Vocalist Sandy Cressman and bassist Mary Ann McSweeney are longtime colleagues who made their careers on opposite coasts. Cressman’s latest CD Entre Amigos merges beautiful Brazilian melodies and great grooves, composed and recorded with a host of contemporary Brazilian music colleagues in Brazil and in the U.S., and McSweeney dedicated her Urban Fado album to her Great Great Grandparents who immigrated to California from Portugal. They will be combining their talents to play music from both projects at Oakland’s Sound Room on July 1 at 5:00 p.m.  Tickets HERE

Sandy Cressman-Voice & Percussion 
Mary Ann McSweeney-Bass 
Jeff Cressman-Trombone 
Ricardo Peixoto-Guitar 
Dillon Vado-Drums

Our favorite yearly event is coming up soon: JazzCampWest is an amazing week of jazz classes and performances, with a stellar faculty from across the U.S.  Jeff will be teaching trombone and Sandy will have two Brazilian Music classes--the Music of Ivan Lins and Canta Brasil.  Registration is open--sign up soon--it is a life-changing experience.  

I have added a new page with the English Translations of the lyrics from the "Entre Amigos" CD.  Click on TRANSLATIONS to access.  Aproveitam! Enjoy!

We have just released a Music Video for the song "Não Me Acorde Não" (Please Don't Wake Me), filmed in Recife, Brazil with Spok and members of SpokFrevo Orquestra.  The song tells the story of the wonderful and surreal experience of Carnaval in Recife that Sandy and Jeff experienced in 2015.  Spok arranged Sandy's composition, and in 2016, she returned to Recife to record the song for the "Entre Amigos" CD; and in February 2017, Sandy, Jeff and Natalie went to Recife to perform as part of a project "Do Jazz ao Frevo" (From Jazz to Frevo), performing with Spok and his musicians, and filming the video.  Click on "Não Me Acorde Não" to see the video (and it is also on our Photos/Video page).