Sunday,
September 19,
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Jamie Baum, flutist/composer/recording artist, has toured the U.S., Japan and Peru. Originally from Connecticut, she has lived in New York for ten years and performed with several consummate musicians including Randy Brecker, Paul Motion, John Abercrombie, Mick Goodrick, George Russell, Donald Brown, Jerome Harris, Kenny Werner, and others in a wide range of music styles from jazz, classical and new music, to Brazilian and Latin. Baum has received much critical acclaim and four stars from Down Beat Magazine for her most recent release Sight Unheard.

Sheryl Bailey, guitarist and composer, has toured the U.S., Europe and Japan. She was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Guitar Competition, with her most recent release being Little Misunderstood.

Jennifer Vincent, bass guitarist/acoustic bassist/cellist, has toured the U.S. with Bobby Sanabria, Europe with Carmen Lundy, and has performed with Betty Carter and Jon Hendricks among others, with engagements in several clubs and festivals.

Monday,
September 20,
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Neal Alger, a talented 27 year-old guitarist based in Chicago, earned his Bachelor of Music degree in 1995 from Northern Illinois University (NIU). He freelances steadily in the Chicago area and has accompanied several vocalists such as Stephanie Browning, Grazyna Auguscik and Hilda Hoffman. As a member of the NIU Jazz Ensemble, he was able to tour with such great artists as Tito Puente, Clark Terry, Louie Bellson, Claudio Roditi, and Jon Faddis.

Matt Lewis, a 26 year-old jazz vocalist and trumpeter based in Chicago, has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from DePaul University and has been very active as both a musician and educator. Lewis has performed with such noted artists as Bob Mintzer, Nancy Wilson, and New York Voices. Recent recordings include projects with the Joffrey Ballet, Clark Terry, and Frank Wess. He also conducts music classes and workshops for both children and adults throughout Chicago. His most recent tour was through India and Sri Lanka as a 1998 USIA-Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador.

Ben Lewis, a 26 year-old jazz pianist from Chicago and fraternal twin brother of vocalist/trumpeter Matthew Lewis, has been freelancing as a professional for more than 8 years. Since earning his Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, he has traveled to Monaco, St. Thomas and around the world through his work with jazz on the Internet. His performance experience covers a wide range of genres from mainstream to modern to Latin jazz. He has recorded and performs regularly with vocalist Grazyna Auguscik.

Wednesday, September 22,
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Ian Martin has played acoustic and electric bass with the Vincent Bourgeyx Trio at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Tour of Southern France, and various gigs throughout the northeastern U.S. In 1996, Martin earned a Bachelor's degree in Film Music Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. That same year he was musical director for Jean Carne's Boston performances, and performed with assorted gospel artists including Lisa Page, Yolanda Adams, and Angela Berryman.

Aaron Thurston is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in drums and percussion and has played in different jazz settings around the world. He was invited to participate in the highly selective Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at Snowmass, Colorado. Thurston's first professional performance was at age 14. He has led The Aaron Thurston Trio for four years.

Thursday,
September 23,
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Paul Butler holds a degree in Music Education from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. He plays clarinet, saxophone, wind synthesizer, ocarina, and Native American flute and is a certified teacher for Music for People, a non-profit organization encouraging self-expression through music and improvisation. Butler teaches Theory, and Recording and Listening at Upattinas School in Eagle, Pa., and is an adjunct professor at Immaculata College in Pennsylvania, teaching 20th Century Composition & MIDI Technology, Sound As A Communication & Healing Tool, World Music and Music Improvision.

Eric Henry holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and has founded or co-founded several music organizations, such as the Carlisle Arts Magnet School, Carlisle Octubafest, Grand Sousa Concert, Winter Brass Project, and Keystone Chapter T.U.B.A. Henry has been guest soloist with the Buzz Jones Big Band, Dickinson College Symphonic Band, Florida Southern College Symphonic Band, Messiah College District Band Audition Workshop (annual soloist and clinician), and Shippensburg University Concert Wind Ensemble.

James O. Smith has played banjo with Hot House since 1981 and plays banjo and tenor guitar for the Crawfish Stompers, Swing Set, the Trailer Park Trio, and Jack's Firehouse and The Five Spot.

Timo Elliston, Allison Miller, and Carlo De Rosa

Saturday,
September 25,
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Timo Elliston studied piano with his father, Ron Elliston, and received a BA in Jazz Studies from the University of Maryland (1994). Elliston received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a semi-finalist award from the American Jazz Piano Competition, a Hilton Head Jazz Society scholarship, and first-place in the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival. He has performed at most of the major venues in Washington, DC including the Kennedy Center, the French Embassy, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Baltimore Jazz Festival, the Gaithersburg Jazz Festival, Twins, Takoma Station, and at One Step Down in 1997, where he led the house trio on Sunday nights. He was featured on the CBS TV's Studio 9. He has performed with Keter Betts, Ronnie Wells, Valery Ponomarev, Virginia Mayhew, Tommy Williams, and Jon Metzger. Elliston currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Allison Miller, now 24, began playing the drums at the age of ten. She received a full music scholarship to West Virginia University, graduating with multiple honors in 1996 and immediately moved to New York City to begin her professional career as a freelance musician. In addition to her own projects, Miller has performed and recorded throughout the United States and Europe with such artists as Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Harvie Swartz, Urszula Dudziak, Rachael Z, Al Grey, Oliver Lake, Ingrid Jenson, Mark Levine, Virginia Mayhew, Paul Bollenback, and the band "Betty," "Earthwurm." The Los Angeles Times cited her for her "superb drumming ."

Carlo De Rosa, who began performing on the flute at the age of seven, also took up the bass in his teens. He graduated from SUNY/New Paltz, and received his Masters in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, and studied further at Sandpoint, Idaho with Gunther Schuller. He has performed extensively in Europe and South America with composer/guitarist Fernando Tarres, guitarist Rudy Linka, singer/songwriter Eric Wood, and the swing group The Flying Neutrinos. Some of the artists that Rosa has performed with include: Ed Thigpen, Tony Purrone, Nick Brignola, John Riley, Donny McCaslin, John Hart, Roberta Picket, Bruce Barth, Virginia Mayhew, Jeff Williams, Rudy Linka, George Garzone, Ilhan Irsahan, Paul Bollenback, Janet Lawson, and Jon Davis. He has also performed in many established New York City venues including Visiones, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Detour, Cleopatra's Needle, Dharma, Sweet Basil, and in Pennsylvania at the Smoke and the Deer Head Inn. Rosa also teaches at the Drummers Collective Institute (NYC) and has been a clinician at conservatories in both Cordoba, Argentina and Groningen, Holland. He has appeared on recordings with artists such as Mark Dziuba (Joobtone), Suz Andreasen (Imagery), Eric Wood (Appaloosa/IRD), and Ari Ambrose (SteepleChase).