Jumaane Smith Quartet at Birdland Theater

Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award- winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielbergs West Side Story (trumpet solo actor), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American Idol.Jumaane has spent the last 17 years touring and recording with Michael Bubl as lead trumpeter and vocalist, was a member of Harry Connick Jr.s house band for the syndicated daytime TV show Harry, and the featured guest soloist for Jackie Evanchos, Songs of the Silver Screen world tour backed by a 60-piece symphony orchestra.Jumaane has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, Loews Regency, North Star Festival, Joes Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.Smith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, and many more...

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Jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith has performed on 5 GRAMMY Award- winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), 2 Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielbergs West Side Story (trumpet solo actor), at The White House, on the Today Show, Tonight Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, and American Idol.Jumaane has spent the last 17 years touring and recording with Michael Bubl as lead trumpeter and vocalist, was a member of Harry Connick Jr.s house band for the syndicated daytime TV show Harry, and the featured guest soloist for Jackie Evanchos, Songs of the Silver Screen world tour backed by a 60-piece symphony orchestra.Jumaane has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, Loews Regency, North Star Festival, Joes Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, and many more.Smith has worked with musical legends such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Christian McBride, Barbra Streisand, and many more. As a full scholarship recipient at the Juilliard School of Musics Jazz Studies program (2001-2005), Wynton Marsalis was Smiths primary trumpet teacher.

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