Canadian vocalist Gillian Margot and American pianist Geoffrey Keezer are acclaimed both as individuals and as a duo, in music and in life. Geoffrey has been a major figure in New York’s jazz piano scene since 1989, when he became [...]
Dann Zinn is a Bay Area-based tenor saxophonist and educator. He has worked with the likes of Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Taylor Eigsti, Allison Miller, and Derrick Hodge. As a leader, he has recorded six [...]
Ellie Dattani is the singer and band leader of the Birmingham-based all-women jazz band ‘Calypso Moon’. Calypso Moon plays traditional jazz and swing music, with a particular focus on The Great American Songbook. Ellie takes her inspiration from Ella Fitzgerald, [...]
Pascal Le Boeuf is an American composer, jazz pianist, and electronic artist. His track “Strands” from the album “Are We Dreaming the Same Dream” with the Akropolis Reed Quintet and Christian Euman won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition at [...]
Nel Begley is a British vocalist, composer and teacher. She has performed across the UK and Europe with ensembles Rafe’s Dilemma, London Vocal Project and The After Hours, highlights include Pizza Express, EFG London Jazz Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, an [...]
Ben Wittman is an American drummer and producer who has performed and recorded with an eclectic roster including Sting, Paul Simon, Paula Cole, and Don Byron. He has produced records for New York Voices, and engineered music by säje and [...]
Katie Thiroux is an American bassist and vocalist. She was an active member of the Larry Fuller Trio and has been heard with, among others, Justin Kauflin, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, Terrell Stafford, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lewis Nash and Patti [...]
Alto saxophonist Will Vinson hails from England but established a great many of his musical collaborations while living in New York City. He has appeared and/or recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ari Hoenig, Jonathan Kreisberg, Marcus Gilmore, Chris Potter, [...]
Cat Toren is a pianist, improviser and composer, originally from North Vancouver, Canada. A JUNO Award-winner and Western Canadian Music Award-winner, she has performed throughout North America and been commissioned by the Cassatt String Quartet and the nonet, Orkestra Futura. [...]
Harry Mitchell is an Australian pianist and composer. He was named Young Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the 2017 Australian Bell Jazz Awards and the following year he won the West Australian Music (WAM) award for Best Pianist. [...]
Carolin Pook is a German-born violinist, composer, improviser, conductor & drummer from Brooklyn/New York. She creates and conducts music that is tailored to the featured performers and part improvised, part written, while melting those in a seamless way into one [...]
Florian Hoefner was born and raised in Germany, and now lives in Canada. A JUNO Award-winner, he has performed at festivals including Jazz Baltica, ACACIA Jazz Festival, Jazz in Situ in Ecuador and Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon, where his group was [...]
Multi-instrumentalist Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, and soul music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Eki was raised in a musical family. She emigrated to [...]
Robin Phillips is a singer, pianist, bandleader, presenter, producer, and educator. After quitting a post-graduate job in PR in 2006, he started to build a full-time career in music, one gig at a time, moving to London before relocating to [...]
Naomi Moon Siegel is an American trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world. Naomi explores the trombone as a vehicle [...]
Glenn Zaleski is a New York-based pianist originally from Boylston, MA. He has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Yotam Silberstein, Lage Lund, Ari Hoenig, and many [...]
Sue Rynhart is an Irish vocalist and acoustic guitarist who has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary [...]
Ewout Pierreux is a Belgian pianist who has worked with musicians including Ron Van Rossum, Bert Joris, Frank Vaganée, and Dré Pallemaerts. His current collaborations are with the South African/Belgian vocalist Tutu Puoane, Rebirth::Collective, Jelle Van Giel’s ‘Close Distance’, Marjan [...]
Germana Stella La Sorsa is an Italian London-based singer. She has performed at venues including Ronnie Scott’s and the Vortex Jazz Club, and at jazz festivals like Lebanon’s Al Bustan International Festival and the Ceglie Jazz Open Festival in Italy. [...]
Sunny Jain’s music is a celebration of cultural diaspora, taking inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, and improvisation. The result? A heady fusion of jazz, rock, and sheer, unbridled energy. A drummer and [...]
Sarah Weller is the Head of Music at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London.There are few positions in the UK music industry to equal the authority of her position at one of the leading jazz clubs of Europe. With a multi-faceted [...]
For more than two decades pianist Liam Noble has been a key figure on the vibrant British Jazz scene, both as a sideman and leader. He has collaborated with musicians including Dave Liebman, Tim Berne, Tom Herbert and Seb Rochford. [...]
Cat Henry is a British-American creative producer specializing in the visioning and planning of concerts, tours, and public programs. Curator of jazz programs for Hudson Hall, she previously curated concerts for MoMA Summergarden: New Music for New York, from 2005-2015, [...]
Ulysses Owens Jr. is a drummer, educator and producer. As a bandleader, he has performed internationally and recorded albums with big bands and smaller ensembles. His most recent album, “A New Beat”, features his Generation Y quintet and is modelled [...]
