John Sneider

John Sneider is a New York jazz trumpeter and composer known to his peers as a consummate sideman and studio player. He earned a degree in political science from the University of Rochester and a master's in jazz from the Manhattan School of Music, and won the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition in 1998. He has performed and recorded with Max Roach, the Mingus Big Band, Madeleine Peyroux, and the Saturday Night Live band, among many others. He leads his own quintet around the city and released The Scrapper, his first album under his own name in two decades, in 2020, more recently exploring a two-trumpet format with his son David Sneider.