Researched musician profile
About Jason Palmer
New England Conservatory identifies Palmer as a trumpeter, composer, and educator who made Boston his home for more than two decades. Palmer’s own liner notes date his move from North Carolina to 1997, when he entered NEC’s jazz-trumpet program.[1][2]
The NEC profile documents a fifteen-year weekend house-band run for Palmer’s quintet at Wally’s Jazz Café as well as teaching at Berklee, Harvard, NEC, and other institutions. It also places composition and bandleading beside his extensive sideman work.[1]
NEC credits Palmer with fourteen albums under his own name. His artist-run Bandcamp includes Rhyme and Reason, Live in Brooklyn, Live From Summit Rock in Seneca Village, and The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella; Palmer’s liner notes explain how the last project responds to works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[1][3][2]
Boston since 1997
Palmer’s own project notes date his move for NEC study, while the conservatory documents the long local career that followed.[1][2]
Wally’s Jazz Café
NEC records a fifteen-year weekend house-band run for Palmer’s quintet at the historic Boston club.[1]
12 Musings for Isabella
Palmer composed a twelve-part project in response to works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[2][3]