SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Spring Concert 2026

You’ll Always Be With Me comp. Armaan Mishra
Performed by Armaan Mishra (keys), Sai Ray (trumpet), Yoav Konig (bass), Ben Gleason (drums) 

Donna Lee comp. Charlie Parker, arr. Matt Catingub
Soloists: Trombone Section (Ryan Cunningham, Vidushee Bala, Matthew Vasquez, Hani Khayatei Houssaini, Aidan Peng, Ryan Luong), Yoav Konig, bass, Armaan Mishra, piano, Ben Gleason, drums 

I Remember Clifford Interlude comp. Benny Golson, arr. Levi Freedman
Performed by Levi Freedman (bass) 

Spectrum comp. and arr. Ray Brown 
Soloists: Javier Gutierrez (tenor sax), Levi Freedman (bass) 

I’m All Smiles comp. Michael Leonard & Herbert Martin, arr. Peter Martin
Featuring: Madison Lazark, vocal
Soloist: Evan Wiederanders, piano

Resolution comp. John Coltrane, arr. Bob Mintzer 
Featuring: Joshua Prabhakar, vocal
Madison Lazark, vocal
Soloist: Javier Gutierrez (tenor sax) 

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Mirror Gazing comp. Sai Ray
Performed by Sai Ray (trumpet), Evan Wiederanders (piano), Yoav Konig (bass), Ben Gleason (drums) 

Isotope comp Joe Henderson, arr. Kai Doitel
Performed by Kai Doitel (trumpet), Javier Gutierrez (sax), Ryan Cunningham (trombone), Evan Wiederanders (piano), Yoav Konig (bass), Lucas Quan (drums) 

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Night Visions comp. and arr. Steve Wiest
Soloists: Sai Ray (trumpet), Tyler On (alto sax), Adam Lin (soprano sax), Amaru Duran (percussion), Lucas Quan (drums) 

Somewhere Down the Mystic comp. Lizz Wright, David Batteau and Larry Klein, arr. Vince Mendoza
Featuring: Lizz Wright, vocal
Soloist: Kai Doitel, trumpet 

Afro Blue comp. Mongo Santamaria, arr. Vince Mendoza
Featuring: Lizz Wright, vocal
Soloists: Dustin Mincey (trumpet), Matthew Vasquez (trombone) 

The Intimacy of the Blues comp. Billy Strayhorn, arr. Tommy Newsom
Soloists: Joel Cooper (guitar), Nate Marcus (baritone sax), Ryan Cunningham (trombone), Hani Khayatei Houssaini (trombone), Iris Chen (tenor sax), Manvik Nelcanti (tenor sax), Evan Mendel (trumpet), Javier Gutierrez (tenor sax), Levi Farrar (lead trumpet) 

Saxophone
Adam Lin alto
Tyler On alto
Javier Gutierrez tenor 
Iris Chen tenor
Manvik Nelacanti tenor
Nate Marcus baritone 
Andy Huang flute 

Trombone
Hani Khayatei Houssaini  
Matthew Vasquez
Vidushee Bala
Ryan Cunningham
Aidan Peng  
Ryan Luong Bass Trombone 

Trumpet
Levi Farrar
Sai Ray
Dustin Mincey 
Abigail Hogg 
Evan Mendel
Kai Doitel 

Rhythm
Joel Cooper guitar
Evan Wiederanders piano
Armaan Mishra piano
Yoav Konig bass
Levi Freedman bass 
Axl Orion Manalili bass
Benjamin Gleason drums 
Lucas Quan drums 
Amaru Duran percussion
Joshua Prabhakar voice  
Madison Kate voice 

Paul Contos has been involved in jazz performance and education for nearly fifty years. His contributions to the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Education Program as Saxophone Clinician and Director of both The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra and Monterey County All-Stars are distinguished and thoroughly comprehensive. 

Contos is a faculty member at University of California, Santa Cruz and California State University, Monterey Bay, having singularly developed the curriculum for the Music Recording/Technology Concentration at CSUMB. He is also a founder of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz.  Contos has received performer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2017 received DownBeat Magazine’s Jazz Education Achievement Award. He also serves as Artist in Residence for the California Arts Council. 

Contos has played and recorded with many of the Bay Area’s finest jazz artists, including Ray Drummond, Eddie Marshall, and Madeline Eastman, and has shared the stage with such luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, Regina Carter, Wayne Shorter, and many others.