Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and is a two-time Edison Award winner. He has been named the Jazz FM Innovator of the Year and the Jazz Journalists Association Trumpeter of the Year

Festival Alumni: 2014 & 2017

Tarriona “Tank” Ball is a Grammy-winning poet, author, and frontwoman of New Orleans ensemble Tank and the Bangas—revered for her elastic, spoken-word-meets-soul delivery. With the band she won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest (2017), earned a Best New Artist nod (2020) and a Best Progressive R&B Album nomination for Red Balloon (2023), and took home the 2025 GRAMMY for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for The Heart, The Mind, The Soul. She’s also the author of Vulnerable AF (Audie-nominated audiobook) and host of PBS Digital Studios’ Webby-winning, Emmy-nominated Ritual.

Tarriona “Tank” Ball will be performing as a special guest of Chief Adjuah.

“Vocally, Bilal is untethered - there’s nothing he can’t do.  The jazz, soul, R&B, and hip-hop communities recognize his genius.  Bilal’s mastery doesn’t end with his voice.  For “Tell Me,” his performance accentuates the poetry of his lyricism.  That’s what makes him exceptional; You’ll never see him perform any song the same way twice.” - NPR Tiny Desk

Festival Alumni: 2014

"I think Revive has a keen understanding of the basic nature of the music, which is that it’s got to keep moving forward. Not decade-by-decade, or year-by-year, but every day."

Don Was, President of Blue Note

"Revive Music Group is giving a new generation of evolving musicians a platform to speak for themselves."

Steve Chambers, Wall Street Journal

"It was a familiar song, and the audience was fully on board, but the ideas were entirely new."

Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

Grammy Award winning Songwriter and Singer, Teedra Moses. Most notably known for her critically acclaimed debut album Complex Simplicity which spawned the classic Be Your Girl and gave birth to Be Your Girl (Kaytranada Remix). To date Moses has a vast catalog of 2 commercially released albums and 5 all original mixtapes.

Teedra Moses will be performing as a special guest of Revive Big Band.

A contemporary soul singer with a powerful voice and expressive skills refined in New York, this artist blends a modern taste distinct from a laid-back style yet deeply rooted in history. Born in Japan and having moved to New York alone, Nao’s encounter with soul music led to a pivotal moment where her heart synchronized with the Sam Cooke classic, inspiring her to create music that resonates deeply with people’s emotions. Despite being Japanese, she has a soulful voice reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, combined with a strength of character forged through life experiences as an outsider and overcoming adversities.

Nao will be performing as a special guest of Revive Big Band and also a full band set for the VIP after-party within Missy Lane’s.

NEA Jazz Master Big Chief Donald Harrison—New Orleans–born saxophonist, composer, and cultural leader—unveils his Omniverse Music multi-genre singles, including nine-style “The Magic Touch,” his 2024 Ropeadope release “The Art of Passion,” and the three-movement “Congo Square Suite,” reflecting his role as Big Chief of Congo Square. A pioneer of modern second-line, creator of Nouveau Swing, and explorer of “quantum jazz,” Harrison has collaborated with legends from Art Blakey to The Notorious B.I.G. and mentored future stars including The Notorious B.I.G. and Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott). His circle spans Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated artists such as Jon Batiste, Esperanza Spalding, Trombone Shorty, and Chief Adjuah, as he continues composing orchestral works and infusing hip-hop/jazz energy into the present moment.

To hear Kiefer live is to hear him in his element, and to hear that dynamic with his trio creates a whole new atmosphere for anyone lucky enough to witness. Something For Real, Kiefer’s first official live album, features audio captured during an intimate show in Los Angeles back in April of 2023. The show was recorded in secret, per Kiefer’s request– thus capturing a natural electricity between him and his trio, consisting of collaborators Luke Titus and Pera Krstajic. The project includes one brand new song in title track “Something For Real,” along with originals from Kiefer’s catalog and a stirring rendition of Bobby Hutcherson’s “Montara”. This live album was conceived as a project without rules: “three friends playing for each other, for fun. With friends, for friends. Something for real!”

The album follows the release of Kiefer’s triumphant NPR Tiny Desk on May 6th-- with support from his trio (Luke Titus, Pera Krstajic), and surprise guest appearances by supremely talented friends Charlie Hunter, Nate Smith, CARRTOONS, and Theo Croker.

Braxton Cook (born March 27, 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts)is an Emmy Award-winning, two time GRAMMY Award winning, NAACP Image Award-nominated artist, known for his world-class skills as an alto saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter, producer and composer. With a blend of jazz, soul, and alt-R&B, he has carved out a unique, melodic sound that has made him one of the most exciting voices of his generation.

Festival Alumni: 2015 & 2017

Butcher Brown’s limitless musical range shows no boundaries by genre and time. The Virginia-bred collective announces their new album Letters From The Atlantic will release on March 28 via Concord Jazz, offering a seamless blend of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, soul, bossa nova and more. The new record moves toward an indie groove, featuring female guest artists Yaya Bey, Melanie Charles, Leanor Wolf, Mia Gladstone, Victoria Victoria, along with Nicholas Payton & Neal Francis. Today, Butcher Brown shares the new single and video “Ibiza,” which follows last month’s “Montrose Forest.” Tapping into deep house music influences, “Ibiza” is a ubiquitous earworm that weaves a slick saxophone line through instrumental songscapes.

When it comes to innovative takes on R&B, you can't go wrong with Zo! and Tall Black Guy and their next-level creations that invoke the genre's classic sound while pushing it forward. So what happens when these two guys collaborate? You get a progressive joint album like Abstractions.

The set showcases the undeniable chemistry between the musicians while inviting a whole host of their friends — including Phonte, BeMyFiasco, Sy Smith, Omar, Darien Brockington, Muhsinah and many more — to play alongside them. This means that the fellas have all the talent they need to create music as beautiful as the artwork by Rachel Stewart that graces the cover.

Lead singles "Talkin' To Myself" and "Hold My Hand" already gave listeners the tone for the project, with the majority keeping things laid-back and mid-tempo. They further explore this when they get into tracks like "The Ride," which features Sy alongside rhymers Black Milk and Elzhi. The groove here is undeniable, with a bumpin' kick made to ride to as Sy delivers a staccato melody on the chorus while Black and Elzhi trade rhymes that pay tribute to Detroit with style.

Things heat up a bit more when Omar joins the fray on "I Love The Way." On the song, the duo matches the sensuality of his rich baritone with a smoldering bass-and-guitar led groove and percolating drums. By the time we get to the Josh Milan-featuring "Connected," however, the fellas are ready to party.

They mix a bit of downtempo house into the mix and while rounding out the groove with keys, warm synth flourishes and an elastic bass line that will have you running to hit repeat as soon as the final notes play.

Tomoki (they/them) was born in New York City, NY on November 13th, 1994. They started playing drums and percussions at the age of 4, and started Eb Clarinet at the age of 6. At the age of 10, their father got them an alto saxophone. Sanders switched to tenor saxophone at the age of 14. 
They had their first gig at the age of 13, and had been performing around various schools, venues, and clubs around the Kanto Region area in Japan. 
They had their first recording (as a sideman) with the psychedelic rock band TENGOKU BATAKE JAPON (天国畑JAPON) on their second album, “Karomi No Step" [かろみのすてっぷ]. 
In 2014, Sanders attended at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, studying performance and music production. Sanders studied with world-renowned musicians, such as Ralph Peterson Jr., Billy Kilson, Neal Smith, Tia Fuller, George Garzone, Frank Tiberi, Raydar Ellis, Jackie Beard, Divo Govoni, Shannon LeClaire, Dave Santoro, Ed Tomassi, Jim Odgren, etc. Sanders Graduated in 2018.
Sanders currently lives in New York City, performing alongside such as Pharoah Sanders, Kassa Overall, Moses Sumney, Ravi Coltrane, Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, Nikara Warren, Tatsuya Nakamura, Taylor McFerrin, Mark de Clive-Lowe , Raymond Mcmorrin, Tatsuya Nakamura (NEW YORK UNIT), KYOTO JAZZ SEXTET, Matthew Garrison, George Garzone, Hajime Yoshizawa, ROOT SOUL, Fumio Itabashi, TOKU, Jack DeJohnette Trio and Trap Music Orchestra, etc.

Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes is an award winning flutist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter whose style seamlessly blends jazz, hip-hop, and R&B influences. She began her musical journey at a young age and has since established herself as a prominent figure in the contemporary jazz and R&B music scenes, performing and touring in venues and festivals throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America. Described by The Guardian as the “most exciting and creatively assured jazz flutist to have emerged in years'', Elena has performed in venues and festivals including: Carnegie Hall, the White House, The Kennedy Center, Coachella Music Festival, and North Sea Jazz Festival.

Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics alongside high-level musicianship. He is also known for using his music to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change and works in the tradition of the black surrealists, those who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution. Pinderhughes is a prison abolitionist and an advocate for process over product. His music is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and vulnerable topics, and its careful details in word and sound. As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes—that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world.

The New York Times described Pinderhughes’ most recent album GRIEF as a “visionary” work from “one of the most affecting singer-songwriters today, in any genre” that “turn(s) the experience of living in community inside-out, revealing all its personal detail and tension, and giving voice to registers of pain that are commonly shared but not often articulated.”

J. Hoard is an NYC artist with gospel roots that inspired his tremendous love of all genres. His eclecticism yielded songwriting collaborations on Black Coffee’s Grammy-winning “Subconsciously” album and Chance the Rapper’s multiple Grammy-winning “Coloring Book” album. J. Hoard’s musical versatility is demonstrated on albums by Brasstracks, Kassa Overall, Meshell Ndegeocello, Cultura Profetica, Jose James and Endea Owens. From hip hop to Hammerstein, onstage is where J. Hoard shines best. In one performance his jazz harmony informed, gospel raised, rock influenced, classically instructed – sincerely one of a kind-  voice makes clear J.’s intent to connect to the audience and ensure whatever story is sung sounds tailor made. 

“J. Hoard, an exuberantly gifted young vocalist and songwriter who treats affirmation as an art form, has lately been leaving bread crumbs all over the New York City scene, collaborating with artists in jazz, rock, soul and electronic music.” Giovanni Russonello New York Times