Max Seigel

Max Seigel is a bass trombonist and tuba player based in New York City since 2000, valued as both a solo voice and a foundation-anchoring big band player. He holds the bass trombone chair in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and has performed with the Roy Hargrove Big Band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under Wynton Marsalis, the Mingus Big Band, and the Carla Bley Big Band. Raised in Owenton, Kentucky, he studied at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music before earning a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 2008. As a composer and arranger he has written works commissioned by Slide Hampton, Kendrick Oliver, and Jeremy Pelt, and he leads his own quartet, which released the album Bluebird. He also teaches trombone at Temple University in Philadelphia.