Sarah Gooch, Ariel Pocock, Steve Haines

Canadian-born Steve Haines (double bass) has played with Wycliffe Gordon, Jason Marsalis, Jimmy Cobb, Ralph Bowen, Fred Wesley, and the Joey Calderazzo Trio & Quartet; and currently performs with Chad Eby and the Janinah Burnett Quartet. His latest recording endeavor is Thomas Heflin’s Morning Star on Blue Canoe records, alongside Greg Tardy and Mavis Poole. He recorded with Joe Chambers on his Blue Note recording Samba De Maracatu. Steve has also written for Becca Stevens and full orchestra, heard on Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra (2019, Justin Time Records), which Japan’s Jazz Life Magazine calls “a masterpiece”. Steve orchestrated and arranged the musical Ella: The Life and Music of Ella Fitzgerald, was a finalist for the 2010 Jazz Knights Competition in New York, and twice won the North Carolina Arts Fellowship. He is currently the Interim Director of the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro where he has served for 25 years.
Steve Haines - bass
Ariel Pocock - piano
Sarah Gooch - drums