Trumpeter | Composer | Educator Jason Palmer has performed with Roy Haynes, Wynton
Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ravi Coltrane, Jeff Ballard,
Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Common, Roy Hargrove, and Lewis Nash.

Having made Boston, MA his home for 22 years, Jason was 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, collaboration on an album 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 17 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 40 countries with saxophonists Mark Turner, Greg Osby, Grace
Kelly, Allison Miller, and Matana Roberts, and has been a featured guest artist on multiple
projects in Portugal, Mexico, Canada, and Russia.

For 20 years, Jason's quintet was the house band every weekend at Boston's historic Wally's Jazz
Café. He has presented his band at numerous clubs throughout the northeast United States
including the Tanglewood Jazz Fest, Sculler's Jazz Club, the Stone in NYC, the Jazz Gallery in
NYC, and the Beantown Jazz Festival. In 2007 Jason Palmer was commissioned by the Festival
of New Trumpet Music in NYC to premier a new work (based on a Sudoku game) for his quintet
at the Jazz Standard. The music from that suite was later featured on his 2016 recording on
SteepleChase entitled "Beauty 'n' Numbers: The Sudoku Suite".

In addition to a heavy performing schedule, Jason Palmer offers his passion for improvised
music as Assistant Professor of Ensembles and Brass at Berklee College of Music, Jazz Trumpet
Professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Ravenscroft visting Jazz Artist at
Arizona State University. Jason has also served as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University.
He has also served on the faculty at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New
York City. From 2008-2020 Jason served as a board member and VP of the JazzBoston
Organization, spear-heading many initiatives throughout the Greater Boston area that brought the
music and culture to the masses. Jason starred as the lead role in the 2010 film entitled Guy and
Madeline on a Park Bench directed by Damien Chazelle.