Jason Palmer

Jason Palmer has worked with Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ravi Coltrane, and Mark Turner, among many others.

Having made Boston his home for 22 years (he's currently a Spokane resident), Palmer was named to the inaugural class of the Boston Artist in Residence Fellowship for Music Composition. He also received a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant in 2019. In 2011 and 2017, he was named a Fellow in Music Composition by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In 2014, he was honored as a recipient of the French American Cultural Exchange Jazz Fellowship where he collaborated with French pianist Cedric Hanriot on an album and touring the United States and Europe. He won first place in the 2009 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and was cited in the June 2007 issue of DownBeat Magazine as one of the Top 25 Trumpeters of the Future.

In addition to performing on over 40 albums as a sideman, Palmer has recorded 15 albums under his own name on labels Ayva, Steeplechase, Newvelle, and, most recently, Giant Step Arts. Four of his recordings were reviewed by DownBeat Magazine, all receiving four or more stars. He has toured in over 35 countries with saxophonists Mark Turner, Greg Osby, Grace Kelly, and Matana Roberts, and has been a featured guest artist on multiple projects in Portugal, Mexico, Canada, and Russia.