David Allen is a guitarist and composer based in New York City. His music is both lyrical and challenging, combining memorable melodies with complex harmonies and shifting rhythms.

Among the notable players he has worked with are Mark Shim, Donny McCaslin, Chris Cheek, Matt Wilson, Dennis Irwin, Ben Street and Eric McPherson. His trios and quartets draw from the best young players on the NY scene and have performed at Birdland, The 55 Bar, Cornelia St. Cafe, The Knitting Factory and CBGB's Lounge.

Allen's CD, Untold Stories, features saxophonist Seamus Blake, known for his work with John Scofield and Dave Douglas, and drummer Mark Ferber, who has become increasingly busy working with legends such as Fred Hersch, Steve Coleman, Scott Colley, Drew Gress, and Kenny Werner. And, bassist Carlo DeRosa, who is known for his superlative technique and musicality, and who also works with Donny McCaslin, Brad Shepik, Clarence Penn, and Vijay Iyer.

“There’s a true sensuality to the guitarist’s sound. On the new Untold Stories, he brings a pearly tone to a piece called 'Searching,' unfolding his lines with an edge-of-your-seat stealth.
– Jim Macnie, The Village Voice
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SOUL OF THE BLUES, NYC's premiere *inexpensive* live blues and soul music series, happens the fourth Wednesday of every month at Cornelia Street Cafe.

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This unique series features both emerging and established vocalists in styles ranging from straight ahead, modern to avant-garde and free jazz. Each vocalist will present personal material that showcases their abilities as interpreters, improvisers, composers and arrangers. The Cornelia St. Cafe provides an intimate setting to hear these exceptional artists at a reasonable price!
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"Deborah [Latz] has one of the BEST new voices I've heard in a LONG time. Her phrasing and unique style is simply ... elegant and versatile and spunky!”
- Jan Jenson, Jazz Now

Deborah Latz, originally from San Francisco, is an accomplished jazz vocalist/actress/ writer/producer. Her debut jazz album, Toward Love, was released by June Moon Productions on May 25, 2004 and continues to be the fastest selling indie jazz CD at Tower Records in Trump Tower.  Around town, Deborah has played at The Triad, The Cutting Room, 55 Bar, Detour, The Cupping Room, Louis 649, Café 111, and has been a regular at New York University’s Torch Club.  In the fall of 2004 Deborah made a Montreal Tour where she played Quai des Brumes, House of Jazz and sang for the I.C.A.O. convention hosted by the country of Singapore.

"...a sensibility that incites a lyric with her innate dramatic instincts... Strikes just the right note of coy mischievousness... "
- Alan Bargebuhr, Cadence

“They say that love makes the world go around. I don't know about that, but it's made for some great songs, tunes that vocalist Deborah Latz goes after with gusto on her debut disc, Toward Love. On the classic “Loverman,” where Billie Holiday sounded fragile and deeply hurt—where Carmen McRae gave us a wounded, world weary mood—Latz evokes a hopeful innocence, as though she believes it will happen, that loverman will show up. The vocalist demonstrates some downtempo sass on Rodgers and Hart's “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” this listener's highlight. Her voice rings with a fetching richness here, with Bob Bowen's bass caressing her syllables. And do I detect a hint of tongue in cheek? I'm not sure. The lyric is—by today's perspective on romance—wonderfully sappy; and Deborah Latz pulls it off with grace and straightahead beauty. On “Avril a Paris” Latz shows us she can sing a lyric in French with aplomb; pianist Timo Elliston works a percussive mode, nailing down the rhythm behind the mellifluous flow of language. “Night and Day” has the vocalist entering the scene with a coy hush in her voice, a softly feminine Tony Bennett-like rasp in front of Ben Sher's piquant guitar lines.

A marvelous vocal effort, beginning to end. I'm bewitched.”
- Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com 

"A sure-footed singer possessing a mature sound and an attractive, lived-in voice, Deborah Latz’ Toward Love explores a traditional set of popular standards with satisfying results.”
- Andrew Rowan, AllAboutJazz-NY

Deborah received diplomas from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. She won the Best Actress Award at The Jerzy Grotowski Theatre Festival in Wroclav, Poland, for her performance in the one-woman drama, Juliet. Deborah wrote, produced and performed the one-woman musical, Travels With Ma Own Self, which received rave reviews in New York and Europe. She also recorded the original song, “I’m Neurotic Over You” for the off-Broadway comedy, High Infidelity, starring Morgan Fairchild and John Davidson, at The Promenade Theater. And in 2002, at The Mazer Theater in New York and in the Lit Moon World Theater Festival in Santa Barbara, Deborah produced and starred in The Prisoner, a one-woman tour de force, telling the story of a Holocaust survivor in Poland. 
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Kahlil Kwame Bell has been called one of the most prolific musicians in the industry today. His career began at a mere two years of age when his father and uncle introduced him to West African drumming of the Ancient Mali Empire. He furthered his study of drumming at Bloomingdale House of Music at age ten. By the age of fifteen, he enrolled at the Harlem School of the Arts. Upon his arrival, he received his first job assisting dance movement classes. He worked at the school for two years. He
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