"Ayumi Ishito was born and raised in Ishikawa, Japan. At the age of 19, she began playing tenor saxophone in a college big band at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

In 2007, Ayumi received a scholarship to attend Berkee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She spent three years there studying performance and composition. At Berklee, she studied with George Garzone, Hal Crook, and Frank Tiberi.

After graduating from Berklee, Ayumi moved to New York in 2010. Currently, Ayumi is a regular member of The Jazz Thieves, GADADU, The Eighty-pound Pug, Platypus Revenge and Big Squid performing and recording for numerous projects. As a member of the Jazz Thieves, she performed at renowned music festivals around east coast such as Burlington Discover Jazz Festival (VT '18), River Jazz Festival (PA '17, '19), and Sowebo Arts and Music Festival (MD '17).

In 2017, Ayumi joined Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel led by Marc Edwards, former drummer of the Cecil Taylor's band. She has also worked with several renowned musicians and artists in New York's creative music scene such as Daniel Carter, Dave Sewelson, Elliott Levin and Steve Dalachinsky.

Ayumi has been leading her own group since 2011. She released two albums, "View From A Little Cave" (2016) and "Midnite Cinema" (2019), that consist of all her original compositions. The albums are receiving a lot of attention from home and abroad and have been featured on national and international music blogs including Jazz Trail, Bandcamp Daily, Divide and Conquer, The Family Review, Left Bank Magazine, Odd Creative, and Disk Union, just to name a few. In December 2019, Ayumi was invited to WFMU-FM's radio program "Give the Drummer Radio" as a guest musician and talked about her music and performed live with the host saxophonist Dave Sewelson."

"Originally hailing from Ichikawa, Japan, Jazz Guitarist, Hajime Yoshida is one of the most sophisticated guitarists, accompanists and composers in New York City.

Hajime was fascinated by music at a very young age; he had been taking violin lessons from local professionals and had chances to perform recitals before he started playing guitar. Started playing guitar at the age of 14, then a year later, he started taking lessons from professional guitar players in Tokyo area. Hajime also started his career as a composer at the same time, and it did not take much time for him to start playing original compositions at venues with his band.

Hajime's strong passion to music and interest to new sounds led him to United States when he was 18. He started his bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance at the University of North Texas in 2003; while he was studying at the school, he had met his guitar instructor and also a mentor, Fred Hamilton. He also performed with 3 O'Clock Lab Bad directed by Jay Saunders while he was in the school. Hajime started to be one of the sought-after guitarists in Denton/ Dallas/ Ft. Worth area music scene when he completed his bachelor's.

In 2009, Hajime relocated to New York, sooner or later, he started playing in venues in the city as a bandleader and sideman. He also has completed his master's degree in jazz performance at Queens College in 2011. In May 2012, he recorded his debut CD, "Unlimitation" under his credit with Sylvester Onyejiaka on sax, Yuka Tadano on bass and Keita Ogawa on drums, released from Armored Records.

As a sideman, Hajime has joined a recording session of Prince sideman Sylvester Onyejiaka (Sly5thave)'s debut CD, "Akuma" released in 2014 from Truth Revolution Records. In this recording session he also had a fortunate to play with members from Grammy Winning band, Snarky Puppy including Jay Jennings, Cory Henry, and Keita Ogawa. He also has performed with Evan Weiss (Funky Knuckles) and Shelley Carroll (Duke Ellington Orchestra) while he was on tour in 2012, performance venue including House of Blues, TX.

Hajime is a band member of the band, CuE, formed by Hajime Yoshida (g), Yoshiki Yamada (b) and Hironori Momoi (ds). The guitar trio has been exploring possibilities of improvisational music in the style of mixing Rock and Jazz. CuE released their debut CD, "CuE" from Onaka Cube Music in 2013. The band has toured Japan in 2013 and 2014, performed at venues in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.

Hajime was selected as a finalist at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center Jazz Guitar Competition in 2015, Wisconsin."

"Yana Davydova is a guitar player and songwriter (performing under the moniker of Echo Moth) based in NYC. As an electric guitarist she is known for her ethereal rich textures and creative guitar work influenced by modern classical guitar repertoire as well as ambient/noise sounds and free improvisation. She regularly performs, records and tours with a variety of art rock bands, jazz bands and electronic music projects as well as her main project, Echo Moth, for which she writes music and lyrics. Besides session guitar work, she frequently performs as an improviser creating looped guitar soundscapes and textures either as a solo act or in collaboration with other musicians or theater companies. ("Miracle Day" by Tom Sime and "Ask Joseph" by STEPS Theater , "Face/Off" by Sebastian DiNatale (of The Daily Show). Yana is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in classical guitar performance where she studied with David Starobin and Mark Delpriora."

"Yoshiki Yamada was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. He studied piano and electronic organ at an early age with his mother, a popular local piano instructor. When he was in elementary school, he performed the electronic organ for many regional music events.

At age 14, Yoshiki started to play the electric bass. He studied techniques of the bass by himself during his junior high school days. Also he participated in several choral competitions for piano.

In 2006, Yoshiki accepted his scholarships and moved to Boston, MA to study jazz and composition at Berklee College of Music. Here, he met and collaborated with many influential professors and highly acclaimed musicians such as Hal Crook, Matthew Garrison, Greg Hopkins, George Garzone and Joe Lovano.

Now Yoshiki performs regularly with several internationally acclaimed bands and independent musicians such as, American Patchwork Quartet, Clay Ross, Falu Shah, Clarence Penn, Harini "Rini" Raghavan, Noah MacNeil, FKAjazz, Trew Culture, Conya Doss, Leah Jenea, Elise Testone, Marcus Machado, JSWISS, The Blue Dahlia, Bobby Blue The Balladeer, Rolfe Neigenfind and the Radiators, Ayumi Ishito Group, Hajime Yoshida trio and many others."

Carter Bales is a New York drummer, known for the bands The Jazz Thieves and his work with Ayumi Ishito.