Abdias Armenteros

Abdias Armenteros is a tenor and soprano saxophonist who holds a chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and co-leads the collective trio New Jazz Underground. That group, with bassist Sebastian Rios and drummer TJ Reddick, came together among Juilliard students who played in New York City parks in 2020, built a large audience through its YouTube channel, and won the DCJazzPrix in 2023. Their music sets blues, swing, and improvisation alongside hip-hop, pop, and Afro-Latin rhythms. A Miami native, Armenteros played in the New World School of the Arts big band that took top honors at Essentially Ellington in 2016, then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in jazz studies at Juilliard. He has also performed with Ben Vereen, Aloe Blacc, Victor Lewis, and Arlo Parks.