Leslie Havens, Bass Trombone and Tuba – of Marlborough, MA, is a member of many groups, including the Boston Brass Ensemble, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and the all-female big band Diva, with whom she’s recorded three CDs and performed concerts and jazz festivals in Austria, Canada, Columbia, Croatia, the Caribbean, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Jamaica, Switzerland, Turkey, the Ukraine and thirty states in the U.S. She has performed in Carnegie Hall with Arturo Sandoval, with Aretha Franklin at the Newport Jazz Festival and has toured Europe and South America with Paul Anka. She has performed with several Boston area symphony orchestras, theatre orchestras, big bands, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, the Monarch Brass Ensemble and has recorded CDs with the Jeff Holmes Big Band, Artie Barsamian’s Boston Big Band, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, singer Ann Hampton Calloway, and the Artie Shaw Orchestra. She has also performed with Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Natalie Cole, Jack Jones, Lorrie Morgan, the O’Jays, Kenny Rogers, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and others. Leslie teaches private brass lessons for Marlborough, Tahanto and Harvard Public Schools.