Miles Davis Centennial Celebration featuring Jeremy Pelt

A prodigious trumpeter, producer, and composer who has been at the center of the New York jazz scene for a quarter century, Jeremy Pelt has released some two dozen albums as a leader exploring a wide array of instrumental settings. The Los Angeles native has traversed similarly expansive terrain as a sideman on more than five dozen recordings with both veteran masters — including Gerald Wilson, Cedar Walton, Louis Hayes, and Wayne Shorter — and contemporaries such as Camille Thurman, Somi, and Jaleel Shaw.

Equally eloquent delivering a ballad or tearing through a post-bop harmonic steeplechase, Pelt is also a founding member of the all-star Black Art Jazz Collective alongside drummer Johnathan Blake and tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery. Embracing his role as an established veteran, he mentors younger players while sharing wisdom gleaned from well-traveled cats in his book series, Griots: Examining the Lives of Jazz’s Great Storytellers, featuring interviews with jazz masters. Many of the veterans he’s interviewed are Miles Davis alumni, and Pelt is uniquely prepared to celebrate Miles’ centennial both as both a player and raconteur.

Jeremy Pelt Website

Personnel:

• Jeremy Pelt, trumpet
• Additional personnel TBA