Hailed by the media, native New Yorker and Berklee College of Music graduate Mark Whitfield is one of the most sought-after guitarists in the music industry.  He has collaborated with such iconic artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Carmen McRae, Gladys Knight, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Smith, Clark Terry, Shirley Horn, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Joe Williams, Stanley Turrentine and his greatest teacher and mentor George Benson.  Mark has recorded 14 solo recordings and numerous collaborative albums with such artists as Sting, Steven Tyler, D’Angelo, Mary J. Blige, John Mayer, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Diana Krall, Christian McBride, Chris Botti, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton.