2025 Next Jazz Legacy Cohort @ The Jazz Gallery - May 14, 2025

The 2025 Next Jazz Legacy cohort makes their debut with a set of original music.

May 14, 2025 at The Jazz Gallery, NYC

Introduction by Terri Lyne Carrington, Artistic Director of Next Jazz Legacy

Lineup:
DoYeon Kim - gayageum
Carmen Quill - upright bass
Melissa Almaguer - tap dance/feet percussion
Chanelle Ignant - guitar
April May Webb - voice
Nora Stanley - alto saxophone
Brenda Navarrete Guzman - percussion
Terri Lyne Carrington - drums (special guest!)
Alexandra Ridout - trumpet (not performing)

Video c/o The Jazz Gallery

About Next Jazz Legacy:

Next Jazz Legacy is a national apprenticeship and mentorship program designed to elevate emerging jazz improvisers. The program’s mission is to increase opportunities for musicians who will contribute to a vibrant and inclusive jazz future, and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole jazz community.

Next Jazz legacy invests in its awardees through a comprehensive support package that includes intergenerational apprenticeships and mentorship, showcases, cohort learning, and an unrestricted grant that contributes to awardees’ creative and professional development.

Next Jazz Legacy is a partnership between New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington is the program’s Artistic Director. Next Jazz Legacy welcomes applications from musicians of all gender and sexual identities to achieve the goal of true gender diversity in the field.