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Neil Slade has produced 11
albums of original music, as well as having 10 books
published on creativity, and brain behavior science,
including one, The Frontal Lobes Supercharge,
being translated and published by Rowohlt Verlag, a
respected major European publisher of Pulitzer Prize
winning authors. His web site, The Amazing Brain Music
Adventure
www.BrainRadar.com has had over 15 million unique
web site visits. His Youtube page
Neil Slade's
Youtube Channel has over 60 videos and more
than 7
million views. 
His jazz career began decades ago, often teaming up at
jam sessions with now legendary artists Bill Frisell and
Bobby Rangel. He has given hundreds of concert, radio,
and television performances and has also produced and
directed two feature length films, and done video work
for the Icelandic singer Bjork.
Chuck Schneider has toured
with Stan Getz, and continued regularly backing up such
major jazz and pop performers such as Mel Torme, Vicki
Carr, Nancy Wilson, and was a regular musical clinician
at legendary trumpeter Clark Terry's jazz clinics and
was picked to tour Europe with Terry's big band.For
years, he taught at
the University of Colorado at Denver as combo director,
jazz theory, and improvisation instructor. He remains
one of the regions top choices for sessions and is a
"first call" musicians for most band leaders in the
area.
Mark Foster, who has a
masters degree in percussion from the University of
Indiana, went on to play with the Denver and Colorado
Symphony orchestras, The Colorado Ballet Orchestra, and
The Colorado Opera, as well as became a regular
percussion player for most visiting national touring
Broadway shows coming through Denver. He additionally
joined the percussion faculty at Metropolitan State
University Music School, where he continues to teach.
John
Thornburg has been a professional
bassist for over 40 years performing in concerts, clubs,
recording sessions and theatrical shows as a sideman and
a band leader and music educator carrying his family's
heritage- his father played bass and trombone in the
Stan Kenton Orchestra. John has performed with many
including Jill Sobule, Bo Diddley and has performed with
his own groups at five Telluride Jazz Festivals. In
1980, his composition Open Up Your Heart was
performed by Ester Satterfield on the David
Letterman show.
Gannon Kashiwa has run his
own music studio and production facility for decades,
also continuing as a highly respected expert
audio engineer, musician, composer, sound designer and
equipment inventor. Currently, he's also Senior Product
Manager with Universal Audio, one of the world's top
manufacturer of high end professional audio equipment.
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BRAIN!
Jazz Music and the Brain
Mind, Body & Jazz:
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