Sam Hoyt has performed with a diverse roster of artists including Anthony Braxton, Jorge Ben Jor, Conjunto Clasico, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and Harry Connick Jr. He also has played on countless jingles and recordings, in Broadway pit orchestra and at such venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, and Carnegie Hall.

Although he is not yet thirty, "eloquent trumpet prodigy" (Wall Street Journal) Mike Davis  has a voice beyond his years on his instrument. His playing is imbued with the sounds of Prohibition-era speakeasies, Hoovervilles of the Depression, and glittering jazz palaces of the swing era, creating a timeless cocktail of American music. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Mike is among the vanguard of young musicians bringing traditional jazz to the forefront of the NYC music scene.

Hailing from Florida and based in New York City, Jason Prover is one the jazz scenes most in demand trumpet players. He covers a wide range of genres including salsa, classical, soul, and pop music. A member of many different ensembles, you can find him leading his own “Sneak Thievery Orchestra” around NYC.”

Robert Edwards came to New York by way of West Palm Beach, FL. Following his graduation from New Jersey City University in 2008, he obtained his Masters at The Juilliard School.  He’s the winner of the 2018 Detroit Jazz Festival’s Curtis Fuller Low Brass/Trombone Competition.  Other professional highlights include tours with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band and Roy Hargrove's Big Band.   He is currently professor of trombone and arranging at New Jersey City University. 

Jim Fryer began his professional career playing traditional jazz trombone in the Boston area during the 1970’s. He has played gigs in many disparate genres, including Broadway, Salsa, Big Band, Classical, and many others. He has performed at Festivals the world over, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and the Turner Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. As a longstanding member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, Fryer recorded on the grammy-winning sound track compilation for the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire”. 

Joe McDonough is a freelance trombonist and tuba player in NYC who plays in a wide variety of jazz ensembles.  He also holds a faculty position at Temple University.

Dennis Lichtman is a multi-instrumentalist (clarinet, saxophone, mandolin, fiddle, and more) who has been at the epicenter of New York's traditional jazz and swing scene since founding the famed Tuesday night weekly jam session at Mona's Bar in 2007 that is "ground zero for an emerging late-night scene of young swing and traditional jazz players" (Wall Street Journal).  Lichtman has released six albums under his own name and as leader of Mona's Hot Four and the western swing sextet The Brain Cloud.

Jay Rattman is a freelance improvisor, composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist based in New York City, originally hailing from Stroudsburg, PA. With a discography of over 30 records that includes "Urbanus" by Stefon Harris, nominated for the 2010 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy, and “New Celebration,” the last big band album by NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods, his musical sensitivity and spontaneity have placed him in demand in a wide range of settings from contemporary classical chamber music to early jazz, klezmer, creative improvised music, straight ahead jazz and everything in between. He has performed at most of the major jazz clubs in New York in addition to the MoMA, the Coachella Festival, Red Rocks Amphitheater, the Late Show, and the Tonight Show. 

Dan Block's long career in the music industry has covered the full spectrum from artistic to commercial music.  In the traditional jazz scene he has performed as a member of Vince Giordano's Nighthawks and at jazz festivals and parties world-wide.  Dan also performs  frequently with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis.  He has worked as a Broadway pit musician for two decades and has recorded for numerous TV and radio commercials, films and television soundtracks.

Matt Koza has played with the Artie Shaw Orchestra since 2000, and became its director in 2010. He has toured the United States, Taiwan and Brazil with the band, accompanying Tony Bennett, Jack Jones and Buddy DeFranco. Matt is active in the New York swing and traditional jazz scene, playing dances, concerts and festivals. 

Ricky Alexander is busy playing in New York City and around the world with various swing and traditional jazz bands. Following in the lyrical footsteps of Lester Young and Stan Getz, he portrays the joyous feeling of swing that makes you want to move your feet. He just released his debut album "Strike Up The Band" in July 2019.

Bryan Reeder is a pianist and composer working in jazz, classical, and contemporary musics. He performs regularly in New York City, as well as throughout the United States and abroad. Reeder has released a number of albums, recorded music for film, and performed as a band leader at venues such as Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel, Feinstein's, and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. He is a member of Chris Norton's band with which he has performed at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, and numerous international engagements. He is the musical director and pianist for tony-nominated Euan Morton and together they have performed in concert at the Kennedy Center, The Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, and the Morgan Library. 

Ian Hutchison's big sound and bouncing pulse make him one of the busiest swing era bass players in NYC. His passion is playing music for swing dancers, and he has taught music classes to dancers in the US and abroad.  Originally from Colorado, Ian studied bass at the University of Denver and enjoys hiking and rock climbing whenever he can make room in his chock-full gig schedule."

Andrew Millar is a freelance drummer based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from British Columbia, Canada, Andrew relocated to NYC  in February 2015 after receiving a BC Arts Council grant to study with the great Kenny Washington. A musician of immense taste and versatility, Andrew has established himself as one of the first call swing, trad and straight-ahead jazz drummers on the scene today."

Hannah Gill is a New York based, 22-year-old vocalist and lyricist. She has been writing and recording her own original music since she was 16. Along with her singer songwriter project, she is also involved in a number of other musical projects including Postmodern Jukebox, The Glenn Crytzer Orchestra, Gordon Webster and Friends, as well as her own jazz quintet. 

Dandy Wellington is a bandleader, entertainer, event producer, and creative consultant, born-and-raised in Harlem, New York. He’s performed around the world, at iconic venues including the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Lincoln Center in New York and The Roundhouse in London. Dandy has been featured in four books, two documentaries, and has made appearances on multiple television shows. 

Originally from Portland, ME, Gabriel Terracciano is an award-winning violinist and composer living in Brooklyn.  He holds degrees from Tufts University and NYU and has spent his career focusing on playing the violin in a variety of non-classical genres, including jazz, bluegrass, western swing, rock, and hip hop, among others.  In 2018, he joined the two-time Grammy award winning Turtle Island String Quartet.

Gabe received multiple awards throughout his career, including winning First Prize in the 2018 Freshgrass Fiddle Competition and Third Prize in the 2018 Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition. His first album of original music, In Flight, will be released in 2020 on Red Piano Records.

New York Times described Meg Okura’s music as "grandiloquent beauty that transitions easily from grooves to big cascades to buoyant swing." She is the 2018 winner of the Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works Grant, and the leader and the founder of the Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, which was chosen to be New York Times’ editor’s pick, Dan Bilawsky’s ALL ABOUT JAZZ Best Album of 2018, No. 4 Jazz Album of 2018 on Textura.com, among many others. 

​

A aative of Tokyo, Okura toured all of Asia as the concertmaster and soloist of the Asian Youth Orchestra. She moved to New York after making her solo debut at Kennedy Center as a teen, and studied violin performance at The Juilliard School. She switched to jazz upon earning MM degree, and toured with Michael Brecker, Steve Swallow, Tom Harrell, and has recorded with David Bowie, Lee Konitz, Diane Reeves, and others. In 2018, she has placed No. 6 Jazz Violinist in the International Critics Polls. 

Victoria Paterson is a violinist in New York City, well-known & loved for her diversity and musicality. Equally comfortable with classical, modern and popular music, she performs everywhere from Carnegie Hall, Birdland, and Madison Square Garden, to Late Night with Seth Meyers, to The Today Show. Among the highlights are performances at Chelsea Clinton's wedding, for Pope Benedict XVI, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Diane Sawyer, Nancy Pelosi, the Cheif Rabbi of Israel, and more. She is the founder of the Lumiere String Quartet and the executive Director of the Mostly Modern Festival & American Modern Ensemble.

Caroline Drexler is a New York City based freelance violinist. As an orchestral musician, she holds a tenured chair with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and is a roster musician of the Chamber Orchestra of New York, in addition to performaning with many other ensembles. She performs chamber music with the Desdemona Ensemble, an ensemble dedicated to championing new musical works. 

Venezuelan violinist Francisco Salazar is a NYC based Juilliard graduate. He was a member of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, and is currently a member of the Harrisburg Symphony. Mr. Salazar frequently solos with NYC ensembles and has played in Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall and others. 

Born in Japan, Akiko Hosoi is a multi-faceted violinist who performs in New York and abroad. Akiko is a rostered member of many orchestras in NY and CT including concertmaster of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. Equally passionate in teaching, Akiko is a founding partner of the Aspiring Young Musicians program to offer lessons to children of under-served Sullivan County and co-founded the Sullivan County Chamber Orchestra.  

Benni von Gutzeit, one of only a handful of jazz violists worldwide, was born in Bochum, Germany, into a musical family. He studied Jazz at the Conservatory Linz, Austria, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and did a Masters degree in jazz at Manhattan School of Music. He has performed with musicians such as Dave Liebman, Bobby McFerrin, Matthew Herbert, Linda Oh, Camila Meza and Mark Feldman. In 2012 he became the regular violist the Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet.

Tom Valdez is a freelance cellist and educator living on Long Island. After a recent move to New York, Tom has performed with Mostly Modern Projects, Music That Heals, and the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. Tom currently works as an Education Specialist at the Long Island Violin Shop and maintains a healthy private studio.

On Broadway, Kathryn was the principal harpist for the 2018 production of Rogers + Hammerstein’s Carousel starring Renée Fleming. She has performed on Hello, Dolly!, Wicked, Rogers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Fantasticks, and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Kathryn can be heard on Duo Scorpio's Scorpion Tales and Two Bridges, Trio Kavak's Heirlooms, Rodger’s + Hammerstein’s Carousel Grammy® nominated 2018 Cast Album, Broadway’s Carols for a Cure, Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin with music by Marvin Hamlisch, and jazz albums with Dan Weiss, Matthew Mitchell and Steve Newcomb. An avid promoter of new music, she is a founding member of Duo Scorpio and Trio Kavak and performs with Foundry and Wavefield ensembles.

Glenn is the mastermind behind this project and the leader of the merry band of musicians above. Since you already read his bio in the about section, his proportions for Charles Mingus' famously ambiguous recipe for Eggnog. 

​