"Gillece is a skillful creator of tunes, harkening back to the original hard bop days and beyond, without sounding like mere imitations of that era's classics."

Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz

After nearly a decade on the New York jazz scene, vibraphonist Behn Gillece has built a reputation as a virtuosic instrumentalist and prolific composer. In 2015, he made his debut album as leader with Mindset on the Posi-Tone label and is currently working on a second. Showcasing his complex and brooding original compositions, Mindset received excellent reviews in reputable jazz periodicals such as Downbeat and Jazziz. It also rose to the top 20 on the Jazzweek radio charts for several weeks, and made the top 50 for 2015.

Gillece began studying classical percussion as a teenager. While he was a percussion student at Rowan University, he quickly developed a desire to play jazz. In the early years of his career he performed regularly in his home state of New Jersey and Philadelphia. In 2006 Gillece moved to New York to study at SUNY Purchase.

During his development as a jazz composer, Gillece worked closely with saxophonist Ken Fowser in a co-led project. The pair have four acclaimed albums released by Posi-Tone including 2009’s Full View, 2010’s Little Echo, 2011’s Duotone, and 2013’s Top Shelf. All four have received international acclaim and extensive radio play.

Gillece has also been featured as a sideman on more than 20 other recordings. The most recent of these include albums of Walt Weiskopf, Melody Gardot, and Ensemble Novo, a Philadelphia-based group dedicated to Brazilian repertoire.

Gillece continues to tirelessly play and compose for new projects based all over the tri- state area. He has performed his music throughout the country at venues like Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center, Smalls Jazz Club, Smoke Jazz Club, Fat Cat, Yoshi's, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, and many others. He has also appeared at festivals worldwide, including the North Sea, Montreux, Nice, Molde, Ghent, Montreal, and Toronto festivals.

In addition to his robust performance life, Gillece also has a burgeoning career as a music educator. In addition to the various workshops he has been asked to give at colleges and universities across the country, he has prepared over 200 lessons for online instruction on vibesworkshop.com, which benefits percussion students internationally.

In the spring of 2008, Gillece finished his master’s degree at SUNY Purchase. Some of his awards and honors include winning the 2008 Jazz Improvisation competition at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, participating in the 2009 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency, and winning the Generations competition in 2009.

In 2014 Gillece began endorsing Malletech and has been using instruments made by the company ever since.

Weblinks: www.behngillecejazz.com

Visit the website to purchase Gillece’s albums, find out information on teaching, and to see his updated performance schedule.

Nate Radley was born in Concord, NH and studied music at New England Conservatory, in Boston, MA, where he graduated in 2000. In 2003, he moved to New York where he now resides. He can be heard with his own trio, the collaborative band Bad Touch, and as a sideman with groups led by Alan Ferber, Akiko Pavolka, David Smith, Marc Mommaas, Dave Scott, Andrew Rathbun, and others. He has recorded and performed with a variety of jazz artists including Rick Margitza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Greg Osby, Chris Potter, John Hollenbeck, Billy Hart, Seamus Blake, Cuong Vu, Matt Wilson, Antonio Sanchez and George Garzone. Nate has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, at jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreal International Jazz Festival, and can be heard on recordings for the Steeplechase and Fresh Sound/New Talent record labels. In 2005 Nate was named one of the winners of the ASCAP young jazz composers competition.

After having established himself as a first-call bass player in France (performances with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau, Michel Legrand..) Clovis Nicolas moved to New York in the new millenium. A few years later, he graduated from the Juilliard School of Arts with both Bachelor and Master of Music, having studied under Ron Carter, Ben Wolfe and composer Kendall Briggs.

Clovis has shared the stage in numerous venues with some of today's most prominent jazz musicians, such as Grant Stewart, Harry Allen, Branford Marsalis, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Russell Malone, Mulgrew Miller, Lewis Nash, Benny Powell, James Williams, Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Sacha Perry, Sachal Vasandani, Simon Shaheen, Carl Allen, Jane Monheit, Dan Nimmer, Bruce Harris, Freddie Redd, Benny Golson, Marcus Gilmore and others.

He is featured on many critically acclaimed recordings, including Belmondo’s “Hymne au Soleil” which won three Jazz Grammy Awards in 2004 and sold more than 20,000 copies. In addition to these, Clovis released his own album, "Nine Stories" for Sunnyside Records. This recording received great reviews in the international press (JazzNews, JazzHot, Liberation, WRTI, All About Jazz, Jazz Life...) including a selection in the "Best Albums of the Year" by DownBeat Magazine in 2014.

“One of only a handful of bassists cutting any worthwhile ground in modern jazz" - Bop-N-Jazz

“A formidable walker with a big, resonant sound” - DownBeat Magazine

"A powerful new voice on bass" - Icon Magazine