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Jonathan Saraga is a New York City-based trumpeter, composer, arranger, producer, educator and Doctor of Musical Arts. He won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Solo Competition in 2007 and competed as a finalist in the 2009 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition. He has been selected for four intensive and/or residency programs including the 2011 School for Improvisational Music Summer Intensive Program, the 2015 Banff International Summer Intensive Program in Jazz and Creative Music, the 2019 Banff Early Fall Musicians in Residence program and the 2021 Chashama chaNorth Artist in Residence program. Additional residency related accolades include finalist status in the 2021 Haleakala National Park Artist in Residence program and waitlist status for the 2021 Millay Colony of the Art’s Core Residency program. Jonathan has also competed as a finalist in three jazz-trumpet vacancy auditions—the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (2020), U.S. Navy Band Commodores (2021) and the Air Force Academy Band (2021). In 2022, he became a selected member of the Recording Academy’s New York Chapter.

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Things Are Looking Up

By Jon Gold

Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: For Rudy Van Gelder; de_Facto; 750 Vallejo; Theme for Woody Shaw; Nitro; Carried by the Quietude; Theme for Gary Bartz; Tone Poem For Raul da Gama; Entropic Waltz; JG and_MZ Canja.

Song of the Day

Tribute To Rudy Van Gelder

May 1, 2026

Album: Things Are Looking Up
By Jon Gold
Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 6:07

Album

Things Will Pass

By Hyeseon Hong

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Road to Hana; Memoirs of Ladies; Raindrop’s Journey; Run Away; Waltzing with Dad; Treasure Hunt; Night Climbing; Dance with Dracula; We Will Meet Again.

Article: In Pictures

Dan Pugach Big Band at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
March 27, 2024

On March 22, 2024, two weeks to the day after Dan Pugach released his first big band record, the celebrated drummer-composer brought his large ensemble to The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook for an album release event that was a resounding success by any measure. That 90-seat venue--a performance space, museum and educational hub with a ...

Album

Live in Denver

By Jonathan Saraga

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023

Album

The New Day Bends Light

By Erica Seguine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Reel; States; Tangoing with Delusion; In Dreams; Ose Shalom; …and the Tire Swing Keeps Spinning…; The New Day Bends Light.

Album

Looking Out

By Alex Heffron

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Looking Out; Days to Refine; Sneffles; Ennui; Getting the Heart back; Home; Afterlight; A New Era.

Article: Album Review

Alex Heffron: Looking Out

Read "Looking Out" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
July 6, 2021

Based in Denver, Colorado, Alex Heffron is an imaginative guitarist and intelligent composer. His debut, the engaging Looking Out, demonstrates these talents amply. On it, Heffron leads a sextet consisting of like-minded musicians through an intriguing set of eight of his originals with elegant confidence and simmering passion. The title track opens the album ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Conversation with Douye

by UDEiGWE
November 18, 2018

Douye is a seasoned singer whose soulful and delicate approach to jazz vocal has captured the interest of many in the last year. Her chart topping album Daddy Said So features top notch jazz musicians including: Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Benito Gonzalez, Essiet Essiet Okon, Curry Rawls, Zem Audu, Joel Scott, Clayton Cameron, Edwin Livingston, Kiyoshi ...