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Alex Wintz

Born in California and raised in New York and New Jersey, Alex Wintz began playing guitar at the age of four. Over the years he has had the opportunity to learn and play numerous genres of music including jazz, pop/rock, and electronic music. Alex enrolled at the Berklee College of Music on a full tuition scholarship in the fall of 2006. Over the years he has been mentored by some of the best music educators across the country including Vic Juris, Hal Crook, Dave Santoro, Rick Peckham, Dave Stryker, and Joe Lovano. Alex is continued his studies at the Juilliard School where he graduated from the Master's Jazz program under the tutelage of Rodney Jones, Frank Kimbrough, Kenny Washington, Ben Wolfe, Ron Blake, and Frank Kimbrough. At a young age he has already had the opportunity to perform across the country and around the world, including Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and U.S

Collage

By Alex Wintz

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Pondhop; Apt 3C; Innings Eater; Better Half; The Shadow of Your Smile; The Wheels of Justice; Isn't It a Pity; It's Been a Minute.

Mark Gross: Jazz for Teens

by B.D. Lenz
September 8, 2026

For many young musicians, learning jazz is about much more than learning how to play an instrument. It's about developing confidence, learning to listen, finding your own voice, and discovering how to work with others.Few people understand that better than Mark Gross. As Director of Jazz Instruction at NJPAC, Gross has spent years helping ...

Alex Wintz: Collage

by Joshua Weiner
June 4, 2026

Grammy-nominated guitarist Alex Wintz is not only a frequent performer, both with his own group and with artists such as the trumpeters Etienne Charles and Jeremy Pelt and trombonist Nick Finzer, but also an educator on the faculty of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Jazz for Teens program and a clever composer. Collage features six ...

The Jazz Orchestra Volume 1

By Nick Finzer

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Say When; The Guru; Lament; We the People; Again and Again; Just Passed the Horizon.

Tomorrow's Another Day

By Jeremy Pelt

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ante Meridiem; No A.I.; Earl J; Amma Is Here; Milocraft (It’s a Cartoon World); People; Basquiat; Tomorrow’s Another Day.

Creole Orchestra Featuring René Marie

By Etienne Charles

Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old School; Poison; Think Twice; I Wanna Be Evil; Holy City; Ten to One Is Murder; Centerpiece; Douens; A Shade of Jade; Colorado River Song; Stompin' at the Savoy; Take My Breath Wway; Night Train.

7X7BY7

By Brian Lynch

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: In the Riv (7x3); High Point of the Hang (7x5); Sympathetic Vibrations (7x7); On the Silver Road (7x4); Academy Blues (7x8); Greeting on 87th St. (7x6); Finnegan’s Garden (7x9).

Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7

by Jack Bowers
December 13, 2024

The number seven, which for reasons shrouded in mystery, has long been considered a symbol of good luck, lies at the core of trumpeter Brian Lynch's latest album, 7X7BY7, which consists of seven themes performed by seven musicians with each number clocking in at precisely six seconds past seven minutes. Furthermore, it is said, “the...process [of ...

Etienne Charles: Creole Orchestra Featuring René Marie

by Chris May
June 12, 2024

Trinidad-born Etienne Charles has been fortunate in his associates during his development as a jazz musician. One of the first friends he made on arrival in the U.S.A. in the early 2000s to study at Florida State University was faculty member Marcus Roberts. Among much else, the pianist taught Charles the importance of keeping in touch ...