A native Detroiter and an internationally known jazz artist, Sandra received a musicalscholarship from the University of Massachusetts, and has also studied voice underlegendary artists such as Sheila Jordan, Dr. Billy Taylor, Alma Smith and Dr. Yusef Lateef. Sandra Bomar’s voice has been influenced by greats...
David Thomas is a multi-instrumentalist, with his primary instruments being the piano and the trumpet. He is from Rochester Hills, Michigan. He began taking piano lessons with Mrs. Christine Gahman when he was 7 years old and finished his high school piano training with Mrs....
Jeff Cuny is the chief arranger & bassist for the Planet D Nonet and appears around the city with the singer & trombonist Tbone Paxton. Every Friday he leads the house trio at Cliff Bell's. This is his first time doing a project of his...
Trumpeter/vocalist James O’Donnell has been entertaining Detroit audiences for years. He has toured around the globe and lived in Mexico City. He brings plenty of swing and humor to whatever he does! James grew up listening to Detroit trumpet great Johnny Trudell. His teachers and mentors...
Deeply steeped in the generations of great Jazz and Blues that centers the rich musical legacy of Detroit (which includes Kenn Cox, Donald Walden, Marcus Belgrave and Thomas “Beans” Bowles), Shahida Nurullah is one of the motor city’s premier and most treasured jazz vocalists. Her outstanding...
Trumpeter/vocalist James O’Donnell has been entertaining Detroit audiences for years. He has toured around the globe and lived in Mexico City. He brings plenty of swing and humor to whatever he does! James grew up listening to Detroit trumpet great Johnny Trudell. His teachers and mentors...
Matt LoRusso has toured internationally throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East. He has been an active member in the Anthony Stanco Quintet, Carlos Whitlow and Generation Praise, the Smith/Hughes Quintet and has played with numerous award winning groups such as Lansing based organ...
Detroit raised, award winning soul jazz vocalist, Monique Ella Rose returns to the Motor City where she gained her love for music and the arts. Her dynamic contralto voice has the ability to take you on a ride that leaves you feeling downright good. Her soulful...
Lifelong buddy's RJ Spangler & Tbone Paxton started working together in 1980 with a very popular band around Detroit called the Sun Messengers. They toured the east coast, Midwest and deep south for a number of years. Back then Tbone was awarded a Motor City...
Paul VornHagen is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, flutist, and vocalist who has won Detroit Music Awards on six separate occasions and categories: Jazz Reeds, Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, Instrumentalist, World Music Recording (2) and Jazz Recording. Presently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan where Paul got...