge to the city of Philadelphia to attend the University of the Arts for Guitar Performance. After graduating, he moved down to South Philadelphia and started Taskerhouse, a community music venue/studio/rehearsal space. In addition to running Taskerhouse, Anthony performs and records throughout the world with a variety of artists, as well as being involved in many original projects.

Laranah Phipps

Alex Otey

Alex Otey is a pianist, singer, trumpeter, composer/arranger, producer and recording engineer who has performed with a number of prominent jazz musicians and recorded with Grover Washington Jr. and Richie Cole. He’s a participant on a GRAMMY® Winning and on two GRAMMY® Nominated projects as a contributing artist, producer and arranger. He performs regularly as a Jazz Piano-Vocalist, and hosts The Trenton Jazz Show aired on WWFM JazzOn2 89.1 HD2.

Carole Lynne

Bob Smith - Guitar

Linda Lee

Bob Smith

Born: December 9, 1945

I was born in 1945 in Columbus, Ohio, the first child of a young pair of "Swing Kids". The radio and 78 rpm phonograph played big band instrumentals and vocals constantly. As an infant I was as familiar with Miller, Goodman, Shaw, Dorsey, Basie, Ellington and The Andrews Sisters as I was with our four room OSU campus area apartment. At age 10 I rented a metal clarinet from a local shop and started the life- long addiction to music. At 12 I began lessons on the clarinet with David Hite. In high school at Columbus Linden-McKinley I joined the dance band by learning to play bari sax

Dick Gratton

Born: June 21

DICK GRATTON started playing guitar professionally in the fifties and has performed primarily in the Central New Jersey area. He has played with many jazz groups and vocalists during the past 60 years at many area night clubs such as the Greenwood Grill, the Mill Hill Saloon, the Tremont Lounge, the Centre House Pub, the Urban Word Cafe and Marsilio's Restaurant in Trenton NJ, the Nassau Inn in Princeton NJ and the Farnsworth House and Bordentown Yacht Club in Bordentown NJ. IN ADDITION to his night club appearances, Dick has performed in concert at the Trenton NJ Mill Hill Playhouse, the New Jersey State Museum and the Jazz and Blues Showcase Series in Medford Lakes NJ, led jazz groups at annual dinners for the American Federation Of Musicians Of Trenton NJ, played at many of Trenton's official functions such as press conferences, annual Trenton Preservation Awards ceremonies and Heritage Days Festivals and played in a six piece jazz group at the 1998 Trenton Jazz Festival at Waterfront Park in Trenton NJ opening for legendary jazz performers pianists David Benoit and Alex Bugnon, Latin pianist Eddie Palmieri and vocalist Oleta Adams with special guest Richie Cole on saxophone

Jack Furlong

Born: June 26, 1983

Recording artist Jack Furlong has been called many things, including “the James Bond of jazz,” “The Man With The Golden Gun,” and “late to dinner.” What is there to say about Jack Furlong that hasn’t already been said about a fine wine? (Well, except that he isn’t made from grapes…) Furlong is known as a performer, composer, arranger, woodwind doubler, and educator. A baritone saxophonist by trade, Jack diversifies his sound to other saxophones and woodwinds to achieve the proper tone color, mood, and musical message he hears and wishes to portray