Jack DeSalvo is a guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Hailed by Wire magazine as “a masterful player”, Jack has performed and recorded on classical, steel-string, electric, 12-string, slide and alto guitars, cello, banjo, mandolin and mandola. “Using both acoustic and electric instruments, DeSalvo demonstrates technique, intelligence and imagination with a broad streak Read More

“A Helluva Piano Player” – Jazz Times Lewis Porter (PhD, Brandeis, 1983) is a jazz pianist, composer (of everything from leadsheets to works for orchestra and soloists), an author, a Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark since 1986, and founder and director of the Master’s Program in Jazz History Read More

Each member of the 12 Houses Orchestra carries a unique voice. This is a sound painting of very distinct colors. 12 Houses are* Matt Lavelle (cornet, flugelhorn, alto clarinet, conducting), Tim Stocker (baritone Sax), Charles Waters (alto sax, clarinet), Ras Moshe Burnett: tenor sax, flute), Sweet Lee Odom (soprano sax, clarinet), Laura Ortman (Violin), Stephanie Griffin (Viola), Gil Selinger(cello), Jack DeSalvo (guitar),  Francois Grillot (bass), Chris Forbes (piano), John Pietaro (vibes), Ryan Read More