Nasar Abadey
Drummer and Composer Nasar Abadey is the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA®. They perform music from the threshold of Jazz to beyond space and time, while having an artistic license to express their compositions through traditional African rhythms, bebop, fusion, Afro-Cuban, Afro Brazilian, and free form. The quartet’s musical inspirations include John […]
Buck Hill
Roger “Buck” Hill (born February 13, 1927, Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. Buck Hill is a living legend, who has been dazzling audiences for over forty years. Born in 1927, Buck Hill started playing saxophone at the age of 13. By the mid-fifties, he was married with three children and […]
Dave Panzer
Dave Panzer Guitarist who has worked with Wilson Pickett, The Mustangs and many other bands around the Washington DC area.
Punky Meadows
Punky Meadows grew up in Washington, D.C., the oldest of four boys, in the Barnaby Terrace neighborhood which produced guitar legends Danny Gatton, Roy Clark, and Link Wray. He attended Draper Elementary and Hart Junior High Schools, the latter where he started playing guitar in his first band, the Intruders. The Cherry People formed in […]
Danny Gatton
Gatton was born in Washington, D.C. on September 4, 1945. His father, Daniel W. Gatton Sr., was a rhythm guitarist known for his unique percussive style, who left his musical career to raise his family in a more stable profession. The younger Gatton grew up to share his father’s passion for the instrument. Danny Gatton […]
Lonnie Lane
Lonnie Lane percussion Player and former member of Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers.
Leron Young
Leron grew up in Washington D.C. His mother gave him a small guitar at the age of 8 years old. He taught himself to play at an early age and got professional training later in life. He was the guitar player for the Unifics, The Five Stairsteps, The Fuzz and other artist. He played guitar […]
Jackie Lee
George “Jackie” Lee from Washington, DC has played with some of the best. He has performed with Wilson Pickett and recorded with Sir Joe and Free Soul on the hit record “So Much Trouble in My Mind”. He has traveled abroad with Bobby Parker and The Michael Roach Blues band. The past several years Jackie […]
Gregory Gaskins
Gregory was born in Washington, DC and was raised in the historical U Street Area. As a youngster he served papers to the residents and guest of the famous historical Dunbar Hotel.He received his first guitar as a Christmas gift at the age of 6 and began his professional career playing lead […]
Vernon Burch
Born in 1957, Washington, D.C., guitarist Vernon Burch spent two years backing the Delfonics as a teen sensation. He was 13 when he joined them. He later played with the Stairsteps, and then with the Bar-Kays for four years. Burch began recording for United Artists in 1975, and later for Columbia, Chocolate City, and Spector. […]
