Davell Crawford, a Steinway & Sons Artist, and an all-around musical sensation, is one of the true genius wonders of the contemporary Crescent City music scene. Performing professionally since the age of seven, Crawford is considered to be one of the best keep secrets in "American Roots Music." He lives a quiet life away from the spotlight and rarely performs publicly, but he has enjoyed a wild widely acclaimed career as an entertainer.

Hailed as "The Prince of New Orleans," for his community and philanthropic work, Crawford has been awarded throughout the world as a musician and has performed extensively throughout the states and many countries including Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Russia, Brazil, Morocco among others at festivals, concert halls and clubs. Cited as one of the few musicians committed to keeping the piano sounds of New Orleans alive, he stands as one of the most versatile and most documented young pianists in America today. He's latest album is a collection of Christian music titled, Abide With Me, Hymns and Spirituals for Solo Piano, on the Steinway & Sons Record label.

Charles Turner, Brooklyn based jazz vocalist and songwriter has taken the New York City scene by storm. He has held residencies, hosted, and performed at venues such as Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Smoke Jazz club and the historic Minton's Playhouse in Harlem and has performed internationally from London to Seoul, South Korea.

His sophomore album, Single & In Love, produced by Grammy-Award winner, drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. has received critical acclaim. A Berklee College of Music Graduate, Turner has taught at The American School of Modern Music in Paris, France. Turner's passion to bring swing and jazz to listeners of all generations and backgrounds flows through his bands. He holds the torch of the past and brings it along into present day for all to experience, embrace, and to enjoy.

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Sheila Elaine Anderson - After spending seventeen years on the production and sales side of publishing, Ms. Anderson left to pursue a career in broadcasting. Always interested in jazz, in 1995 she joined the staff of WBGO, Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz After Hours and Salon Sessions. She has authored three books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005) (both published by Allworth Press) and most recently, The Little Red Book of Musicians Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012). In addition, she is the curator of the Newark Museum's Jazz in the Garden Series and a Columbia University Community Scholar. Ms. Anderson is an alumna of Baruch College, CUNY (B.A., English) and resides in Harlem.

Terell Stafford, acclaimed trumpet player based in New York, has been hailed as "one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, he combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford's exceptionally expressive and well defined musical talent allows him to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads.

Since the mid-1990's, Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson's Sextet, McCoy Tyner's Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Frank Wess Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford with the HamiltonClayton Jazz Orchestra, performed on Diana Krall's GRAMMY nominated From this Moment On (2006). John Clayton invited Stafford to perform with the Clayton Brothers Quintet and Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Stafford is a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and they were awarded a GRAMMY in 2009 for Best Large Ensemble, Live at the Village Vanguard. Stafford can be heard on over 130 albums including his own, BrotherLee Love, Celebrating Lee Morgan, which received a 47th Annual NAACP Image Award nomination. His most recent album, Family Feeling, is a BCM&D release.

Stafford is the Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet, and Managing and Artistic Director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia (JOP). Stafford is renowned in the jazz world as an educator, performer and leader and has received countless award nominations and accolades.

Terell Stafford was born in Miami and raised in Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Maryland in 1988 and a Masters of Music from Rutgers University in 1993.

Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, the world's foremost institution for the study of Jazz and modern American music in the spring of 1987. Shortly thereafter, he returned to his to his native New York to embark on a career as a Jazz Guitarist that has afforded him the opportunity to collaborate with such legendary artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Carmen McRae, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Smith, Clark Terry, Shirley Horn, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joe Williams, Stanley Turrentine and his mentor, the great George Benson.

In 1990 the New York Times dubbed Whitfield "The Best Young Guitarist in the Business". Later that year, Warner Bros. released his debut album "The Marksman". The success of his debut release led to a recording career that has produced a total of 16 solo recordings and a myriad of collaborative efforts with some of the most important artists in recent years; Sting, Steven Tyler, D'Angelo, Mary J. Blige, John Mayer, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Diana Krall, Christian McBride, Chris Botti, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton.

Big, bad beauty from Boise, Idaho, Emily Braden covers a lot of ground. Whether she's fronting an orchestra or leading a world-class trio in the heart of Manhattan, Braden has the innate ability to win the heart of any audience with her powerhouse vocals and striking stage presence.

Winner of New York City's prestigious "Best of the Best" Jazzmobile Vocal Competition, Braden's signature sound is an effortless blend of jazz and soul. Before the COVID-19 global pandemic, Braden toured regularly and could be seen every first Friday at NYC's famed 55 Bar. She has been the recipient of two US Embassy Art Envoy program grants and has performed at NYC's Blue Note Jazz Club, Birdland Jazz Club and Minton's Playhouse as well as on international festival circuits.

See Braden live and she'll make you a believer. This girl is smokin', smokin' hot. On Saturday September 11, Emily will open the New Brunswick day of the 2021 Central Jazz Festival with Misha Piatigorsky on piano, Danton Boller on bass and Rudy Royston holding it down on the drums and cymbals.

Performing in between sets.

Since 2010 the New Brunswick Jazz Project has successfully fostered a supportive environment for regular live jazz performance in the New Brunswick area. NBJP partners, Jimmy Lenihan, Virginia DeBerry and Mike Tublin have gone from producing two jazz shows a month, to offering free, world class jazz performances four nights a week, year round.

Over the past eight and a half years, NBJP has presented more than 1000 events with world-renowned veteran musicians and emerging artists. Ravi Coltrane, Arturo O'Farrill, Ralph Peterson, Dave Stryker, Roseanna Vitro, Jerry Weldon, Akiko Tsuruga, Dezron Douglas, Freddie Hendrix, Joe Magnarelli, Ethan Cohen, Winard Harper, Kenny Davis, Tia Fuller, Vic Juris, Orrin Evans, Jerry Weldon, The Curtis Brothers, Sean Jones, Myron Walden, Virginia Mayhew, Ralph Bowen and Conrad Herwig are among the acclaimed national and international jazz artists and special guests who have performed for NBJP.

Live, straight ahead jazz is presented weekly at Garden State Ale House, INC Restaurant, the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick and Tavern on George. (Full Schedule - http://nbjp.org) The New Brunswick Jazz Project has created a real jazz scene and now regularly draws guests from all over the state, as well as New York and Pennsylvania, to Central Jersey to enjoy this quintessential, uniquely American music.

". . .New Brunswick has now become a destination for jazz." ~ The New York Times

"The New Brunswick Jazz Project is quickly becoming New Jersey's freshest jazz presenters..." -The Star Ledger

Marcus Printup, is a long-standing trumpeter with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALC), as well as a composer, arranger, a graduate of University of North Florida and the winner of the prestigious International Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet Competition. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz icons Betty Carter, Marcus Roberts, and many others. He has written over 40 compositions for the JALC. Mr. Printup is in demand as a facilitator/educator for clinics and masterclasses and is involved with educational programs such as JALC's Essentially Ellington Competition and Swing University, among others. Mr. Printup is currently an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Trumpet at Montclair State University.

The Marcus Printup Quintet with special guest, Riza Printup on Harp and directed by trumpeter Marcus Printup will include the great drummer Willie Jones III, alto saxophonist Emilio Modesto, pianist Mika Nishimura and bassist Sean Conly.

Riza Printup, jazz harpist, composer and arranger, is founder of the I Have A Song Inside My Heart™ program from which "Jazz Storytime with the Printups" has derived. In addition to performing and/or recording with major figures of the music world from jazz to opera --from Paquito d’Rivera to Kathleen Battle -- she continues her work as an Educator (Grades PreK-5). Ms. Printup served as Director of Early Childhood Music and Orchestra at The Greater Atlanta Christian School (Atlanta, GA), and Director of Strings at The Cicely Tyson School of Performing Arts (East Orange, NJ). Riza was also an Instructor for the WeBop program at Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York, NY). She is the author of two children’s books Theodore and Hazel and the Bird (2016) and The Great Big Spider & The Waterspout Blues (2019). Riza has a BA in Music from Columbia College, Chicago and has pursued her Master of Music degree at Georgia State University.

The Printups are a husband and wife team: In 2019 Marcus and Riza established RiMarcable Music For Arts & Education (a 501 C3 non-profit organization) to enrich and educate young audiences through the music of jazz. Together the Printups created RiMarcable Publications LLC through which they publish their children’s books and arrangements for big band and jazz combos. And, Marcus is a consultant on Riza’s I Have a Song Inside My Heart™ team. Riza engages with the members of the Marcus Printup Quintet when she leads "Jazz Storytime with the Printups."

John Messenger currently serves as the Director of Bands at Metuchen High School, in Metuchen, NJ. As the Director, he oversees Metuchen High School Jazz Ensemble, the Pride of Metuchen Marching Band, Metuchen HS Percussion Ensemble, and the Metuchen HS Winter Guard programs. John also directs the Elementary Band Program for the Metuchen School District. John is extremely active in the local music education community, as he currently serves as Director of Brass Studies for the Professional Music Academy of Woodbridge, New Jersey; and as the Director of the Professional Music Academy Summer Festival Band. In 2014, he was named a Magic 98.3 Teacher Who Makes Magic.

For more than two decades, Orrin Evans has made an art form of the unexpected. With more than 25 albums to his credit without ever relying on the support of a major label, Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who's made a habit of rattling the jazz world's confining cages. That determination has paid off in accolades like topping the "Rising Star Pianist" category in the 2018 DownBeat Critics Poll.

Evans' broad-minded, provocative approach has led to a stunning variety of collaborations with a who's-who of modern jazz including Nicholas Payton, Sean Jones, JD Allen, Christian McBride, Buster Williams, Kevin Eubanks among countless others.

His most recent release, The Magic of Now on Smoke Sessions label, features veterans Vicente Archer on bass and Bill Stewart on drums, as well as highly acclaimed newcomer Immanuel Wilkins on sax, where Evans sharpens his focus as both player and bandleader.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a family of singers and ministers, Dara Tucker is making her mark in the world of music by blending the melodic and lyrical richness of the central plains with the soulful strains of the Black American experience as a vocalist, songwriter and band leader. Her most recent recording, Dreams of Waking: Music for A Better World, highlights the call for change that has swept across The United States in recent years.

Tucker presents reimagined classic singer-songwriter and soul compositions of the protest era through the lens of jazz. For this project collaborators include pianists Cyrus Chestnut and Sullivan Fortner, bassists Dezron Douglas and Vicente Archer, drummers Johnathan Blake and Joe Dyson along with saxophonist John Ellis and trumpeter Giveton Gelin. As an independent artist and bandleader, Dara has toured nationally with her own bands and with hybrid guitarist Charlie Hunter's group.

After spending seventeen years on the production and sales side of publishing, Ms. Anderson left to pursue a career in broadcasting. Always interested in jazz, in 1995 she joined the staff of WBGO, Newark, New Jersey where she hosts Weekend Jazz After Hours and Salon Sessions. She has authored three books: The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac (2003), How to Grow as A Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (2005) (both published by Allworth Press) and most recently, The Little Red Book of Musicians Wisdom (Skyhorse Press, 2012). In addition, she is the curator of the Newark Museum's Jazz in the Garden Series and a Columbia University Community Scholar. Ms. Anderson is an alumna of Baruch College, CUNY (B.A., English) and resides in Harlem.