Born in 1997 to Columbus, Ohio, he studied piano from a young age and to starting in his sophomore year of high school began to performing regularly with violinist Christian Howes and became a member of the Creative Strings Workshop from 2015 to 2018. He also appeared several times with Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra as a guest artist, performing with John Clayton and Joshua Redman for their 45th anniversary concert series in 2017. He has also performed throughout Ohio with other musicians including JD Allen, Billy Contreras, Eddie Bayard, George Delancey, Cedric Easton and Bobby Floyd. In 2015 Thomas received the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship from the Juilliard School and received his Master of Music (M.M.) degree in 2020. He is currently touring and performing to locally and internationally, both as the leader of his own trio, as a permanent member of the Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, and as a sideman for Joshua Redman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Lage Lund, Billy Drummond, Zoh Amba, Giveton Gelin, Stacy Dillard, Joel Ross, Nicole Glover, Melissa Aldana, Etienne Charles, Harish Raghavan and others. In June 2020, Micah Thomas released his first album, Tide, which received positive reviews from, among others, from New York Journal, New York Times, JazzTimes, and Financial Times. He has appeared on several albums as a sideman for Immanuel Wilkins, Billy Drummond, Zoh Amba, Giveton Gelin, and Walter Smith III. In September 2022, he released the album Piano Solo with LP345. The album went on to receive the Grand Prix du Disque Award from the Académie Charles Cros of France. Thomas' most recent album, Reveal, features Dean Torrey on bass and Kayvon Gordon on drums. It was released on September 8, 2023 from Artwork Records. Thomas received the Jerome Commission from Roulette NYC and was named a Shifting Foundation Fellow. In June 2023 he presented his project Mountains commissioned by the Jazz Gallery of New York. Thomas was also the curator of the SWR NewJazz Meeting 2022 in Germany.

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Bassist and musician Dean Torrey was born in Connecticut in 1992 and got into music at a very early age. He began to playing double bass at the age of eight, playing in his school orchestra and later becoming interested in improvisation. After attending SUNY Purchase college's music conservatory, where he studied privately with bassists Doug Weiss and Scott Colley, he moved to New York City in 2014. He quickly became an in-demand bassist to New York, performing with Tivon Pennicott, Joel Ross, Aaron Goldberg, as well as NEA Jazz Master Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams, Prof. Thurman Barker, Hal Galper, Rodney Green, Sasha Berliner, Immanuel Wilkins, and Dayramir González. When he is not playing bass guitar, he devotes himself to reading, studying music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods, composing, and furthering religious studies.

Born and raised to Detroit, at an early age he was taken under the tutelage of legendary trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. He later studied at the University of Michigan. Gordon has performed in Europe, Africa, South Asia, the United Arab Emirates and North America. He has had the honor of sharing the stage with Marcus Belgrave, Sullivan Fortner, Robert Hurst, Rodney Whitaker, Johnny O'Neal, Ravi Coltrane and JD Allen, to name a few. He is currently residing to New York where he strives to contribute to the innovative aesthetics of his contemporaries while honoring Detroit's rich musical heritage.