Yoshitaka "Z2" Tsuji came to New Orleans from his native Osaka, Japan, and has impressed audiences since Day 1 with his huge talent as a pianist and composer. Tsuji, better known as Z2, gained fame as the pianist with Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, but has also e... Read more

Simon Lott is a drummer extraordinaire, a multi-persona with musical sensibilities that range from rock solid grooves to adventurous melodic electronic experiments. Lott has been a go-to drummer for local combos and for major stars: Sandra Bernhard, Harry Shearer, Joan Rive... Read more

Peter Harris lays down deep jazz bass grooves with his own acclaimed ensembles and for a host of top-named talent – Germaine Bazzle, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Herlin Riley, Ellis Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Don Vappie, and Nicholas Payton. The New Orleans native has... Read more

Oscar Rossignoli, a native of Honduras, is an in-demand pianist and composer who has been based in New Orleans since 2015, when he arrived to study at the University of New Orleans. Rossignoli folds many traditions into his music, from his classical music formation to his p... Read more

Trumpeter Leroy Jones has embodied the spirit of New Orleans traditional jazz for over fifty years. His musicianship and dedication to forwarding the traditional jazz genre has won him an enthusiastic following around the world and induction into the New Orleans Jazz Hall o... Read more

Kevin Louis is an accomplished trumpeter and leader of the Preservation All-Stars, an adjunct of the Preservation Hall family. He has toured around the world with heavy hitters like Jimmy Heath, Nicholas Payton, Mos Def, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and always brings a... Read more

Jesse McBride is an exciting and adventurous pianist and bandleader; the Tulane professor brings the legacies of jazz fathers Ellis Marsalis and Harold Battiste to his own thoughtful and forward-moving piano style and is committed to developing the next generation of jazz m... Read more

Jelani Bauman is a fifth-generation New Orleans musician, with a lineage that includes early brass band pioneer J. B. Humphrey and trumpeter Emery Humphrey Thompson. Bauman expertly weaves his ancestral experiences into his contemporary jazz trumpet performances and composi... Read more