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Joe Beaty

Primary Instrument: 
Trombone
Studio Neighborhood: 
Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 
Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Bulgarian Women’s choir, Japanese gagaku music, kabuki music, shakuhachi music, Bjork, Jay Z, Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Rage Against the Machine, Messhuga, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Sam Cook, Beatles, Bob Marley, Bill Withers, Bix Biederbecke, Marvin Gaye, J Pop music, Balkan Music, African tribal music, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Eddie Palmerie, Ray Baretto, Freddie Hubbard, Radiohead, Portishead.


John Beaty

Primary Instrument: 
Saxophone
Studio Neighborhood: 
Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

Saxophone influences: Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Michael Brecker, Chris Potter, and Mark Shim.

Musical influences: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Sia, Bach, Stravinsky, Sting, Meshell Ndegeocello.



Jay Bodley

Primary Instrument: 
Electronic Music
Studio Neighborhood: 
Greenpoint
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 
Warp Records, Tricky, Antipop Consortium, Radiohead, Fennesz, Matthew Dear, Daft Punk, Dr Dre, Skream, John Zorn, Ryoji Ikeda, Alva Noto, Outkast, Sunn O))), Slayer, Nine Inch Nails, Wu-Tang Clan.


Jon De Lucia

Primary Instrument: 
Saxophone
Studio Neighborhood: 
South Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

Lee Konitz, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Bley, Greg Osby, Joe Lovano, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Warne Marsh, Lennie Tristano, George Garzone, JS Bach, Keith Jarrett, Debussy, Messiaen, Paul Desmond, John Coltrane, Pete Rende, Thomas Morgan, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Mozart, Paul Motian



Jesse Elder

Jesse Elder

Primary Instrument: 
Piano
Studio Neighborhood: 
South Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

I'm influenced by the earth, water, sound, ideas, history, visual images, visual arts, literature, music, dance, food, places, walks, exercise, family, relationships, etc...

I have never attempted a complete list of my musical influences.  I really have way too many to list and don't know where to start or stop, so I'll just write down some of them:

Gregorian chant, folk songs from all over the world, hymns, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Thad Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Billy Holiday, Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter, Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Chick Corea,  Jason Moran, Andrew Hill, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette, Tony Williams, Art Blakey, Paul Motian, Nasheet Waits, Tyshawn Sorey, Steve Lehman, Pat Metheney, Henry Threadgill, Harry Partch, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, R. Schuman, George Crumb,  Stockhausen, Debussy, Ravel, Takemitsu, Ayaka Nishina,  Joni Mitchel, the Beatles, Radiohead, Weezer, Green Day, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Led Zeppelin, YES, R.E.M, etc...



Curtis Macdonald

Primary Instrument: 
Saxophone
Studio Neighborhood: 
South Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

Art Pepper, Paul Desmond, Lee Konitz, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Greg Osby, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Bela Bartok, Steve Reich, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Jaga Jazzist, The Books, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, The Foreign Exchange, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Nino Rota, Alexandre Desplat, Frank Sinatra



Aya Nishina


Primary Instrument: 
Piano / Composition
Studio Neighborhood: 
Park Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 
Sounds of the earth, Breaths, Lullabies and chants from around the world, Bhagavad Gita, Gamalan Music from Indonesia and Bali, Gagaku (Japanese Imperial court music from Heian period), Guillaume de Machaut, Josquin Desprez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Carlo Gesualdo, Arcangelo Corelli, Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Jean-Philippe Rameau, J.S.Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, W.A.Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, P.I. Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Nadia Boulanger, Alfred Cortot, Andrés Segovia, Dmitri Schostakovich, Herbert von Karajan, Olivier Messian, Akira Kurosawa, John Cage, Michelangelo Antonioni, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Gyorgy Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Toru Takemitsu, Andrei Arsenyevich, Glenn Gould, Terry Riley, Martin Scorsese, Evan Parker, Bernard Woma, Cyro Baptista, Kaija Saariaho, John Zorn, Akira Nishimura, The Beatles, Ned Rothenberg, Brad Mehldau, Björk, Radiohead... (approximately in historical order).


Greg Ruggiero

Primary Instrument: 
Guitar
Studio Neighborhood: 
Ditmas Park
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Jim Hall, Pete Bernstein, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pat Metheny, Stan Getz, Lennie Tristano, Chris Cheek, Jobim, Pantara, Megadeth, Metallica, Guns n Roses, The Police, Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Ravel, Palestrina



Brandon Terzic

Primary Instrument: 
Electric and Nylon String Guitar / Oud / Saz
Studio Neighborhood: 
East Village, Manhattan
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 
Paco De Lucia, Jimi Hendrix, Ali Farke Toure, Ry Cooder, Salif Kaita, Lionel Loueke, Kora Music, Oud Music, Gnawan


Christopher Tordini

Primary Instrument: 
Bass
Studio Neighborhood: 
Crown Heights
Convenient Subway Lines: 
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Influences: 

the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Gillian Welch, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, Bill Evans, Scott Lofaro, Charles Mingus, Bjork, Radiohead, Meshuggah, At The Drive-In, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, the Jackson 5, Arcade Fire, the Police, J.S. Bach, Joanna Newsom, Jim Black, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brad Mehldau, Thomas Morgan, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Keith Jarrett, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, David Lynch, Andy Kaufman, chess, food