Joe Conley

Joe Conley was introduced to jazz at an early age. From early childhood piano and clarinet lessons, then later guitar...music has always been his greatest love. He has 20+ years of professional playing experience including some highly acclaimed studio albums with former Frank Zappa alumni.

He teaches guitar and bass at Berklee College of Music, Donn Carr's Music School, Page Music, and the Brookline Music school. Joe has had many performances and showcases throughout the US (including performances with Grammy winning pianist David Maxwell), and recording sessions for TV soundtracks. Joe composes jazz, avant-classical, and microtonal-pop music and also partakes in free improvisation.

In '99 he graduated with top honors from Berklee College of Music, earning his Bachelors Degree in Performance and Jazz Composition. He continued his education and graduated with a Masters Degree in Jazz Performance from Boston Conservatory on '01. He is pursuing a Doctorate in Jazz Performance & Ethnomusicology at this time as well as performing with The Boston Jazz Trio and teaching.



Rick Landwehr

Rick Landwehr grew up listening to a wide variety of music that his parents and older sisters played at dinnertime. He was in the school choir from the first grade and began playing the cornet while in the sixth grade and played for two years. After this, he decided that the cornet was not the right instrument for him. Almost two years later he was introduced to the drum set by and friend and immediately fell in love with the instrument. Lessons followed shortly after.

After his freshmen year in high school, Rick moved to Tokyo Japan for three and a half years with his parents and one of his sisters. While in Japan he had his first performing experiences with the Ikeda Band and The Wound. After graduating from Saint Mary’s International School in Tokyo Rick returned to the United States to attend Heidelberg College where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Biology. Rick had a few lessons and some jam sessions during his college years, but for the most part his playing was set aside.

After working for a couple of years for the certification company NSF International in Ann Arbor, Michigan Rick become intensely inspired to pursue music again. This resulted from an unplanned jam session with a co-worker. Shortly thereafter, Rick began placing and answering ads for musicians. This led to the surprisingly quick formation of the experimental rock band Ape 7. Within a year the group had a CD recorded and was playing around the Metropolitan Detroit area. The band garnered critical acclaim for its recording over the next two years and was nominated for a Best Band of ’97 award in Detroit’s Jam Rag magazine.

After a few years of performing with Ape 7 and the local Community Jazz Orchestra and attending several music camps, Rick decided to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ma. While at Berklee, Rick studied composition, arranging and drum set performance with many talented musicians including composer/ arrangers Dennis Grillo and Richard Evans and drumming legend Casey Scheuerell. Rick graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Diploma in Professional Music in May, 2002. In addition to composing/performing with The Boston Jazz Trio, he plays with the Avant-Garde band Third Nipple which includes fellow Jazz Trio member Joe Conley.

Tim Paul Weiner

Electric bassist and composer Tim Paul Weiner has spent the last two decades performing, writing and recording music from Los Angeles to Boston. His music has been distributed in Japan, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the UK, as well as having been performed throughout the US.

He has been an active freelance performer and session bassist throughout the New England area since moving to Boston in 2000 to attend Berklee College of Music on a scholarship, where he studied with Danny Morris, Anthony Vitti, Whit Browne, Bruce Gertz, Tino DíAgostino, Skip Smith, and Barry Smith. Before moving to Boston, he studied as a fine artist in Los Angeles where he also was signed as a performing artist with Atlantic Records.

In addition to his electric bass playing, he is also a versatile composer and songwriter. His film compositions have been featured at the Woods Hole Independent Film Festival and The New York Independent Film Festival, while his songs and playing have been featured on albums of many different genres through- out the US, Europe and Japan.

He performs throughout the New England area in many eclectic ensembles as an electric bassist and is involved in groups with styles ranging from North African funk, and world music, to blues, reggae, roots-rock, gospel, singer-songwriter, and jazz. He also is the house bassist for the City of Praise Worship band, in Boston, and the Lifeteen Band at St. Maryís of the Sacred Heart in Hanover, MA.

He is one of the founding members of his rootsy rock group Sun5, which has performed throughout the New England area since 2002, and whose first album, ìLibertadî was released in 2005 and received rave reviews.