Jake’s numerous performance and recording credits include many tours with Dodgy on the ‘Free Peace Sweet’ and ‘Homegrown’ albums, television performances with the Stereophonics during the ‘Handbags and Gladrags’ tour, work with David Arnold, Jon Carter, Good Lookin’ Records, Stereo Mc’s, BBE records, Wah Wah 45s, Ubiquity Records, Terry Reid, Demis Roussos , DJ Rap, Paul Trouble Anderson, Bryan Abrahams, Ayub Ogada (Real World records), and many more. He has been seen on the main stages of many of the worlds big festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading, Womad, with TV performances on TOTP, TFI Friday, White Room, CDUK, MTV unplugged, even stadium UEFA football cup celebrations.

Jake’s musical education after leaving college was through live jam and residencies like those at the Hanover Grand with ‘Fresh n Funky’, WKD, and notably Flipside at the Iceni, where Jake as resident house band MD worked with phenomenal guests such as Jamiroquai and the James Brown band. As a keen advocate of club & dance music, Jake regularly performs with DJ’s, and was one of the UK pioneers in this field back in the mid 90′s, playing over House and drum and bass grooves at big warehouse raves (Superstition etc), with DJ plus Sax combinations live on the underground radio shows such as Unknown and House.

Currently Jake resides at his 7 year residency on Saturdsay’s with Ok_Ma’s DJ Young Lee at the Bedroom bar in Shoreditch, London, where they play Afro and Latin orientated House, Disco, and Nu beats. Ok_Ma’s recent notable live performances include Google parties at the World Econonic Forum in Davos, Vogue magazine parties, Miami beech parties, Blue Water Run launch at the Tate Modern. Jake also holds a long running residency of over 4 years on Sunday’s at Camden’s Proud Galleries (Nominated for best bar in London.), here he hosts ‘Favourite Things’ a live soul jazz event, featuring some of London’s greatest singers dancers and musicians.

Ever since releasing two singles and an album with Soul Jazz Records back in the mid-’90s, Jessica has been quietly and resolutely following her star as keyboard player/composer.

Her self-produced album ‘film’ (MELT 2000) was groundbreaking jazztronica; her 10″ on People ‘The Name Of Fela Will Always Stand For Freedom’ a diamond-hard chunk of afro-groove; check the small print and you’ll find her all over vinyl and CDs by artists as diverse as Joey Negro (Sunburst Band and many others), Alex Attias (Catalyst, Mustang, Beatless), Big Bang, UFO, Marque Gilmore’s Drum FM, Spooky, Juliet Roberts and Heliocentrics.

She’s currently playing with Emanative (check the amazing ‘Space’ album and the soon-come remix album ‘Time’ on Futuristica), The Annabel Lee Trio with Richard E, the Demis Roussos rock project, funk-rockers The Killer Meters and singer-songwriter Sam Lewis (KT Tunstall), and preparing for the release of the forthcoming acoustica CD ‘Jessica Lauren Four’.

Graham has been a driving force in London’s live music scene for over 20 years, His influential improvised Jam sessions at club nights including Headonism, Superstition, Ashram, Flipside, Low Life, and countless other underground raves gave the London club scene of the 90′s a focus away from the electronic dance scene and helped many now well established musicians
and vocalists get their first taste of performing in front of an audience.

Graham has been a founder member of several of London’s most influential live acts from the 80′s and 90′s Funk scene, including, Savajazz, Pure Sex, Push, Vibe Tribe, FM inc, The Hotheads and Majik Pokit.

Graham is also an eclectic DJ (DJ Source) and Producer as well as a seasoned session musician with session credits which include Soul II Soul, the JB’s Horns, George Michael and many more.

Graham has produced club night and Jam session Show and Prove for over 10 years with recent shows at the ICA and Southbank centre as well as weekly sessions at venues across London.

After a 7 year period working in music retail management, Graham returned to music and began writing and producing his own tracks collaborating with vocalists Franny Whitfield, Sherene Ven Dyer and most recently the amazingly talented Mataniu.

Graham is currently completing Mataniu’s album “Shapes Twinkling On Lullabies and Waves”. Mataniu made her live debut with her incredible young band at Proud to a rapturous reception at the end of January. Big things promised for the rest of 2010 and beyond from her.

Graham appears with Jake “The Sax” Telford (Ok_Ma) at the Favourite Things Jazz club and live jam session, held weekly Sundays at the Proud Gallery in Camden’s Stables Market.

Francesco has played with many artists and projects such as The Ennio Morricone Orchestra, Incognito, El Topo, Barbara Luna, Sun Energy and others. He is the founder of Studio Uno which is a school music in Rome (www.studio-uno.it). Francesco is endorsed by Vic Firth, CVL Drums, Protection Racket, UFIP Cymbals and Gibraltar Hardware.

Although best known as a bass player, on both bass guitar and double bass, Andrew has studied tabla and sitar in India, plays guitar, Chapman Stick, Waterphone, Hang, keyboards, udu, harmonium, darabuka and a host of other percussion instruments, many found on his travels (during which he also made his own recordings, ranging from the chants of young Buddhist monks in the Himalayas, to the sounds of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil).

He has worked with musicians from across the globe in a wide variety of settings, and it is perhaps this along with his multi-instrumental abilities that have resulted in him becoming increasingly in-demand as a composer. Andrew is a consultant for Groves Sound Communications in Hamburg, he was elected onto the Media Executive of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in 2008, and he is also a PCAM committee member, which is the professional body representing the Producers and Composers of Applied Music. He has his own purpose built studio in North London.

Max has recently played gigs in south east Asia, Europe and the UK with London/New Zealand based rock band I Am Giant for the 2010 Tiger Translate Festival. He is currently busy working with a number of bands including The Modernists, I Am Giant, Square Go, Alistair Mackenzie, as well as putting together his own material with a line up of great players.

Max recently finished a BMus degree in popular music performance at the The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. He is currently a busy working live musician and guitar teacher.

Max is endorsed by Paul Reed Smith guitars.

As a DJ, Nik has played in over 25 countries including 15 tours of Japan and supported some of the biggest names on the jazzier side of things including the likes of Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Nicola Conte, DJ Mitsu the Beats, Moodyman, Jazztronik, Koop & Soil & Pimp Sessions plus alongside legends such as Tania Maria, Marlena Shaw, Tricky, Pharoah Sanders & McCoy Tyner to name but a few.

Nik has put out over 35 releases on various labels from USA, Europe and Japan with 18 releases on his own Mukatsuku Record label imprint.

For 2010 Nik is concentrating on production with his music partner Guynamite as GUYNAMUKAT and this year they will be remixing Incognito & Amp Fiddler aswell as starting a new disco/boogie/afro edit label called GUYNAMUKAT edits.