First Friday Jazz: Jeremy Pelt with Leighton Harrell and Aaron Seeber

Jeremy Pelt is one of the preeminent trumpeters within the world of jazz and was voted Rising Star on the trumpet, five years in a row by Downbeat Magazine. Both maverick traditionalist and forward looking modernist, he has worked with a great number of jazz legends while forging his identity as a band leader. Pelt has recorded ten albums and has toured globally with his various ensembles, appearing at many major jazz festivals and concert venues. As a sideman, he is a member of the Lewis Nash Septet and The Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band featuring Louis Hayes, and has worked with Cedar Walton, Ravi Coltrane, Frank Foster, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, John Hicks, Charli Persip, Ralph Peterson, Frank Wess, Nancy Wilson and The Skatalites, to name a few. Jeremy Pelt is also a gifted writer and was the subject of a recent New York Times piece about the trumpeters four volume series of written portraits entitled Griot: Examining the lives of Jazz’s great storytellers.