From Germany: Jeff Lorber performs Chinese Medicinal Herbs at Proberaum Zülpich, 2013, featuring Lorber (keyboards), Eric Mareinthal (soprano sax), Nate Phillips (bass) and Sonny Emory, (drums).

From Germany: Lynne Arriale performs her rendition of Here Comes the Sun at Jazzfest Bonn, 2012. From Post Tower, Bonn, in Northrhine Westfalia, Germany. Featuring Arriale (piano), Tony Lakatos (tenor sax), Martin Gjakonovski (bass) and Guido May (drums).

From the U.S.: Troy Roberts’ Nu-Jive 5 performs One Day Wonder in New York, June 26, 2013. Featuring Roberts (composer, tenor sax), Silvano Monasterios (keyboards), Eric England (bass), Sam Petitti (guitar) and David Chiverton (drums).

From the U.S.: Kam Falk submits an original song for the following 2016 contest using assets from Tarova, provided by Indaba Music and Snarky Puppy. Featuring Falk (producer, engineer, keyboards, synth solo) and Federico Himiob (rhythm guitar and guitar solo).

PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE PLAYER.

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From France: Marcus Miller performs Miles Davis’ So What, from the “Master of All Trades” concert, featuring Poogie Bell III (drums), Dean Brown (guitar), Roger Byam (saxophone), Bruce Flowers (keyboards) and Patches Stewart (trumpet).

From Canada: Jaco Pastorius (bass) performs at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 1982, with Peter Erskine (drums), Othello Molineaux (steel drums), Don Alias (percussion), Bobby Mintzer (saxophone) and Randy Brecker (trumpet).

From the U.S.: Native Tongue II released February 11, 2016. Featuring Gary Bivona (co-composer, guitar, lead and backing vocals), Alex Dean (tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax and vocalese), Julio Diaz (trumpet), Jorge Dobal (trombone), Chad Eisinger (drums), Clint Ettorre (electric guitar), David Gregorisch (electric guitar), Wade Judy (trombone), Sasha Dimitri Lo Medico (drums), Marcel Morejon (co-composer, lead and backing vocals), Jerry O’malley (drums), Jose Angelo Ortiz (lead and backing vocals), Drew Preston (electric guitar), David Torre (co-composer), Dorian Vaz (co-composer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar) and Ismael Vergara (tenor sax).

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Native Tongue II.

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From Russia: Linley Marthe (bass) performs an entire concert at Alexey Kozlov Club, with Gurgen Janguiryan (guitar), Ignat Kravtsov (drums), Nata Melody (vocals) and Valeriy Stepanov (keyboards) on September 9, 2013.

From the U.S.: The Zamar Odongo Collective performs their arrangement of Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island live at Berklee College of Music.

From Spain: Richard Bona and his band perform Teen Town by Jaco Pastorius in Pontevedra on July 23, 2014.