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Ari Hoenig was born November 13, 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a vocalist father and violinist mother. He was exposed to classical and other music at an early age, playing piano and violin. He went on to explore rock and metal drums as a teenager before settling into jazz.
Hoenig attended Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts in summer of 1990, followed by attending the University of North Texas College of Music for three years and was a member of the highly regarded One O’Clock Lab Band.
Relocating to New York he began playing with Shirley Scott and went on to record with Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Richard Bona, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Tigran Hamasyan, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Fred Hersch, Snarky Puppy, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pat Martino, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny and many others.
Ari has performed at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival alongside Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Chucho Valdes, and has appeared with his Punk Bop Band with Jonathan Kreisberg and Gilad Hekselman. Drummer, composer and educator Ari Hoenig continues to record, perform and tour.
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Matthias Albrecht Lupri was born October 29, 1964 in Germany but grew up in Manhattan, Kansas and Alberta, Canada. Initially he played the drums as a teenager in blues, rock and country music bands. In his early twenty’s he studied music at Mount Royal College, where he heard Gary Burton’s recordings and became interested in jazz vibraphone music.
Matthias practiced the instrument for the next five years while on the road with rock bands as a drummer. He then enrolled at the Berklee College of Music and studied with Gary Burton himself. Since graduation he has released several records that have charted in radio’s Top 40 GAVIN, CMJ and Chart Magazine Canada, and was heard on the TV show Alias.
Lupri was named as a rising artist on vibraphone in the Down Beat critics poll for the 2nd time in 2005. He has recorded with Greg Osby, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Myron Walden, Greg Hutchinson, Antonio Sanchez, Reuben Rogers, Ian Froman, George Garzone, Jeff Ballard, Rick Margitza, Cuong Vu, Sebastiaan de Krom and Boris Wiedenfeld among other. He continues to perform and tour throughout Canada and the United States.
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Kurt Rosenwinkel was born October 28, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A guitarist by choice, his influences include John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Allan Holdsworth, Tal Farlow, George van Eps, John Scofield and Alex Lifson, among others. He matriculated through Berklee College of Music before leaving in his junior year to tour with Gary Burton, the dean of the school at the time.
Subsequently, Rosenwinkel moved to Brooklyn, where began performing with Human Feel, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Joe Henderson Group, and the Brian Blade Fellowship. During that time he began using a Lavalier lapel microphone fed into his guitar amplifier that blends his vocalizing with his guitar, much like George Benson and Pat Metheny.
In 1995 he won the Composer’s Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and was signed by Verve Records. Kurt has played and recorded both as a leader and sideman with Mark Turner, Brad Mahldau and Joel Frahm, Aaron Goldberg, Joe Martin, Eric Harland, Aaron Parks, Eric Revis and Justin Faulkner on the short list. He has collaborated with Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, co-producers of Heartcore with Ben Street, Jeff Ballard and Mark Turner. He would have further collaborations with Q-Tip that yielded The Renaissance and Kamaal/The Abstract.
A move to Berlin, Germany has guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel performing in Europe and on the faculty at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler.
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Scotty Barnhart was born William Barnhart on October 27, 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia. Receiving his education in music from Florida A&M University, he joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1992. The following year he became a featured soloist with the band and just ten years later he was appointed as the new director of the orchestra. It was with the Basie Orchestra that he became a two-time Grammy winner.
His solo disc on Unity Records is titled Say It Plain reached #3 on the jazz charts and features Clark Terry, Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Jamie Davis and Etienne Charles. Barnhart has recorded with Marcus Roberts, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Ray Charles and Tito Puente, to name a few.
He is active as an educator, clinician and author, he has written The World of Jazz Trumpet – A Comprehensive History and Practical Philosophy. He is a professor in the College of Music at Florida State University. In between his teaching duties, touring with the Basie Orchestra and lecturing at colleges and universities around the world, trumpeter Scotty Barnhart performs and tours leading his quintet-sextet.
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Rick Margitza was born in Dearborn, Michigan on October 24, 1961. His paternal grandfather, a Hungarian Gypsy violinist taught him to play the violin at the age of four. Following this he played piano and oboe, and settled on tenor saxophone while at Fordson High School.
After attending several colleges, Wayne State University, Berklee College of Music, University of Miamiand Loyola University in New Orleans, Rick toured with Maynard Ferguson and Flora Purim in the 1980s. A move to New York City presented him the opportunity to playwith Miles Davis.
Between 1989 and 1991, Margitza released three sessions for Blue Note Records, his debut being Color followed by Hope and This Is New. He has recorded copiously for EMI, Challenge, Steeplechase, Palmetto, snd Nocturne Jazz record labels as well as a sideman with Eddie Gomez, Tony Williams, Bobby Hutcherson, Maria Schneider, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Stanley Cowell, Steve Masakowski, Andy Laverne, .
In 2003 Rick Margitza moved to Paris and has performed with Martial Solal, Francois Moutin, ri Hoenig, Franck Amsallem, Jean-Michel Pilc and Manuel Rocheman. He composed a saxophone concerto and two symphonies for orchestra and the tenor saxophonist continues to perform, compose and record.
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