JIM MALACHI began his musical career in the Rogue Valley 30 years ago at Ashland’s historic Mark Antony Hotel where he resided and performed nightly as guitarist/vocalist for three years. He also performed and co-composed music during nineteen seasons at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and has appeared as a percussionist in several productions at the...

POLSON, MCCOY & COHOON JAZZ TRIO After working in the Twin Cities jazz scene for many years, Thor Polson relocated to Ashland in 2010 in order to study classical piano with Dr. Alexander Tutunov at SOU. Thor plays gigs regularly throughout the Valley, including tributes to such historic jazzers as Thelonious Monk and Wayne Shorter....

Grant Ruiz has played classical guitar from the age of ten and is now an active flamenco guitarist and teacher in Southern Oregon. He has studied in Spain and participated in many productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is an adjunct guitar instructor at SOU and president of the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society.

David Scoggin has been in the Rogue Valley for 15 years after music careers in Minneapolis and the San Francisco Bay Area.  He has played with Bo Diddley, Charmaine Neville, West Coast musicians Brandon Fields, Dan Balmer, Jeff Pevar and has recorded at Prince’s Paisley Park studio with the Steele Family and others. David has...

Tony Brussat:  lived in Austin, Texas for 10 years, where he fronted his own band, The Jazz Pharaohs. While there Tony was also a founding member of 8and1/2 Souvenirs, as well as the Asylum Street Spankers, with whom he toured around the country. When Tony’s in Washington DC he plays with a band called Martini Red.

Bil plays an inspired and crystalline improvisational seven string jazz guitar, combining the Bachlike chordal movements of George Van Eps with a fluid fingerstyle and running bass line. The amazing guitarist Gene Bertoncini refers to Bil’s guitar playing as: “…miraculous, spontaneous, harmonic wizardry” and Howard Alden, one of the preeminent seven string players in the world...

The Ed Dunsavage Trio was voted Favorite Jazz Group in the Ashland 2012 & 2014 Sneak Preview Readers Poll. Guitarist Ed Dunsavage has been performing regularly around the Pacific Northwest for 22 years. Ed has shared the stage with many wonderful artists including vocalists Bernadette Peters, Greta Matassa, Beth Baker & Leslie Kendall, guitarists Mimi Fox...

Formed in early 2013 shortly after Paul Turnipseed’s arrival in Southern Oregon, The Paul Turnipseed Trio has been playing jazz with a New Orleans flavor for nearly two years here in the Rouge Valley. Comprised of Turnipseed on guitar and vocals, Jeff Addicott on acoustic bass, and Mike Fitch on drums, the trio explores various...