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Allison Philips

Allison Philips is a Brooklyn-based trumpet player, composer, and educator. Philips is a trumpet player’s trumpet player. From the traditional trio setting to genre-bending explorations via electronics, Allison is always searching for new ground.

Jazz Scene has called The Allison Philips Trio “an invigorating list​en that probes, as Ornette Coleman did, the line between song and sonic exploration.” The group released their first EP in 2017 and will be releasing their first album “Placement and Longing” in 2021. Philips also co-leadsthe “DeiCont | Philips Collective” a group which Hot House Magazine has called “one of the most exciting emerging groups in NY”. The Allison Philips Trio and the DeiCont | Philips Collective have toured domestically and throughout Europe and Canada.

Allison has also performed with Sara McDonald’s “NY Chillharmonic”, The Chronometer’s Orchestra, Phil’s Music Lab, Charlie Rosen’s Broadway Bigband, the BVR Flamenco Orchestra, Zulema’s Mambo Queens, and many others. She has performed on many acclaimed stages, including The Bimhuis, The North Sea Jazz Festival, The Bern Jazz Festival, The Festival of New Trumpet Music, Le Poisson Rouge, PENG Festival, 54 Below, The Jazz Standard, NJPAC, and many others.

Philips holds a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City and an MM in Jazz Performance from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Philips was the 2016 recipient of the Hal Leonard Collegiate Scholarship. She has studied under several trumpet luminaries including Laurie Frink, Ingrid Jensen, Chris Jaudes, Tatum Greenblatt, Joe Magnarelli, Jimmy Owens, Ruud Breuls and Jan Oosthof. Between teaching and performing throughout Europe and North America, Allison spends her time commuting on her bicycle in Brooklyn and eating at B&H Dairy in the East Village.

Awards

2016 Hal Leonard Collegiate Scholarship


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Album Review

The NYChillharmonic: Mean

Read "Mean" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Having toured across five continents, you have to figure that no matter what musical element dares to share physical space within Brooklyn keyboard/vocalist Sara McDonald's brain-bending flight path, it is going to be grabbed by the scruff of the neck and turned it into something forceful. Something fierce. Something startlingly her own. Leader of the eighteen piece, (sometimes twenty, sometimes more or less), orchestral-punk-prog-jazz-rock the NYChillharmonic, McDonald unveils the utterly invigorating “Mean," a churning, sawing, simmering shard of ...

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Allison Philips Trio: Allison Philips Trio

Read "Allison Philips Trio" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Straddling her residencies between New York City and Amsterdam, trumpeter Allison Philips has been performing since age fourteen, eventually landing at venues that have included Le Poisson Rouge, Iridium, and The Jazz Standard. Leading a quartet, she played the 2014 Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Philips has a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and is working toward Masters in Jazz Performance at The Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. Her debut album, ...

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"Philips' asserts herself without coming off as domineering, blends pressure and polish into her style, pits space and time against each other, and demonstrates all the while that shape and substance are mutable ." (​Jazz Ed Magazine)

​"It is an invigorating list​en that probes, as Ornette Coleman did, the line between song and sonic exploration" (Tree Palmedo - Jazz Scene)

Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Credentials/Background

Masters in Jazz Trumpet Performance from Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Bachelors in Jazz Trumpet Performance from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Flexible hours. 30 euros an hour

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mean

Self Produced
2020

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Allison Philips Trio

Flea Boy Records
2016

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