On a Sunday afternoon at 3:00 in Madison at the Community Arts Center on Kings Road, the winners of the New Jersey Jazz Society’s 2025 Juried Scholarship competition will perform with NJJS Advisor-Educator-Saxophonist Don Braden (who doubles on flute) and his band of seasoned industry professionals on trombone (Mariel Bildsten), trumpet (Ted Chubb), bass (Mary Ann McSweeney) and drums (Alvester Garnett). The winners are saxophonists Joseph Foglia/Nate Tota, vocalists Kyra Cioffi/Sophia Varughese and composers Matthew Cline/Aiden Woods. (The six winners are from William Paterson University in Wayne and Princeton.)
