"Dave Sewelson was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. There was a half-size violin kept in the closet in case he wanted to be a concert violinist. He played trumpet at the age of nine, moving to baritone horn at the age of eleven, followed by a stint on drums until settling on electric bass at thirteen, adding upright bass to the mix until the switch to saxophone at the age of twenty-one. He has specialized in the baritone saxophone since the early seventies.

Sewelson arrived in New York City in the summer of 1977, settled in the East Village becoming an active member of the Downtown Scene, playing with the 25 O'Clock Band, Jemeel Moondoc's Jus Grew Orchestra, William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and Saheb Sarbib's Multinational Big Band and the Microscopic Septet. He has played with many wonderful musicians, including, Billly Bang, John Zorn, Peter Kuhn, Alex Cline, Roy Campbell, Sonny Murray, Kidd Jordan, Daniel Carter, Will Connell and Stephanie Stone.. Dave's current projects include, Two Sisters Inc. with David Hofstra and Claire Daly, a quartet with Peter Kuhn, Smooth Freejazz, Sewelsonics, and The Daves."

"William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time."

In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.

Parker's current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore. Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others."

"Marvin "Boogaloo" Smith (also Bugalu Smith , born 1948 in Englewood, New Jersey ) is an American jazz musician ( drums ).

Smith comes from a musical family in New Jersey ; his older brother was the drummer Earl "Buster" Smith (1932-2003). At the age of 16, he first had the opportunity to record in the local Town Sound Studio; he played there in the following years as a session musician with James Brown , Sam and Dave and Lola Falana ; next to it in the radio band The Knights of Soul . In 1969, Tyree Glenn brought him into the backing band of the singer Rocky Roberts, who enjoyed popularity in Italy at that time. From the mid-1970s, he played in Italy with the Quintetto Dino Piana / Marcello Rosa (who also belonged to Enrico Pieranunzi ) and with the pianist Patrizia Scascitelli (with whom he was married in 1977-85). In 1980 he moved to New York City; In the 1980s, he was a member of Sun Ra Arkestra, heard on the albums Love in Outer Space: Live in Utrecht ( Leo , 1983) and A Night in East Berlin (1986). He also played with Archie Shepp ( Soul Song , 1982 and Down Home New York , 1984), Ben Koen & The Unity Ensemble (1997), David Haney ( Stix and Stones ) and Kali Fasteau ( Oneness , 2003), in later years also in the trio with William Parker and Charles Gayle , 2018 in the Dave Sewelson Trio (with William Parker). In the field of jazz he was involved between 1975 and 2003 in seven recording sessions.

Marvin "Boogaloo" Smith is not to be confused with jazz drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith."

"Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. He has toured and recorded with many artists from mainstreamers such as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to so called outsiders as Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor and William Parker. He has over 40 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artists on more than 100 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the NYC public school system focusing on special needs children.

Swell has worked on music transcriptions of the Bosavi tribe of New Guinea for MacArthur fellow, Steve Feld in 2000. His CD, "Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers" (CIMP) ranked number 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers Poll. He has also received grants from USArtists International in 2006, MCAF (LMCC) awards in 2008 and 2013 and has been commissioned twice on the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in 2006 and at Roulette in 2012.

Steve was nominated for Trombonist of the Year 2008 & 2011 by the Jazz Journalists Association, was selected Trombonist of the Year 2008-2010 , 2012 and 2014-2015 by the magazine El Intruso of Argentina and received the 2008 Jubilation Foundation Fellowship Award of the Tides Foundation. Steve has also been selected by the Downbeat Critics Poll in the Trombone category each year from 2010-2016.

Steve is presently a teaching artist through the American Composers Orchestra, Healing Arts Initiative , Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center (Bronx), the Jazz Foundation of America and Leman Manhattan Preparatory School.

Steve was also awarded the 2014 Creative Curricula grant (LMCC) for the project: "Metamorphoses: Modern Mythology in Sound and Words" which was taught in a month long residency at Baruch College Campus High School in Manhattan."