  Sanders, Boyd, Page & Hall play all original music and carry an extensive songbook built over years, opened up from the inside by improvisation. The compositions have real architecture and the band is willing to leave it when the room asks or the moment strikes. Their material moves through jazz, soul, Americana, free improvisation, and nameless territories that may never be defined. Like the winds blowing in from each cardinal direction, four exploded stars converge to build rhythmic architecture, sound sculptures and tone poems. Will Boyd came out of Orangeburg, South Carolina by way of Queens, carrying the soul saxophone lineage of Eddie Harris, Hank Crawford, King Curtis, and Johnny Hodges. He was working with professional R&B bands before he turned 18, became a fixture of the Columbia fusion and funk scene in the mid-90s alongside Fred Wesley and John Blackwell, then took a Master of Jazz Studies at Tennessee, studying with Jerry Coker, Donald Brown, and South African free jazz artist Zim Ngqawana. Coker called him a modern musician steeped in tradition. He now teaches at UNC Asheville and Warren Wilson, and plays saxophone, flute, and EWI with the same voice carrying through all three. Zack Page has been a working bassist since the early 90s, a career that has taken him to all fifty states, the Caribbean, Australia, South America, Europe, and the Far East. He played Montreux while still in college. He has recorded and performed with Billy Higgins, Delfeayo Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Marvin Stamm, Eddie Daniels, and Babik Reinhardt. After years in Los Angeles and New York he settled in Asheville, where he is the player other musicians call first. Alan Hall started drumming professionally at thirteen and has not stopped in the forty-five years since. He joined the percussion faculty at Berklee in 1986 and stayed seven years, then returned to California and worked with Lee Konitz, Eddie Harris, Art Lande, Paul McCandless, Geoffrey Keezer, and Ed Simon. He drummed for Cirque du Soleil at Madison Square Garden and for Wicked and Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco, leads his own group Xploritoreum, and wrote Internalization, a book on absorbing the jazz drumming language without reading it. He moved to Asheville in 2019 and has been building bands here ever since. Jay Sanders spent 25 years as bassist for Acoustic Syndicate, a band whose North Carolina fusion of southern roots, bluegrass, rock and roll, and improvisation helped shape a sound that now runs through the whole American scene, with stops at Bonnaroo and Farm Aid along the way. He also played bass for Donna the Buffalo, co-led the avant-garde E.Normus Trio, and co-founded the Acoustic Vibration Appreciation Society, whose self-titled debut landed on Little King Records in 2000 and whose reunion 25 years later proved the frequencies had been humming the whole time. He has performed across 47 states and six countries. He began as a guitarist, taught by people who talked less about scales than about fundamental vibration, sacred geometry, and the Music of the Spheres: Nashville's Rob Jackson, Reggie Wooten, and Samurai Celestial, the former Sun Ra drummer who understood sound as architecture, a way of organizing the invisible.