Steve Abrams has been a mainstay on the jazz and Afro-Cuban music scene in the Bay Area for over 25 years.  His groups have performed at many venues, including the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the San Jose International Jazz Festival.  His New Zealand sextet, Pleasure Point, has performed at the Nelson International Jazz Festival, the Tauranga National

Jazz Festival, the Manawatu Jazz Festival and the Wellington International Jazz Festival.
  Steve is also a musical director and accompanist for Mountain Community Theater and Little People’s Repertory Theater in Ben Lomond. He has a BA in Music from UCLA, with an emphasis on arranging and African drumming, and teaches piano and flute at his home in Ben Lomond.

  Heath Proskin is a first-call bass player in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay area and has appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival, as well as numerous venues throughout the area. Raised in New York, he received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music and worked with many of the finest players in the Boston area. After six months gigging in the Caribbean, he moved to California, completed a doctorate at UC Santa Barbara.  Heath lives in San Francisco.

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  Sam Kellerman has been playing drums throughout California and the West Coast for over 20 years. With equal time in both Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Sam has found himself in all situations — whether drumming in an orchestra, a 9-piece ska band, rock bands or hip-hop groups, and jazz trios/quartets. 

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  Drummer/percussionist Kevin DiNoto

is equally at home in a wide variety

of genres - Kirtan devotional music, traditional and modern Moroccan music, and jazz in its many forms, including swing, hard bop, blues, Latin jazz and salsa, all played with precision, deep feeling and soulful intensity.

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   Zack Olsen is an in-demand drummer performing all over the San Fransisco Bay Area as well as teaching private lessons at his home. Zack also spends his summers teaching at the Kuumbwa Jazz Camp, drum teching for the Monterey Jazz Festival and playing in the pit for Cabrillo Stage’s summer productions. Dedicated to inspire the next generation of drummers, Zack has hosted many guest teachers at his studio and organized drum clinics. Zack lives in Soquel, Califorina.