Multiple Percussion: A student of the late great Ed Blackwell. Currently the music director at Francis Lewis High School in Queens, N.Y. Lloyd Has performed/recorded with; Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Bob Stewart, Craig Harris, Louis Hayes, Kalaparusha McIntyre, Charli Persip, Warren Smith, Donald Smith, and Ron Burton among others. Performances at Symphony Space and Aaron Davis Hall. Percussion ensemble clinics at Sam Ash Music and the Long Island Drum Center. Off-Bdwy musical, Songs for the New World. Percussion on the Oscar nominated film, Judas and the Black Messiah.

Trumpet, Low Brass, Conch, and Didgeridoo: Alumnus of NC School of the Arts, and Manhattan School of Music. Won first place at Show Time at the Apollo. Recorded and/or Performing with David Murray Octet & Big Band, Herbie Mann, Cecil Taylor Big Band, the Jimmy Heath Big Band, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, Hugh Ragin, William Cepeda, and Stanley Jorden. Omar was an original cast member of Fame: the musical and Music Director with Cirque du Soleil.

Woodwinds: A New York City native born to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, Alfredo grew up in Washington Heights where he studied under Lee Konitz while receiving a BFA in Jazz performance at City College of New York.
The saxophonist has performed alongside notable musicians such as
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nels Cline, Chad Edward Taylor, Gene Lake, Dr. Lonnie
Smith, and American Idol Finalist Qaasim Middleton. Colon was awarded the Jazz Coalition Commission Fund Grant in early 2020. His piece ‘A Witch Gets Married’ premiered online in October 2020.

Bass: Lane studied composition at Wesleyan University with Anthony Braxton, and at California Institute of the Arts with Wadada Leo Smith. In 1996 he received a Paternings Scholarship for study at the Darmstadt School for New Music where he studied double bass with Steffano Scodanibbio, and attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. As a (Signal to Noise) and “forward thinking,” (Jazziz) and as a player he has contributed to important recordings by artist such as John Tchicai and Tom Waits.