Jason Palmer

Born: February 14, 1979

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".

The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn

By Jason Palmer

Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2024
Track listing: (First Set): B.A.M.D.; Same Bird; Do you Know Who YOU Are?; One for Fannie Lou; (Second Set): Beware of Captain America; For the Freedom Fighters; The Cross Over; It Very Well May Be So; More in Common.

Griot Songs

By Omar Thomas

Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Sun in September; Sail to the Moon; Obeah Woman; Nothing There; Episode d��Azure; The Path; A Touch of Obsidian, a Flash of Scarlet.

Sim��n Willson: Bet - Live at Ornithology

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 6, 2025

Simón Willson, cileno di nascita ma newyorchese d'adozione, �� un giovane contrabbassista che con questo Bet firma il secondo album a suo nome. Nel corso degli anni ha avuto modo di collaborare con musicisti quali Dave Douglas, Ethan Iverson, Jason Palmer e Frank Carlberg, fra gli altri. Qui dirige un quartetto decisamente classico, nella struttura quanto ...

Umbria Jazz 2025

by Libero Farn��
July 22, 2025

Umbria Jazz 2025 Varie sedi Perugia 11--20 luglio 2025 Basta scorrere il cartellone di Umbria Jazz 2025--soprattutto gli appuntamenti succedutisi al teatro Morlacchi, al Teatro Pavone e alla Sala Podiani della Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, ma anche le serate jazzistiche all'Arena Santa Giuliana--per rendersi conto di quanto quest'anno la programmazione fosse nutrita ...

Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity

by Jerome Wilson
May 1, 2025

Bassist Jeong Lim Yang is a member of the Brooklyn jazz scene who has worked with many different musicians such as Jason Palmer, Oscar Noreiga, and Kenny Wollesen. On her third album as a leader, she uses a quartet combining motion and atmosphere with melodic beauty elements. The quartet has Mat Maneri on viola, ...

Obeah Woman

April 29, 2025

Album: Griot Songs
By Omar Thomas
Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 12:08

Mark Turner: He's Here, He's There, He's Everywhere!

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 18, 2025

Mark Turner is so busy as leader, co-leader and special guest on countless new albums, that he--literally--seems to be here, and there, and everywhere (pretty much like Ted Lasso's Roy Kent!). Here is a quick guide to enjoying his current ubiquitousness!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng ...

Allison Miller and Michelle Dorrance at 92NY

by Paul Reynolds
February 7, 2025

Allison Miller and Michelle Dorrance 92NY “Rivers in Our Veins"New York, NY February 2, 2025 Jazz and tap have long been enthusiastic dance partners. With “Rivers in Our Veins," drummer and composer Allison Miller adds further art forms to the mix. The 80-minute piece celebrating America's waterways marries ...

Jason Palmer: The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn

by Troy Dostert
February 5, 2025

For a label that just got its start in 2018, it has quickly become evident that Giant Step Arts brings a potent, focused discipline to its documentation of some of the most distinctive jazz talents of our time. Rather than covering the field with as many different musicians as possible, the label's founder, Jimmy Katz, has ...