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Ranger & the "Re-Arrangers"

In 2007, our first year as a working band, we played at over 40 festivals and special events in Washington state. Capable of virtuoso playing at a whisper or at a joyful roar, the band’s repertoire includes swing standards, Gypsy classics, the music of Django Reinhardt, and Ranger’s originals. The band's 2006 debut CD was won several awards and wide acclaim in 2007. The title track was a finalist for an Independent Music Award in the World Music category. It also won the April 2007 song contest for Global Rhythm magazine. In February 2007, Victory Review said that "Gypsy Moon is a polished, wholly-thought-out work that puts [Ranger] solidly in the company of the best of the Northwest's formidable 'Django' scene...The young man has arrived." The lead article in the August 2007 World Rhythm Webzine compared Ranger's "stylistic presence" and his "sense of melody and daring improvisations" to Stephane Grappelli

Karen Briggs

Born: August 12, 1963

Karen's live performances are "electrifying and explosive!" She was born in New York City and raised in Portsmouth, VA where she learned to play violin in a classroom setting at the age of 12. Her playing is strong and indicative of her exposure to Jazz, Gospel, Latin, Classical, African and mid-eastern music styles. All are combined with a unique melismatic, 'vocal-like' soul, thus giving her a rare and distinguishable signature of sound. She has been sought after to record or appear in a wide variety of musical situations ranging from Gospel (Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin & Yolanda Adams) to Symphony (The Virginia Symphony) to jazz ("Vertu" Stanley Clarke & Lenny White, Mike Phillips) to Hip Hop (Wu Tang Clan, Hidden Beach: Unwrapped Volumes I - IV)

Scott Tixier

Born: February 26, 1986

Scott Tixier (born 26 February 1986) is an award-winning French jazz violinist and a recording artist. Tixier has earned international recognition for his playing. Grammy Award winning bassist Marcus Miller says that Tixier "is making an international name for himself. I heard him in France and was immediately struck by his individuality and his sound." Guitarist Pat Metheny says, "[Scott] has found a place for himself within the elite community of New York jazz musicians, no small feat." In an interview with All About Jazz in 2010, violinist Mark Feldman called Scott "really up-and-coming and very talented." Jean-Luc Ponty said "I have heard Scott's recordings, seen his live performances and I think that he stands above the crowd of current jazz violinists around the world." He has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Common, Anthony Braxton, Joss Stone, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Wayne Brady, Chris Walden, Greg Phillinganes, Ray Chew, The Isley Brothers, Cory Smythe, Maceo Parker, Janet Cardiff, Siegfried Kessler, Tony Middleton, Lonnie Plaxico, Myron Walden, Clifford Adams (Kool & the Gang), Helen Sung, Brice Wassy, Gerald Cleaver, Lew Soloff, Yvonnick Prene, Tigran Hamasyan, James Weidman, Marcus McLauren, Giada Valenti, and Tommy Sims. Scott played at Carnegie Hall, the Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, the Golden Globes, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Blue Note Jazz Club, the Apollo Theater, the Smalls Jazz Club, The Stone, Roulette, Smoke Jazz, Hammerstein Ballroom, Joe's Pub, Williamsburg Music Center, Prudential Center and the United States Capitol. When he was a teenager, Scott was invited to several master classes with some of the finest jazz musicians, including Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Steve Coleman.

Fiidla

FIIDLA is a London born-NYC raised virtuoso, who plays 10 instruments, especially 1 very funky 5 string violin. A former member of Spaceman Sun Ra's - Arkestra, Fiidla spent time fronting the pop group Surface, and playing on Hip-Hop tracks like "Hip-Hop for Respect" from Raucus Records, Talib Kweli's "For Women" and Common's "Sun God". Forming his own band, "Chocolate Wireworks", he draws on his love of Soul and R&B, and used his extensive Jazz, Classical and Indian Training. A youthful master - Fiidla's 4 octave range voice and incredible musicianship, always take the music to the next level

Daniel John Martin

Born: September 26, 1970

Daniel John Martin, jazz violin and vocals, was born in Congleton, England. After spending most of his childhood in Africa (Dakar-Senegal/ Johanesburg- South Africa- for ten years) He came to Paris France Where he continued to study the violin at Parisian conservatories. He soon met up with jazz and it has remained his main interest ever since. Daniel John Martin has recorded with many artists , Urban Gipsy is his first solo album. You can hear Daniel John Martin every wednesday at the famous -AUX PETITS JOUEURS- where he hosts the gipsy probably most important Parisian jam session alongside worldwide reknowned guitar player ANGELO DEBARRE

Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble

Founded by violinist Meg Okura, the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble “elegantly intertwine(s) elements of classical, jazz and world folk into a new sound,” - Elliot Simon, All About Jazz (2006). Born in Tokyo, Okura toured all of Asia as a solo violinist, making her U.S. debut at Kennedy Center as a teen. Graduate of the Juilliard School, she has appeared on over 50 albums and film scores as a composer, violinist and an erhu player, and has performed with artists from Lee Konitz, Steve Swallow, Michael Brecker, Dianne Reeves, to Cirque du Soleil and David Bowie, to actor Terrence Haward

Todd Reynolds

TODD REYNOLDS (NYC, NY), composer, conductor, arranger and violinist, is a longtime member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project . His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music has produced innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world. A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and 'wood-bound' tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend

Bill Stokes

Born: September 3, 1954

Bill Stokes has worked as a professional musician for 30 years. He was a violinist with the Florida West Coast Symphony from 1976-2000. During this time he was also concertmaster of the Sarasota Pops for 3 years, played with the Vermont Symphony for their summer seasons 1987-1988, and maintained a busy free-lance schedule. He was hired by touring shows, and performed with such artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Collins, Steve Allen, Ray Price, and George Shearing. He played in dozens of musicals, for hundreds of performances. He also contracted ensembles for events, weddings, and gigs of all kinds. In 2000 Bill relocated to Keene, NY and devoted two years to the study of jazz guitar, with the phenomenal Joe Gitto

Lissette Torres

Bachelor of Arts in Music-University of Puerto Rico Master of Music Education-Florida State University Master of Violin Performance-University of Akron Participant at the Texas Tech University Advanced Orchestral Conducting Summer Workshop Have freelanced and performed with the following artists: Gilberto Santa Rosa, The Moody Blues, Ray Price Performed solo recitals in colleges and universities and performed with numerous symphonies as a classical violinist.

Csaba Deseö

Born: February 15, 1939

Violinist Csaba Deseo (1939) studied at Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, got his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, beside concerts in Hungary he soon appeared at international jazz festivals in Prague, Warsaw, Berlin, Zagreb, Bled and Ljubljana. His first LP entitled “Four String Tschaba” was recorded 1974 in West Germany by MPS-BASF with German, Swedish and English musicians. Deseo played in different formations with top Hungarian performers - Gabor Szabo, Aladar Pege, Tony Lakatos, Laszlo Gardony, Tommy Vig etc. - and also played with Jean-Luc Ponty, John Lewis, Martin Drew, Dusko Goykovic, Bosko Petrovic and many others. Between 1967-1999 he was also member of the Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, with them he toured the world from Japan to the US and of course whole Europe. In the last years he is playing with the best musicians of the young generation from the Budapest jazz-scene