Freddy Lonzo

Trombone

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lonzo is one of the most highly regarded practitioners of "tailgate" style traditional jazz trombone. His style is distinctly his own, but such influences as Kid Ory and Frog Joseph can be heard.

Leroy Jones

Trumpet

The legendary jazz trumpeter Leroy Jones is known to music lovers as the "keeper of the flame" for traditional New Orleans jazz and to critics as one of the top musicians ever produced by the Crescent City.

Detroit Brooks

Banjo

Detroit Brooks, famed session and touring guitarist of the New Orleans music scene, has the most recognizable face in the city.

Gwen Thompson

Host of Music Inside Out

Claude Carre (Haiti)

Guitar

Michael Pellera

Jazz

Chair, Jazz: Assistant Chair, Jazz Piano and Composition

Seva Venet

Banjo

Seva Venet conducts seminars and workshops on traditional New Orleans Jazz including history, repertoire, banjo, and ensemble styles.

Gregg Stafford

Trumpet

Carl LaBlanc

Guitar

Carl LeBlanc is an American guitarist and banjo player. LeBlanc is most striking for his work in both avant garde jazz and traditional jazz.

Hot 8 Brass Band

Band

"The play the music that makes you glad to be alive" - ESQUIRE

Steve Masakowski

Guitar

Born and raised in New Orleans, Steve Masakowski has played guitar with most of the city’s greatest musicians.

Les Getrex

Herlin Riley

Drummer

If the body needs a pulse to be considered alive, then music too needs its pulse. Herlin Riley is at the heart of this music – he is its pulse; he is its soul.

Morikeba Kouyate

Kora

Sunpie Barnes

Band Leader

Barnes, in addition to being a musician and composer, is a naturalist, a full-time National Park ranger, a black-and-white portrait photographer, a television and film actor and a former professional football player with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Ellis Marsalis

Piano

Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of a musical family, with sons Branford Marsalis and Wynton Marsalis rising to international acclaim.

Will Smith

Mitchell Player

Bass

David Bandrowski

Guitar

A "savvy" and decidedly versatile guitarist" - Sing Out Magazine

James Andrews

Trumpet

f anyone can pull off aligning himself with the famous Louis Armstrong it‟s trumpet extraordinaire – James Andrews.

Glenn Andrews

Trombonist

Donald Harrison

Saxophone

Harrison has nurtured a number of young musicians including the young Grammy-nominated trumpeter Christian Scott (Harrison's nephew), as well as Mark Whitfield, Cyrus Chestnut, Christian McBride, and The Notorious B.I.G.