Jason Palmer
Trumpeter | Composer | Educator Jason Palmer is one of the most in demand musicians of his generation. He has performed with Roy Haynes, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Smith (the organist), Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ravi Coltrane, Mark Turner, Jeff Ballard, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Common, Roy Hargrove, Lewis Nash.
Having made Boston, MA his home for the past 22 years, Jason was recently named to the inaugural class of the Boston Artist in Residence Fellowship for Music Composition. In 2011 and 2017, he was named a Fellow in Music Composition by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2014, Jason was honored as a recipient of the French American Cultural Exchange Jazz Fellowship where he collaborated with French pianist Cedric Hanriot, collaborating on an album entitled City of Poets and touring the United States and Europe. Jason won 1st Place in the 2009 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and was cited in the June 2007 issue of Downbeat Magazine as one of the Top 25 trumpeters of the Future.
In addition to performing on over forty albums as a sideman, Jason has recorded thirteen albums under his own name on labels Ayva, Steeplechase, Newvelle, and most recently with Giant Step Arts. Four of his recordings were reviewed by Downbeat Magazine, all receiving 4 stars or better. Jason has toured in over 30 countries with saxophonists Mark Turner, Greg Osby, Grace Kelly, and Matana Roberts, and has been a featured guest artist on multiple projects in Portugal, Mexico, Canada and Russia.
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- Zigsaw: Music of Steve Lampert by Neri Pollastri
- Dice of Tenors by Angelo Leonardi
- Event Horizon by Jerome Wilson
- The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella by Jerome Wilson
- Dice of Tenors by Jack Bowers
- Dice of Tenors by Friedrich Kunzmann
- The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella by Doug Hall
- Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert by Dan McClenaghan
- Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert by Karl Ackermann
- Rhyme And Reason by Angelo Leonardi
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October 18, 2004
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Location
Boston
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
I'm an assistant professor of ensembles at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.
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