calypso and Latin music. In 1962, he moved to New York, working with rock bands, but he listened to free-jazz saxophonists. He gained recognition for his work with Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis. He also worked with Jack McDuff, Andrew Hill, Gary Bartz, and Norman Connors. He recorded five albums for Muse between 1974 and 1977. In 2013 the honorees were all the festival supporters due to their 10th anniversary Saxophonist Eric Dolphy in 2015: An American free jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist, whose parents immigrated from Panama. He collaborated Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Booker Little. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. Pianist and Composer Randy Weston in 2016: American jazz pianist and composer, his father was Panamanian. Weston's music incorporated African elements. He collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, and Cecil Payne Weston began working professionally in R&B bands in the late 1940s before playing in the bebop outfits of Payne and Kenny Dorham. After singing with Riverside in 1954, he led trios and quartets and attained a reputation as a composer, contributing "Hi-Fly" and "Little Niles" to the repertoire. Vocalist Violeta Green in 2017: A native of Bocas del Toro, Cobra lived and worked throughout his life in the province of Colon and both Violeta and Cobra. Violeta gave to jazz in Panama its own hue. This has been documented properly in many hours of television tapes, as well as in an excellent work of investigation made by Gerardo Maloney, entitled “Tambo Jazz,” also made into an audio-visual production with the same title in the decade of years 90s. In 2018 the honorees were all the festival supporters due to their 15th anniversary Trombonist Alex Blake in 2019: Born 4 April 1926, in Panama City. He grew up on 20th street and Central Avenue, a half a block from the Teatro Presidente. He attended Gil Colunje Private Catholic School as a child and young man. He is one of the very last musicians still alive to come out of Panama's golden musical era of the 1940s and 50s.