Jeffrey Chappell
Piano
Pianist JEFFREY CHAPPELL has performed throughout the United States and internationally with major symphony orchestras and at venues including Carnegie Hall. He has appeared at jazz festivals such as the East Coast Jazz Festival and Key West International. A recording artist, award-winning composer, and bestselling author, he is the previous Director of Jazz Studies at Goucher College and is on the faculty of Levine Music. He studied with Leon Fleisher, Rudolf Serkin, Eleanor Sokoloff, and Jane Allen.
Jake Kohlhas
Guitar
Guitarist JAKE KOHLHAS is a Baltimore-based guitarist, composer, and educator. He graduated from Goucher College, where he currently teaches, with a B.A. in Jazz Studies. His professional projects include the hip-hop/jazz/fusion collective J. Pope And The HearNow and the contemporary jazz quartet Otherworld. In 2019 he led various jazz trios as part of the “Emerging Artist Series” at The Bar Next Door in NYC. With J. Pope And The HearNow he has performed on the main stage at Baltimore’s Artscape, the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore.
Chris Taylor
Bass
CHRIS TAYLOR is a Baltimore-based electric bassist whose passion for music is driven by performance and composition. With a BA in Psychology from Goucher College, Chris has served as a volunteer music mentor and private instructor for youth and adults both locally and abroad, including with organizations such as the Yo Academy of Baltimore, MD; the ArtSinitiative in Riverdale, MD; the Park School of Baltimore; and the Open Music School in Berlin, Germany. Furthermore, he has performed, recorded, and toured with music groups in North America, most notably with the American singer-songwriter Bosley, funk and soul artist Joe Keyes and The Late Bloomer Band, and the contemporary jazz quartet Otherworld.
Jake Marinari
Percussion
Percussionist JAKE MARINARI is the founder of Charm City Music School and also serves on the faculty of Goucher College as a drum set instructor. Jake earned a Bachelor of Music as a scholarship student at Goucher College, where he was awarded the Robert Hall Louis Prize for extraordinary achievement in music. He has recorded multiple award-winning albums and performed throughout North America and Europe with the soul musician, Bosley, and the contemporary jazz quartet, Otherworld. He studied frame drum and darbuka with the world-renowned percussionist Yshai Afterman in Israel, guitar with Pete Smyer and Jake Kohlhas, saxophone with Richard Orr and Lamont Caldwell, piano with Jeffrey Chappell, and drumset with Ed Nardi, Nick Wight, Wes Crawford, Dr. N. Scott Robinson, Mark Moshayev, Daniel Glass, and Frank Russo.
Portrait photos on this page by Andy Jillson.