New York-based Chilean-born player Melissa Aldana has won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition held at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. The Berklee graduate played ‘I Thought About You' and her original 'Free Fall' the title track of her Inner Circle album released in 2010 in the final. The prize is a scholarship with the Monk Institute, and a recording contract with Concord.