Barry Stephenson — artist
Barry Stephenson has performed with a who’s-who of internationally-recognized jazz, blues, and soul musicians, including Jon Batiste, Nicholas Payton, David Sanborn, Seal, the late Freddie Cole, Diane Schuur, Marc Cary, Jamison Ross, Sullivan Fortner, Jazzmeia Horn, Herlin Riley, the late Henry Butler, Mark Whitfield, Tim Warfield, Russell Gunn, Christian Sands, Cyrille Aimee, Etienne Charles, Marcus Printup, Davell Crawford, Rodney Green, and Theo Croker. He was awarded the ASCAP Foundation’s Louis Armstrong Award in 2011 and the Ernest O. and Shirley N. Svenson Jazz Composition Award in 2012.