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A performing/recording designer and educator located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Bishop absolutely avoids a rigidly idiomatic method of jazz. The saxophonist/clarinetist’s wide-ranging perspective offers led him to traverse stylistic limitations in his personal projects while developing innovative alliances with collaborators over the jazz range, from Midwestern post-boppers to Brooklyn-based …

Ellen Rowe was created November 11, 1958, in Norwalk, CT, and raised in Ridgefield. Both of her parents had been trained in the Juilliard College of Music, therefore normally she was subjected to advanced and diverse noises. The Rowe home was filled up with the traditional music of Ludwig vehicle …

From the Polish-American family members, Pete Siers’ first contact with music originated from hearing polkas in the home. Beginning piano lessons at age 6, he continuing using the ivories until he noticed the US Military Big Band using a drummer who impressed Siers to the idea that he turned to …