Gypsy Jazz Caravan August 26, 2007

Lead Guitar:

Guitarist Marc Daine has been playing jazz around NYC since 1970. He graduated from New York City's Queens College with a major in music and has studied privately-classical guitar with Elana Valdi, and jazz

guitar with Howard Morgan, Joe Monk and Steve Khan. Marc has recorded for RCA records as a member of the band "Steel Angel," and performed with the national tour of the Broadway musical

"Big River." His guitar, banjo and mandolin playing has been heard on numerous national commercial jingles, including: Dodge Trucks, Country Time Lemonade and Post Cereals. Marc has performed backing up a diverse array of talent including: Cindy Lauper, Allen Tousaint, Shawn Colvin, Curtis Steigers, Eddie Fisher and Suzanne Summers. His first CD "The Unified Cornfield Theory," was an unusual instrumental coupling of swing jazz and country music. In 2006 he released released a CD of his original music written in the style of the great Django Reinhardt, entitled "Pour les Zazous"with his band

"The Gypsy Jazz Caravan."

Violin:

Rob Thomas has been recognized by international critics and audiences as one of the most original, technically adept and powerful violinists playing jazz and contemporary music. JazzTimes calls him

"a violinist of exceptional creative resources... riveting as a solo voice with a rich complex tone that can sing or shriek". Thomas has been a complex and shrieking part (although certainly not rich) of

the music scene in New York City since moving there in 1991. In the mid