member profiles

Michael Drexler is an award-winning pianist, music producer and audio engineer with two Grammy nominations to his name. Michael fell in love with ragtime, blues and jazz music early on, and graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) with a degree in jazz piano performance after having finished his masters degree in music production & piano performance at the famous Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany). Michael recently won a medal at the World Championship Old-Time Piano Contest. He performs throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Michael Gallant is a New York-based pianist, keyboardist, composer, and producer. He writes music for his jazz trio as well as for film and television. His music is released on Steinway Records.

Michael Gutierrez-May has been involved in folk and acoustic music for the past 30 years as a coffeehouse manager, concert organizer and now as a songwriter and occasional performer. He released his first full length album in 2017, FIREFLY IN A JAR OF EMOTION. With a heart as big as the ocean, Michael is a social worker by day, and a writer and musician by night. Michael has a new release "Drifting To The Right," coming Fall 2021.

Hailing from the evergreen Pacific Northwest, Michael Henchman's thoughtful, imagery-rich songwriting often draws inspiration from roads less traveled that have beckoned since childhood - living across the U.S., in Europe, and many years in central Alaska - to create a contemporary sound that is at once warm and reminiscent.

Sax player and vocalist Michael J. Thomas was 19 when he joined the Jive Rockets, which opened for the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Bill Haley’s Original Comets. While gaining a foothold in contemporary urban jazz since moving to Destin, Thomas’ busy gig schedule allows him to both play sax and sing in a wide array of genres. Michael is a Billboard #1 charting artist with several critically-acclaimed records under his belt, and more on the way.