Based in Santa Fe, NM and led by Jeremy Bleich’s eclectic guitar and compositional style, The Glass Key Trio produces and explores compositions inspired by Americana, Balkan, Arabic and contemporary classical music and film noir.  Each composition is a vehicle for spirited dialogue between the players ushering the listener into a narrative exploration of musical landscapes.

Jeremy Bleich is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who incorporates a wide palette of sound and culture into the process of creating music. He has toured extensively across Europe and the U.S playing bass and electronics with critically acclaimed trio Birth, award winning Kodama Trio and oud with Zevk Ensemble and Trio Andaluz. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is involved with presenting new music on his Grasshopper Music record label, producing House Concert Chamber Music events, and teaching Orchestra at Los Alamos Public Schools.

Paul Brown has been playing music for over 4 decades, studying bass and improvisation at the Berklee College of Music, and ud and makam with Haig Manoukian and Yordal Tokcan. Comfortable in all styles of music from Eastern Europe and beyond, he is in demand across the country, playing electric and acoustic bass with a number of bands (Édessa, Souren Baronian’s Taksim, Pontic Firebird) at music and dance camps, concerts, and festivals.  He currently resides in New York City.

Milton Villarrubia, III grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and has been crafting his music art in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1996. Milton has performed with Ellis Marsalis, Myra Melford, Anthony Braxton, Peter Bernstein, Steve Masakowski, The University of New Orleans Jazz Studies Program, The Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico School for the Arts, William A. Thompson, IV, Circus Luminous, The Academy for Technology and the Classics, Candyman Strings and Things, Ray Francen's Drum Center and Drummer's World.

Jack Silverman’s body of work has run a wide gamut over the years — learning jazz guitar from Emily Remler, playing weekly in the Afro Cleveland Orchestra and burning the AM hours in Alphabet City with Lord Demos and the Gangster Rock Nation, to name but a few. In 2009, he released his first album of original compositions, The Jack Silverman Ordeal, produced by renowned bassist Viktor Krauss. These experiences have honed his guitar playing skills and love of improvisation, the former of which is on full display throughout Now What, the later being embraced through his willingness to let producer Roger Moutenot (Sleater-Kinney, Yo La Tengo) lead the songs down unexpected paths. Piping a guitar through a Micro Moog synth or learning bass parts on the fly may not have been part of the plan but having the confidence to keep your ear on what best serves the song is a hard-earned lesson on full display here.