Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, 19-year-old Jayla Chee took up the upright bass her sophomore year of high school after playing the trumpet. She has since then played music across the country as well as internationally, in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. She has shared the stage with the likes of Kurt Elling, Sean Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Derrick Hodge, Allison Miller, Randy Napoleon, Vince Lateano, Pasquale Grasso, and Andrew Speight. Jayla currently lives in California and New York, where she studies jazz bass at the Juilliard School with Gerald Cannon. Jayla also loves veggie gardening, and is excited to work with any new students!

You can contact Jayla at jayla@ymail.com