Jeremy Pelt

Jeremy Pelt in 2007 at Village Vanguard

Jeremy Pelt, Jazzkeller , Frankfurt am Main, 2017

Jeremy Pelt (* 4. November 1976 in California ) is an American jazz - trumpet and flugelhorn player .

Live and act

Jeremy Pelt plays in the tradition of hard bop legends Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard . He had classical trumpet lessons in elementary school, but later concentrated on jazz. He then studied jazz improvisation and film music at the Berklee School of Music in Boston , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts .

After graduation , Pelt moved to New York City , where he worked. a. with Jimmy Heath , Frank Wess , Charli Persip , Keter Betts , John Hicks , Winard Harper , Lonnie Plaxico , Cedar Walton , Roy Hargrove , Ravi Coltrane , Greg Osby and Cassandra Wilson ; In the early 2000s he played with Ralph Peterson ( The Art of War , 2001) and in the Mingus Big Band ( Tonight at Noon , 2001). He also worked in 2001 on the album Pharoah's Children by JD Allen III and Dreaming of Cannonball by Louis Hayes . In 2002 he became a member of Vincent Herring's band and was a member of Frank Foster's Big Band ( We Do It Diff'rent ); there was also a first album under his own name on Fresh Sound Records ( Profile ), u. a. with Ralph Peterson. In 2002 the album Insight followed on the Criss Cross Label . In the same year he played on the album Brotherhood by Marcus Strickland and worked on Wayne Shorter's Verve album Alegria .

In 2003 Pelt recorded another album with Mulgrew Miller , David O'Rourke , Peter Washington and Lewis Nash ( Close to My Heart ) and worked on the album Intuition by tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery . In 2004 he worked on Vincent Herrings album "Mr. Wizard" and accompanied the singer René Marie ( Serene Renegade ). In 2005 he was a member of Gerald Wilson's Big Band ( In My Time ). He also worked with Nicola Angelucci and Gerald Cleaver ( Live at Firehouse 12 ).

Discographic notes

• Profile (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2002)
• Insight (Criss Cross, 2002)
• Close to My Heart (Maxjazz, 2003)
• Identity (Maxjazz, 2005)
• Shock Value: Live at Smoke (Maxjazz, 2007)
• November (Maxjazz, 2008)
• Men of Honor (HighNote, 2009)
• The Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote, 2011)
• Soul (HighNote, 2012), with JD Allen III , Danny Grissett , Dwayne Burno , Gerald Cleaver , Joanna Pascale
• Water and Earth (HighNote, 2013)
• Face Forward, Jeremy (HighNote, 2014)
• Black Art Jazz Collective: Presented by the Side Door Jazz Club ( Sunnyside Records , 2016), with Wayne Escoffery , Xavier Davis , James Burton III , Vincente Archer , Jonathan Blake
• The Co-Op (Brown Brothers Recordings 2017)
• Make Noise (HighNote, 2017)
• Noir En Rouge - Live in Paris (HighNote, 2017), with Victor Gould , Vicente Archer , Jonathan Barber , Jacquelene Acevedo
• The Artist (HighNote, 2019), with Victor Gould, Vicente Archer, Allan Menard , Alex Wintz , Chien Chien Lu , Frank Locrasto
• The Art of Intimacy (HighNote, 2020)

literature

• Bielefeld catalog. 2002.
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

Commons : Jeremy Pelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by Jeremy Pelt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jeremy Pelt's website
• Podcast 21: Interview with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. Burning Ambulance, July 19, 2018, accessed July 20, 2018 .