An NEA Jazz Master, 16-time Grammy winner, prolific composer and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea has attained living legend status . . .
Stanley Clarke is nothing short of a living legend, having liberated the bass in much the same way that Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker liberated . . .
As one of the founding fathers of the musical movement that became known as “fusion,” Lenny White earned a worldwide reputation as the drummer in the mid-’70s supergroup Return to Forever . . .
An undisputed master of violin and a pioneer in the area of jazz-rock, Jean-Luc Ponty is widely regarded as an innovator who has applied his unique visionary spin to expand the vocabulary of modern music . . .
One of the elite guitarists in modern jazz, Frank Gambale continues to raise the bar for a generation of aspiring six-stringers with his unsurpassed fretboard facility. Gambale is simply one of the greatest guitarists walking the planet today . . .