A noted pianist and composer, Marc Seales has shared the stage with many of the great players in the last two decades. For 18 years he’s been a mainstay in the bands of bop legend Don Lanphere, with whom he has toured Europe and recorded half a dozen albums, most featuring Seales’ compositions. In concerts, festivals & clubs, his band mates in recent years have included Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Larry Coryell, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Clark Terry, Art Pepper and Frank Morgan. Seales is today promoting jazz awareness & molding young talent as an Associate Professor of Music and head of the jazz department at the University of Washington. Seales is listed in the 1999 edition of Ira Gitler's Encyclopedia of Jazz and he was voted Northwest Instrumentalist of the Year 1999 by Earshot Jazz.

Doug Miller has been one of the “first call” bassists in the clubs, concert halls and studios of the Northwest for 15 years. Originally from Indiana, he spent several years in New York City working with the likes of Mel Lewis, Scott Hamilton and Doc Cheatam. He's performed with some of the world’s greatest jazz players including James Moody, The Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, George Cables, Dick Berk, Jimmy McPartland, The Count Basie Orchestra and Dick Hyman. He has toured internationally with the Ellington Band and with Ernestine Anderson. He is also an active educator and is adjunct faculty at the University of Washington.

John Bishop's drumming has been one of the primary voices in Northwest Jazz for over 20 years. He has been a regular feature at all of the leading music festivals, clubs and concert halls in the Northwest, complementing the playing of jazz greats Bobby McFerrin, Eddie Daniels, Bobby Hutcherson, George Cables, Carla Bley, Joanne Brackeen, Slide Hampton, Kenny Werner, Benny Golson, Steve Swallow, Kenny Rankin, Jack Sheldon, Red Holloway, Diane Schuur, Buddy DeFranco and countless others. Along with countless jingle, film-score, demo & multi media recording sessions, he's recorded over 50 albums and videos including sessions involving Teo Macero, Ralph Towner, Bud Shank, Howard Roberts & Julian Priester. He has also appeared in a dozen educational videos for REH/Warner Bros. Video. In 1997, John formed Origin Records, a jazz record label and OriginArts, a CD production/design house, to help further the exposure of creative Northwest artists and their music. With over 50 CD releases and the concerts & events they've helped to create, OriginArts has become one of the premier jazz organizations in the Northwest, "...never in the history of Seattle Jazz has there been a more robust record label," wrote Sounds of Seattle Magazine.