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".
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.
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.
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.