Jarien Jamanila

Jarien Jamanila is a saxophonist from San Diego, California currently living in New York City. He’s set to graduate in 2021 from a 4 year program at Juilliard where he studies privately with Dan Block, Ben Wolfe and Geoffrey Keezer. Some of his mentors and teachers throughout the years include Gilbert Castellanos, Kamau Kenyatta and Charles McPherson, Wynton Marsalis and George Coleman. He’s had the opportunity to share the stage with Bobby Watson, Delfeayo Marsalis, Eric Reed, Gaslamp Quarter Jazz Orchestra and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Some of his influences include Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington.

Sarah Gooch

Sarah Gooch is a jazz drummer, educator and composer. Her love for jazz started at an early age when her grandfather introduced her to the sounds of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.  Within a year of moving to New York, Sarah began playing in a variety of ensembles. She has performed regularly as a sidewoman at venues such as Minton’s, Dizzy’s Club, and the Bar Next Door. Gooch has also played at the Exit Zero Jazz Festival with Bria Skonberg and several swing dance festivals around the world with the Gordon Webster Band. While living in North Carolina, she traveled around the state giving concerts/clinics at public schools and hopes to continue bringing jazz to young people in rural parts of New England. She is currently completing her Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from the Juilliard School and has a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro 18’. Sarah is a native of Cumberland, Maine.  

Jayla Chee

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, 19-year-old Jayla Chee took up the upright bass her sophomore year of high school after playing the trumpet. During high school she participated in programs such as Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, YoungArts, and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra. She has since played music across the country as well as internationally, in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. She has shared the stage with the likes of Kurt Elling, Sean Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Derrick Hodge, Allison Miller, Randy Napoleon, Vince Lateano, Pasquale Grasso, and Andrew Speight. Jayla currently lives in California and New York, where she studies jazz bass performance at the Juilliard School with Gerald Cannon

Bianca Norwood

Bianca Norwood (They/Them) is a gender fluid , multi-hyphenate actor from Fresno, California. They graduated from the Pacific Conservatory of The Performing Arts in 2017 and are in their final year of Actor Training at The Juilliard School. They are also a teacher in both acting and high school speech and debate during the summer months. They are passionate about telling stories that center those of us who carry multiple truths in one body or otherwise have a hyphenated identity locating them between two otherwise binary points. It is the absence of binaries that most inspires their work.