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Jason Palmer

Jason Palmer is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator whose Boston-rooted groups support an extensive catalog of original leader recordings.

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Career Overview

About Jason Palmer

New England Conservatory identifies Palmer as a trumpeter, composer, and educator who built a long Boston career after arriving for jazz study. Its biography documents a fifteen-year weekend house-band run at Wally’s Jazz Café and a substantial sequence of recordings under his own name.[1]

Palmer’s artist-run Bandcamp presents live and studio ensembles with complete personnel and listening. The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella gives the catalog a large conceptual frame, responding through twelve compositions to artworks stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Jason Palmer leader groups

Palmer’s catalog moves among studio groups and live ensembles while keeping his original composition and trumpet playing at the center.[1][2]

Quintet leader and trumpeter

Wally’s Jazz Café residency

Fifteen-year weekend house-band run

NEC records Palmer’s sustained Boston club residency as a working context for his ensemble writing and mentorship.[1]

Composer, leader, and trumpeter

12 Musings for Isabella

The twelve-part project uses individual works from the Gardner Museum theft as starting points for Palmer’s original compositions.[3]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2019

Rhyme and Reason

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Palmer’s artist edition presents a studio leader program with complete streaming, personnel, and composition credits.[2]

Release details

2020

The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn

Leader and trumpeter

This live album documents Palmer’s group in a New York performance setting distinct from his long Boston residency.[2]

Release details

2020

The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

The complete Bandcamp edition pairs Palmer’s twelve compositions with his own explanatory liner notes for the Gardner-inspired project.[3][2]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Stream Palmer’s live and studio leader projects with full personnel and release notes.

12 Musings for Isabella

Hear Palmer’s complete twelve-part Gardner Museum project through his artist-run edition.

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

Mark TurnerTenor saxophone · Composer12 shared current shows

Arturo SandovalTrumpet · ComposerShared documented roles: Trumpeter · Composer · Bandleader

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Charlie PorterTrumpet · ComposerShared documented roles: Trumpeter · Composer · Bandleader

Chief AdjuahTrumpet · Adjuah trumpetShared documented roles: Trumpeter · Composer · Bandleader

Gilbert CastellanosTrumpet · ComposerShared documented roles: Trumpeter · Composer · Educator

Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

[1] Faculty biography and Boston career history
New England Conservatory
[2] Official leader recording catalog
Jason Palmer
[3] 12 Musings for Isabella album and liner notes
Jason Palmer