A creative force on the Bay Area music scene for more than a decade, the
loose-knit band of jazz cats, MCs, arrangers and composers known
collectively as The Jazz Mafia, is fast emerging as the most prolific
musical organization on the West Coast. Launching some of the Bay Area’s
most innovative and stylistically expansive ensembles, these musicians
contribute their varied talents to a cross-cultural mix of new beats and
melodies, blended with instrumental virtuosity. The Jazz Mafia Horns have
recorded in the studio with Carlos Santana and backed artists such as
Zion-I, KRS One, and Thomas Dolby. Other bands in the JM pantheon include
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, the incredible Realistic Orchestra, Supertaster
w/ Joe Bagale, Brass Mafia, Jazz Mafia Trio, Spaceheater, and The Shotgun
Wedding Hip Hop Symphony. With top-tier brass players and an always premium
rhythm section, and dealing in jazz, funk, hip hop, soul, R&B; and more, The
Jazz Mafia form one of the most powerful assemblies of virtuosic performers
on the West Coast.