Salim Washington, tenor sax, flute, oboe; Malik Washington, drums; Donald Wmith, piano, vocals; Aaron James, bass; Kuumba Frank lacy, trombone, trumpet

A Harlem-based musician/scholar, Salim Washington plays tenor saxophone, flute and oboe, and is an accomplished composer/arranger. He is also a Harvard graduate who earned both a bachelor and doctorate degrees. His dissertation for his Ph.D is titled "Beautiful Nightmare: Coltrane, Jazz, and American Culture." As a musician Washington is an exciting saxophonist whom critics have lauded as one of the most compelling modern voices in the music.

For two nights only Twins Jazz presents five acknowledged jazz masters performing the music of Coltrane's landmark album, Giant Steps. Hear the red-hot saxophones of Ralph Bowen and Jeff Antoniuk and the Jazz Update band: bassist Tom Baldwin, pianist Wade Beach and drummer Tony Martucci.

Canadian-born saxophonist Bowen has recorded and performed worldwide with jazz giants and contemporary heavyweights such as Freddie Hubbard, Shirley Scott, Wynton Marsalis and Kenny Garrett. In the 1980s he played with jazz pianist Michel Camilo. He later completed three world tours with the mighty Horace Silver. A winner of many grants and awards, he studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and Indiana University. Now based in New York, Bowen has recorded four albums as a leader on Blue Note Records, and many others as a sideman. He'll dive deep into the Coltrane Canon along side award winning saxophonist Jeff Antoniuk - also a Canadian native.  Learn more at www.TwinsJazz.com. 

The Wailin' Mailman, Buck Hill, may be the finest tenor saxophone player you've ever heard. Mr. Hill has been recognized by jazz aficionados all over the world, and "Buck Hill Day has been declared in Washington, DC and Ottawa, Canada. He's now in his mid-seventies, but only in the last 10 or 15 years have many people come to know him. That's because despite playing sax since he was a teenager at Armstrong High School-the alma mater of Duke Ellington and a host of Washington music greats, from Billy Stewart to the Clovers-he made his living delivering mail and with his wife raised five children. Nights and weekends he played in clubs, belting out swing and bebop solos that have a sound all their own; vacations he usually spent playing festivals in Europe. Long known and admired in jazz circles, Mr. Hill has played and recorded with artists like Sonny Stitt, Shirley Horn, Gene Ammons, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly and other greats. BUCK HILL's skills are immaculate, his credentials impeccable.