Adam Unsworth is associate professor of horn at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, he spent nine years as a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra's horn section and three years in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He leads his own jazz group, the Adam Unsworth Ensemble, which recorded the critically acclaimed CD Excerpt This! and has recently completed a second recording entitled Next Step. Andrew Kratzat has won the Downbeat Best Soloist Award and International Society of Bassists Jazz Award and recorded and played with such prominent jazz artists as Hank Jones, Ari Hoenig, and Jeremy Kittel. Kratzat released his debut solo album The Dentist last summer.