Sparking the passion for modified methods in creating

Big jazz fan, so its hard to find stuff I like out there.  Love bop and straight-ahead, but it's hard to describe.  Want to find small-combo jazz music and old-school vocals.

Lucien LaMotte is a composer, guitarist and instructor based in Seattle who is interested in collaborating with other artists to create new sonic environments. In past efforts, he has played guitar for the funk/rock group The Unknown Jeromes with drummer Jason Tabosa and bassist Scott Clay, as well as played in the world music ensemble Brother Sun, fusion ensemble 650 Connection with former Doobie Brother member Danny Hull, and worked with Carlos Santana bassist Myron Dove and Afro-Bebop group the Pascal Bokar Band for former Dizzy Gillespie guitarist Pascal Bokar. I have had the privilege of sharing the stage with artists such as Chaka Khan, Ziggy Marley, Don Carlos, The Temptations, The Whispers and the O'Jays. You can hear his guitar playing on Ben Vega's latest recording Bury the Times. Most often I can be heard playing jazz guitar in combo settings. Lucien is interested in combining folk/Americana elements with jazz harmony, improvisation and electronic textures. The music for his album When You Go is influenced by the sounds of Country and folk music with vocal harmonies reminiscent of the Beach Boys. So take a listen, and if you like the music you hear look for Lucien's CD When You Go on cdbaby.com and iTunes. 

Lucien is currently working in a jazz fusion trio playing jazz standards as well as his arrangements of popular tunes such as "Norwegian Wood" and the Police's "Murder by Numbers." In this setting the group focuses on the improvised elements of original jazz charts, giving them a chance to really "play out," and feature the songwriting elements of Lucien's material influenced by Americana and Alt. Country elements. The high level of performance skill in this group allows the musicians the freedom to move between the variety of musical styles we enjoy, while maintaining the highest standard of artistic integrity. Please visit www.myspace.com/Niehuistrio for more information.



Jazz pianist and composer Tim Chernikoff has been making his mark in the New York jazz scene with a style that has stood out to musicians and listeners alike. His approach to music has been to find his own musical identity through dialogue with the jazz traditions of bebop and swing while exploring personal connections to the music, through a process of purposeful discovery on the piano and composition. Described by jazz performer Dan Haerle as “extremely inventive in his Composition and Improvisation”, his works expand upon the progressive pallet of jazz to express ideas and personal revelations, and their artistic sparks are further illuminated through his collaborative ventures.
     In his budding career, the up-and-coming artist has had experiences across the US performing with world class musicians— in the Bay Area California, Dallas Fort Worth Texas, and New York City.  Educated in the West Coast (Stanford Jazz Workshop), Southwest (North Texas) and East Coast (Manhattan School of Music) regions of the United States, Chernikoff has had a diversity of educational and professional experiences. 
     As a composer, Chernikoff draws influence from a range of  influences from Maurice Ravel and Thelonious Monk to Cecil Taylor and Frank Zappa, Chernikoff appeals to every attitude and emotion that crosses his field of view, with material ranging from wistful and elegant to angry, disillusioned and even crass.  The resulting work in his trio work presents an adventurous musical climate that promises to douse the listener in splashes of catharsis and rumination.            About his compositional style he says “if I didn’t appeal to the quiet serenity and bombastic crassness that I observed in my daily life, then I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.”
     Off the wake of his 2021 Debut release “Pieces of Sanity”, Chernikoff is working towards a new album to be release in late 2025, and will be premiering works in progress at his shows in 2025.

Tamara Kachelmeier is an active composer, instructor, film mixer, audio engineer, vocalist, and pianist. She is an imagineering musician, a dreamer of infrasonic schemes.

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