This jazz group blends history with today and creates a sound that's both timeless and classic. Haneef N. Nelson works as a composer/arranger, bandleader, sideman, musical curator, and educator, based out of Hartford, CT. His earliest education in Jazz came from the Jazzmobile where he studied with Eddie Preston, Cecil Bridgewater, and Donald Byrd among others. He also studied with Dave Burns at the Long Island High School of the Arts and then attended The Hartt School to study with Jackie McLean, Raymond Williams, Steve Davis, Nat Reeves, and more. He has taught at The Hartt School, UMASS Amherst, Amherst College, Keene State College and currently teaches at the University of Rhode Island.

Haneef N. Nelson, trumpet/flugelhorn Nathan Edwards, tenor/soprano sax Andrew Wilcox, piano/vibraphone Matt Dwonszyk, bass Akin Hobson, drums