Tiffany Austin

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Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Austin grew up in a house filled with music. Her parents listened to soul and pop masters like Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder, while her Louisiana Creole grandmother introduced her to jazz. “She really taught me what soul was about,” Austin says. “She had a great sense of herself, and didn’t let anyone make her feel less than herself. When I sing the blues or jazz, I draw on that Grandmama place.”

Her older brother John Austin IV was also a profound influence. A celebrated emcee and rapper, he is best known as Ras Kass. “He got signed to a record label at 17,” she recalls. “I watched him pursue his music, for better or worse, He never had a day job, and sustained himself from music. I’d sneak in his room and riffle through his records. He sampled lots of great music, and he’s responsible for my obsession with Ella scatting over the break in ‘A Night in Tunisia.’”

Austin took a very different path. She graduated from the vaunted Los Angeles High School of the Arts. At Cal State Northridge, she majored in creative writing, while studying classical voice. During the year she spent studying in the U.K., she started sitting in at jazz sessions around London. After graduating in 2004, Austin set out for Tokyo with the plan that she’d look for work as a singer and spend a year in Japan. After finding regular work as an R&B chanteuse Austin ended up staying in Tokyo through 2009 and only returned because UC Berkeley’s School of Law made her a scholarship offer she couldn’t refuse.

Austin submerged herself in law school and left music behind. After the first year, she realized that she desperately needed a musical outlet. She began performing with bassist, composer, and bandleader Marcus Shelby on numerous projects, including a title role in Harriet’s Spirit, an opera about Harriet Tubman. “There was such a stark contrast between what I was doing in law school and what I wanted to do. I don’t regret going through the program—it made me understand what is truly important to me.”

With a series of prestigious gigs and residencies, Austin quickly gained attention as the most exciting new voice in the region. Performing a program of songs associated with Hoagy Carmichael led to her 2015 debut Nothing But Soul, the album that catapulted her into national prominence. With Unbroken, Austin makes it clear that she’s far more than a beautiful voice. Claiming her cultural birthright, she’s an artist drawing nourishment from all of jazz’s roots.

With a series of prestigious gigs and residencies, Austin quickly gained attention as the most exciting new voice in the region. Performing a program of songs associated with Hoagy Carmichael led to her 2015 debut Nothing But Soul, the album that catapulted her into national prominence. With Unbroken, Austin makes it clear that she’s far more than a beautiful voice. Claiming her cultural birthright, she’s an artist drawing nourishment from all of jazz’s roots.

Taylor Eigsti

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Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning NYC-based pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti started playing the piano when he was four years old. Growing up in Menlo Park, CA, and attending the Stanford Jazz Camp in his youth, Eigsti was quickly labeled a prodigy, and has since released 9 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 80 albums as a sideman.

In February 2025, Eigsti won his second GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his ninth album “Plot Armor” (2024, GroundUP Music), following a 2022 GRAMMY Award win for his eighth album “Tree Falls” (2021, GSI Records) in the same category.

Eigsti has garnered a total of 4 individual GRAMMY® nominations over the years for his work as a recording artist and composer, including Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, in addition to being featured on several other GRAMMY® nominated albums by Gretchen Parlato and Julian Lage, and co-wrote a featured composition with Don Cheadle for the GRAMMY – winning soundtrack to the motion picture “Miles Ahead” (2017).

Eigsti was the winner of Downbeat Magazine’s 72nd Annual Critic’s Poll for Rising Star “Pianist of the Year” for 2024.

Over the past 30+ years, Eigsti has had the good fortune of performing, touring or recording with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, Sting, John Mayer, Esperanza Spalding, Chick Corea, Joshua Bell, Snarky Puppy, Vanessa Williams, David Benoit, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Michael Nesmith, Marian McPartland, Stefon Harris, McCoy Tyner, Dianne Reeves, Kurt Elling, Vince Mendoza, Joey DeFrancesco, Red Holloway, James Moody, Lalah Hathaway, Ernestine Anderson, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Becca Stevens, Casey Abrams, Tarionna “Tank” Ball, Christian McBride, Charles McPherson, The Clayton Brothers, Lizz Wright, Eldar, Dianne Schuur, John Patitucci, Joe Lovano, Ambrose Akinmusire, Hank Jones, The Brubeck Brothers, and Frederica Von Stade, in addition to frequent touring collaborations with Ms. Lisa Fischer, Terence Blanchard, Chris Botti, Julian Lage, Kendrick Scott, Ben Wendel, Erin Bode, Sachal Vasandani, Eric Harland, and Gretchen Parlato, amongst numerous others.

Eigsti has had the honor to tour internationally for many years, having the opportunity to perform at many premiere venues throughout the world, including the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Salle Pleyel, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Royal Festival Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Olympia Hall, Massey Hall, Lincoln Center, Davies Symphony Hall, and many top festivals including Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Singapore Mosaic Music Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Quito Jazz Festival, Jakarta Jazz Festival, Sydney Jazz Festival, Manilla Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and many more performances worldwide, including a private performance for former President Bill Clinton.

Eigsti has also been featured numerous times in various television specials, NPR appearances, commercials, and composed the theme music to the motion picture “Detachment” (2011) starring Oscar Award winner Adrien Brody, collaborating on the score with the Newton Brothers. In 2019, Eigsti was also fea-tured on a television special with Chris Botti for PBS’s “Great Performances”, and was recently featured on the score to Spike Lee’s HBO 4-part DocuSeries “NYC Epicenters” (2021).

In addition to leading and performing with various small ensembles, Eigsti frequently has had the opportunity to work with, compose for and orchestrate music for various symphony orchestras, and has written an extensive repertoire of music for orchestra and jazz ensemble. Various soloist and compositional features include the San José Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony, New York Philharmonic, New York Pops, LA Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Portland Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Boston Youth Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, San Jose Youth Symphony, Golden State Youth Orchestra, Bear Valley Symphony, Tassajara Symphony, Reno Philharmonic and multiple featured collaborations with the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra.

In March 2022, Eigsti premiered “Imagine Our Future” in the Bay Area, which is a large – ensemble work commissioned by the Hewlett Foundation, featuring Lisa Fischer on vocals and a 12-person band, which compositionally “crowd-sources” over 100 submitted musical and multimedia ideas from a cross-section of youth from Northern California.

Tammy Hall

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Grammy award winning pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer and musical director Tammy L. Hall began playing the piano at age 4 and is still devoted to that instrument, Music and its calling. After attending Mills College (Oakland, CA), Hall’s career now spans more than four decades, with no end in sight. In pursuit of the creation and development and performance of Good Music, Tammy has worked with and accompanied numerous vocalists and instrumentalists, including: Etta Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Melba Moore, Darlene Love, Linda Tillery, Holly Near, Alive!, Barbara Dane, Loretta Devine, Kim Nalley, Ph.D., Tiffany Austin, Renée Wilson, Queen Esther Marrow, Rhiannon, Mary Wilson, Denise Perrier, and the vocal trio of Brown, Sturgis & Brown; saxophonists Houston Person and David “Fathead” Newman, Noah Howard, Kristen Strom, Tia Fuller, James Carter; guitarists Greg Skaff and Mimi Fox, Grammy award winning violinists Regina Carter, Laurie Anderson and Mads Tolling, “Harpist from the Hood” Destiny Muhammad, NEA Jazz Master and three-time Grammy award winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, Drummer/Bandleader Allison Miller and Bassist/ Bandleader Marcus Shelby, three-time Grammy award winning Bassist Ruth Davies and Dr. Angela Davis and most recently has begun a new collaboration with the sublime classical vocalist, Leberta Lorál.

In 2022, the Monterey Jazz Festival celebrated its 65th anniversary and for the first time in its history, presented a set devoted to Spiritual and Gospel music. Tammy directed (and conducted) the Morgan State and Texas Southern University Gospel Choirs, along with Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area artists Brown, Sturgis & Brown, Valerie Joi Fiddmont and Leberta Lorál. In 2021, Tammy was part of a team of musicians and songwriters in collaboration with Indian vocalist and composer, Falu Shah and their effort resulted in a Grammy™ win for Best Children’s Music Album: A Colorful World. 2021 was also the start of a current work in progress: Convergence, the story of an imagined meeting between musical giants Mary Lou Williams, Dorothy Donegan, Hazel Scott and Nina Simone, as well as an inaugural Artist-In-Residence honor conferred by the Healdsburg Jazz Festival and Marcus Shelby, Artistic Director. In early August of 2020, Tammy worked with the late Maestro Michael Morgan on his collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the podcast San Francisco Symphony Currents-Bay Area Blue Notes: Jazz As A State Of Mind.

In 2019, Tammy was one of recipients of the Human Right’s Commission’s inaugural Pleasant-Leidesdorff Community Stalwart awards for her work in the community. In 2017, the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle awarded Tammy the honor of Best Musical Direction for Blues Is A Woman, written by Pamela Rose. Other theatrical productions include Sister Act, produced by Theatre Rhinoceros (2017), Ella Fitzgerald: An American Story (Kim Nalley/Cinnabar Theater 2010); Bessie, Dinah and Denise (Denise Perrier 2005-2018), Black Odyssey (2017-Marcus Gardley/Linda Tillery- music director/Cal Shakes) and many other collaborative projects. Other highlights and venues of note include Carnegie Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Sala Filarmonica (Trento, Italy), North Sea Jazz Festival, San Miguel De Allende Jazz Festival, Braine-Alleud (Jazz On The Farm), Brussels Jazz Club, Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at Kennedy Center; performances in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uruguay and Japan.

Steven Lugerner

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Steven Lugerner is the Director of Educational and Festival Programming at Stanford Jazz Workshop. A versatile multi-instrumentalist and composer based in San Francisco, he has deep-rooted connections to the Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City music scenes. As a bandleader, he helms SLUGish Ensemble, a fluid group focused on original compositions and arrangements, as well as JACKNIFE, a high-energy quintet dedicated to the music of iconic alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. Since 2010, Lugerner has garnered critical acclaim for his numerous albums, including SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude (2023) It Takes One to Know One (2022), SLUGish Ensemble: An Eight Out of Nine (2018), JACKNIFE: The Music of Jackie McLean (2016), Gravitations Vol. 1-3 (2013-2015), For We Have Heard (2013), and Narratives (2010). His compositions have been praised for their “textured, nearly seamless blend of composition and improvisation” (The Village Voice), and The New York Times lauded him as “an impeccably trained multi-reedist.” The San Francisco Examiner notes that “Lugerner’s approach to making music is very much his own, and he seems to be pursuing it to impressive advantage.”

Lugerner has collaborated with a wide range of jazz masters, including legendary pianist Fred Hersch, Grammy-winning pianist Taylor Eigsti, vocalist Lisa Fischer, and groundbreaking artists such as Myra Melford, Tootie Heath, Eric Harland, Matt Wilson, John Hollenbeck, and Allison Miller. During his development, he was mentored by renowned musicians such as Jane Ira Bloom, Miguel Zenon, Mike DiRubbo, Chris Cheek, Ralph Alessi, and Jamie Baum.

Raised in the suburbs of San Francisco, Lugerner grew up in a multicultural, creatively supportive family. He began performing at a young age, playing clarinet, oboe, and saxophone with college and professional orchestras while organizing local DIY performances. In 2006, he moved to New York City to attend The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where he graduated with honors in 2010. After graduation, Lugerner freelanced and toured extensively, performing with groups such as CHIVES, In One Wind, killerBOB, and his own SLUGish Ensemble, while building a nationwide network of friends and collaborators.

In 2013, Lugerner returned to the Bay Area and took on a leadership role at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as Faculty Director. In 2018, he founded Slow & Steady Records, a nonprofit label dedicated to showcasing the work of West Coast creative artists.

Sheldon Alexander

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Sheldon Alexander is a drummer, educator, and composer based in the Bay Area. As the founder of Coexist, he is passionate about exploring genres like jazz, hip-hop, funk, soul, and other afro-rooted styles. A graduate of the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, California, Sheldon has become a sought-after sideman in the Bay Area, performing with groups such as The Headmasters, The Vaughn Cannon Quartet, The Heeters (featuring members of the California Honeydrops), and leading his own band, Coexist.

Sheldon’s musical journey began in the San Francisco Bay Area. At just three years old, he was drawn to the drums, playing in his great uncle’s church, Wings of Love Maranatha Ministries, in Oakland. This environment shaped his connection to music, instilling a deep sense of purpose and spirituality in his art.

When Sheldon was seven, his family relocated to Scottsdale, Arizona, where his passion for jazz took root. In high school, a pivotal moment came when he discovered the album Headhunters. Its storytelling through composition, improvisation, and production inspired him to approach music with a new level of depth.

During high school, Sheldon excelled in jazz band, becoming a committed team player and versatile drummer. He joined The Nash’s Legacy Ensemble, which focused on preserving jazz for the next generation. Beyond jazz, he broadened his skills by performing in musicals, drumlines, and classical ensembles, developing a well-rounded foundation as a musician.

After graduating from Maria Carrillo High School in 2018, Sheldon attended the California Jazz Conservatory (CJC), where his musical journey deepened under the mentorship of Alan Hall, Dillon Vado, Hamir Atwal, and Gerald Cleaver. These experiences shaped his versatility and refined his craft, while his focus on Afro-rooted music fostered a deep appreciation for authenticity and cultural context in his playing.

In addition to his performances, Sheldon has taken on the role of an educator, mentoring private students across the Bay Area including teaching at the Stanford Jazz Workshop and Berkeley Jazz School. His approachable and supportive teaching style has made him a trusted guide for aspiring musicians interested in the Afro-Rooted genres of music.

Today, Sheldon is an integral part of the Bay Area music scene, performing at renowned venues like Bird & Beckett and Mr. Tipple’s. As the founder of Coexist, an R&B fusion band, he continues to blend genres and create dynamic, boundary-pushing music.

Sheldon has also collaborated with notable musicians, including Marcos Silva, Erik Jekabson, Dann Zinn, Jeff Denson, Liberty Ellman, Frank Martin, Giulio Cetto, and Veotis Latchison, as well as recording with artists such as Oddity, Giulio Cetto, Vaughn Cannon, and the California Honeydrops. His adaptability and ability to connect with fellow musicians have made him a respected figure in the Bay Area’s vibrant music community.

Through dedication and a deep respect for the roots of the music he plays, Sheldon Alexander has established himself as a dynamic performer, educator, and leader, with a growing reputation for his artistry and authenticity.

Scott Sorkin

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A graduate of the music performance program at San Jose State University, Scott is on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop and has taught clinics across the U.S. and Canada, including at Selkirk College (Nelson, BC), The Siskiyou Institute (Ashland, OR), Capilano University (Vancouver, BC), Vancouver Community College, San Jose State University Jazz Program, Mission College (Santa Clara, CA), San Jose Youth Festival, and the Community School of Music and Art in Mt. View, CA. Scott is currently a clinician for San Jose Jazz, Valley Christian High School, and is a faculty member of the San Jose Jazz Summer Jazz Camp in addition to teaching privately.

Scott has been touring and playing professionally since 1983. He’s currently a featured performer with Brazilian jazz artist Ed Johnson and Novo Tempo, the Kristen Strom Quintet, and is touring with Crossing Borders, featuring Jennifer Scott and Kristen Strom. He’s been featured at many festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, and Jazz on the Wing, in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Scott is a producer/engineer at Open Path Music where he’s worked with a wide range of artists including Duke Robillard, poet Paul Zarzyski, Jerry Miller (Moby Grape), Scott Amendola, Dr. Lonnie Smith, John Stowell, Chris Cain, Bobby Black, Sista Monica, Dayna Stephens, Sony Holland, Cowboy Celtic, Mike Zilber, Gloria Coleman, Lonnie Gasperini, Calvin Keyes, Rushad Eggleston, Natalie Haas, and many others.

He has composed for film and television, including co-writing and co-producing the score for the feature film Fat Rose & Squeaky, featuring Cicely Tyson and Louise Fletcher.

 

He has composed for film and television, including co-writing and co-producing the score for the feature film Fat Rose & Squeaky, featuring Cicely Tyson and Louise Fletcher.

 

 www.scottsorkin.com

Sasha Berliner

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Sasha Berliner is a musician, composer, producer, and band leader from San Francisco, CA. A rock drummer turned vibraphonist, Sasha was introduced to the instrument while attending Oakland School for the Arts. She moved to New York City in 2016 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, studying under acclaimed vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Harris’ influence on Sasha, in particular with regard to harmony, directly aided the development of her unique style.

Sasha’s first marquee show on the NYC scene was at NYC Winter Jazz Fest in 2018, followed soon after by Atlanta Jazz Fest and Burlington Jazz Fest. She was the first US recipient of the LetterOne “Rising Stars” Jazz Award in 2019, providing Sasha with an opportunity to tour as a band leader, while also facilitating the creation of her debut album Azalea in 2019.

Azalea was nominated for JazzTimes 2019 Readers’ Poll’s “Best New Release” and has been described as “shimmering and thoughtful” (Kassel, TIDAL), “gleefully exploring various genres and headspaces” (Tremblay, CTEBCM). The record’s politically charged, style-blending, alternative jazz sound employs digital effects, synths, audio speech samples, and strings, bringing together Sasha’s diverse musical background and influences.

The following year, Sasha was named winner of the 2020 Downbeat Critics’ Poll “Rising Star – Vibraphone” category. She was both the first woman, and at 21, the youngest individual in the poll’s history to receive the award. She has been voted one of the top ten vibraphonists in Downbeat Reader’s Polls every year since 2021. Sasha commissioned works for Modern Marimba and the SWR NewJAZZ Meeting as artist-in-residence for fall 2021, which resulted in her suite of live music entitled Tabula Rasa, released on CD in May 2023.

Sasha’s second studio LP, Onyx, features all-star musicians Marcus Gilmore, Burniss Travis II, James Francies, Thana Alexa, and Jaleel Shaw, and was tracked entirely analog to tape. The album was #1 on Jazzwise’s “Charting the Jazz Message” chart, and voted one of the best jazz albums of the year by UK Vibe, Textura, Jazz Vinyl Collector, and the 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll.

Sasha has headlined international venues like Newport Jazz Festival, The Blue Note, Montreal Jazz Festival, and Monterey Jazz Festival. In addition to performing with her own band, she has recorded and performed live with such renowned musicians as Tyshawn Sorey, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, and Cecile Mclorin Salvant. She is an endorsing artist for Marimba One and Vater Drumsticks. Sasha has been a guest lecturer at University of Champaign-Illinois, UC San Diego, Stanford Jazz Workshop, and Berklee College of Music, and is currently a Professor of Jazz and Jazz Composition at UC Irvine.

Sasha’s third studio album, Fantôme, is slated for release in March 2025 on Outside In Music. The album features Taylor Eigsti, Harish Raghavan, Jongkuk Kim, and Lex Korten.

Sam Reider

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Sam Reider is an American accordionist, pianist, composer, and educator. Originally trained as a jazz pianist, Reider has spent many years exploring and interpreting folk music from around the world on the accordion. His original compositions frequently combine jazz improvisation, folk instruments and grooves, and classical structure. As a performer, he’s been featured at Lincoln Center and on NPR and has collaborated with Grammy-nominated musical artists ranging from bluegrass mandolinist Sierra Hull, Venezuelan cuatrista Jorge Glem, and classical violinist Tessa Lark. Reider leads an ensemble of virtuosic acoustic musicians called The Human Hands and has released two records of original music under his name: “Too Hot To Sleep” and the “Human Hands EP.”

Reider grew up in San Francisco, California, in a family of creative, Jewish-American artists and musicians. He began performing at a young age, and was interviewed on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” on NPR when he graduated high school. At Columbia University, he fell in love with American roots music. While writing his senior thesis comparing the songwriting of Woody Guthrie and Ira Gershwin, Sam began studying bluegrass and old-time, transcribing the fiddle melodies for the accordion and learning to sing the songs. This set him off on a journey that has taken him from back porches and dive bars to concert halls and major festivals in practically every state in the country.

Representing the U.S. Department of State as a musical ambassador, Sam has travelled to China, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Estonia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, carrying his accordion on his back everywhere he goes and collaborating at with international artists. Sounds and stories from these travels frequently serve as the inspiration for Reider’s compositions, which together form an ongoing musical travelogue.

As a side-man, collaborator and recording artist, Reider has worked with artists including Sierra Hull, Jorge Glem, Phoebe Hunt, Courtney Hartman, Jon Batiste and Stay Human, T-Pain, David Amram, Nellie McKay Ranger Doug, the Brother Brothers and more. A passionate educator, Reider leads ongoing performances for public school students throughout the New York City area in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has designed curricula and taught courses at the Stanford Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz, and other private institutions around the country.

http://www.samreidermusic.com/

Ruth Davies

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Bassist Ruth Davies has been an integral faculty member and Festival artist at the Stanford Jazz Workshop for over 15 years. With a huge bass sound and a warm heart, Ruth is a favorite among SJW students. When she’s not recording or touring, Ruth devotes much of her time to teaching, not only at SJW, but also with the San Francisco Symphony’s Adventures In Music program, SFJAZZ’s Jazz In Session program, and Pamela Rose’s projects bringing historical women blues and jazz composers and artists to audiences around the country.

The list of artists Ruth has toured and recorded with reads like a Who’s Who of blues and jazz, including Charles Brown, Elvin Bishop, Clark Terry, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Jay McShann, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, Junior Mance, Linda Tillery, Barbara Dane, Barbara Morrison, Etta Jones, Elvis Costello, Eric Bibb, Keb’ Mo’, Terry Gibbs, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Little Jimmy Scott.

Ruth’s discography includes several Platinum and Grammy-winning recordings, and covers jazz, blues, and movie soundtracks. She has recorded with Charles Brown, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Sammy Hagar, Clark Terry, Vassar Clements, Toots Thielemans, Ernie Watts, Elvin Bishop, Maria Muldaur, Clairdee, Tammy Hall, Jackie Ryan, Pamela Rose, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others.

Roy McCurdy

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Roy McCurdy is a living legend, having worked with some of the greatest artists in jazz including Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Nancy Wilson, Art Farmer, and Benny Golson. A devoted teacher on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at USC and the Pasadena School of Music, Roy joins the SJW faculty for the first time this summer.

Roy first got his start in jazz working with the Mangione Brothers, Chuck and Gap, in the early ’60s. He joined the Art Farmer Jazztet and subsequently worked with Sonny Rollins. He became a full time member of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet from the mid-’60s until Cannonball’s death in 1975.

He’s toured and recorded with veritable Who’s Who of jazz greats and groups, including Blood Sweat & Tears, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Burrell, McCoy Tyner, Joe Williams, Sonny Clark, Jackie McLean, Carmen McRae, Lee Morgan, Betty Carter, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Timmons, Ron Carter, Harold Land, Bobby Hutchinson, The Count Basie Orchestra, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Sonny Stitt, Clark Terry, Kenny Drew, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Charles Lloyd, Patrice Rushen, Blue Mitchell, Sarah Vaughn, and Ella Fitzgerald.