Swing Dancing!! The Barrelhouse Wailers are an 8-piece powerhouse collective from Ventura, California that seamlessly blend traditional style hot jazz and vintage blues with original compositions to create a sound that's as timeless as it is electrifying. With their roots deeply embedded in the rich soil of American musical traditions, this dynamic ensemble has been captivating audiences since 2013 with their high-energy performances and masterful musicianship. Driven by their passion for authenticity and innovation, The Barrelhouse Wailers deliver a sonic experience that pays homage to the classics while pushing the boundaries of contemporary music. Their infectious energy and tight-knit chemistry on stage promise an evening of entertainment that will have you on your feet and moving to the rhythm. They have released 2 albums featuring original music and standards, “Day In, Day Out” 2019 and “Never Look Back” 2023 Both albums are available for digital download on Bandcamp and on all major streaming platforms. Karen Parkhouse - Vocals/Percussion Todd Temanson - Banjo David Leoncavallo - Bass Jim Wade – Tuba John C. Webb - Clarinet/Saxophones/Flute/Vocals "Skabone" Stan Middleton- trombone/vocals Bob Peyton- drums Max O'leary- trumpet For more information, music, videos, and upcoming shows, please visit http://www.thebarrelhousewailers.com/. Follow us on : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBarrelHouseWailers Instagram: @barrelhousewailers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BarrelhouseWailers 

San Lyon is a Los Angeles-based Swing Jazz Quartet. Their music is a mix of early 20th century Parisian Gypsy Swing and American Jazz standards as well as original vintage inspired songs. San Lyon's colorful repertoire of French and English jazz has gained favor among many swing dance communities. They have performed at numerous clubs, private events, house concerts, and festivals like Monterey Jazz Bash by The Bay and Sacramento Hot Jazz Jubilee. With five albums under their belt, including a Christmas record, the Quartet is preparing to release a new album with twelve original songs. Stay tuned for a romantic swing record sure to get you dancing. Paige Herschell from San Antonio, Texas on vocals, melodica, kazoo and snare drum. Katie Cavera from Evansville, Indiana on bass, banjo, guitar and vocals. Jenna Colombet from Lyon, France on violin, bass, snare drum and French vocals. Dani Vargas from Santiago, Chile on guitar and vocals. Find them at www.swingjazzla.com where you can see their list of upcoming shows and follow them on socials. 

Bobby West- keys Trevor Ware -bass Jerrell Ballard - drums "Where has Bobby West been all my life?" -Downbeat 2023 Bobby West’s critically-acclaimed debut, Leimert Park After Dark 2021, followed by Big Trippin' in 2023, both reached Top 20 on the jazz charts and Top 10 roots charts. Bobby’s powerful command of the keyboard ignites an audience with his unique sound, classical technique and thundering chords. Bobby has performed worldwide with Kamasi Washington, Branford & Wynton Marsalis, Pharoah Sanders, Roy Hargrove, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, to name a few out of thousands. Continually performing abroad, Bobby only appears once a year in the US. 

Brian Charette- organ Jimmy Vivino - guitar Gary Novak- Drums Playing the music of Cream New York City organist/pianist, Brian Charette, has established himself as a leading voice in modern jazz. Charette is a Hammond U.S.A, Hammond Europe, I.K Multimedia, and Casio endorsed, Cellar Live recording artist. Brian is currently #2 on the 2023 Downbeat Critic’s Poll for Organ and also won 2023 “Rising Star: Keyboard”. Brian was also the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics’ Poll “Rising Star: Organ” award and 2015 Hot House Magazine's “Fan's Decision Jazz Award for Best Organist”. Charette’s new Cellar Live release, Jackpot, was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s hallowed studio featuring Bill Stewart on drums. The album received 4 stars from Downbeat and was on the Jazzweek radio chart for months, peaking at #9 for 6 weeks. Charette is also a prolific composer of large ensemble music, penning and performing compositions with The Jazz Dock Orchestra in Prague and The Modern Art Orchestra in Budapest. Born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, Brian was introduced to music by his mother, Catherine. By the age of 17, he was playing with jazz luminaries such as Lou Donaldson and Houston Person. Since graduating on the Dean's List from UConn in 1994 with a BA in Music, Charette has been performing extensively in Europe and the USA with his home base being the East Village, NYC. Brian is a staple of the downtown NYC scene working with virtually everyone who plays with an organist. Brian has performed with many notable artists such as Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Oz Noy, Vinnie Colaiuta, John Patitucci, and many more. Charette is also an active author and educator, writing for Keyboard Magazine, The New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat, Electronic Musician and the Czech magazine, Muzikus. Brian teaches masterclasses all over the world and is on the faculty of the Czech Summer Jazz Workshop at Jesek Conservatory in Prague. In NYC, he teaches lessons and group classes at The New School and 92nd Y School of Music. His first book, 101 Hammond B3 Tips, released through publisher Hal Leonard, has become very popular, as well as his videos on the website, mymusicmasterclass.com. Outside of music, Charette is passionate about White Crane kung fu, in which he holds a black sash. 

Oz Noy- Guitar Andrew Synowiec- guitar Hadrien Feraud- bass Joel Taylor- drums GUITARISTS OZ NOY AND ANDREW SYNOWIEC UNITE FOR AN EXPLOSIVE ALL-ORIGINAL SET: RECREATIONAL SUBSTANCE Release Date: January 17th, 2025 on House of Syn Records Ready to ascend to guitar heaven? Acclaimed and incendiary plectrists Andrew Synowiec and Oz Noy take you there on their co-led quartet release Recreational Substance. Backed by the monster rhythm section of bassist Hadrien Feraud (John McLaughlin’s 4th Dimension, Chick Corea’s Vigil) and drummer extraordinaire Marvin “Smitty” Smith (Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Tonight Show with Jay Leno band), the two meld their off-the-charts jazz virtuosity with ferocious rock and funk energy. They also pool their resources as composers, populating Recreational Substance with five incisive tunes by Synowiec and three by Noy. Fresh from a momentous collaboration with studio drum legend John “JR” Robinson and organist Mitch Towne in the acclaimed touring super-trio SRT, Synowiec released FUN in 2023 (following up his 2016 acoustic ambient EP Swim in the Sea and his rollicking 2019 full-band album Second Story). Since moving to Los Angeles in 2004, he has become one of the industry’s top session guitarists. His high profile soundtrack work includes Frozen, The Walking Dead, Cobra Kai and more. He has also played for Robbie Robertson, Alanis Morissette, The Who, Meghan Trainor, Seal, Barbra Streisand and countless others. Oz Noy is one of today’s most sought-after, distinctive and fiery guitarists, releasing the albums Triple Play (with Jimmy Haslip and Dennis Chambers), Snapdragon, Booga Looga Loo and others stretching back to the early ’00s. His endless versatility, bracing chops and refined musical instincts have earned him work with the likes of Gavin DeGraw, Idina Menzel, Richard Bona, Allen Toussaint, John Medeski and Joe Bonamassa. “I thought it’d be great to make it just a full-on supergroup with Oz and myself,” Synowiec says. “I was always a fan of those two-guitar records, like Marc Johnson’s Bass Desires and The Sound of Summer Running or Scofield and Metheny’s I Can See Your House from Here.” Comparatively, Recreational Substance is more distortion-heavy, unabashedly rock- and funk-influenced, full of intricacies in harmony and structure, from Synowiec’s surging opener “Big City” and the fast, clipped beat of Noy’s “I Don’t Know Why” to the crisp, clean tones of “Half Romantic” and the mellow minor-key rock feel of “The Royal You.” One track, “Brothers,” is a gorgeous acoustic detour, with Synowiec (the composer) on nylon-string for the melody and Noy on acoustic 12-string tuned not in octaves/unisons but in fourths and fifths. “I Don’t Know Why” and “Half Romantic,” which can be heard on OZ Live (2006), are two pieces that Noy had intentions of revisiting, until Recreational Substance provided just the right opportunity. His closing “101 Blues” is ultra-slow, low-down dirty, at times recalling the late Stevie Ray Vaughan in soul-blues ballad mode. “As a sideman and a working guitar player,” says Synowiec, “you tend to approach every situation from a standpoint of, ‘How can I fit in here?’ It’s the same with this project. So maybe if Oz goes left, I’ll go right. If he zigs I’ll try and zag.” In the end, says Noy, “I just try to make music. And I like the fact that somebody is kicking my butt, or maybe coming up with a sound I wish I had. You learn from each other and get inspired.” Synowiec and Noy have a similar trajectory as jazz fiends, all-around session musicians and passionate fans of rock, funk and blues—all music tailor-made for their instrument. Screaming leads, crisp rhythm parts, pure melodic tones and textures, angular post-bebop lines and language flying full speed: Recreational Substance presents two players at the top of their game, amplifying one another. Get ready for live dates in support of Recreational Substance in Los Angeles and New York, January and February 2025!! 

When it comes to the bass, 2-time Grammy-nominated Bunny Brunel is the master and a musician's musician! From defining his signature style on fretless, upright, and electric basses, to authoring numerous instructional books on bass technique and theory, there is no end to Brunel’s musical mind. But how many legendary virtuoso instrumentalists do you know who not only design their instruments, but build them, too? Having designed for Carvin for over 25 years, Brunel is now a designer for ESP Guitars. He also created and custom built the Rolls Royce of basses—the Bunny Brunel Electric Upright Bass (BBEUB). As if that weren’t enough, Bunny has composed music with lush arrangements on his releases from the start of his career on his first album Touch (1978) to his two latest, titled Invent Your Future (2015) and the historical CD Bass Ball (2017) that features bass players is a co-production with Stanley Clarke; and somewhere in the middle, his Band CAB earned a Grammy nomination for CAB 2 Best Contemporary Jazz Album. He also scores films, and collaborated and performed the theme for Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning masterpiece The Unforgiven. But most importantly, Bunny is known around the world as one of the four great bassists who started the jazz-fusion bass movement (with Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, and Jeff Berlin). Born in the South of France, Bernard Bunny Brunel’s first instrument was the piano, and because his mother was a huge jazz fan, he was exposed to jazz at a very young age. He was able to play jazz chords by ear. "While I was attending a specialized college for hotels, I found a classical guitar, where the headstock was broken. I had it remade by a cabinetmaker friend of mine and played guitar in a band. I was about 15 years old at the time. I knew about 3 or 4 chords and that’s how it started. I was asked to rent a bass for a new bass player who never showed up for rehearsal and ended up playing the bass. That was the day I became a bass player—and I loved it!” Bunny attended the Classical Conservatory in Nice, France, to learn bowing technique, but was mostly a self taught bass player who drew his influences from Sam Jones, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Eddy Gomez, Miroslav Vitous, and Stanley Clarke. In his early 20s, while playing at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s Club in London with Tania Maria, Yes/ Moody Blues keyboardist Patrick Moraz introduced Bunny to fusion keyboardist Chick Corea. Once Chick heard Bunny play, a few months later he hired him to record on his Grammy-nominated album Secret Agent . Bunny played with Chick Corea for almost a decade, and has since played with Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Stevie Wonder, Ziggy Marley, Gloria Estefan, Jack De Johnette, Natalie Cole, Stanley Clarke, Milt Jackson, Steve Grossman, and countless more. Having graced the covers of popular magazines, including(PN'P) Plug N Play, Bass Musician, Bassics; and numerous features inBass Player, No Treble, Bassiste, For Bass Players Only, Abstract Logix, Fretless Bass, Guitar 9, Jazztimes, Global Bass Online, Talk Bass, just to name a few, Bunny Brunel also enjoys being the Editor at Large of Virtuoso Bass, the premier lifestyle magazine for bassists.This rare musician is a melodic writer; he creates memorable music with modal changes and dexterous playing. His creations transcend most recordings from the fusion genre simply because . . .even with Brunel's mind-blowing execution and profound changes —as complex as his music is—you walk away humming his tunes. But you are cheating yourself if you haven’t seen him in concert. Experiencing Bunny Brunel LIVE is transformative. And nothing compares to the auditory, sensory fulfillment, when you're drinking in a performance by this masterful bass legend! 

The acclaimed Los-Angeles-based group INCENDIO performs original "world guitar" compositions, featuring incredible guitar-playing across a variety of genres: latin, middle-eastern, and celtic grooves.  Formed in 1999, the group has 11 CD's and 2 DVD's available internationally, variously hitting the Billboard, CMJ, NAV, and Amazon.com charts.  Averaging over 150 shows a year since 2000 (until the COVID shutdown), INCENDIO's live performance is an explosive improvisatory journey, garnering tremendous audience response in such diverse venues as the Strawberry Music Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, California World Festival, the national Levitt Pavilions and many more across the U.S and abroad. Their eleventh international release, SUMMONING THE MUSE, came out in June 2019.  Their previous release, June 2013's  "The Shape of Dreams", stayed at or near the top of the Amazon flamenco and world charts for the remainder of that year.  They have reached over 110 million spins on streaming radio and have over 11,000 facebook likes.  Their music can be heard on Pandora, Spotify, and other streaming outlets. Incendio is Jim Stubblefield (guitar), JP Durand (guitar, guitar synth),  Liza Carbe (bass, guitar) and Tim Curle (drums).  Special guest: guitarist Ardeshir Farah from Strunz and Farah 

Piano/Vocals: Kelly Green Bass: Luca Rosenfeld Drums: Evan Hyde Kelly Green is one of NYC's most exciting new artists "well worth discovering" (NYC Jazz Record)! A true "triple threat", Kelly Green mesmerizes audiences as a pianist, vocalist, and composer. Kelly's remarkable talent has led her to share the stage with jazz legends such as Christian McBride, George Coleman, Billy Hart and many others showcasing her exceptional skill, empathy, and musicality. She has brought her compelling talent and personality to prestigious venues including The Kennedy Center, Dizzy's Jazz Club, Birdland, and Blue Note and has toured with her band all over the US, Europe, and South America. Miss Green will be joined by her renowned band of world class musicians Evan Hyde on drums and Luca Soul Rosenfeld on the upright bass. Kelly Green is known for her intricate lyric driven arrangements of Jazz standards and her auspicious "outside-the-box" original compositions. With her trio she will be performing selections from their classic repertoire, music from their latest album 'Seems' and music from their upcoming album 'Corner of My Dreams'. Esteemed writer and radio DJ Thierry De Clemensat describes their new album 'Seems' as "...an album of incredible class with musicians you'll instantly adore." "Kelly Green is one of the most talented & spirited people I know. Everything about her is joyous and swingin'!" -Christian McBride "She is no mere songwriter, but an artist and performer in toto...Green's composing skills are more than impressive." -Michael Bailey (All About Jazz) Steinway Artist Kelly Green continues to leave an indelible mark on the jazz world, enchanting listeners with every note! This is a show you will absolutely not want to miss! www.kellygreenpiano.com 

Michael Falcone (piano/vocals) Guil Juliao (bass) Garrett Miller (drums) Michael Fortunato (trumpet/flugelhorn) Drew Lurie (congas) Playing the piano and singing since the age of six, Michael Falcone has evolved into a versatile performer. Michael offers a wide variety of musical styles from jazz, classical, blues rock and pop, to swing, and many Latin styles. Check out his self-produced debut album, “All This Because of You”. 

The comparison is inevitable. How could it be otherwise? Tito Puente Jr. carries his father with him – imprinted on his physical being and locked in his soul. It’s in his looks, his joy, and his music. 

Tito, Jr. is on a passionate mission. The younger Puente is determined to nurture the musical legacy left by his father. He refuses to let his father become a distant memory. “He was just too vibrant, too exciting. There was magic in the music my father made. It made people happy all over the world.”

He has found captive audiences who echo his passion. Crowds lured to a venue by the father are returning to see the son -- and to once again participate in the high voltage celebration that takes place on stage.
 Tito Puente, Jr. has become an audience favorite in casinos, performing arts centers, symphony halls and jazz festivals worldwide, performing more than 300 shows over the past 5 years. 

His 2004 album, “In My Father’s Shoes” featured the classic Puente titles and was spun into a BET Jazz television special of the same name.

He was seen in a tribute to his father’s music on NBC’s two hour special--“The Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem.” He has also appeared on the ABC soap opera hit “One Life to Live” in performance with his big band.

Symphony appearances include Dallas, San Antonio, Colorado, South Bend, and upcoming performances with the Palm Desert Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch.

Tito, Jr.’s new CD release, “Got Mambo?” is a mixture of the old and the new as he takes a musical departure into some powerful new music he can truly call his own. Guest artists Bobby Cruz and Hansel & Raul help make this a coming of age project for Puente, Jr. and the album is receiving heavy praise from Tropical and Latin Jazz critics alike. 

Tito Jr. reveres the magnificent, lasting impact his father had on our musical lives. “People who don’t know anything about Latin music know my father and people always, always smile when they say my father’s name,” he confides. “That is a very special gift I have been given.”