Ronnie Burrage has been one of the busiest drummers on the scene since the 1970s. As a child, he was exposed to his first musical influences through the choir and his family's taste in music, and he became a professional in his teens. At 17, he moved to New York, where he built up a considerable reputation. He is a founding member of the legendary group Defunkt, played with McCoy Tyner for three years and continued to work with Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jackie McLean and Woody Shaw. In his first band, he brought together Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller and Branford Marsalis; he has played concerts all over the world at the biggest festivals and in the best clubs. In addition to his main instrument, the drums, he also works as a keyboard player, composer, producer and singer.

Darryl Hall is a jazz double bassist living in France. He learned his instrument the old-school way, autodidactically, and only studied composition years later at the Manhattan Music School. This path enabled him to find a more intuitive approach to jazz music. It has done him no harm in the slightest, as he is now one of the most sought-after bassists in the world and even won the Oscar of jazz, the Thelonious Monk Bass Competition, in 1996. He has played and continues to play with Ravi Coltrane, Regina Carter, Didier Lockwood, Antonio Farao, Tineke Postma and many more.

Harry Sokal, most recently successful throughout Europe with his project Depart (ACT Music, with Heiri Känzig and Jojo Mayer), is one of the most important post-Coltrane saxophonists in Europe. This is demonstrated not least by the who's who of recent jazz history that he accompanied, or that accompanied him: as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra, as well as in the legendary Art Farmer Quintet from 1979 to 1999, as a partner of Art Blakey, Dave Holland, Wynton Marsalis, Terje Ryptal, Joe Zawinul, Harry Pepl, and many others. In 2005 he was awarded the Hans Koller Prize as Musician of the Year. Harry Sokal about himself: Thanks to 25 years of collaboration with Art Farmer and many other personalities and formations on the international jazz scene, such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Carla Bley Big Band, Art Blakey, Idris Muhammad, Joe Zawinul, Jean Paul Bourelly, Dave Holland, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Harry Pepl, Jene Jackson, Andy Mc Kee, and many others, who have all become a crucial part of my musical life, I have learned all the facets and secrets of jazz. In all of these projects, as well as in my own formations, the roots of jazz and my innermost melodies and grooves are always in the foreground, regardless of whether it is be-bop, soul, funk, classical or free improvisation. It's an addiction... to experience myself, to surprise myself and to take my listeners on this exciting journey.

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