Steve Hirsh composes music on the drumset. He has been leading improvising ensembles around Minnesota's Twin Cities for 20 years. He has played with some of the world's leading practitioners of real-time group composition, including Daniel Carter, Joel Futterman, William Parker, Dave Sewelson, Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Eri Yamamoto, and Steve Swell. In addition to performing in Minnesota, he plays regularly in New York and around the United States, and he collaborates internationally.
Art Edmaiston - Memphis saxophonist, improvisor/composer and player of “Ecstatic Energy Music" Thirty-plus years of experience touring and performing on stages and in recording studios with a wide array of artists (Gregg Allman, Bobby “Blue” Bland, the Doobie Brothers, JJ Grey & Mofro, Stevie Wonder, Little Feat, Dee Dee Bridgewater and most recently Ra Kalam Bob Moses) earned Edmaiston the ability to enhance music in colorful and exciting ways unique to his place in life. Art’s voluptuous sound on the tenor saxophone was sculpted from years spent playing R&B and blues in Memphis, but has origins in the small country town of Troy, TN where he grew up playing alone in wide open cow pastures and soybean fields.
Chad Fowler is a saxophonist, flautist, and composer from Arkansas. He grew up musically playing in Memphis horn sections, but his love has always been improvised music and the avant-garde. He has performed and recorded with some of the greats in the genre, including William Parker, Reggie Workman, Melanie Dyer, and Matthew Shipp and is active with Memphians Chris Parker and Kelley Hurt's No Tears project. Chad also runs a record label, Mahakala Music, dedicated to free and improvised music.
Keyboardist and composer Alex Greene has four decades of experience in Memphis and New York, and has performed and recorded albums, live scores and soundtracks with his Rolling Head Orchestra since 2009. He first studied musique concrète and computer synthesis at NYU with composer Judy Klein in the 1980s, and has worked for over twenty years with New York composer Dave Soldier, including his piano work on The LeWitt Etudes, an album conceived by Soldier and drummer William Hooker, and many recordings by The Kropotkins. Meanwhile, he’s played in a variety of Memphis groups ranging from Alex Chilton to Reigning Sound to Cloudland Canyon. Most recently, he co-founded the improvisatory group Deepstaria Enigmatica, whose debut, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow, was released on ESP-Disk’ this year.
Khari Wynn is a guitarist from Boston, Massachusetts, now based in Memphis, Tennesee, best known for his work in the jazz-rock genre and hip hop. He is the son of acclaimed music critic/writer Ron Wynn and lived across from Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios as a child. He began playing electric guitar at age fourteen and placed second in the 1999 National Jimi Hendrix Competition.
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