Gregg Hill is a prolific composer and writer, with 192+ compositions to his credit, and he just published his fifth book The Speckled Frog: The Music of Gregg Hill. Gregg started out with music at an

Dee Robinson has been a truck loader, a janitor, worked in a cabinet making shop, worked in a big box store, and has an adult son and grandchildren. Dee grew up around music. His grandfather played,

Natalie Bogwalker is the founder and director of Wild Abundance, a school where people learn Earth and Community based skills from house building to renewable energy to gardening, all good stuff that

Paul Asbell has been playing music for 60+ years give or take. Hes a virtuoso blues guitarist. Hes played with some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. In his new book Stages: Ruminations

Jaime Ospina brings together musics from Africa, the Caribbean, his native Columbia and surrounding countries, as well as American musics like R & B, Blues, Jazz; the music of African Americans. His

Welcome back to Paradigms Duende Libre; Alex Chadsey, Jeff Busch, and Farko Dosumov. Their new record Invocation is a combination of homage to some specific inspirational artists, and to Creativity in

Gwen Laster is a violinist, composer, and teacher. Her ensemble is The New Muse 4Tet and they have just released an album Keeper of the Flame which explores The Heroes Journey from the point of view o

Silvano Monasterios tells us a great story about how he became a pianist. Its his fathers fault! The new record The River is a powerful suite in which Silvano shares personal feelings and thoughts

Joe Elefante has been inspired to make music for most of his life. He was a working musician during his youth, then when he had a family he got a straight job for a bit, but he eventually found his

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster. He spent much of his life living in France, raising a musical family. He toured extensively. Patrick Bebey is his youn