Bobby Muncy

Bobby Muncy received his bachelors degree in jazz studies from Florida State University in 2001, his masters degree in Jazz saxophone performance from The University of Maryland in 2004 and is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Prince George’s Community College and maintains a rigorous private teaching, recording, and performance schedule.

Bobby has had the privlege to perform with The Temptations, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Platters, The Drifters, The Spinners, Joe Piscopo, Nestor Torres, Bobby Parker, Tabou Combo, D’Zine, Wayna, The El Reys, Joe Herrera, Ally Johnson, Anthony Pirog, Thad Wilson Big Band, Bohemian Cavern Jazz Orchestra, Brian Settles, Reginald Cyntje, Lyle Link, Lena Seikaly, The Funk Ark, Matt Rippetoe, Dog Fashion Disco, Mike Smirnoff, John Kocur, JS Williams, John Lee, Chick Hall and many others.

Bobby has performed at several venues and events including Blues Alley, Twins Jazz, The Blue Note(New York), Bohemian Caverns, The Kennedy Center, The Van Dyke Cafe, Mobile Jazz Festival, Abruzzo Jazz Festival, Notre Dame Jazz Festival, Calle Ocho, The Birchmere, The American Visionary Arts Museum, Iota, Bossa Bistro, Bethesda Blues and Jazz, The Air and Space Museum, DAR Constution Hall, The National Museum of Art - Sculpture Garden and American Portrait Gallery. 

With Bassist Kevin Pace and Pianist Gene D’Andrea, Bobby co-founded the DC Jazz Comosers Collective, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization committed to increasing the performance of original jazz compositions in the Washington, DC metro area. 

Jamie Sandel

Jamie is an organizer, musician and multimedia creative. He is a native of Silver Spring, MD, and returned to the D.C. area in 2018 after some time in Massachusetts, where he assisted the Amherst College Concert Office and the Amherst Symphony Orchestra. He graduated with a degree in music from Amherst College. Reach Jamie at jamie@capitalbop.com. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @wjsandel.

Abe Mamet

Abe Mamet, is a French horn player currently based in Washington, DC. Abe's main artistic motive as a composer and instrumentalist is to use considered composition and rigorously practiced improvisation to more honestly ground himself, his fellow musicians, and his audiences within the spaces they occupy daily. Abe is further interested in expanding the use of the French horn in groove-oriented improvised music (aligned with and informed by jazz/creative music/BAM), and expanding the technical and theoretical limitations of that instrument.

Dr. Patrick Crossland

Trombonist Patrick Crossland was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Growing up in southern Louisiana, he began playing trombone at age 10. He has worked closely with several prominent composers. Solo performances include the Walker Art Center’s “Festival Dancing In Your Head” (2001, 2002, 2005), the Darmstadt Course for New Music (2004, 2006, 2008), where he was awarded a Solo Performance Prize, and the “Utopia Jetzt!” Festival (Germany) where he performed his acclaimed “V for Grock” multimedia recital. In 2009 he premiered his “Krieg dem Krieg” project featuring thematic works for trombone and electronics. In addition to his activities as a soloist and chamber musician, he is an avid improviser, working with a wide range of musicians, dancers, and actors. He is a member of the Composers Slide Quartet, Ensemble Laboratorium, and Zinc & Copper Works. Recently relocated to the Baltimore area, he teaches trombone and other music courses at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Steve Arnold

Stephen Arnold is a bassist, composer, producer, and arranger living in Washington, DC., known for his deep sense of groove, earnest expression, and stylistic versatility. He has established himself as the engine behind many of the hardest grooving and most forward thinking musical groups in the region on both upright and electric bass, performing regularly with Sharón Clark, Brian Settles, Jessica Boykin-Settles, Fran Vielma, Simone Baron and Arco Belo, Aaron Myers, Sarah Marie Hughes, the Samuel Prather Groove Orchestra, Alex Hamburger, Nataly Merezhuk, Steve Washington, Dana Hawkins, Elijah Easton, Tyler Cassidy, ¡FIASCO!, and the Abe Mamet trio. 


Arnold earned a B.A. in music and English from the George Washington University, where he studied the upright bass with Herman Burney Jr., who continues to be an important teacher, role model, and mentor and who gave him the tools to leap headfirst into Washington DC's thriving jazz scene.

In 2018 Arnold was selected for Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center, and in 2020 his debut album as a leader, Sea Change, was a finalist for jazz album of the year at the Washington Area Music Awards and voted the #4 DC jazz album of the year by Capitalbop.



Nate Scheible

Nate Scheible is a DC based drummer/composer who has performed and recorded in a variety of bands and ensembles spanning multiple genres. Recent collaborators include Layne Garrett, Luke Stewart, Phong Tran, Sarah Schaffer, Nancy Havlik, Patrick Cain, and Gary Rouzer.