Originally from London, Si Butler started playing classical guitar at the age of 9 and played in blues/rock bands during high school until college where he attended Manchester University studying Engineering by day and Jazz by night. After university he performed regularly in the vibrant Manchester Jazz scene for 3 years before moving to Leeds to study Jazz Performance at Leeds College of Music, studying with Adrian Ingram and Mike Walker and performing nationally with various jazz trios and quartets. After moving to San Francisco in 1995 Si was introduced to the great Brazilian pianist Marcos Silva, musical director and pianist with Brazilian luminaries such as Ivan Lins, Flora Purim. Si studied and subsequently recorded and performed with Marcos in the San Francisco Bay Area and has gone on to play and record with many of the best jazz musicians on the West Coast including Smith Dobson, Jeff Chambers, Jim Zimmerman, Gary Brown and top Brazilian musicians such as Weber Iago and Celso Alberti. Si teaches privately and nationally for the National Guitar Workshop where he teaches jazz guitar seminars across the United States.

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Frank Clayton is a veteran of the New York and Seattle jazz scenes studying at Berkeley School of Music in Boston and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying Bass with Dave Holland, Cecil McBee and percussion with Alan Dawson and Morris Goldenberg. Frank has performed at venues across the States and Europe with a who's-who list of jazz greats including Jacky Byard, Jay Clayton, Barry Harris, Eddie Harris, Lee Konitz, Art Lande, Cecil McBee, Charles Mingus, Steve Reich, Sam Rivers and many others. Since moving to Seattle Frank has performed in numerous trio settings with Brazilian Jazz great Jovinho Neto Santos (Hermeto Pascoals pianist of 14 years), top New York Brazilian percussionist Duduka da Fonseca and many others, and brings a sophisticated jazz sensibility to the trio.