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              Frank David Greene, trumpet
 
              
              
              Nathaniel Williford, trumpet
 
              
              
              Summer Camargo, trumpet
 
              
              
              David Adewumi, trumpet
 
              
              
              Anthony Hervey, trumpet
 
              
              
              Pasha Karchevsky, trumpet
 
              
              
              Duane Eubanks, trumpet
 
              
              
              Nathan Eklund, trumpet
 
              
              
              Alexandra Ridout
 
              
              
              Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
 
              
              
              James Copus, trumpet
 
              
              
              Julius Tolentino, alto sax
 
              
              
              Erena Terakubo, alto sax
 
              
              
              Matt Martinez, 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
 
              
              
              Joe Martin, bass
 
              
              
              Barry Stephenson, bass
 
              
              
              Pablo Menares, bass
 
              
              
              John Benitez, bass
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
 
              
              
              Jimmy Owens, trumpet
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer (a toast from "All Night Long")
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
              
              
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              MINGUS FEST 2025
 
              
              
              MINGUS FEST 2025
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
              
              
              Charles Mingus, composer
 
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
      