Joshua Ginsburg is an American jazz bassist and composer. He has toured internationally with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jeremy Pelt, [1] George Colligan, [2] Logan Richardson, [3] Sachal Vasandani, and Helen Sung. He has performed with Tom Harrell, Mulgrew Miller, Mark Turner, Robert Glasper, [4] Jeff "Tain" Watts, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Aaron Parks.
Zembla Variations, his first album as a leader, was released by Brooklyn Jazz Underground in 2012 [5] and featured Eli Degibri on saxophone, George Colligan on piano, and Rudy Royston on drums. It was well received by critics [6] [7] [8] and was named a 2012 Album of the Year by New York City Jazz Record. [9]
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and lived in Brooklyn, New York for 18 years. [10]
Kurt Rosenwinkel is an American jazz guitarist.
Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Mark Turner is an American jazz saxophonist.
Kevin Hays is an American jazz pianist and composer. He began playing in New York while still at high school and led his first record date in 1990. He has recorded more than twenty albums as leader or co-leader, including three each for SteepleChase and Blue Note Records. He led a long-standing trio with bassist Doug Weiss and drummer Bill Stewart, and has also sung with his New Day Trio of bassist Rob Jost and drummer Greg Joseph.
Laszlo Gardony is a Hungarian-born American jazz pianist and composer. Gardony performs as a solo artist and leads his own trio, quartet and sextet. He is also a featured sideman with several other groups.
Aaron Goldberg is an American jazz pianist. Described by The New York Times as a "post-bop pianist of exemplary taste and range," Goldberg has released five albums as a solo artist and has performed and collaborated with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Guillermo Klein, among others.
Wayne Escoffery is an England-born American jazz saxophonist. He is based in New York City.
J.D. Allen III is a jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.
The Festival of New Trumpet Music is a nonprofit organization founded by jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas to encourage aspiring trumpeters. The annual festival consists of concerts and workshops over a two to three week period in New York City in September. FONT also gives an Award of Recognition to a distinguished trumpeter who has made an important contribution to the instrument.
Scott Tixier is a GRAMMY award-winning French jazz violinist and a recording artist. He is professor of jazz violin and alternative styles at the University of North Texas.
Willis Robert "Billy" Drummond Jr. is an American jazz drummer.
Jonny King is an American jazz pianist, attorney, fisherman and writer.
Mike Moreno is a jazz guitarist and composer from Houston, Texas.
Patrick Zimmerli is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and record producer.
Dan Tepfer is a French-American jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his 2011 album Goldberg Variations/Variations and his 2019 multimedia project Natural Machines.
Vadim Neselovskyi is a Ukrainian pianist and composer based in New York City. He currently serves as Professor of Jazz Piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston,MA. Neselovskyi joined 6-Time Grammy-Winner Gary Burton’s Generations Quintet of future all-stars including Julian Lage, Luques Curtis and James Williams in 2004 and has been working as Gary Burton’s pianist and arranger for more than a decade, touring US, Europe and Japan. His recent appearances with Burton include Newport Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival and Detroit Jazz Festival. His work can be heard on three Gary Burton’s recordings: Next Generation (Concord) as a pianist, composer and arranger, If You Love Me as an arranger and on Common Ground as a composer. The "Next Generation" CD has reached Nr.1 on Jazzweek chart in US on April 27, 2005.
Jeremy Pelt is an American jazz trumpeter.
Roxy Coss is a saxophonist and composer who is based in New York. She also is a winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, and has attracted attention from major music magazines and organizations. In addition to recording a number of albums, she has performed internationally.
Dezron Lamont Douglas is an American jazz double bassist, composer, and producer. He has produced Louis Hayes, and Brandee Younger.
Vicente Archer is an American jazz musician.