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Neil "Nail" Alexander Neil is a pianist, keyboardist and composer who works with music in all forms and styles (including jazz, rock, funk, blues, electronica, ambient and contemporary classical). He has performed at world renouned venues such as the Keswick Theater (Philladelphia PA), The Blue Note (NYC), The Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA), Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), The Montreal Jazz Festival and the Milkvieg (Amsterdam/The Netherlands). Neil has toured the US, Europe, Mexico and Canada. In addition to his long running original music project Neil Alexander & NAIL he has toured with successful acts such as The Machine, The Mahavishnu Project, Marty Balin, Corey Glover (among others) and performed with a who's who of local artists such as Tim Moore, local hip hop phenom Decora, Pee Wee Ellis, Ted Orr, Jesse Gress, Blue Food, Jeff Siege Segal, Tony "Thunder" Smith and many others.   Since 1982 Neil has been involved in Modern Dance and Ballet, as a composer and accompanist, working with such choreographers as Kevin Wynn, Molly Poerstel, Larry Clark, Lane Gifford and Jonathan Riedel, as well as SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance students and faculty where he worked from 1992-2019.   From 2012-2013 Neil performed a solo piano concert series titled "100 Years Of Spring", celebrating the centennial of Stravinsky's "Rite Of Spring" with a stunning solo piano arrangement. Neil's other projects include solo performances and "Scene Re-seen", live electronic scoring of silent films. In addition, Neil teaches Master Classes in Synthesizer Programming and Music Performance Technology and heads up the Ableton Hudson Valley Users Group.   In 2015 Neil was awarded Individual Artist Of The Year by the Orange County Arts Council and is endorsed by Moog Music. Neil's current performing ensembles include "NAIL", "Cloudburst", the "X Ensemble", "Mr. GONE" and Supercluster, and he performs experimental electronic music under the name "Nail Jung". In October 2016 Neil premiered the "“X Ensemble", an 11 piece acoustic/electric chamber music group in a concert of contemporary and original chamber works at the Ritz Theater in Newburgh, NY. In 2021 the X Ensemble premiered a new piece entitled "Convergence: Series A", composed by Neil for an octet, and in 2018 they appeared at the Interactive art festival "Dusklit" in Sugar Loaf, NY where they performed a site specific work played at the moment of Sunset. in 2019 Neil Alexander & NAIL celebrated their 20th anniversary with multiple shows around the region.

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Healer Origin 82938 recorded December 2024, March & June 2025 in Hackensack, NJ/USA

Bobby Rozario, guitar, timbales, vocals David Mann, tenor sax Jimmy Bosch, trombone Joe Romano, trumpet Premik Russel Tubbs, flute Neil "Nail" Alexander, organ, keyboards Edsel Gomez, piano Danny Kean, organ, keyboards, vocals Aalics Bronson, bass James Genus, bass Ricky Rodriguez, bass, vocals Ruben Rodriguez, bass Robby Ameen, drums Greg Gonzalez, drums, percussion, vocals Nathaniel Townsley, drums Luisito Quintero, percussion Jhair Sala, percussion Keith Fluitt, vocals John James, vocals Carlton Jumel Smith, vocals

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