James Robbins

May 18, 2022

Bassist, James Robbins is an international bassist and composer currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. He has played with jazz giants past and present such as: Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, George Benson, James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Lewis, Johnny O’Neal, Gerald Clayton, Sullivan fortner, Nikolas Anadolis, Stephane Tremble, Joel Fram, and many more. He also played Columbian electro group 'Delsonido' and rock band 'Thank You Scientist'. James teaches part time at the American School of Modern Music in Paris.

Jonathan Elbaz

May 18, 2022

NJ native/Brooklyn-based Jon Elbaz transfixes you with his craft, soul, and imagination at the piano. He headlines weekly at NY’s Smalls and performs sideman duties with others at Dizzy’s, Smoke, Fat Cat and elsewhere. With a repertoire of more than 800 songs, he recalls the great jazz pianists of the past with affection, swing, poignancy, and virtuosic control.

Ron Shalom

May 16, 2022

Ron Shalom is a bassist, producer, pop-star, and daxophonist

Daniel Fishkin

May 16, 2022

Daniel Fishkin is a luthier, composer, and daxophonist

Steve Long

May 16, 2022

Steve Long (he/him) is a queer composer, pianist, improviser and native Brooklynite. His work explores the relationship between composition and improvisation. Learn more at steve-long.com

Jess Tsang

May 16, 2022

Jess Tsang is a percussionist, researcher, and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. She is endlessly examining how objects shape our lives, and how that might be translated into music. Learn more at jesstsang.net

Akiva Jacobs

May 16, 2022

Lately Akiva has been enjoying slowly writing songs by process of long walks and occasional journaling, as well as organizing weekly no-barrier-to-entry conduction sessions. They play upright bass and electric bass in a handful of rock and improvised-music bands that are all different combinations of the same six people who are mostly named Maya. Akiva is from Newton, MA and will graduate Princeton University mere days from now.

Matt Hull

May 16, 2022

Matt Hull is a trumpet player and composer from Boston, MA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY.

Mobéy Lola Irizarry

May 16, 2022

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and transdisciplinary artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. They make within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid.

Gladstone Butler

May 16, 2022

Gladstone Butler is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. His work takes the form of recorded media, installations and performance. While percussion is often only tied to the act of striking an object, Gladstone sees percussion as an expressive manifestation of time architectures that binds humans, framed by the larger rhythmical walls of sun-rise and set. In Gladstone's work, musical rhythm becomes a unique tool for celebrating nonlinearity, asymmetry and difference in society.

Mat Muntz

May 16, 2022

Mat Muntz is a composer, bassist, and bagpiper based in New York and Croatia. Whether working as a composer and bandleader on projects like The Vex Collection and his own sextet Phantom Islands, as a longtime collaborator with vocalist Astrid Kuljanic, or as an in-demand sideman in New York's jazz and experimental music scenes, Mat brings his improvisational sensitivity and fiercely independent sound to every performance…

Raffi Boden

May 16, 2022

Raffi Boden is an innovative cellist and educator and a current graduate student at The Juilliard School. He has experience teaching cello, violin, music theory and improvisation. Raffi was the winner of the 2018 Oberlin Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with both the Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Ensemble…

Simone Baron

May 16, 2022

Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist and composer who has performed and toured throughout western Europe, the Middle East, Canada, the US, and Brazil. Steeped in her Judeo-Roman roots, her work is at once vividly imaginative yet honestly lyrical, driven with relentless intensity yet colorful and engaging, uncompromising and complex yet playful, wondrous and irreverent; often emotionally intense adventures inspired by unlikely and disparate muses…

Trent Ransom

May 13, 2022

Trent Ransom is a graduate student at the DePaul University School of Music studying violin performance. Trent currently studies with I-Hao Lee. He previously studied with Cyrus Beroukhim and Teri Einfeldt. Trent has attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, I- Hao Lee Program (China), Round Top Festival Orchestra, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Preludio Program for Advanced Violinists at the Ithaca College Suzuki Institute. Honors include winning the Connecticut Youth Symphony concerto competition, and winning the Hartford Musical Club Competition.

Tyrone Allen

May 13, 2022

Tyrone Allen is a recent graduate of Berklee College of Music’s Global Jazz Masters Program, led by Artistic Director Danilo Perez. While at Berklee, he was fortunate enough to study, and preform with some of the leading jazz artist of our time. Tyrone plays in two of drummer Ralph Peterson’s bands; the Fo-tet and Aggregate Prime, and also plays in saxophonist George Garzone’s quartet occasionally. Tyrone and Tyson Jackson met at Berklee in the fall of 2017, and have been playing together ever since.

Austin Cannon

May 13, 2022

Austin Cannon is an award-nominated producer and songwriter based in Nashville, TN. His sound can be defined as modern analog: where classic synthesizers meet relevant production. He specializes in Pop, Electronic, and Christian Contemporary Music and is signed to CURB|Word Music Publishing.

Adriel Vincent-Brown

May 13, 2022

Adriel Shane Vincent-Brown is a Trinidadian musician in living in New York. Brown has managed to establish himself as a worthy contender and is already beginning to make a name for himself and his country. Growing up in Trinidad, his love for music began as a child watching his father Kenneth Vincent-Brown play the drums in church, the instrument that would eventually claim him…

Joshua Williams

May 11, 2022

Joshua received a bachelor’s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Alan Baer, Michael Moore, and Joseph Alessi. The 2017 National Young Arts Finalist recently performed the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, and was a featured artist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Joshua performs for the Soulful Symphony and is an Ear Training Teaching Fellow.