Marc Dickman - Dr. Marcus Dickman is professor of jazz studies and low brass at the University of North Florida and conducts the Osprey Band and Jazz Ensemble III. He is principal trombone with the St. John's River City Band. He also free-lances on trombone, bass-trombone, and tuba in the North Florida area. Marc has performed with Branford Marsalis, Doc Severinson, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Buddy DeFranco, Al Vizutti, Diane Schuur, Rosemary Clooney, and Louie Bellson's Big Band. He performed on bass-trombone with One O'Clock Lab Band while attending the University of North Texas and appears on the CD, Lab Band '95. Dickman co-leads the Swamp Dog Jazz Band, a UNF faculty ensemble that has performed in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, California and Iowa. He was a featured euphonium artist at the ITEC 2000 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. Dickman attended Troy State University, McNeese State University, and the University of North Texas. His teachers include Rich Matteson, Don Little, Steve Wolfinbarger, Ed Bahr, and Bunky Green. He directs the North Florida Jazz Camp held in Jacksonville each summer.

Marc Dickman is a Besson Performing Artist.

Joe Murphy - Miraphone 1261 EEb Tuba - Joe Murphy is one of the top recording tuba players in the United States having played live and on hundreds of recording projects with artists such as Michael Bolton, Michael W. Smith, Dennis DeYoung, Jeff Coffin and Futureman of Bela Fleck And The Flecktones, Larnell Harris, Mike Reid, the Nashville Jazz Machine, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Opera, the Alabama Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, and the Original Mr. Jack Daniels Silver Cornet Band. Joe has performed on nationally televised broadcasts of Austin City Limits, TNN's Nashville Now, BET Jazz Classics, and the NBC Today Show and was recently the tuba soloist on the movie, Hoodwinked.

Mr. Murphy was the featured tuba soloist and member of the United States Air Force Band, Wright-Patterson, AFB, OH from 1987-1991. He has also been a featured tuba soloist and clinician at the 1998 ITEC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the 2002 ITEC in Greensboro, NC, the 2003 International Army Tuba Conference in Washington, D.C., The International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic 2003, The Florida Music Educators Conference 2003 & 2004, the Texas Bandmasters Conference 2005, and the ITEC 2006 in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Murphy is to be the Chief Judge for the jazz competition and featured soloist for the 2008 ITEC in Cincinatti, OH.

Mr. Murphy is the Artist In Residence, Director of Bands and Tuba-Euphonium Instructor at Cumberland University. (2001-2008)

Paul Carrol Binkley - Electric & Acoustic Guitars - Paul began formal study of the guitar at age nine, and since then has developed a rich repertoire of traditional guitar literature. He later trained at the Berklee College of Music in Boston(where he received a Jim Hall Jazz Award), Austin Peay State University, and the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He has performed in concert across the country has twice been named winner of the southeast "Young Composers Competition". His compositions represent a wide spectrum of musical genre and have enjoyed performances by groups as diverse as The Nashville Dance Project, the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and the Eugene O'Neill Institute in Connecticut. His music has been heard from the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville to the Lincoln Center in New York to the "Wave" radio network in California. He is also acting Music Director for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Mockingbird Theatre, and the Nashville Children's Theatre. His solo recordings including "Silent Serenade", "Closer to Home", "Passages for Acoustic Guitar" , "Flying Colors", and "Do You Hear What I Hear" have received national recognition on such broadcasts as "Music from the Hearts of Space" and NPR's "All Things Considered". "Flying Colors" was called "...one of the cleanest and most substantive guitar recordings I've heard in a long while..." by Music Row Magazine. At home in "Music City", Paul is highly respected as an acoustic guitar specialist and is frequently called upon for both recording sessions and live performances. Currently he performs guitar duties for country super group "Alabama", "Conversation", and, of course, The MJT Project.

Kevin Madill - Piano and Keyboards - A working musician since age 16, Kevin has spent his 25-year career playing, producing, arranging and recording with many of the world's top big bands and vocalists - Tommy Dorsey, Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, Nancy Wilson, Lou Rawls, Donna Summer, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Bob Hope and Bernadette Peters, to name a few. He attended Ball State University on a trombone scholarship, then spent several years on the road with various bands before moving to Nashville in 1981. That timing, along with the keyboard revolution of the 1980's led him to turn his attention, once again, to his original instrument - the piano - and subsequently to become one of the most sought-after studio musicians on the Music City scene.

In 1999, his impressive talents came to the attention of blues-rock and songwriting legend Leon Russell. Russell, so inspired by Kevin's evocative, engaging style, finalized plans for his own album of jazz standards, with Kevin as both arranger and player. The result was Russell's recent release, "Moonlight and Love Songs." This relationship soon led Kevin to co-author over 100 songs with Russell, some of which appear on Connye Florance, the artist's newest release, co-produced by Madill and Leon Russell.