This international all-star group brings together world-class jazz musicians from the U.S. and Europe who collaborate to create energetic, modern jazz of the highest caliber:

Vincent Herring has been one of the world’s leading saxophonists for four decades. Carrying on the tradition of Cannonball Adderley and known for his soulful and rousing playing, he looks back on an outstanding career and has collaborated with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Nancy Wilson, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Nat Adderley, Cedar Walton, Kenny Barron, and many others. For many years, he has shared a personal and musical friendship with vibraphonist, percussionist, and pianist Mark Sherman, a professor at the Juilliard School of Music and a celebrated jazz soloist in his own right. Sherman is closely connected to both worlds: on the one hand, he has worked with prominent classical music conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, and Herbert von Karajan; on the other hand, with jazz legends such as Kenny Barron, Peggy Lee, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Larry Coryell, Ron Carter, and many others.
Pianist David Kikoski is an internationally acclaimed jazz soloist who has toured with Roy Haynes, Bob Berg, Randy Brecker, Pat Martino, and the Mingus Big Band, among others, and is considered one of the greatest pianists of our time!

Mark Lewandowski (bass) and Bernd Reiter (drums) live in New York and are Europe’s leading rhythm section. They have collaborated with a long list of jazz legends and stars such as Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, the Mingus Big Band, Steve Grossman, Harold Mabern, Don Menza, and Cyrus Chestnut.

This quintet delivers rousing, energetic, and swinging music of the very highest caliber, performed with equal parts professionalism and enthusiasm—simply “Jazz at its Best”!