
Charles Mingus, composer

Frank David Greene, trumpet

Summer Camargo, trumpet

Anthony Hervey, trumpet

David Adewumi, trumpet

Pasha Karchevsky, trumpet

Duane Eubanks, trumpet

Alexandra Ridout

Freddie Hendrix, trumpet

James Copus, trumpet

Julius Tolentino, alto sax

Erena Terakubo, alto sax

Zoe Obadia, alto sax

John Ellis, bass clarinet & sax

Stacy Dillard, tenor sax

Roxy Coss, tenor sax

Mike Sim, 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

Frank Basile, bari sax

Josh Lee, baritone sax

Paul Nedzela, bari sax

Morgan Price, bari sax

Carl Maraghi, bari sax

Courtney Wright, bari

David Gibson, trombone

Coleman Hughes, trombone

Evan Amoroso, tenor & bass trombone

James Burton III, trombone

Altin Sencalar, trombone

Robert Edwards, trombone

Sara Jacovino, trombone

Jasim Perales

R. Nate Jones, trombone
R. Nate Jones, trombone

Dave Taylor, bass trombone

Ron Wilkins, bass trombone

Max Seigel, bass trombone

Rebecca Patterson, bass trombone

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

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.

Mike Richmond, 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.

Chris Beck, drums

Jimmy Macbride, drums

E. J. Strickland, drums

Kush Abadey, drums

Zach Adleman, drums

Joe Dyson, drums

Renee Manning, vocalist

Freddie Bryant, guitar

Stefano Doglioni, bass clarinet

John Clark, french horn

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

Charles Mingus, composer

Charles Mingus, composer

Charles Mingus, composer

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