Effective period / Period of releases: 2017

American trumpet player born in 1980 in New York. He is Professor for Jazz Trumpet & Ensemble at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston with Tiger Okoshi, Greg Hopkins, Phil Wilson. In 2003 he moved to Cologne. He has played with such musicians as Mark Murphy, Benny Golson, Florian Weber, Pablo Held und Thomas Rückert, Peter Herbolzheimer, Gerd Dudek, Wolfgang Lackerschmid and Manfred Schoof.