Charles Mingus, composer

Alex Sipiagin, trumpet

Tatum Greenblatt, trumpet

Dr. Alexander Norris, trumpet

Frank David Greene, trumpet

Jeremy Pelt, trumpet

Summer Camargo, trumpet

Anthony Fazio, trumpet

Anthony Hervey, trumpet

Ingrid Jensen, trumpet

Walter White, trumpet

David Adewumi, trumpet

Pasha Karchevsky, trumpet

Duane Eubanks, trumpet

Alexandra Ridout

Freddie Hendrix, trumpet

Jack Walrath, trumpet

James Copus, trumpet

Philip Harper, trumpet

Kal Ferretti, trumpet

Mark Gross, alto sax

Alex Foster, alto sax

David Lee Jones, alto sax

Alex Terrier, alto saxophone

Sarah Hanahan, alto sax

Julius Tolentino, alto sax

Brandon Wright, alto sax

Erena Terakubo, alto sax

Zoe Obadia, alto sax

Wayne Escoffery, tenor

Craig Handy, tenor sax

Sam Dillon, tenor sax

John Ellis, bass clarinet & sax

Chris Lewis, tenor sax

Stacy Dillard, tenor sax

Roxy Coss, tenor sax

Mike Sim, tenor sax

Abraham Burton, tenor sax

Alex De Lazzari, tenor sax

Rico Jones, tenor sax

Mike Lee, tenor sax

Jacob Chung, tenor sax

Ron Blake, alto and bari sax

Scott Robinson, tenor sax

Lauren Sevian, bari sax

Jason Marshall, bari sax

Frank Basile, bari sax

Josh Lee, baritone sax

Paul Nedzela, bari sax

Morgan Price, bari sax

Carl Maraghi, bari sax

Courtney Wright, bari

Conrad Herwig, trombone

Joe Fiedler, trombone

Robin Eubanks, trombone

David Gibson, trombone

Mariel Bildsten, trombone

Adam Machaskee, Trombone

Coleman Hughes, trombone

Evan Amoroso, tenor & bass trombone

James Burton III, trombone

Altin Sencalar, trombone

Ku-umba Frank Lacy, trombone

Robert Edwards, trombone

Clark Gayton, trombones, sousaphone

Sara Jacovino, trombone

Jasim Perales

R. Nate Jones, trombone

Earl McIntyre, bass trombone, tuba

Dave Taylor, bass trombone

Ron Wilkins, bass trombone

Max Seigel, bass trombone

Rebecca Patterson, bass trombone

Helen Sung, piano

David Kikoski, piano

Miki Yamanaka, piano

Tal Cohen, piano

Orrin Evans, piano

Bruce Barth, piano

Manuel Valera, piano

Jim Ridl, piano

Jim Ridl, a New York City-based jazz pianist, composer and teacher, performs and records worldwide with a variety of jazz artists, including The Joe Locke Quartet, The Paul Jost Quartet, and The Dave Liebman Big Band. His own groups perform regularly at the renowned 55 Bar in NYC, and at Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery, both venues for creative and original jazz. Jim has 9 recordings of his own, including Ask for the Ancient Path (May 2022), and Standards Live (August 2022), and he has been featured on hundreds of recordings of other artists. Jim is on the faculty at New York Jazz Workshop and The City College of New York, and maintains an active private studio.

Jim was raised on a farm and ranch in North Dakota, and discovered his love for piano and jazz at an early age. He attended the University of Colorado at Denver, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Scoring and Arranging, and was awarded its Student Achievement Award for composing “Ocean Sojourn,” an orchestral tone poem which he performed with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. In Denver, Jim began his professional career performing and touring with local and nationally-recognized musicians, including the Grammy-nominated vocal jazz group, Rare Silk.

https://jimridl.com

ArcoIris Sandoval, piano

Theo Hill, piano

Boris Kozlov, bass

Boris Kozlov, bassist, is a two-time Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and arranger.

Currently serving as a bassist, arranger and musical director for Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Orchestra, as well as leading his own projects, he has also been a first-call bassist for such important jazz acts as Michael Brecker, John Blake, Ray Barretto's 'New World Spirit', Lew Tabackin, David Kikoski, Alex Sipiagin, Jean-Michel Pilc and many others.

Luques Curtis, bass

Andy McKee, bass

Dezron Douglas, bass

Mike Richmond, bass

Mark Lewandowski, bass

Barry Stephenson, bass

Pablo Menares, bass

John Benitez

Photo by Peter Coco

Lorin Cohen, bass

Donald Edwards, drums

Donald Edwards has played across the globe with some of the finest musicians in jazz and other genres. He has now built a reputation all his own. He is a 2018 recipient of the Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works Grant, A Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Jazz Project. After winning the Louisiana Arts Ambassador’s Award in 1994 for Music Composition, Donald Edwards became one of the most sought after drummers on the Baton Rouge/ New Orleans music scene. He grew up playing different kinds of music ranging from marching band, hip-hop and pop to r&b, jazz, funk and gospel music. As a result, Edwards is now called on to play many different genres of music and meets them with creative interpretation and virtuosity. Donald Edwards is among the vanguard of players on the New York scene today. Edwards has 4 recordings as a leader and is also involved in the production of numerous recording projects.

Adam Cruz, drums

Johnathan Blake, drums

Tommy Campbell, drums

Chris Beck, drums

Jimmy Macbride, drums

E. J. Strickland, drums

Mark Whitfield Jr., drums

Kush Abadey, drums

Zach Adleman, drums

Joe Dyson, drums

Renee Manning, vocalist

Eric Mingus, featured artist

David Gilmore, guitar

Freddie Bryant, guitar

Michael Rabinowitz, bassoon

Stefano Doglioni, bass clarinet

John Clark, french horn

Chien Chien Lu, vibraphone

Charles Mingus, composer

Charles Mingus, composer (a toast from "All Night Long")

Charles Mingus, composer

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