Jonathan Saraga

• 10+ years experience performing at high-profile weddings, parties, gatherings, and corporate functions
• Experience performing in front of thousands of people, celebrities and within high pressure environments
• Extensive knowledge and preparedness of musical repertoire in virtually any style/genre/era of music
• Attention to detail and thoroughness throughout every stage of your event's planning and execution
• Ease, consistency and clarity of communication throughout every stage of your event's planning and execution
• The highest level of artistry and professionalism you'd expect from a seasoned and experienced NYC-based jazz musician
• Ability to provide fully customizable ensemble types, including instrumentation, size and preference for musical repertoire
• Desire to provide you with an overall product that not only suits your vision and budget but that exceeds your expectations

Dr. Jonathan Saraga, a native of New York City, is an experienced and seasoned professional musician of 20+ years. He has performed in a Paramount Pictures film, on WBGO 88.3FM, at New York City's renowned Blue Note Jazz Festival, toured the United States with off-broadway productions and performed/recorded nationwide and internationally with artists whose cultures and musical genres span the world.

To date, Jonathan has served over 400+ clients, providing a wide variety of professional musical services and products within the greater New York area, and also globally. Having lived in New York City, and pursued a path within music and the arts for nearly 25 years, Jonathan has established relationships and collaborative conglomerations with driven, passionate and professionally seasoned musicians, artists, dancers, actors, and many other talented craftsmen and women, whose skills and expertise will exceed your expectations.

Saraga has performed in nearly 1,000 concerts, recorded on 30 studio albums, dozens of singles/EPs, and has appeared on 200+ YouTube videos. He has also received over 30 international competitive musical awards over the course of his career, including 8 for trumpet playing, 9 for composition/songwriting and 13 for overall musicianship.

He's been a part of national tours and international concerts held in places like Malaysia, France, Haiti, Canada and throughout the Caribbean, and has worked for acclaimed/Grammy-winning artists such as Brass Against, Eric Bergin, the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Birdland Big Band, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band to name only a few.

Jazz Journal (UK) has remarked that Jonathan's music is "intriguing" and that it "comes out of the speakers with a rare confidence and finish, but without the smuggery and sheen that a lot of contemporary jazz has in place of real content." Jazz Magazine (France) notes his group's “astonishing maturity” and Jazzwise (UK) states that they are "assertive" and "inventive."

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