The Eklectik Musicians

Trombone, Electric Trombone, Vocals, EWI, Writer, Arranger

JG has been working in the Boston music scene professionally since the age of 14, working with local and national acts such as Tony Bennet, The Artie Shaw Orchestra, Ringling Brothers Circus, Rosemary Clooney, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Lou Rawls, Liza Minelli, The Kenny Hadley Big Band, Soul Kitchen, and countless others throughout the years.

JG currently performs with The Mark Poniatowski Situation and the Mark White Octet and is available for freelance recording and general business work. 

JG was brought up in musical family where they were exposed to many different types of music throughout his upbringing, from Count Basie to Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles to Bach, and Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa. Reportedly one of JG's first words was Oscar, for Oscar Peterson, who was played often in the house.

A graduate of Berklee College of Music, JG has been involved with numerous recordings throughout their career as a sideman, and has worked on numerous Broadway shows in local theaters, working in New England’s prestigous Wang Center, The Schubert, and The Colonial Theaters, as well as regional professional theaters.

JG is an active supporter of the Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) and The Franklin Performing Arts Company.

Electric and Acoustic Guitar

Mark White is an internationally recognized guitarist, educator and session man. White has worked as a performing jazz guitarist in the U.S. in such deeply diverse musical settings as: George Russell's Living Time Orchestra, Gil Evans, John McNeil, Paul Broadnax, Herb Pomeroy, Larry Monroe, Victor Mendoza, Ken Peplowski, the Ken Hadley Big Band, John Allmark Jazz Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Bebop Guitars, Boston Musica Viva, and Last Trip. In addition to White’s performances, he has extensive studio and production credits to his name including recordings for Blue Note, King, MMC records, Heineken Jazz Festival, and Grescotmar Ltd. productions.

White has been a featured jazz artist at countless concert venues and festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada including featured performances at Lincoln Center. Some highlights of more than fifteen international jazz performances are the Umbria Jazz Festival, Settembre Musicale, Tokyo Music Joy, Mare de Augusto, and the Heineken Jazz Festival in Puerto Rico. White has also participated in over fifty performances and master clinics for the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he is currently a Senior Professor of Guitar.

White holds a B.A. and Masters degree in Music from the New England Conservatory and has studied with Joe Negri, Joe Pass, Jack Wilkins, Gene Bertoncini and Charlie Banacos. A thirty year veteran of jazz music education, White has enjoyed vibrant music education authorship, having four books with various publishers which include: "Bach Chorales for Guitar Quartet”, “Advanced Reading Etudes for Guitar”, “The Practical Jazz Guitarist” and “Jazz Guitar Fretboard Navigation-From Bach to Bebop”.

Piano, Synths, Vocals

Professor in the Harmony Department at Berklee college. Department chair from 2005-2015

• Released five critically acclaimed albums of original compositions with the Joe Mulholland Sextet and Trio, the most recent, “Runaway Train” released in the Spring of 2016 on Zoho Records.

• Co-wrote “The Harmony of Popular Song” with Tom Hojnacki.

• Co-authored “The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony” for Berklee Press.

• Authored the Berklee text for first semester core Music Fundamentals class.

• Co-authored Berklee’s Harmony 2 Textbook and Study Supplement

• Developed and teaches an online class in Jazz Composition and a course in Music Fundamentals for BerkleeOnline.

• Teaches online Music Theory and Composition level 2 course for BerkleeOnline

• Orchestrated and produced song demos for “Chapter 11”, a new original musical, for future production.

• Master of Music 1986 from New England Conservatory

• Music director for Didi Stewart and friends, an award-winning concert and event ensemble, performing the music of Great American Songbook composers, as well as the next wave of rock and pop songwriters from the 60’s and 70’s. 1987-1998. 

• Scored the award-winning documentary “Last Stand at Little Big Horn”

• Active free-lance career as jazz instrumentalist and vocal accompanist, 1984-present.

Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Vocals

Bassist/Arranger/Composer Mark Poniatowski holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master of Music from New England Conservatory. His extensive performing experience includes Bruce Katz Band, Kenny Hadley Big Band, Soul Kitchen, April Hall, Joe Bargar, Sarah Brindell, Toni Lynn Washington, Floyd Dixon, Junior Watson, Janiva Magness and Kid Ramos. His performances throughout the US and Europe include the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Orange County Blues Festival, California, The River Festival, Wichita, Kansas, The Natt Jazz Festival in Burgin, Norway, Walt Disney World and at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria. His recordings include Mississippi Moan with the Bruce Katz Band, Something Like That, Fun Out of Life and Room For Two with April Hall. It’s About the Blues with Rick Russell, Radio Fusion Radio with the College Boyz, More Than Live with Janiva Magness, Adi Yeshaya True Romance for Target department stores, and my own self titled CD, The Mark Poniatowski Situation. Mark is currently an Associate Professor in the Contemporary Writing and Production department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Drums

One of the world's greatest drummers, Kenny Hadley has been involved in the Boston music scene since a very young age. He has recorded numerous albums with his big band, The Kenny Hadley Big Band.

From time to time we will invite amazingly talented musicians to join in on vocals, horns, guitar, keys, anything that grooves!