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
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