St. Ygnacio Project

St. Ygnacio Project
$15,000
New York, NY

About the Artist

Marcos Varela-Marcos Varela is regarded as a master of both acoustic and electric bass and is among the most well respected bass musicians in the American and International Jazz scene. An active performer in the New York jazz and contemporary music scene, he regularly performs with The Mingus Big Band, John Holiday, George Cables, Ingrid Jensen, among countless others. He was selected as a member of ‪Jazz at Lincoln Center Trombonist Vincent Gardner’s Jazz Houston, which has featured
guests such as ‪Gregory Porter, ‪Wynton Marsalis, ‪Ruben Blades, ‪Jon Faddis, Jon Batiste, and ‪Ramsey Lewis.

Jongkuk Kim is an award-winning Billboard nominated drummer, improviser, composer, and electronic musician from Incheon, Korea who has become an integral voice in the contemporary jazz and improvised music scene in his home city and a rising star in the worldwide jazz community. He has distinguished himself as one of the leading voices of his generation and is now one of the most sought after jazz drummers in the world today with his name appearing in major publications such as
Billboard, Grammy and Vogue magazines.

Andrew Renfroe is best known as a first-call guitarist for artists including Braxton Cook, Keyon Harrold, Carmen Lundy, Rachel Eckroth, Ben Williams, Tia Fuller, Ned Goold and Jonathan Barber. A native of Jupiter, Florida, now based in Los Angeles by way of New York City, he is a bandleader of growing stature whose 2020 EP Dark Grey and 2021 full-length debut Run in the Storm have brought his interpretive and compositional gifts and complex yet highly melodic playing into stark relief.

Emilio Modeste-Emilio Modeste is a New York-based tenor saxophonist and composer. He is currently lead saxophonist in the bands of Stanley Clarke N 4EVER and Cindy Blackman Santana. Modeste has shared the bandstand with world-renowned musicians including: Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Buster Williams, Patrice Rushen, Lenny White, and many more. He spent his early musical years as saxophonist in the Wallace Roney Quintet. Modeste has traveled alongside the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on the road in the United States. His most formative years came from his time with Wallace Roney’s Quintet where he has performed throughout Europe, the USA and Canada, China and Mexico.