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Motohiko “Toko” Hino was born on January 3, 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. His father was a dancer and musician and taught him and his brother Terumasa to tap dancing as children. At the age of ten, he began playing drums and by age 17 was playing professionally.

In the mid-1970s, Hino was repeatedly voted by Swing Journal the best jazz drummer in Japan, though from 1978 he was based in New York City. He released an album under his own name in 1971 and two more in the early 1990s.

He played with musicians such as Joanne Brackeen, Joe Hnedrson, Takehiro Honda, Karen Mantler, Hugh Masekela, John Sofield, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sonny Rollins, Jon Faddis and Billy Harper among others.

On May 13, 1999 drummer Motohiko Hino passed away of cancer.

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Ed Byrne was born on December 30, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he worked for more than fifteen years on the New York City jazz scene as a soloist with Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Eckstine, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Archie Shepp, Mel Torme and the list continues. He also performed, composed, and arranged numerous recordings and toured the Americas, France, Germany and Sweden.

Ed was nominated Best Trombone Soloist by Latin New York magazine, as a leader was nominated for a Grammy Award for his Fenway Funk album, and won a Grammy for Eddie Palmieri’s Latin jazz album, Unfinished Masterpiece.

 As an educator he hold a doctorate of Musical Arts in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory, has been on the faculties of Berklee College, Baruch College, University of the Arts, Greenfield Community College and the University of Rhode Island. Ed has published 42 texts on jazz improvisation and his Linear Jazz Improvisation Method, sold world-wide.

Trombonist, author, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator Ed Byrne is currently the leader of his Latin Jazz Evolution that released their first CD titled Conquistador, on Blue Truffle Records and continues to perform, record and tour.

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Ralph Moore was born on December 24, 1956 in London, England and grew up in a crowded inner city area. He showed no particular musical interest until his mother bought him a trumpet when he was 13. He studied with Brixton local musician Alan Briggs and was soon sitting in with pub bands. Briggs had a tenor saxophone that the young musician fell in love with the look of the instrument and soon made the switch.

1972 saw Ralph moving to California to live with his American father, graduating from Santa Maria High School where he played in the jazz orchestra and collected several music awards.Three years later he enrolled at Berklee Colege of Music, studied  with saxophonist Andy McGhee and another three years later received the Lenny Johnson Memorial Award for outstanding musicianship from the college.

He launched his professional career with a tour of Scandinavia, later joined Frank Quintero for recording and a tour of South America. He moved to New York City in 1981 and within two months joined the Horace Silver Quintet for an association that lasted four years and included tours of Europe and Japan.

Moore has worked with Roy Haynes, Charles Mingus Dynasty, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gilespie’s Reunion Big Band, Kevin Eubanks, Bill Mays, Valery Ponoomarev, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Knepper, Brian Lynch, J.J. Johnson, Billy Hart, Oscar Peterson, Superblue, Cedar Walton and Ray Brown. He continues to perform, tour and record as a leader and sideman.

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Cameron Brown was born December 21, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan. He started studying music at age 10, first on piano, later on clarinet. But, drawn to the bass, he found himself playing a tin bass in a student dance band. As an exchange student in Europe, he worked with George Russell’s sextet and big band for one year.

Brown went on to play with Don Cherry, Aldo Romano, Booker Ervin and Donald Byrd. In 1966 he returned to the States to matriculate and graduate in 1969 from Columbia College, Columbia University with a degree in sociology.

In 1974, Cameron met Sheila Jordan, gigged with free jazz pioneers Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris, joined Archie Shepp’s quintet in 1975 and recorded with Harris and The 360 Degree Music Experience around that time.

The Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet had Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond helping to develop into an intense and rewarding partnership that lasted during the 1980s. In addition to this quartet, he played with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and various groups led by Rudd, and Richmond. He has performed and recorded with Ted Curson, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Joe Lovano, Mal Waldron, Ricky Ford, Steve Grossman, Betty Carter, John Hicks, Etta Jones and Jane Ira Bloom, to name a few.

Cameron has appeared on more than 80 recordings as a sideman and his first recording as a leader after nearly 40 years of performing, was published in 2003 with his group The Hear and Now featuring Dewey Redman.

In addition to playing gigs and touring nationally and internationally, he is an educator currently teaching jazz double bass at Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, New York, offers private lessons and substitute teaches music theory classes at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.

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Pete Levin was born December 20, 1942 in Brookline, Massachusetts and his first instrument as a teenager was a French horn. He studied at Boston University and received a master’s degree from Juilliard School of Music in New York City. In the early 1970s he joined the Gil Evans Orchestra as a French horn player. At the time, he was experimenting with synthesizers. Over time Gil Evans incorporated his synthesizer sound into the compositions and his role changed to a full-time keyboardist for the next fifteen years. Leaving the Gil Evans Orchestra he followed with an eight-year association with Jimmy Guiffre.

Levin plays the Hammond organ, clavinet and moog synthesizer. He has produced several albums as a bandleader and has released a collaborative album with his brother, bassist Tony Levin, as a tribute to and styled after the works of Oscar Pettiford and Julius Watkins. He has performed for film and television scores including Missing In Action, Lean On Me, Silver Bullet, Red Scorpion,, The Color of Money, Maniac, Spin City, America’s Most Wanted and Star Trek.

He has worked with Carla Bley, Brubeck Brpthers, Hiram Bullock, Jimmy Cobb, Billy Cobham, Willie Colon, Miles Davis, Rachelle Ferrell, Bryan Ferry, Gregory Hines, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, Annie Lennox, Chuck Mangione, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mullligan, Salt-n-Pepa, David Sanborn, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Paul Simon, Lew Soloff, Vanessa Williams and Lenny White among others.

He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for writing the official military band arrangement of the U.S. Infantry song. Jazz keyboardist and horn player Pete Levin continues to perform, record and tour.

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