Grammy-nominated arranger, composer, pianist, and conductor. Michael was the long-time Musical Director of the WDR Radio Big Band, and Associate Musical Director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop.

Grammy-nominated composer and bandleader, and leader of the internationally acclaimed 18-piece ensemble, Secret Society.

Grammy nominated saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator. Author of The Jazz Saxophone Book, faculty member at Queens College.

British composer, arranger, and, trombonist, Musical Director for the Kings Place Jazz Orchestra, and jazz trombone with Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra.

Violinist, violist, and composer, director of theBABAorchestra, and curator of the “Big Band Nights” music series in Los Angeles.

Flutist & composer, Sunnyside recording artist, Guggenheim Fellow, faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, and Altus Flutes & KHS America clinician.

Composer, arranger, conductor, and leading authority on the music of Duke Ellington and the Swing Era.

Award-winning trombonist and composer, leader of the Sam Blakeslee Large Group, and Director of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Big Band

Educator and percussionist, who has performed on many Grammy-winning albums.

Vocalist, composer, bandleader, and two-time winner of the Deutscher Jazzpreis

Award-winning composer, pianist, and bandleader, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program, and co-founder of Brava Jazz Publishing

Pianist, composer, bandleader, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory