Sheila Earley hails from the midwest and because of
her love of jazz, moved to New York City in 1999. She
has performed at the Blue Note with Marlena Shaw, and
at the Village Vangaurd, Dizzy's Coca Cola Club, and
Skullers, with Carole Sloane.
Sheila loves to study and play all types of music from
various cultures on both drumset and percussion. She
has perfomed in places like Ireland, Japan, and the
Carribbean, as well as with jazz greats like Tom
Harrell, Norman Simmons, Virginia Mayhew, and Byron
Stripling.
CHIEMI NAKAI
PIANIST/COMPOSER/ARRANGER
A native of Japan, Chiemi Nakai moved to New York City in 1998 and graduated the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Masters of Art in Jazz Performance in 2002.
Her talents were recognized by Jimmy Bosch y su Salsa Dura, “Omi Odara” and the Juan Carlos Formell project called “The Cuban Mission." In 2006 she performed at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall with the Carlos del Pino Cuban project which was collaborated with Cuban contemporary music composer Miss Tania Leon. Since 2002 she has been a band leader of "Chiemi Nakai the Afro- Cuban Jazz Project" and playing at several clubs in NYC such as Blue Note, The Kitano, Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, and Willie’s Steak House.Her first album “Bridges” was released in March 2008 and was nominated as one of the "Next Generation Artist" CDs in the Latin Jazz Corner Best Latin Jazz of 2008 Award.Chiemi was nominated as one of the Best Pianists of the year at the same websites. Moreover the CD was selected as one of the Top 6 Latin Jazz CDs of the Diskunion Japan /Union Award in 2008.
LA native Bertha Hope is an accomplished arranger, composer ,playwrite, educator and parent. She has recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center and the International Women In Jazz and currently performs with Jazzberry Jam
And her own group the Elmo Hope Project.
Dotti Anita Taylor, who is the President of International Women In Jazz, is a pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, transcriber, poet and retired mathematics instructor who performed in the first Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (1996). She has recorded with Ted Dunbar, Jason Lindner, the Carr Hill Singers, Wendee Glick and Keisha St. Joan and is about to release her debut self-produced CD entitled "A Morning Glory".
Luciana Padmore named
“Queen of the beats”- byDa
by Joe Deninson., has performed
with Dawn Norfleet, El Debarge,
Erika Von Kleist, Josh Roseman , d.a.d.o
and Latin artist Adela Dalto.
Award winning Cable T V host
Bernice “Boom Boom” Brooks
Is one of the busiest women in the
Music industry. She has performed
for the Clinton Administration’s Inaugural Ball in 1992 and has opened for such greats as Tito Puente, Sheila E., The Funkadelics, Gregory Hines and the Staple Singers.
LADY GOT CHOPS Festival Co- Producer ,
Bassist Kim Clarke traveled most notably with the late Joe Henderson Quartet (1986-7) and Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt (1981- 2005)
throughout Europe and beyond. Internationally she is noted as “at home in the Ron Carter School of HardBop”. http://kimclarke.8m.com
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