Production Details

Free Dive, featuring Jeff Cressman (trombone), Bryan Dyer (vocals), Cecilia Engelhart (vocals), Steve Hogan (bass/beatbox) and Keith Terry (drums/body music), has been performing and recording together since 2003. All the band members contribute original compositions and collaborate on arrangements. The absence of a chordal instrument gives Free Dive their evocative sound — open, transparent, cinematic. The band’s broad musical backgrounds allow Free Dive to explore many styles including Jazz, popular song and Latin American and African influenced musics.

Free Dive, featuring Jeff Cressman (trombone), Bryan Dyer (vocals), Cecilia Engelhart (vocals), Steve Hogan (bass/beatbox) and Keith Terry (drums/body music), has been performing and recording together since 2003. All the band members contribute original compositions and collaborate on arrangements. The absence of a chordal instrument gives Free Dive their evocative sound — open, transparent, cinematic. The band’s broad musical backgrounds allow Free Dive to explore many styles including Jazz, popular song and Latin American and African influenced musics.

Artist Biographies

Keith Terry (drums, body music)
Keith Terry's artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. Keith has performed with a wide range of artists including Charles “Honi” Coles, Jazz Tap Ensemble,Turtle Island Quartet, Jovino Santos Neto, Pickle Family Circus, Barbatuques, Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams, and Bobby McFerrin. As a producer he has released more than a dozen CDs, DVDs, and books on Crosspulse Media. He is the founding Artistic Director of the International Body Music Festival (IBMF), launched in 2008; and the Founding Director of Crosspulse, an Oakland, CA –based, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and performance of rhythm-based intercultural music and dance, celebrating its 42nd year. www.crosspulse.com

Jeff Cressman (trombone)
Jeff Cressman is a native of the Bay Area and has been happily dispersing his musical offerings by working for many musical personalities. Carlos Santana, Pete Escovedo, Peter Apfelbaum, John Santos and many others have utilized Jeff’s willingness to blow into some brass tubing (often with favorable results).

Bryan Dyer (vocals)
Bryan Dyer is a musician with more than 30 years of professional experience. He’s a versatile multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who performs many styles of music from classical and avant garde to rock, jazz, and blues. Music has taken Bryan around the world to perform in many countries including Japan, Switzerland, Indonesia, and Jamaica, and alongside such artists as Huey Lewis and The News, Michael McDonald, and Bobby McFerrin. Some of the other groups he currently performs with include SoVoSo, Chelle's Juke Joint, The Funk Revival Orchestra, Chelle! & Friends, and Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir.

Cecilia Engelhart (vocals)
Cecilia Engelhart is a vocalist, composer, arranger and percussionist. She loves music of all kinds and works in diverse settings with other vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers. She teaches voice at UC Berkeley and The California Jazz Conservatory.

Steve Hogan (bass, beatboxing)
Bay Area native Steve Hogan credits his travels around the world, studying with master musicians from many cultures, in informing his unique style and approach to music making. He currently spends his time backing up a variety of Bay Area artists and is the bassist for "The Hogan Brothers", a jazz fusion trio with his two brothers.