Chaz Underriner is a composer, guitarist, and intermedia artist based in DeLand, Florida. His music has been called “quietly radiant in animated stasis” (The Wire 2022) and that it “enchant[s] the listener so that time loses its function, so that you are completely subordinated to your dreams.” (Nieuw Noten 2017) Chaz specializes in playing new music, jazz, and free improvisation and has performed in venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe, such as at Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, NE), the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composer’s Intensive, GROUND Solyanka (Moscow, RU), the Proyector International Video Art Festival (Madrid, ESP), the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Hawick, Scotland), the Impuls Festival (Graz, AU), Ostrava New Music Days (CZ), the Forfest Festival (CZ), RAUM (Vienna, AU), the MISE_EN Music Festival (USA), and the Timucua Arts Foundation (Orlando). Chaz creates art in a variety of styles and forms, from meticulously notated chamber music to multimedia installations.
Daniel Jordan is a nationally recognized jazz musician and educator since 1976. Dan joined Maynard Ferguson’s band in 1982 and began touring and recording as the tenor soloist. He is the creator of a nationally distributed educational video, “Journey through Jazz”.
Dan has taught at numerous schools including Rollins College and has performed with a multitude of renowned artists such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra Jr, Wayne Newton, Doc Severenson, Billy Eckstein, The Dallas Jazz Orchestra, Woody Herman, Barry Manilow, The Four Tops, The Temptations and many more. He has performed on New York City Broadway, Late Night with David Letterman, and in countless other shows and productions.
His television and recording experience include touring with Paul Anka, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and a tour with Natalie Cole on live television in Italy, Germany, Poland and France. Other recordings include “Live From Birdland” with Scott Whitfield, “Storm” and “Live at the Great American Music Hall” with Maynard Ferguson, plus with various artists, “Live From Pleasure Island.”
Tim Rosenberg is a saxophonist specializing in classical, avant-garde, jazz, and commercial music. Tim frequently performs with several ensembles, including the Hippocrene Saxophone Quartet, the Orlando Symphony Orchestra, and the Brevard Symphony Orchestra. In the past he also performed with the H2 Quartet, the Hyperbaton Ensemble and the Cayuga Saxophone Quartet. He can be heard on Intersecciones on the Ashes Records label and Times & Spaces on Blue Griffin Records. Tim is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Stetson University and his teaching interests include saxophone, chamber music, avant-garde music, jazz improvisation, and music technology.
Electric bassist, keyboardist, composer/arranger, singer/songwriter Dan Walters provides solid side-musician support to many excellent artists and makes skillfully crafted music of his own that ranges from rootsy singer/songwriter (Man in the Mountain, The Missing Piece) through theatrical/cinematic (Europe Approaching, Again) guitar rock (Call it an End, NPR) and into what is loosely called “new music”. Dan dedicated his life to music at an early age and has been consistently and energetically involved in the music business throughout the United States and abroad for four decades. Included in his many recording credits are six solo albums, ETERNAL NERVE, FORTUNATA, GUESSWORK, INVISIBLE, SPEAK OF LOVE and THE ENHANCED LIFE. Dan also has two albums currently in the final stages of production, THE MAN FROM SUNRISE, and an as yet unnamed album of instrumental pieces.
Michael Welch is a music / percussion student of Tommy Thomas (1901-1995) and Elvin Jones (1927-2004) He graduated with degrees from Seminole State college and University of Central Florida. His bibliography includes 30+ books including Quadragrip, Notes of a Young Drummer, The Road Is, Floridian in Paris and Boom Boom the Bass Drum. As a musician-drummer Welch has collaborated and performed with an eclectic array of artist including: Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Sam Rivers, George Benson, Roscoe Mitchell, David Amram, Ira Sullivan, Ernest Ranglin, Phll Chen, Elliott Sharp, Matt Shipp, Derek Bailey, Jon Rose, Peter Kowald, Mr. Magoo, Murf The Surf, Vic Waters, Noble “Thin Man” Watts, Elliott Randall, Denny Dias, Clarence Palmer and more. michaelwelchpublications.com