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<\/a>Al Foster Quartet with Wallace Roney:<\/strong><\/p>\n American jazz drummer and personality Al Foster is the only musician to have played with Miles Davis both in his funk fusion group in the 1970s and during his comeback in 1981. His versatile style of jazz to bebop to rock made him an integral part of the ensembles of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson. Wrote Davis in his 1989 autobiography, \u201cHe had such a groove and he would lay it right in there. Al could set it up for everybody else to play off and just keep the groove going forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Wallace Roney, a student of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, holds the prestigious anecdote of being the only trumpeter Davis ever personally mentored. After Davis\u2019s death, Roney joined Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams and toured the world in tribute to the legend.<\/p>\n The two\u2019s performance at this year\u2019s festival will no doubt be a spectacular collaboration of old and new, bringing with them the nostalgia of the genre\u2019s best and most revered together with the scope and vibrancy of fresh sound.<\/p>\n Their ensemble includes Al Foster on drums, Wallace Roney on trumpet, Douglas Weiss on Bass, Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, and Adam Birnbaum on piano.<\/p>\n Branford Marsalis Quartet:<\/strong><\/p>\n American saxophonist, composer and bandleader Branford Marsalis is considered one of the most esteemed instrumentalists of his time. The three-time Grammy winner and Tony award nominee (For his Broadway debut as composer of original music for the August Wilson play \u201cFences\u201d), today Marsalis is the leader of one of the most renowned jazz quartets around. For the sake of some more awesome name-dropping, Marsalis also recorded and performed with Davis, Gillespie, Rollins and Hancock, as well as artists such as Sting and the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n Jo\u00e3o Bosco<\/strong><\/p>\n Renowned Brazilian guitarist and singer-songwriter Bosco will also be gracing the festival stage. A versatile musician and charismatic performer, Bosco infuses bossa nova, Arabic, Afro-American and Brazilian style into his music. He will be joined by Ricardo Silveira on guitar, Jo\u00e3o Baptisa on bass, Kiko Freitas on drums, and Armando Mar\u00e7al on percussion.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>