Robert Vega

Robert Vega is a Cuban-American trumpeter and composer based in Brooklyn, credited on records as Robert Mac Vega and Robert Mac Vega-Dowda. He works in a contemporary jazz idiom with a strong pull toward free improvisation, and he doubles on cornet. He has held the trumpet chair in saxophonist Neta Raanan's quintet, appearing with the group at The Jazz Gallery in 2024 and at Bar Bayeux alongside Noam Borns, Adam Olszewski and Gary Jones III. In 2023 he released "TW & S" under his own name, recorded with pianist Noam Avnon, bassist Itai Eliezri and drummer Gary Jones III, and in 2024 he played cornet on double bassist Nikos Chatzitsakos's album Tiny Big Band 2. He leads his own groups and works as a sideman around New York rooms including Close Up and Ornithology.