Performing Groups EMMET COHEN (HOST) RON CARTER QUARTET PAQUITO D’RIVERA & THE MADRID-NEW YORK CONNECTION BAND CHUCHO VALDÉS DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER MONTY ALEXANDER HOUSTON PERSON QUARTET KURT ELLING CATHERINE RUSSELL (EVENT HOST) JOHN PIZZARELLI JEFF HAMILTON ANAT COHEN JANIS SIEGEL MATTHEW WHITAKER Featured Performers Trumpet RANDY BRECKER JAMES MORRISON BRIA SKONBERG BENNY BENACK III TERELL STAFFORD SEAN JONES BIJON WATSON BRUCE HARRIS EDDIE ALLEN Reeds ERIC MARIENTHAL (MUSIC DIRECTOR) KEN PEPLOWSKI CAMILLE THURMAN GARY SMULYAN GODWIN LOUIS TED NASH ADA ROVATTI RICKEY WOODARD Trombone WYCLIFFE GORDON (GOSPEL SHOW CO-HOST) JOHN ALLRED MARIEL BILDSTEN MICHAEL DEASE JULIANE GRALLE Piano SHELLY BERG (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) BENNY GREEN RENEE ROSNES MATHIS PICARD TADATAKA UNNO SULLIVAN FORTNER HELEN SUNG TYLER HENDERSON JULIUS RODRIGUEZ BEN PATERSON LAFAYETTE HARRIS JR. Guitar DAN WILSON MATT MUNISTERI TAL MASHIACH Bass JOHN CLAYTON (BIG BAND DIRECTOR, COMPOSER & ARRANGER) NICKI PARROTT REUBEN ROGERS JON HAMAR MIKE KARN TYRONE ALLEN PHILIP NORRIS HANNAH MARKS LUKE SELLICK CLARK SOMMERS TAL RONEN MATTHEW PARRISH Drums LEWIS NASH HERLIN RILEY JOE FARNSWORTH KYLE POOLE KAYVON GORDON MARCUS FINNIE DOMO BRANCH VINCENT ECTOR DARRELL GREEN Vocals NIKI HARIS VERONICA SWIFT Comic ALONZO BODDEN (HOST / COMEDIAN) Band Members RENEE ROSNES JIMMY GREENE PAYTON CROSSLEY JOSE A. GOLA ROBERTO VISCAINO, JR. HORACIO HERNANDEZ VITOR GONCALVES MARCELLO GONCALVES JAMES SHIPP JOHN DI MARTINO VINCE CHERICO BORIS KOZLOV MARCOS ROBINSON IVAN LLANES EYTAN SCHILLINGER-HYMAN LUKE SELLICK JASON BROWN PEPE RIVERO SEBASTIAN LAVERDE TYSON JACKSON GEORVIS PICO YUVISNEY AGUILAR REINER ELIZARDE RUANO (EL NEGRON)