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About Jonathan Pinson: Jonathan Pinson began his love affair with the drum set at the age of two when he was surrounded by the music of his mother’s choir. His formal music training began at the age of six with instruction on the piano. Shortly after, Jonathan transitioned to the drum set at the Colburn School of Performing Arts and studied with Billy Higgins from The World Stage.

About Keyon Harrold: Keyon Harrold was born and raised in Ferguson, MO, the St. Louis suburb that tore into America’s national consciousness in 2014 with the police shooting of Michael Brown and the bitter protests and riots that followed. While Ferguson looms large in Harrold’s album The Mugician, it examines our troubled times through a far wider lens than any one tragedy. Sweeping and cinematic, the music draws on elements of jazz, classicval, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern, unmistakably American. Guests including Pharoahe Monch, Gary Clark, Jr., Big K.R.I.T., Guy Torry, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Robert Glasper add to the record’s eclectic nature, but it ultimately triumphs as a unified, cohesive whole both because of Harrold’s virtuosic skill as a trumpeter and songwriter and because of his relentlessly optimistic belief in brighter days to come.

About Vicente Archer: Vicente Archer is a bassist, guitarist, composer, and producer hailing from the culturally-rich Woodstock, New York. Having absorbed much of the historical town’s arts culture, has made his work diverse ranging from folk to jazz to hip-hop. He attended New England Conservatory of Music and Northeastern University in Boston, where he earned a degree in business. While in college, he picked up the double bass with swiftness. Within eight months, he was asked by great alto saxophonist, Donald Harrison, to join his group. Archer's first recording appearance is on Harrison’s Impulse recording “Free to Be”. Soon after he began performing with a long list of luminaries including Monty Alexander, Terence Blanchard, Freddie Hubbard, Mingus Big Band, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, Stanley Jordan, and many more. Today, he’s as prolific as ever and has been hailed as one of the most sought after bassist of his generation appearing on over 100 records. Currently he is performing with Grammy Award®-winning artists: Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, and John Scofield. 

About George Colligan: Based in Oregon for the past decade, Colligan has earned international esteem as one the most original and versatile jazz artists of his generation. Increasingly in demand as a drummer—he drives the rhythm section on pianist/composer Kerry Politzer’s new PJCE album In a Heartbeat, the fourth project of hers that he’s played drums on—Colligan is also an award-winning composer who’s received grants from Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation and the RACC. He’s toured and recorded with era-defining artists such as Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, and Buster Williams. King’s Dream is his 36th album under his own name and it’s no coincidence that his last solo project, 2018’s Nation Divided, was a probing musical meditation on, well, the state of the nation.