Still in her teens vibist Sasha Berliner from San Francisco has won the LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Award. A student of The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York as a consequence of winning Berliner will perform at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the D.C. Jazz Festival, the Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York City, the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival next year. Read more.