Karen & Norbert Stachel & LehCats




LehCats is Norbert and Karen Stachels’ last name spelled backwards. Based in New York City, they perform original artistic and tasteful compositions that combine elements of Modern Jazz, Funk, R&B, Middle Eastern, Afro/Latin, and Rock creating a musical potpourri of creative sound. Their latest recording is "Movement to Egalitaria".

https://www.lehcats.com/




Saxophonist Norbert Stachel has recorded, toured, and performed with Tower of Power, Roger Waters, Prince, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Diana Ross, Boz Scaggs, Bonnie Raitt, Neil Diamond, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Sheila E, Quincy Jones, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffet, Les McCann, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove, Andrew Hill, Charlie Haden, Benny Green, Russel Malone, Woody Herman, Kenny Burrell, Buddy Montgomery, Joe Henderson, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Rawls, Eartha Kitt, Dizzy Gillespie, Flora Purim & Airto, Carlos Santana, & countless others.

http://www.norbertstachel.com/




Flutist Karen Stachel has three released albums as a solo artist. She works as a professional jazz and classical flutist in NYC, and prior to that, in the San Francisco Bay Area. She can be heard on several movie soundtracks. She is a member of the Wallace Roney Orchestra and a flutist/piccoloist with the New Amsterdam Symphony.

In San Francisco she led The Karen Anderson Jazztet with John Schott, Trevor Dunn, and Scott Amendola. Karen worked with Wallace Roney on the Wayne Shorter "Universe" project from 2015. The Wayne Shorter album of his never before recorded music “Universe” with the Wallace Roney Orchestra was recorded in 2018.

https://www.karenstachel.com/




Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Matt Clark holds a BFA in Jazz Studies from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Highly regarded as a pianist and arranger, he has performed and/or recorded with such jazz icons as Bobby Hutcherson, Benny Golson, Eddie Marshall, Jon Faddis, David “Fathead” Newman, Gene Bertoncini, Joshua Redman, and Teddy Edwards, as well as practically everyone who appeared at Jazz at Pearl's in it's heyday.

He was here previously with Larry Schneider, Steve Heckman, Noel Jewkes, Mitch Marcus, Mandala, Sheldon Brown, Harvey Wainapel, and the Robb Fisher - Matt Clark Trio.




Peter Barshay is a veteran bassist who has established a strong reputation over the years from his sideman work on both the New York City and Bay Area jazz scenes. Peter has performed with such jazz luminaries as Kenny Barron, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Werner, Shirley Horn, Woody Shaw, Pharoah Sanders, Blue Mitchell, Tony Williams, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Johnny Griffin, Bobby McFerrin, Joey Baron, Jimmy Rowles, Tommy Flanagan, the Mingus Big Band, Victor Lewis, Lou Donaldson, Lew Tabackin, Joe Chambers, Armen Donelian, Jim McNeely, Sonny Fortune, Mike Stern, Art Lande, and Paul McCandless.

Peter has played Chez Hanny previously with Harvey Wainapel, Steve Lockwood, Michael O'Neill, Dave Scott, Peggy Stern, Edward Simon, Joshua Breakstone, Armen Donelian, Debbie Poryes, Shoebox Orchestra, Peter Barshay Trio, and Larry Schneider.




Drummer Akira Tana has worked with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Jim Hall, Art Farmer, Tete Montoliu, Paul Winter, Paquito D'Rivera, James Moody, J.J. Johnson, Lena Horne, the Heath Brothers, and Manhattan Transfer. He has appeared on over 200 recordings.

Tana co-led a quintet with bassist Rufus Reid, called TanaReid, which released five CDs. A further five CDs followed with his own bands, Otonowa, and The Secret Agent Men Band.

Akira appeared here previously with Larry Vuckovich, Jerome Sabbagh, Jon Mayer, Knucklebean, Rob Schneiderman, Tim Armacost/David Berkman, John Klopotowski, Mark Lewis, Peter Barshay Trio, Akira Tana and Friends from Osaka, and Akira Tana Organ Trio.

http://www.akiratana.com/




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