This world-class performer and educator has "one of the warmest and most compelling tones of her generation", to quote jazz guitarist Adam Levy (GuitarPlayer August 1999) — Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (August 2001) considers Bailey to be "among the best bop guitar players — she comes to each performance with a fresh approach and something new."

Bailey is also committed to bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary improvisation. Since 1995, when she place third in Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition, she has performed with jazz masters such as George Garzone, Dwayne Burno, Billy Drewes, Dennis Chambers, Dena ReRose, Rob Bargad, and Gary Grainger.

Internationally, Bailey has toured Japan with Gary Thomas and bass virtuoso, Richard Bona. She spent two weeks as Artist-in-Residence at St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. In 1999, she toured South America as a Kennedy Center Department of State Jazz Ambassador — in honor of Duke Ellington. "Audiences abroad are so open — in South America I received so many positive comments from people who had never heard Ellington on electric guitar, they were so receptive and warm."

After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee in 1988, Bailey moved to Baltimore, Maryland and began teaching privately. She has taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus and the Towson University, where she developed the course of study for the Jazz Guitar major.

Today, Sheryl lives and performs in New York City and is teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Current projects include a new release, "the. Power of Three!' —featuring lan Froman on drums and Gary Versace on Hammond B3 — this session is reminiscent of the Grant Green Trio with Larry Young and Elvin Jones — on her own Pure Music label. Sheryl also keeps a hectic pace touring with Richard Bona, David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, and KJ Denhert — she is also in demand as a clinician at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, The Jazz Masters Workshop, and the National Guitar Summer Workshop.

Sheryl Bailey endorses Ibanez and Yamaha electric guitars and Evans amplifiers. Her two recordings "Little Misunderstood" and "Reunion of Souls" are available at: www.sherylbailey.com, www.guitar9.com, and www.emusic.com.

A former resident of New Berlin, WI, Karolyn graduated from Eisenhower High School. From there, Karolyn received a Scholarship to study jazz at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, where she received a Bachelor in Music Degree in Jazz Studies in August of 1991 and received a Master of Music Degree in Woodwind Performance in 1995. Karolyn played Lead Alto Saxophone in the internationaly acclaimed University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band for 3 consecutive years beginning in 1989. While a member of the One O’Clock Lab Band, Karolyn performed with such artists as Doc Severinsen, Art Farmer, Joe Williams, and Freddie Hubbard. She was also a member of the Dallas Jazz Orchestra for 8 years and has backed up such artists as Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, The Four Freshmen, The Temptations, Tony Campise, Bobby Shew, Marvin Stamm, Gene Lees, Steve Allen and Mel Torme. In 1989 she accompanied the Dallas Jazz Orchestra to Montreaux, Switzerland to perform at the Montreaux Jazz Festival there and in July 1992, Karolyn performed with them at the World’s Expo ’92 in Seville, Spain. Karolyn also freelanced professionally in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area with various other groups such as No Left Turn, The Third Coast Jazz Orchestra, The Joe Lacina Big Band, Natalie Cole, and the Jack Melick Orchestra.