Laurent de Wilde

Dividing his time between the United States and France, Laurent de Wilde has found a welcoming audience in both countries. His third solo album, Open Changes, resulted in de Wilde receiving a Django Reinhardt Award for Best French Musician of 1992. In addition to leading his own group, de Wilde has worked as a session player for Reggie Workman, Ralph Moore, Greg Osby, Joshua Redman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aldo Romano, Andre Ceccarelli, Harold Land, and Tom Harrell.

Leo Young

Starting his DJing career through the medium of catholic church radio stations in his native Italy, Leo Zagami was the youngest broadcast DJ in his country after playing his own show at the age of 13 in 1983.

Lera Gehner

Her unique timbre and raging energy have been winning audience’ attention in Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Estonia since 1990’s. Exclusive approach to her creative work has led Lera to historic concerts and collaboration with the greatest musicians. During one show she switches between a big variety of known styles, amazing the listener with maximum possible diversity of manners and ranges.

Lettuce

Celebrating their 20th anniversary as modern day rulers of old school funk, the seven-piece Brooklyn-based juggernaut Lettuce drops their third studio album Fly — a decidedly raging slab of relentless groove, hyper-charged syncopation and psychedelicized soul anthems.

Level 42

At the beginning of their career, Level 42 was squarely a jazz-funk fusion band, contemporaries of fellow Brit funk groups like Atmosfear, Light of the World, Incognito, and Beggar & Co. By the end of the '80s, however, the band had crossed over to the point where they were often classified as sophisti-pop and dance-rock.

Light of the World

U.K. funk band Light of the World has the distinctions of having a tight head shot of a pre-stardom Sade on their self-titled debut LP cover and having guitarist Jean Paul "Bluey" Maunick as a band member.

Liquid Soul

Chicago acid jazz outfit Liquid Soul originally comprised saxophonist/musical director Mars Williams, DJ Jesse de la Peña, guitarist Tommy Klein, bassist Ricky Showalter, trumpeter Ron Haynes, keyboardist Frankie Hill, and drummer Dan Leali; formed in 1993, the group quickly emerged as a Windy City club favorite thanks to their regular Sunday night gigs at the Elbo Room, and soon recorded a self-titled debut LP for their own Soul What label.

Live People Ensemble

Live People Ensemble is the conceptual jazz ensemble from Moscow, Russia, that delights jazz lovers with original compositions of the ensemble’s front lady Natalia Skvortsova and the rest of the band members, as well as original jazz standard arrangements.