Ben Dillinger is a bassist, educator, and composer from Chicago, Illinois. He performs a variety of musical styles on both electric and upright bass including Jazz, Rock, Pop, Brazilian, and Musical Theater. He is a founding member of various groups such as Astro Samurai and Imagery converter. He is also a sideman in many other projects around the Chicagoland area. As an educator, Ben has taught courses at Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts, Morton College, and The Chicago High School of the Arts.

Jake Wark is a saxophonist and composer who has been active in Chicago since 2014, when he relocated from upstate New York. Jake has released three albums as a leader, most recently Rejoinders, a collection of improvisations for solo saxophone and electronics released on Passerine Records in 2024. He can be heard in numerous groups as a sideman and collaborator, and has appeared at many prominent festivals and venues for creative music in the midwest, including the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Constellation, the Green Mill, and Elastic Arts.

A graduate of the Didier Lockwood Music Center in Paris (2011) and Marseille’s Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional (2014), Andrew Sudhibhasilp is a versatile jazz guitarist and one of few French musicians specialized in Touareg music.

From 2015 to 2017, he participated in the project Les Impatients du Jazz produced by the festival Jazz des Cinq Continents, with music by saxophonist Fred Pichot. In his work with Les Impatients du Jazz, Sudhibhasilp performed with acclaimed special guests Eric Truffaz, Didier Malherbe, Eric Legnini, Glenn Ferris and Jerôme Regard.

Since 2013, Sudhibhasilp has been an integral member of the Touareg band Terakaft, whose creators were also founding members of the Grammy Awardwinning band Tinariwen, from the Sahara Desert region of Northern Mali. With Sudhibhasilp on bass guitar, Terakaft has played sold-out tours throughout Europeand the U.S.

In 2016, the project Desert Caravan was created as a mix of different Malian groups including Terakaft, Piers Facini, Afel Bocoum, and Ali Farka Touré Band. As a result of this fusion, Terakaft and Ali Farka Touré Band have toured together in Europe and the U.S. with Sudhibhasilp on bass guitar.

In 2018, he participated in a residency produced by the Vitrolles jazz festival CharlieFree for the project Tartartar Brass Embacy with Famadou Don Moye of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, as well as organist Simon Sieger and trumpet player Christophe Leloil. With Leloil in 2020, he released an album of original music, OpenMinded. Now based in Chicago, Sudhibhasilp maintains strong ties in the French jazz scene, while beginning to work with a number of Chicago projects.