Klaus Gesing

Alexandra Loran

Sean Imboden

Sean Imboden is an American saxophonist and composer. Sean's music pioneers forward-thinking, original compositions, and presents cutting-edge live performances. Sean has performed and recorded with GRAMMY-winning artists and jazz luminaries, including Slide Hampton, Taylor Eigsti, Mike Rodriguez, Sean Jones, Emmet Cohen, Steve Allee, Kenny Phelps, John Raymond, and Valery Ponomarev (of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers). A long-time member of Indianapolis-based quartet Tucker Brothers, Sean plays on the band’s four critically-acclaimed albums. An active sideman, Sean has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, and Idina Menzel. Sean toured internationally for many years with various Broadway productions, and as a featured soloist with Blast II. Sean has taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and is currently on faculty at Butler University and Ball State University. Sean works with students around the world through his online Virtual Studio.

Brad Wagner

Tissa Khosla

Doc Stewart

Born: November 26, 1960

Chris “Doc” Stewart is a retired ER doctor from the Mayo Clinic who now performs regularly with the his own group as well as several other local groups in the Phoenix area. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays saxophone, flute, and clarinet in a variety of musical genres. His chart-topping recordings include “Phoenix” (2005) and “Code Blue” (2016).  Jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote: “The lead alto saxophonist, Dr. Chris Stewart, practices emergency medicine for a living, but leads the reed team flawlessly.” Doc Stewart has recorded with groups and artists such as Louis Bellson, Woody Herman, Wayne Bergeron, Toni Tennille, Matt Catingub, the Phoenix Symphony, and many others

Hakan Brostrom

Born: 1955

Born in Motala, Sweden, in 1955, Håkan is an alto, soprano, and tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer.

Already at the age of 8, Håkan started playing the piano, and when he was 15, he began playing the tenor saxophone and flute. One year later, he played the alto saxophone in various blues bands in Motala and the baritone saxophone with the Motala Big Band.

1972-1978

In 1972, he moved to Malmö to study at the music high school there, where his teacher was Helge Albin, a saxophonist and arranger with the Tolvan Big Band. He also started playing the soprano saxophone and collaborated with the Raj Montana Band and Dan Hylander. In 1977, he started studying at the Malmö College of Music and began composing regularly. He became a member of the Gothenburg group "Waves," led by the legendary drummer Conny Sjöqvist.

Andy Page

Born: September 1, 1990

Andy Page is a New Orleans based woodwind player, composer, and arranger. His primary instrument is the alto saxophone, but he is adept on all saxophones, as well as flute and clarinet. He can be heard playing many styles of music, from pupular to niche, with unwavering fervor and respect for the craft. As a sideman, Andy has toured both nationaly and internationally and has contributed arrangements and compositions to several records. As a leader, he released is debut record in the Jazz idiom in october of 2023 and has also released EP's in the rock and experimental genres under the moniker "Brungo Jowl". 

Gabriel Evan

Born: June 23, 1987

Gabriel Evan, a woodwinds specialist originally from Ossining, NY, performs over 300 shows per year, spanning traditional jazz, gypsy jazz and early Caribbean music. Receiving his first saxophone at 8 years old, Gabriel has spent the last 28 years studying his craft, with an early highpoint interning at WBGO jazz radio station out of Newark, NJ, during his high school years. He earned his Bachelor of Music from DePauw University in 2009, and immediately following graduation began performing professionally in NYC.

As a member of the traditional and gypsy jazz communities, Gabriel has been performing as both a bandleader and sideman for the last 15 years and released his first record Gabriel’s Swing as a bandleader in June of 2019 and second record Global Entry in 2021

Louie Belogenis

Born: June 22, 1953

Louie Belogenis is a self-taught musician who came of age during the heady days of the old East Village, when the remnants of a New York City avant-garde were still alive. Influenced by Buddhism, poetry, film, music, dance, and theater (he was a member of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theatre for four years), Louie felt like a bohemian Alice in an esoteric Wonderland.

At this time he became friends with John Zorn, who selected Louie’s first saxophone from We Buy on Third Avenue and 11th Street. Encouraged by Zorn and musicians like Bill and Wayne Horvitz, Phillip Johnston and Joel Forrester, he entered the proverbial woodshed,  occasionally emerging to perform in public. It was during a gig with William Hooker’s ensemble that Rashied Ali heard Louie play, and invited him to visit his studio, the site of the former club Ali’s Alley. That fortuitous meeting led to the band Prima Materia, and many recordings and tours throughout the mid- and late 90’s. The relationship with Rashied continued up to the master’s untimely passing in 2009, with Louie visiting – sometimes on a weekly basis – to play and listen to stories from ‘back in the day.’