A native of Kansas City, Kansas, and a veteran of world tours and recording studios alike, John Cushon has performed, produced, toured or recorded with an enviable roster of artists, including: Oleta Adams. John Peña, James Harrah, Wayman Teasdale, Michael Manson, Pearl Bailey, Brian Culbertson, James Ingram, Cor Bakker, Rick Braun, Bebe Winans, Sheena Easton, Claire Fischer, Brian Simpson, Issac Hayes, Candi Dulfer, Edsillia, Peter Wolf, Melissa Manchester, Jon Secada, Gerald Albright, Ben E. King, The Temptations, Sammy Cahn, Dianne Carol, Arturo Sandoval, Ricky Peterson, Paul Peterson, Christopher Cross, Melissa Manchester, Michael McDonald, Jodi Whatley, Clark Terry, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, Marilyn Maye, Roland Orzabal,  Diane Schuur, Nat Adderly, Luther Vandross, Ida McBeth, John Elliott, Milt Abel, Peter White, Steve Cardenas, Walter Bryant, Kevin Mahogany, Will Matthews, Kirk Whalum, Bill Conti, Richard Elliot, Pino Palladino, Earl Klugh, Eric Marienthal, George Benson, Esperanza Spaulding,  Peabody Bryson, Steve Million, Paul Smith, Joe Cartwright, Bob Bowman, Danny Embry, Karrin Allyson, the McFadden Brothers, The Boulevard Big Band, Queen Bey, The Kansas City Symphony, The James Ward Band, Scott McDonald, Tim Brewer, Jimmy Dykes, Gerald Dunn, Alex Cordero, John Stoddard, James Genus, Russ Long, Kevin Turner, The Los Angeles Recording Orchestra, Kerry Strayer, The Munich recording Orchestra, Kim Park, and more.

John is known for his meticulous preparation, profound musicality and utmost professionalism. He is a widely sought-after teacher whose own studies have included extended stints with Gary Chester and Gary Chaffee as well as master lessons with Joe Morello and countless others.

Justin Wilson grew up listening to big band records and playing stride piano with his grandmother. This not only began his love of jazz, but also of how albums were created. At age 10, he started working as a runner at Red House Recording Studios in Lawrence, Kansas. Years later, he received a degree in recording arts from Full Sail University. A two-year stint at Sony Records followed before Justin relocated to Kansas City, Missouri. There, he worked as an independent engineer with Soundtrek Studios, known at the time as Kansas City’s premier jazz studio.

Eventually, Justin and the owners of Soundtrek built a new studio, which would become Sound 81 Productions, Justin’s personal and professional studio as well as his private home. The Drummer Loves Ballads was among the final projects tracked at Sound 81 before Justin closed the physical operation to focus on freelance audio engineering, album mixing, composing, and indie game programming.

Howard “Howie” Lindeman started at The Record Plant recording studios in New York City in 1974. His career as a producer and recording engineer took him to other A-list studios such as The Hit Factory, RCA Studios, Soundtrack Studios, Magic Venture Studios, and George Benson’s Lahaina Sound Maui. Along the way, his exceptional talent has led to 14 gold and 26 platinum albums, six Ampex Golden Reel Awards, and six Grammy Awards.

Many of the titles in his discography are generation- and genre-defining, such as Foreigner’s “Agent Provocateur” and Stevie Wonders “Songs in the Key of Life.” He has been the recording, mix, or live performance/tour front-of-house engineer for such artists as Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Foreigner, Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson and Stephanie Mills, James Ingram, Jon Secada, Frankie Valli, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, The Rolling Stones, Blondie, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Pat Benatar, the Elvis “on screen” tour concerts, Roctopia, and the Pope’s U.S. tour.

Howie currently lives in North Carolina where he operates from his “Howie’s House” mixing suite.

Greg Calbi, a managing partner and senior mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, has mastered more than 7,500 albums in his 40 years of mastering. He started his career in 1972 as an assistant studio engineer at the famed Record Plant. Eventually his path led to the mastering room. After only two years as an assistant, he began cutting vinyl for such 70s classics as John Lennon’s “Walls and Bridges,” David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”

Greg joined Sterling Sound at the inception of New York’s punk music scene, mastering albums for The Ramones, Television, The Talking Heads and Patti Smith. In the mid 80s, after mastering Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” he began to add other genres to his discography, including jazz. He added to his roster such artists as Jimmy Web, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Sara McLauchlan, Bill Frisell, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, and Branford Marsalis.

Today, Greg continues to expand his  discography.  Some of the acclaimed recent releases he has worked on include: St. Vincent’s “Birth In Reverse,” The Beatles “The U.S. Albums” Boxset and Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett’s “Cheek to Cheek.”

Greg was born in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communications at Fordham University where he studied with the ground-breaking communications theoretician Marshall McLuhan. He then earned his master’s in political media studies at the University of Massachusetts. During those years, Greg drove a cab, sold ladies shoes, and was intent on becoming a documentary filmmaker. But then someone at the Record Plant asked him to drive a truck to Duke University to record Yes on the Close to the Edge Tour, and his path to becoming one of the most renowned mastering engineers of all time was set.

Keaton Comiskey is a Long Island based audio engineer, sound designer and composer. He has worked on a wide variety of musical styles from folk to rap to jazz as well as forms of theater from traditional straight plays to interactive and immersive experiences. He strives to make work that bridges the gap between music, technology, storytelling and performance.

His past sound design credits include Stop Kiss, Fen, and A Robot Wrote This. He works closely with the artist O Jonny, recording and mixing his last two releases Monarch and The Hummingbird Saturday Vol. 1. Keaton is currently working on a variety of music to be released in 2021 and attempting to recreate snare drums sounds from the 80s.

Pete Millrose is a New York City pianist, film and television composer, and recording engineer with music and entertainment in his blood. His father, Victor Millrose, was a professional songwriter in the 60s and 70s who had hits with Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Dusty Springfield, and Gene Pitney. Some of his songs were also covered by Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, and The Cowsills, among others. Pete’s mother managed Broadway actors. As a result, he grew up surrounded by the kind of talent he would later compose for, perform with, and record.

Initially Pete studied jazz piano with Harold Danko and pursued performing and composing. In the late 80s he began to focus on production and started River View Music, an audio recording and production house that would later become Millrose Music. Ever since, his Union Square studio has served artists such as Chaka Khan, Ossie Davis, Jane Monheit, Ben E. King, Bucky Pizzarelli, Michael Feinstein, Sheldon Harnick, John Kander, Tom Jones, Ann Hampton Callaway, Paul Shaffer, Carole Shelley, Billy Stritch, Mandy Patinkin, Anne Phillips, and countless other chart-toppers and show-stoppers.