Theo Bleckmann works in concert music and contemporary theater alike. He has performed with artists such as Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Steve Coleman, Mark Dresser, Dave Douglas, Philip Glass, Peter Herbert, John Hollenbeck, Sheila Jordan, Meredith Monk, Ben Monder, Elliot Sharp the San Francisco Symphony Choir, the Bang On A Can Allstars. He has been a member in Meredith Monk's Vocal Ensemble for almost a decade and sang as a soloist with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group and contributed his unique vocal capabilities to the soundtracks to Spielberg's "Men in Black" and "Star Trek, Envoy." Recently, he recorded for Bobby McFerrin's newest album (Blue Note).  In addition to his concert works he has created large scale theatre/installation works such as "vocal flight," "fidget" (Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris) and "Mercuria," (Museum of  Contemporary Art in in Chicago) and his latest work "The Alexandria Carry On", which will be performed in Alexandria, Egypt. Theo Bleckmann has taught and lectured in vocal technique and improvisation at New York University and in workshops and seminars worldwide.

Selected by Down Beat as one of the "25 most important improvising musicians of the future" and rated in the top two in a number of their critics polls for "talent deserving wider recognition", Ingrid has already garnered an impressive reputation.
Performing with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band and with her own groups, Ingrid has received rave reviews and a strong reputation in the jazz circle.
Her three CDs for the ENJA label won her numerous nominations from the Canadian Juno Awards and a win in 1995 for her first of the three, Vernal Fields.
Some of the many musicians she has performed and or recorded with include Kenny Garrett, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Henderson, Steve Wilson, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Dr.Lonnie Smith, Marc Copland, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, Jeff Hamilton, Bill Stewart, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Geoff Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Victor Lewis and Clark Terry.
She is currently on faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore.

Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, that performs regularly in the Boston area and has toured Portugal. The group has released three albums. A veteran jazzman, Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. He began on the tenor when he was six, played in a family band and attended music school in Boston. In addition Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z, Tom Harrell, Dave Liebman, and John Patitucci, among others.
Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, teaching at the Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New York University and the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Program. He has pioneered the triadic chromatic approach and his students have included Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Teadross Avery, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates and Danilo Pérez, to name a few.
In 1995 he recorded a fine tribute to Stan Getz on NYC called Alone; Four's and Two's followed a year later with compatriot Joe Lovano which earned him four stars in Downbeat magazine, and in 1999 Garzone returned with Moodiology. Fringe in New York was released in summer 2000. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Joe Lovano Nonet, and performed and recorded with this group at the Village Vanguard in September 2002. He also recently performed at the Berklee Performance Center with legendary trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer.
B.M., Berklee College of Music - Performances with the Fringe, Kenny Barron, Dave Liebman, Frank Tiberi, The George Russell In Living Time Orchestra, Billy Hart, Bob Brookmeyer, Mike Maineri, Gary Burton, Tom Harrell, Elvin Jones, Harvie Swartz, Dan Gottlieb, John Pattitucci, Bill Stewart, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Kenny Werner, Don Alias, Danilo Perez, Lenny White, Joe Lovano, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Gary Peacock, Dennis Chambers, Anton Fig, Cecil McBee, Dave Holland, Stanley Cowell, Bob Moses, Dave Liebman, Steve Kuhn, Buddy Rich, Eddie Gomez, Miroslav Vitous. Records on NYC Records.

"One of the UK's truly independent spirits" Guardian 2002. Huw Warren is one of the leading and most original voices on the current new music scene. As a composer and multi instrumentalist, his work is difficult to categorise; refusing to accept conventional musical barriers, but finding fans and admirers in the worlds of Jazz, New Music and World Music. 
Born in Swansea in 1962, he studied piano and cello; and first worked as a teenager playing Hammond Organ in the Working Men's Clubs of South Wales. Having discovered jazz by chance from radio broadcasts, Huw also became interested in the English experimental music scene after studying with John Tilbury in London in 1980-83. Huw's eclectic style was influenced by hearing (and playing with) seminal 80's big band Loose Tubes, as well as hearing the Brazilian genius Hermeto Pascoal, and South African township music of Dudu Pukwana. 
In 1988, Huw started a long collaboration with English singer June Tabor. As pianist/arranger this has since included worldwide touring and several CDs (including the 1999 commission "A Quiet Eye" with the Creative Jazz Orchestra).In 1989 Huw was co- founder of the award winning ensemble Perfect Houseplants (with Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips and Martin France) Perfect Houseplants have released five critically acclaimed recordings, and have established radical new projects with artists such as the Orlando Consort, baroque violinist Andrew Manse, and recorder player Pamela Thorby. A widely experienced performer, Huw has also worked with Kenny Wheeler, Billy Bragg, Steve Arguelles, Julian Arguelles, Billy Jenkins, Christine Tobin, Eddi Reader ,and African guitarist Mose Se "Fan-Fan". Huw has also been featured on film scores by Stephen Warbeck and Michael Gibbs. Having appeared on over 30 CDs, his debut release as a band leader was on the Babel Label in 1997. "A Barrel Organ Far from Home", was a suite of pieces for a nine piece ensemble , based on early photographs by English photographer John Topham.

One of the most exciting young artists on the jazz and classical scene today, internationally acclaimed guitarist/composer Wolfgang Muthspiel is commanding attention worldwide as an artist of deep integrity, intelligence and daring musicality. After a total of fifteen years in Boston and New York, the Austrian native is developing an equally strong reputation in the States as a brilliant soloist and collaborator through frequent touring and recording projects.
In the words of the London Times, "Muthspiel is in many ways a quintessential musician, combining a flawless technique honed by classical training with a restless musical imagination as likely to derive inspiration from Bach as from the blues or the Beatles."
Muthspiel's art of improvisation is combining various influences from classical to folk music , and he is one of a few European Jazz musicians, who have made a mark in the US scene, collaborating with such musicians as Paul Motian, Gary Burton, Dave Liebman, Brian Blade, Marc Johnson, to name a few.
In 2000 Muthspiel founded the label material records which will release its eighths production by the end of 2003.

Bassist Peter Herbert has been living in New York since 1989, moved to Paris in 2003 and leads a busy schedule with an average of 100 concerts annually performing throughout the world.  Trained as a classical pianist/bassist, after years of successful 'main stream' jazz activities, he is now developing his own voice in the field of improvised music. Recent activities include solo concerts (CD 'bassooka'-music for basses) and a focus on small ensembles like his duos with David Tronzo (CD: Segmente). He is also involved in arabic music with artists like oud-master Marcel Khalife.
Herbert is also a prolific and versatile composer, mostly ommissioned by European orchestras and ensembles. He has written for orchestras, choirs and chamber groups, designed experimental movie soundtracks and incidental music for European avant-garde theatre groups (CD Aktionstheater 2000 - music for theatre).As a Jazz musician, he has worked with many artists and groups such as the John Abercrombie/Marc Copland Quartet, Bobby Previte's "The Horse", John Clark Octet, Art Farmer and Woody Shaw. His work has been well documented on over 80 recordings. Herbert was recently awarded the Hans Koller-prize as 'musician of the year'. He also established his own internet-based label Aziza Music in 1999.

Skuli Sverrisson studied acoustic and electric bass in Iceland and attended Berklee College of Music. After graduating in 1991 he cut a series of CDs for Extreme with the group Mo Boma, whose work reflected world music influences while exploring electronic effects and ambient moods.
Skuli toured with guitarist Allan Holdsworth from '91 to '96 and has since been a mainstay of New York's Downtown scene. His upcoming projects include a trio CD with clarinetist Anthony Burr and a duo album with Icelandic guitarist Hilmer Jensson. Sverrisson also continues his longtime collaboration with Reed man Chris Speed, guitarist Brad Shepik, and drummer Jim Black, sharing their enthusiasm for a jazz/west-Asian/ Balkan synthesis while rooting his contribution in the music of Steve Swallow, Charlie Haden, and Jaco. "When you improvise together as long as we have, you create a relationship with more built into it than notes. You develop a language and an aesthetic trust." The team's '97 CD Pachora is available from Knitting Factory; Speed and Sverrisson also backed avant-Celtic singer Susan McKeown on last year's Bushes & Briars [Alula].

Jim Black has been playing drums for twenty-three years. Born in 1967, he grew up in Seattle, WA, playing music ranging from garage rock to big band swing. In 1985 he went to Boston, MA to attend the Berklee College of Music. During this time he recorded numerous albums, performed in Europe and taught summer classes at Berklee. In 1991 he moved to Brooklyn, NY, and has since become one of the most in demand drummers in the jazz/new music scene today.
In addition to co-leading and composing for the groups Pachora and Human feel, Jim records and tours extensively with diverse groups including Ellery Eskelin, Chris Speed's Yeah No, Tim Berne's Bloodcount, Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio and Uri Caine's Mahler and Bach Projects, and Laurie Anderson.
Jim is currently recording and performing with his quartet AlasNoAxis, his latest CD "Splay" and debut album as a leader are available on Winter & Winter Recordings. He also regularly performs with the collective Balkan-music-inspired quartet, PAcHORA, featuring Skuli Sverrisson, Brad Shepik, and Chris Speed.