Jason Palmer

Jason Palmer is a trumpeter, composer, and educator active on the New York and Boston jazz scenes. Born in High Point, North Carolina, he moved to Boston as a teenager to study at the New England Conservatory and became a fixture at Wally's Cafe, where his quintet held a weekend residency for two decades. He won first place in the 2009 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and was cited by Downbeat as one of its Top 25 Trumpeters of the Future in 2007. Palmer has recorded prolifically as a leader for labels including SteepleChase, Newvelle, and Giant Step Arts, whose 2019 double album Rhyme and Reason paired him with Mark Turner, Matt Brewer, and Kendrick Scott, and he has performed alongside Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Ravi Coltrane, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He teaches at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory.