Asli Demirer | ar

IT’S there in all the great bands, the ones which create something original, something that endures. It’s the struggle, and not just the endless miles and broken strings and sleeping on floors. That’s the fun part. There is the hunger to get this sound in your head out and heard, the never-ending battle against compromise, the fight, as Shakespeare put it for Polonius in Hamlet, to thine own self be true. That’s the crucible that forges the greatness. A certain breed of Australian bands know all about this. It’s something to do with the heat, the light, the vast distances...

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Eoghan Heaslip (pronounced “Owen Heeslip”) is a Christian Singer/Songwriter/Pastor?Worship Leader. Up to the end of 2006 Eoghan served as the worship leader and music director for the Core Church in Dublin, Ireland. Eoghan & his wife Becky have been part of the staff team at St Pauls Ealing, an Anglican Church in West London UK since January 2007. They have oversight of worship & prayer at St Pauls. As a couple they have a deep desire to see everyone grow in their relationship with God. .

Giorgio Gaslini (October 22, 1929, Milan) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer. He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet. He was the first Italian musician mentioned as a "new talent" in the Down Beat poll and the first Italian officially invited to a jazz festival in the USA (New Orleans 1976-77). He collaborated with leading American soloists, such as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Eddie Gomez, Max Roach, Nacci Alberto, but also with the Argentinian Gato Barbieri and Frenchman...

Donny McCaslin is originally from Santa Cruz California where, as a toddler, he first listened to jazz by attending his father's vibraphone/piano gigs. At 12, Donny picked up the tenor sax, and became proficient quickly. By 15, he was gigging around town, both as a sideman and as a leader of his own bands. Before he graduated high school, Donny toured Europe with the Monterey Jazz Festival's California All-Star Big Band, and studied at Cabrillo College with arranging great Ray Brown. He won a full scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music, where he played with many jazz greats, including...