Dan Neville is an award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, performer, and jazz big band arranger. In 2017, he won 1st place in the 2017 Jazz Search West competition. Dan has been featured on NBC’s Today Show playing vibraphone. Dan has spearheaded two successful crowdfunding campaigns: One for the release of his debut album Tenerife featuring an all-star ensemble and all original compositions (2017); and the most recent, Cali to Cali: Building a recording studio in Cali, Colombia (2019), where he studied with the master Diego Obregón. Dan has undergone several trips to Cuba and Colombia, studying music and connecting with musicians worldwide. Neville received a BA in Jazz Music at California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, CA. He continues to study the West African balafon with Guinean master and Griot Mohammed Kouyaté.

Christian Tumalan is the Grammy Award Winner in 2014 for his works as a co-leader with the Pacific Mambo Orchestra; Has been awarded on of the top keyboardists in the prestigious #39th Annual Jazz Station Awards / The Best Jazz of 2017 USA. Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. Christian studied classical piano at the “Escuela Superior de Música” in Mexico City for a period of 10 years. Later, He turned his interests towards Jazz, a language field where he identified himself with deep passion and freedom. He then further developed his skills in pianistic live performance, Jazz and Big Band arranging, achieving 4 professional majors in Music.

Yadier Noa Chamble is a bass player from Camagüey Cuba. He has had the opportunity to play with some of the best bands and musicians from the island, including Yasek Manzano, Boby Carcasef, Orlando Sanchez (Cubajazz), Orlando Valle (Maraca), Alfred Thompson and Caribbean Ensemble, Paulo FG y su Elite, Los Primos Jazz Project, Enrique Alvarez y su Charanga Latina, Azúcar Negra, and Tania Pantoja. Yadier attended the National School of Music (EÑA), in Havana, Cuba, and subsequently taught bass there as a professor for 2 years.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio into a family of professional musicians it is no surprise that Brian Andres found himself drawn to the origin of all music: Rhythm. His father is a woodwinds specialist and his mother a vocalist and pianist. The house was filled with the sounds of his father’s constant practicing and his mother’s piano and voice students. After nearly being put up for adoption due to his constant banging on inanimate objects, his parents decided to embrace their obstreperous son’s undeniable talent by purchasing him a drum set and themselves earplugs.