Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments, composer, bandleader, and interdisciplinary collaborator with artists in dance, film, and theater. Bynum is committed to the further exploration of the extensions of composition and improvisation pioneered by 20th century masters like Ellington, Ives, and the AACM, but with a third millennial flavor and a trickster sensibility. He presently leads his Trio, his Sextet, and the nine-piece ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings, and has developed a body of solo music for cornet and duo work with dancer/choreographer Rachel Bernsen. In addition to leading his own groups, Bynum regularly performs with some of the most innovative figures in creative music, such as Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, and has ongoing collaborations with such artists as Bill Lowe, Jason Kao Hwang, Joe Morris, Miya Masaoka, Stephen Haynes, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Nate Wooley, Tomas Fujiwara, and the Fully Celebrated Orchestra. He is featured on over forty recordings, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His work with Anthony Braxton spans over ten years and ranges from duo to orchestra, with recent tours throughout Europe and North America and several new recordings. Their CD Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 has received wide critical acclaim. Bynum's 2005 CD with SpiderMonkey Strings, Other Stories (Three Suites), has been described as “the best album of the year” (All About Jazz) and “beautiful music and challenging throughout” (The Wire). Two new CDs were released in Spring ’07: True Events (duo with Tomas Fujiwara; The New York Times calls it “a scintillating album... a duologue crackling with improvisational energy but guided by compositional prescription”), and The Middle Picture (with his Sextet and Trio; which received “four stars” from Downbeat Magazine).

The Macpodz are an electrified jazz quintet from Ann Arbor progresses the evolution of ‘disco-bebop’, their own style of jazz-fusion designed for “the preservation of the motion of hips.” Ross Huff   In the traditions of Miles Davis and Frank Zappa, this ensemble pushes the boundaries of rock, jazz and fusion music. Drummer Griffin Bastian and percussionist Nick Ayers drive the rhythm behind bassist Brennan Andes, keyboardist Jesse Clayton and trumpeter Ross Huff. The band coined the term “Disco Bebop” at their first gig in early 2006, after playing a four on the floor roller rink remix of the Charlie Parker tune, “Dewey Square.” - (Read more)

Tom is an independent singer-songwriter from the uk. His songs have racked up over a million mp3 downloads. You can download older free mp3s at this site, many of which are available for purchase at online music providers such as iTunes, MusicMatch, Napster etc. - (Read more)

Nick Peck is a composer/keyboardist/sound designer. He began his formal musical studies in piano at age 8, and became a computer fanatic at 13, at the dawn of the personal computer age. At 18, he bought his first portable tape recorder and began recording the world around him. He holds a Master's degree in Electronic Music (Mills College, 1997), as well as Bachelor's degrees in Psychology (UC Berkeley, 1987) and Electronic Music (SF State, 1992). Nick divides his time equally between sound design for film and games, and a musical life of independent recording and performing. His jazz/funk quartet, Sycamore Park, performs around the Bay Area. He has composed, engineered, and/or performed on over a dozen albums, including Ten Ton Chicken's Just Like in the Old Country and De Cocksdorp, and Indian maestro Ali Akbar Khan's Grammy-nominated CD Passing on the Tradition. His CD's are known throughout the world in progressive rock and avant garde electronic circles, and includes Into the Epicenter, Edge of the Sky, Past Present Future, Progfest '94, and Starlight Tales with the group Episode, and Islands in the Stream, Liminality, Testament, Under the Big Tree, EndID and Positive Signal Flow as a solo artist. Nick is currently serving as audio director at Activision in Foster City, California. Recent sound design projects include the feature films Adaptation, CQ, Being John Malkovich (which he also composed music for), and Vampire Hunter D, Nihilistic Software's game Vampire: The Masquerade and LucasArts Entertainment's games LEGO Star Wars, Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Episode III, Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Clone Wars and Indiana Jones and the Emporer's Tomb. Nick is a regular contributor to Electronic Musician magazine, and gives lectures on audio production techniques at industry conferences and schools. He is a member of the music faculty at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, and teaches courses on Pro Tools audio production there. - (Read more)