Tenor Saxophonist Javon Jackson came into international prominence touring and recording with the legendary drummer Art Blakey as a member of his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Symbolizing a new generation of musicians that blended tradition with neo-jazz, Jackson went on to release 14 recordings as a band leader and tour and record over 135 CDs.

See Javon Jackson featuring George Cables, David Williams & Louis Hayes!

Jeremy Pelt has become one of the pre-eminent young trumpeters within the world of jazz. Forging a bond with the Mingus Big Band very early on, as his career progressed, Pelt built upon these relationships and many others which eventually lead to collaborations with some of the genre’s greatest masters. Pelt’s recordings and performances have earned him critical acclaim, both nationally and internationally. He’s been voted Rising Star on the trumpet five years in a row by Downbeat Magazine and the Jazz Journalists Association.

Pianist Pete Malinverni begun Classical Piano studies at the age of six, and has been a fixture on the New York City jazz scene since moving there in the early 1980s. Throughout his time in NYC, Pete established performing, recording and inspirational contact with a host of masters. His experiences convinced him that music must be treated as a sacred gift, to be passed on freely to fellow musicians and listeners, with passion.

Benny Green possesses the history of jazz at his fingertips. Combine mastery of keyboard technique with decades of real world experience playing with no one less than the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and it’s no wonder Green has been hailed as perhaps the most exciting hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Since emerging under the tutelage of Betty Carter, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard and Ray Brown in the early 1980s, Benny Green has become a highly regarded pianist and bandleader. 

Moving jazz forward has been David Weiss’s modus operandi ever since he appeared on the New York jazz scene in the late eighties. Since then, he has toured and/or recorded with Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Billy Harper, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton, James Moody, Tom Harrell, Louis Hayes, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Billy Hart, among many others. See the David Weiss Sextet feat. David Weiss, trumpet, Craig Handy, alto sax, Nicole Glover, tenor sax, David Bryant, piano, Tyrone Allen, bass, and Kush Abadey, drums!