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Multi-Instrumentalist Greg Tanner Harris leads the “Greg Harris Vibe Quintet,” and is a member of Bluegrass legend Pete Wernick’s Flexigrass, hip-hop/jazz/soul group Future Jazz Project, New World Citizen Band, 9th & Lincoln Orchestra, and SuperCollider. Among his work as a studio musician, he has released 7 albums including- Greg Harris Vibe Quintet "Glass Gold," “Open Space,” “Frames Live,” "Glass Gold", Prospector “Memory of Pilots” featuring trumpeter Ron Miles, and “World Citizen” with West African master xylophonist Aaron Bebe Sukura. His newest projects including "Cloudhouse" and "This Western Front" can be found on all streaming platforms and on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
Greg has a great interest in the West African Xylophone called the Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), the national instrument of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. He has performed with Baaba Maal, Aaron Bebe Sukura, SK Kakraba, as the musical director for Prudence Mabhena from Zimbabwe, and also does regular fundraising performances for the Whole Planet Foundation. He also plays an assortment of Frame Drums from around the world, exploring the Bodhran of Ireland and the Doyra of Uzbekistan.
He received an D.M.A. in Jazz Studies and an M.M. in Music Performance, Percussion at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Music Education and Music Performance Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Lewis College. Greg teaches Ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and improvisation as a private instructor, high school teacher, college instructor. Greg is a freelance musician in the Denver/Boulder area and has performed nationally and internationally. He also teaches at the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, is a board member of the non-profit Gift of Jazz, as a Practicing Artist at the Denver School of the Arts, and as a piano instructor at Red Rocks Community College. Visit Greg's Website.
Greg has a great interest in the West African Xylophone called the Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), the national instrument of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. He has performed with Baaba Maal, Aaron Bebe Sukura, SK Kakraba, as the musical director for Prudence Mabhena from Zimbabwe, and also does regular fundraising performances for the Whole Planet Foundation. He also plays an assortment of Frame Drums from around the world, exploring the Bodhran of Ireland and the Doyra of Uzbekistan.
He received an D.M.A. in Jazz Studies and an M.M. in Music Performance, Percussion at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Music Education and Music Performance Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Lewis College. Greg teaches Ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and improvisation as a private instructor, high school teacher, college instructor. Greg is a freelance musician in the Denver/Boulder area and has performed nationally and internationally. He also teaches at the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts, is a board member of the non-profit Gift of Jazz, as a Practicing Artist at the Denver School of the Arts, and as a piano instructor at Red Rocks Community College. Visit Greg's Website.
Alejandro Castaño is an active performer and educator in the United States and abroad. Castaño’s performance and recording credits include: Ron Miles, Eric Gunnison, Greg Gisbert, Peter Sommer, Steve Turre, Benny Bannack III, Gabriel Mervine and many others. He received his Bachelors in Jazz Studies from Metropolitan University of Denver in 2015. He is an educator at Denver School of the Arts, teaching percussion and Jazz. Castaño is the Director of Education for the Gift of Jazz as well as an educator for the Colorado Conservatory of the Jazz Arts.