Alex Blake   bass
Alex Blake is easily one of the top upright bass players ever.
Having toured with Sun Ra when he was sixteen, he went on from there to lengthy stints with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, & McCoy Tyner, to name a few,
and for the last 7 years he's been touring and recording with Randy Weston, as well as the legendary Coltrane sideman and psychedelic saxophone innovator himself, Mr. Pharoah Sanders.
   
The way Alex uses flamenco techniques to make an upright bass sound like water, the rhythms he bangs with his fist on the strings and his foot on the floor, the freedom with which he sings all of his solos as he plays.....
just watching him play is a joy in itself...

Ted Cruz   keyboards
Since graduating from the University of North Texas in 1990, Mr. Cruz has been active in both recording and performing with various jazz, rock, R&B and classical music recording artists all over the world.
He has performed with such notable jazz artists such as Nat Adderly, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Steve Coleman and Woody Herman.
His production and arranging work has been recognized and acclaimed by Billboard, Downbeat, Vibe and Rolling Stone magazines.

His recent composition/programming and productions has been featured on recordings with such varied artists as Britney Spears, Faith Hill, Monica, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Ice-T.
His recent recent music composition work include a meet the composer grant for his improvisational score to "Tetsuo The Iron Man" at the Knitting Factory and he composed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the millennium celebration in Times Square in New York City. 

Ted Cruz's recent forays into film and television music had his work featured on the upcoming documentary "Creating Counterparts" for PBS television, and he will taking part in the Sundance film composers lab in Utah in the summer of 2003.

Chris Hunter   sax & flute
Originally from London England, Chris Hunter moved to New York
in 1983 at the invitation of Gil Evans to join his legendary Monday Night Orchestra.

He quickly established himself as one of the leading Journeyman free lance musicians in the city and began working regularly with artists such as Michel Camilo, Hiram Bullock, Robben Ford.
In addition Chris became a regularly featured soloist on an wide variety of recordings, including themes for Oprah, Regis and Kelly, Ted Koppel, etc and an infinite variety of guest appearances on records. Jonathan Butler, Larry Coryell, Tania Maria, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, Sting, Robbie Robertson, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra are just a few of the performers who have utilized his skills.

Recent work has included extensive touring with Michael Franks,
The Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, The Super Latin Band,
The Manhattan Transfer as well as an unending stream of work in the Jazz Orchestras of George Gruntz, Mike Gibbs, Michel Camilo. Known primarily as a Alto player, Chris is featured extensively on Tenor Soprano and Flute in the new Alex Blake Project.