Jonathan Saraga has competed internationally as a trumpeter and jazz musician, and has secured a first place title in the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition and has competed as one of 5 world-wide finalists in the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition. He not only holds Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees, but has performed at New York's Blue Note Jazz Festival, on WBGO 88.3FM, in a Paramount Pictures film, toured the United States with off-broadway productions and performed and recorded nationwide and internationally. He has shared the stage with many of the world's renowned jazz musicians, such as Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Greene, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farril, Ralph Peterson, Mulgrew Miller, and many more. He has performed at NY's most esteemed venues such as Birdland, the Blue Note, Smoke, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, The Jazz Standard, and Smalls, where his debut album as a leader, First Vision, had it's release.

The album, First Vision, which features all original compositions by Saraga showcases “highly creative playing and writing...all done with a strong and fresh ensemble concept,” as declared by Jon Gordon, and All About Jazz raves that the album is "skillfully conceived, exquisitely realized, artfully orchestrated", and that it "breathes spontaneous creativity." They go on to say that it features "stellar trumpet work, intriguing tunes, strong group chemistry,"  and hail it as "a stand-up-and-take-notice offering." They have even compared it to the music of Dave Douglas, Miles Davis' Nefertiti, John Zorn's Masada, and "the Blue Note records of the early 1960s."