SEAN DIXON has earned seven Grammy Award nominations for work with Andy Akiho, Sandbox Percussion, the Omaha Symphony, and Imani Winds, including two personal nominations in the Classical Compendium category for 2023 & 2024. With previous performing / recording credits including Amy Helm, Jackson Browne, Wyclef Jean, Kristen Chenoweth, Maxwell, and Angelique Kidjo, plus long collaborations with West African artists Famoro Dioubate, Mory Kante, and Missia Saran Dioubate, his current work as album producer for Ryan Delmonico, and cast/percussionist for The Cortège in Los Angeles, keeps him shaping sound in a balance of precision, intuition, and artistry.
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MICHAEL O'BRIEN’s more than two-decade international career as bassist and composer has teamed him with Harry Connick, Jr., Ruben Blades, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Gene Pitney, and Ted Nash, to name a few. One of New York's working-est bassists, he performs regularly with Kyobe Oyobe, Sandro Albert, and Fleur Seule. In 2018 he recorded 16 album projects; of his 2025 recordings, “Oneness-World” with Premik Russell Tubbs and Margee Minier-Tubbs is nominated for a Best Alternative Jazz Album Grammy Award. He frequently supports "Jim Caruso’s Cast Party" Monday nights at Birdland NYC. His festival performances have included Lincoln Center, IAJE, Odessa, Port au Prince International and Sonic Circuits festivals.
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Pianist/composer/leader PHIL ORR has spent five-plus decades improvising a life in music, weaving together artistry and mentorship, performance and pedagogy. His journey moves fluidly from choir lofts to nightclubs, printed page to concert stage to recording studio, Byrd to ‘Bird’ to Bolcom to Beyoncé. His diverse background as keyboardist, wind instrumentalist, conductor and singer/chorister draw audiences into his sound-worlds of jazz, classical and popular styles from multiple eras. An eclectic composer, Orr’s jazz tunes, hymn tunes, art songs, liturgical settings, concert band pieces, choral music, and chamber ensemble works have been performed in more than 150 venues in the Americas and Europe, earned him ASCAPlus awards and a NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship, and have featured prominently on 11 album-length recordings.
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