Melissa Aldana with Marshall Gilkes, Jeremy Bosch, and more

Trumpeter Terell Stafford, known for jazz and hard bop, toured with Bobby Watson's Horizon and played with Herbie Mann and Kenny Barron. He's also a respected band director.

Melissa Aldana, born in Santiago, Chile, is a renowned jazz tenor saxophonist influenced by Sonny Rollins. She graduated from Berklee and moved to NYC to learn from George Coleman. At 24, Aldana made history by becoming the first female and South American to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, gaining a $25,000 scholarship and a Concord Jazz contract. The Washington Post hailed her as a new direction in jazz.